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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1928
Page
7
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions today’s events and online nets without clear details. Readable items hint at brief notes on a swale, fundraising, and potential community updates, but specific names, places, or dates are not identifiable from the fragment.
A damaged OCR snippet shows partial text about a local notice involving routes or duties, with unclear names or dates. Readable fragments point to a community logistics change or maintenance task affecting residents. Further details are unavailable due to legibility.
United Press reports millions of dollars in damage across Pennsylvania after a severe April blizzard. Heavy snow, flooding and isolation hit anthracite regions as Sunbury Sayre and surrounding towns lost landline and telegraph service delaying contact with mill operators. Rail service largely restored while roads opened gradually, and state officials scrambled to establish emergency communications.
An elderly man aged about 66 years 7 months and 20 days was found dead at his home on Irvine Ann Road in Brokenstray township. After a five year illness and medical attendance, Coroner Lowrey issued a certificate of death following an investigation. The principal causes cited include heart trouble and burns.
Congress 18 proceedings focus on key committees and final votes. Senators discuss national finance and military affairs as House members push general business and legislative agendas amid ongoing parallel actions on revenue and appropriations.
The Jamestown Furniture Market Association held an opening dinner at the Crystal Ballroom in the Hotel Jamestown with about two hundred manufacturers and guests in attendance. Walters CL Davis presided, with Robert J. Jackson and Charles Newcomb among speakers as the association readies its Spring Furniture Exhibition and anticipates a large show, with registration possible starting today.
Fragmentary notebook style text notes a cycle completion with references to a person, place, and time, but details remain unclear. The garbled lines suggest a dated event or log entry with names and locales, inviting cautious reconstruction.
Sparta town residents sour over new rail schedule after May 1 depot hours are cut and evening baggage handling ends. Evening trains will no longer unload here and Sunday service will be limited, prompting public concerns at the Wee Man’s Club meeting where local bands and civic leaders discussed the impact on travelers and town activity.
A fragmented report outlines plans for church cementing and home making department roles. It notes forthcoming agricultural and home making supervisors, changes in positions, and upcoming election logistics. Residents including Mr and Mrs Bates and longtime locals are mentioned alongside association officers and future meetings.
The May term of the county court will convene at the courthouse on May 7. Grand jury may hear about eighty three cases, with possible increase to one hundred as returns come in. Among those to be heard is Robert Mead of this city charged with liquor law violation and a statutory offense. Grand jurors will meet next Monday at 1 o clock to commence the term.
A garbled USC note discusses whale weights and brain size with odd terms like Wiknip and Mochailes Slaguzine. The readable fragments mention a weight range around forty some pounds and a rough comparison to human brain size, but the text is largely unclear and incoherent.
Residents report visitors and social ties across Warren and Corry areas. Wilma Binley and family visited Blue Eye while Florence Mead and Albert Laneburg stayed with relatives in Warren. Local funeral services for Jona Gungren were held in Wrightsville last Friday.
Raymond W. Thomes, Kane's World War veteran and son of Albert Thomes, died last night at 8:00 at Bradford Hospital on Janeway Street. He enlisted in World War I, served in France, and was severely wounded and gassed near armistice day, with injuries deteriorating his health in recent months.
Fragmentary text reports many aerial observations in Colorado. It mentions more than 2,000 takes of something unseen, indicates aviation activity, and notes over 100 sites on Grand Mesa at about 6000 feet stocked with trout.
A Falconer man, Joe Brant, aged about 58, died after an attempted assault at a May party. An apparent electrical accident and a dimly lit scene were reported by coroner Henry A. Bowers. A large crowd attended the event with dancing and music described in fragmentary testimony.
Mrs. Johassion Davis of Il Hast Seventy-third Street announces the engagement of her daughter Katharine Davis to James Wright Bracken of this city, son of DuWitt Lioy Bracken of Corry, Pa. Katharine studied at Wellesley and attends Montclair Dinnoy League. Bracken works with Bunkers Trust Company in New York. Wedding planned for June.
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