Corry Evening Journal Commentary Letters On Coinage And Air Pollution
A mixed set of opinion items notes President Hoover veto of a half dollar coinage bill tied to the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, arguing the coinage should stay simple to curb counterfeiting and confusion. It laments industrial smoke over cities, praises smoke consumers, and warns about air pollution from factories, railroads, and soot. The piece contrasts cleaner open country with dirtier urban areas, urging better environmental practices.
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Hoover
Gadsden
United States
México
Arizona
New Mexico
Gan
Reform Urges New Federal Prisons After Columbus Fire
A congressman who chaired a 1928 prison conditions inquiry notes overcrowding in Columbus and federal penitentiaries. He foresees new federal prisons in Pennsylvania and Texas, plus additional facilities in large cities to ease congestion, arguing the Columbus deaths spur reform.
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Columbus
Ohio
Congress
Pennsylvania
Texas
Daily Lessons In English Word Study Simplicity
W E Cordon lists daily English teaching notes on usage pronunciation and common misspellings. The entry highlights misused say and agree phrases, pronunciations like genial, and the value of expanding vocabulary by mastering a single word each day, focusing on simplicity.
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W. E. Cordon
John
Beng Simpie
Twenty Years Ago from the Journal Files 1910
The Myers hotel in Columbus hosted twenty Authors Club members to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday. A landslide near Renovo delayed Train 0 on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Isaac Joseph Boland was badly hurt at Meinene Steel Works. Titusville restaurant owner Bryner claimed the Corry High School baseball team broke a front window. Alderman Truesdell moved his law office after 28 years to 19 Spring Street. Mr. and Mrs. awards marked Wilson J. Edwards’s golden wedding in Findley, Ohio, April 5. Mr. and Mrs. Bensom McKelvey returned from their honeymoon. W W Hasbrouck was injured setting posts, crushing his forefinger and thumb.
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Titusville Herald
HC. Bryner
Titusville
Corry High School
Truesdell
No. 19
Spring Street
Answers to yesterday's questions and trivia results
The page lists responses including Grover Cleveland as president, a safety device for static discharge, a 3,872,561 square mile figure, Homer as the poet laureate, and copper mines. It also poses questions on military branches, Lincoln's son, and the Poet Laureate's tenure.
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Dakota
Army
Navy
Robert Tord Lincolnn
Abraham Lincoln
England
Grover Cleveland
Homer
Cost of flooring 4 bridge 100 feet long and 18 wide
A problem asks flooring cost for four bridges each 100 by 18 feet with 24 4 inch planks at 53 per 1000 feet. Compute area and plank conversion to determine total material cost.
Train Victim Identified After Fatal Freight Collision
Kane April 26 The body of James Oliver identified as the man killed Thursday by a double headed freight train of the Pittsburgh Shawmut and Worthern railroad at a Lavalée Cory ville crossing. The body was dragged over 500 feet before the train halted. Coroner H Clay Heffner took charge. the victim left no immediate relatives.
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Kane
Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Worthern
James Oliver
Shotwell
Oliver
Lavalée
Coryville
H. Clay Heffner
Smethport
Helen Wills Moody The Tennis Star Artist And Champion
Helen Wills Moody, born October 6, 1906 in Centerville, California, is known as Helen Wills on court and Mrs. Frederick Moody in tennis circles. A Phi Beta Kappa UC Berkeley junior, she claimed the junior national title in 1921 at age 15 and won her first women’s championship in 1923, later becoming a dominant figure in tennis while also pursuing art and fashion influence.
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Helen Newington Wills Moody
Tennnis
Frederick Moody
Helen Wills
Queen Mary
University’ of California
Centerville
Cal
Clarence Wills
Arctic and sub Arctic icebergs drift to Labrador coast
The text notes that most icebergs originate from Breenland and form mainly on the western slope, larger than eastern ones. They drift across Hullinbay and Davis Wruit, reach the Labrador coast, where they are caught by the Labrador current and move slowly southward.
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Arctic
Breenland
Hullinbay
Davis Wruit
Labrador
Lawn Mower Service and Used Units by John Caldwell
John Caldwell offers sharpening and repairs with guaranteed work at 125 Wright St. Also offers used lawn mowers in first class condition at cheap prices. Phone 298M et2d.
