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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1928
Page
3
Mayor Olin W. Bracken designates May 2 and 3 as Clean up Days in Corry to mobilize a citywide house cleaning. The effort aims to reduce fire hazards, improve health, curb debris, and boost civic pride by cleaning homes, streets, businesses, and plants with inspections to spur broader participation.
Chief Justice Taft announced the Supreme Court will dispose of every criminal case pending this session. He warned convicted criminals should not expect a period of rest before serving sentence. He urged lower courts to emulate this efficiency and reduce case backlogs, as crime may decline.
A compilation from the Journal Files dated April 27 1908 mentions Helen Miles Lynch hosting friends on West Main Street for a birthday gathering, a Sunbury wreck delaying trains, drought complaints at Celoron, and local civic matters. It lists aldermen and deaths since 1879, notes cheap egg prices at fifteen cents a dozen, and reports visits by Dr Frank Livermore and M J Kennedy, with Mrs Carroll visiting family on Libery Street.
Answers nod to yesterday's quiz with odd spellings and scattered facts. Mentions Whit to the principal park, Bible pinging, and a note on Lloyd Bennett's Arlington burial as a national tribute amid war era talk.
A compact reader item listing exercise prompts and answers for grammar and pronunciation. It includes questions on sentence correction, monogram pronunciation, misspelled words, synonyms, and completing vocabulary tasks, with yesterday’s answers.
A work place employed a number of men and half as many women. Each man earned 1.25 and each woman 0.75, totaling 45.50 dollars. Determine counts of men and women. The rest of the page references yesterday's answer and Erie County officials delaying road funding.
Thomas Cunningham, about a year old, died at Bradford hospital from injuries after a car struck him two miles north of Limestone. The youth was waiting on the road when the auto driven by 14 year old M. McDowell of Bradford, part of a group returning from Olean, struck him. Coroner P. H. Bulime was informed. The driver’s identity is a 50m M. B. McDowell, secretary of the Bradford Board of Commerce. Cunningham had lived in Limestone about 85 years and was said to be a heavy drinker. The incident occurred around 12 yesterday morning. The youth was found in a drunken stupor. the driver and others were returning from a performance in Bradford. Twenty cans of brook and rainbow trout fingerings were distributed in Venango County streams by the Oil City Chapter of the Isaak Wallon League of America.
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