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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1930
Page
3
The PORRY EVENING JOURNAL reports the death early today of L. W. Olds a longtime Corry leader in business and civic life. Olds promoted good roads and led manufacturing, with active church and fraternal involvement. His passing underscores Corry’s need for new leadership after years of notable service.
The article cites Sir Oliver Lodge predicting America’s destiny to police the world, tempered by a call to first police its own house. It argues for immediate home-building action, noting a 50 percent drop in construction and a need for financing reform. It then discusses a rise in lynching, praising governors’ stands against mob murders.
A 1910 lookback notes a crowded sale by Ohio Lana Co at Highland Addition with lots selling for 145 and 150 dollars. Jockeys and horsemen arrive for next week’s races as Titusville’s meeting ends in a crowd. An Albert E Baker from Jamestown killed near a train. Traverse jurors named Crown Ragan Trimble. State Highway auto license No. 29000 reported by Hartleburg. Tuurnville ball team arrives for pivotal series game. Doats to make trips from Columbus to Retre ation Park. streetcars drawing crowds to the new resort each evening.
A compiled list references geography keys the Great Salt Lake area and an opera Pilgrims Chorus, along with notes on opal centers in England and other trivia. The political stance condemns lynching and praises sheriffs defending law and order amid mob pressure.
A compact reading on word usage and pronunciation from Daily Lessons in English by W. L. Gordon. It highlights common misuses such as Marys nothing and mice industriousness, plus notes on mispronunciation, misspellings, and the word study rule about using a word three times. The piece discusses the word baffle meaning to cheat or bewilder and gives example usage.
A reader asks how far a cow can graze when tied by a rope of 25 feet at a corner of a rectangular field. The note mentions yesterday’s problem and gives an audience commentary about solving area with a triangle method and a Roanoke Times reflection, but offers no clear numerical solution.
Aug 6 in Black Ash Mrs Jessie Oakey was severely injured when a hay load overturned while she rode with her husband. She fell several feet striking the ground and broke multiple bones after hitting a stone. She was treated with X rays at Wrathlin Hospital and later returned home, improving slowly despite pain.
Driving steadily upward wheat prices were 34 to 40 higher on the board of trade at mid morning. A broad speculative interest and reports from Canada, stronger western markets, and a firm Liverpool market combined to push buyers on the exchange floor. Corn followed with steady buying and no sellers. Oats rose with buying pressure while provisions remained quiet and steady.
Kenneth Bright of Brocton mistook a different coupe for his own in DunKirk on Monday night and drove home. Troopers later found the vehicle in his yard, driven from Dud Kits by mistake, and Bright was released after the mix up was explained. The two nearly identical cars had been parked one behind the other on Central Avenue.
Dolores Del Rio and Cedric Gibbons married at the historic Santa Barbara Mission in a simple ceremony. The couple planned no-frills nuptials and intended to travel through California after the wedding. Del Rio is set to begin rehearsals at United Artists for a new film next week.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a discussion of new ideas and organized beings with names Samvlel Byer and references to childvirnh, movial, and Immorial. The readable portion lacks clear event, date, or location details to establish a coherent article summary.
Bernt Balchen and Carl Peterson, Norwegian members of Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, consider a summer 1983 flight from Oslo to Chicago tied to the Chicago centenary exposition. Balchen flew with Byrd on the New York to France voyage two years earlier.
Meadyium August 6 A White five ton truck owned by Piior Bros Kinsman stalled at a crossing and was struck by an Erie Railroad locomotive at Merces street. Driver Hunter 32 of Andover Ohio escaped by leaping clear moments before impact as the front wheels reached the rails. The truck carried 30 empty milli cans en route to Moore Bros mill plant to revolve a load to Pittsburgh. Locomotives No 329 and 3327 were in the westbound pair with Enginers S Unger and C Carés at the controls.
One of two bandits who robbed the State Hotel night clerk was killed by a policeman as he fled from the lobby. The surviving burglar escaped. The dead man, identified as Dominic Bongl, 25, is believed linked to a string of earlier hotel and restaurant robberies in Detroit.
Amarillo Texas August 6 A. D Payne a respected local attorney was charged with murdering his wife by a bomb blast to pursue a romance with former secretary Mrs Verenda Thompson. Mob scenes erupted as Payne was moved between jails while police investigated the downtown automobile blast that killed Mrs Payne and injured her son A Dyed.
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