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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
4
There is no place safer than home and the home safety hazards are numerous. Stairs cause more accidents than any other area with items left on them and slick floors near baths or cellars. Electric fans and exposed matches pose fire and injury risks, while window screens and cluttered storage invite harm.
Answers reference a historical classifieds page asking about Toscanini cancellation reasons candy consumption estimates by Americans last year a South American president who died at 58 a gangster mouthpiece drowning myths the crossed mugs and torch insignia Army branch a quiz on IQ Samuel Clemens pen name Woodrow Wilson’s first name a silent era Wild West film idol who died in Los Angeles at about 83.
A Greyhound bus carrying 22 passengers was shaken but unhurt when driver William Reeder of Cleveland struck a large Black cow to avoid leaving the highway. Fog hid the animal until almost too late near Farmers Valley. The cow owned by Floyd A. Casper Sr. of Smethport was killed, valued at 100 dollars. no bus damage was reported.
Erie August 1 A twenty year old youth Lawrence Frederick of Grand Rapids Michigan pleaded guilty to a larceny charge before Alderman Thomas McCarty and was sent to county jail without bond awaiting September term. He was captured after a chase during which police fired a warning shot and he surrendered at 20th and Sassatras streets after a purse snatching on a January night.
An analysis contrasts World War I and World War II, noting Germany as aggressor in both, the Allies’ sea control, and the triggering sparks of war. It discusses Austria-Hungary against Serbia in 1914 and Germany against Poland in 1939, with Italy entering later in both conflicts.
Edmonton dispatch reports discovery of tracks in British Columbia wilderness near a trapper cabin 15 miles north of Barker's landing site. A four man rescue party from Princess Patricia Light Infantry and RCAF follows tracks upstream toward Nelson Forks after Barker, a civilian pilot, crash landed during a night journey to Alaska two months earlier.
A fragment states there is no indication that the tracks were made by Barber, suggesting uncertainty about authorship and leaving attribution unresolved in the surviving text.
In Meadville on a Tuesday afternoon a carpenter drove four nails through an electric entrance cable in a Negon HIM district bungalow under repair. A fire started at the front of the structure but was quickly extinguished by a booster line from the Arc truck, with bystanders already dousing it with water.
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