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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1928
Page
3
The readable fragments describe a local event or notice with scattered names and dates, but the text remains fragmentary and uncertain about the exact details or outcome. No clear individuals, organizations, or places can be reliably identified for a precise summary.
The article discusses the surge in stock prices on Wall Street driven by small investors amid a broad market rally. It notes the risk of wipe-out if prices swing and highlights a shift in participation, including women entering trading rooms, and estimates that up to 20 million people are involved with most facing the prospect of losses. It also covers high school enrollment trends in Pennsylvania showing rising public high school participation from 1880 to 1926-27.
The item presents a quirky list of questions and garbled answers about flags, quotes, countries, cities, and authors. It includes asks like which flag bears a pun, who spoke a famous line about valor and discretion, and who wrote Prince Otto, alongside scrambled hints for yesterday’s answers and scattered proper nouns.
Twentieth century retrospective notes multiple local events from Centerville and Warren. Reports recovery of Mr and Mrs David Wetterboe and their daughter from ruins after a home incident. Mentions a city appeal for a baseball team, a well attended Lenten dance, a funeral for Lawrence Coyle, rental activity for Mrs N S Paleoner, and local residents taking summer positions and illness updates. Include names such as Alber Lenn, Ty Derrickson, Red Star as workplace, and Clyde Grigg.
A fragment from a language puzzle feature asks which sentence is wrong in He works every day and works evenings and seeks pronunciation of frontispiece and mis-spelled words among options Chieftain catechism cathartic and fills blanks with antonyms and phrases. The text then lists yesterday's exercises answers such as down in superfluous pronouncing room roost rhubarb perpetum incessant continual and coherent.
A puzzle states a sibil and feet in length place upright the Erouid casts a shadow feet long. If a flag pole casts a shadow eight feet long, what is its height. The accompanying answer and explanation reference a past problem and rates of returns from months and men, but the readable fragment mainly poses a proportional height question based on similar triangles.
April 25 Chilean Ambassador Davila en route from Washington to Houston was forced down from Georgetown Georgetown Gui, Major W R Weave commander of Muswell Flu announced.
City council on Monday evening discussed removing street car rails and replacing trolleys with buses. Citizens Traction Co and city agreed to fair removal pending Public Service Commission approval. Samuel Mogilowitz named city solicitor. Work expected to begin within weeks after PS approval.
Titusville politician John G Pierce leads for the Republican nomination in Crawford County assembly contest as results show Pierce ahead by about 200 votes over Alice M Bentley of Meadville. Ballots from eight precincts still incomplete with Meadvile and Titusville voting patterns shaping the outcome. Local figures Finney and Humes listed with smaller totals.
Disorderly text outlines Senate debate over naval appropriation amendments and questions about Nicaraguan policy, with committees continuing investigations. Mentions Democratic members, minority tax relief, and House concerns on merchants, farm matters, and security issues amid ongoing inquiry.
In Washington on April 2 three pickets from Mosne Mining Company at Rich Hill mine in Newmerlands were fined five dollars each for alleged insulting remarks directed at nonunion workers. Named individuals Anna Lesiske Mary Bazzoli and Virginia Armstrong faced penalties after an Alderman Mamrajhued ordered the fines.
Athens reports severe damage from a recent volcanic eruption. The valour SouSsiN, heir to the realm of Conmnth, was destroyed by an earthquake. Widespread damage affected the plains of Syra and Mitylene as aftershocks continued.
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