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John Caldwell
Wright St
County Acts to Check Operation of Institution Detention Home
County commissioners on April 26 approved actions to improve the Detention Home on Weel Bro Street, including $60 monthly for Mrs Forster to feed her family and six child inmates daily, a menu for meats by probation officer Harold Dundon, and a committee with Dundon and Ralph Benediet to inspect the home and audit past bills. Mrs Feister denied the charges during the hearing.
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ERIB
Priday
Weel Bro Street
Mayme Feister
Harold P.dundon
Harold P. Dundon
Ralph ©. Benediet
Tn Commissioners
Bradford Boy's Narrow Escape From Death
In Meadward on April 26 a Bradford 11-year-old schoolboy narrowly escaped death when a giant bull wheel fell in a shed of the Oil Well Supply Company. The boy was pinned, suffering a broken left arm and leg. Patrolman Leo Goetz alerted aid, and rescuers freed him before he was rushed to Bradford Hospital.
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Meadward
Sea Pops
Leo Goetz
Goetz
Bradford
Sunday Radio Schedule May 1930 Five Best Airings
Radio schedule notes five top entertainments on the NBC and CBS networks for Sunday evening. Bowes family performs on WAEG at 6:40 p.m. LaPalme hosts rhapsodizers on W32 at 7:16 p.m. Collier's hour airs at 7:16 p.m. on NBC. Will Rogers appears on WABC at 8:00 p.m. and Atwater Kent hour closes the night on WEAF NBC at 9:15 p.m.
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United Press
WEAF
NBC
Bowes Family
WAEG
Atwater Kent
WABC
CBS
Will Rogers
Arm Broken in Shop Accident at Kane Plant
F. Nordstrom of West Kane, an employee of Holgate Brothers, suffered a fractured left elbow and a head laceration Friday morning at 7:80 after a machine belt struck him. He was found unconscious, then treated at Community hospital. authorities suspect he was near the power belt as the machine operated. His condition later reported not serious.
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Nordstrom
Man Scalded as Crane Upends in Oil City
April 26. Prassen Nett, 31, of 104 Wils Avenue, is hospitalized with severe burns after a locomotive crane operated by Ferguson Edmundson Co toppled along the river’s north bank during the new P. R. PR project. Nett, engineer Bennett, escaped serious injury by leaping free. crane damage will keep it out of commission for days.
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City
Preassennett
Wils Avenue
Oil City Hospital
Ferguson & Edmundson Co
P. R. PR
Pridge
Oil City
Bennett
Ireman
Brown Denies Schofield Will Get State Post
Philadelphia April 26 United Press Brown, the Philadelphia Republican nominee for governor, denied plans to appoint Major Lemuel B Scho field director of public safety if he wins. He rebutted rumors linking him to Schofield after the Cricket Club raid, saying he has had no dealings with Schofield and would not place him in his cabinet. Other candidates spoke at a League of Women Voters event, with Davis clarifying his remarks on the Hawley Smoot tariff.
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T. J. O'Connell
United Press
Philadelphia
Proteels Shank Brown
Philadelphia Republican Organization
Lemuel B. Schoifield
Brown
Schofield
Philadelphia Cricket Club
U. S
Pennayiyant League of Women Voters
Davis
Washington
Unie League
Grundy
Muck-rake Term Delved In Binnyan Progress Text
A muck rake is defined as a person who searches for and publishes corrupt practices among public officials. The term is linked to a 31 reference said to point to She man vila the muck rake in Binnyan Progress.
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Binnyan
Pilertiie
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Corry Evening Journal
Arthur Colegrove
National Advertising
Fred Kimball, Inc
W. 46Th St
New York
Chicago
Chamber of Com
Pittsburgh
Corry
Weoree
Myers Hotel
Th Authors Club
Shakespeare
Renovo
Isa Inca
Joseph Boland
Meinnes
W. J. Awards
Wilson J. Edwards
Findley
Onlo
Mrs. Bensom McKelvey
W. W. Hasbrouck
Irvingstreat
Chapin'’S
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Center St
Spikes
Theo
Mummy
Chevrolet Tech “Ok
Chevrolet
ESSEX
Alco
Bpare Tire
Corry Motor Sales Co
Clinton Street
Corry Pa
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