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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1928
Page
3
In a terse local notice, Minty Breil is identified as seeking a new position following a recent defeat or setback. Details remain fragmentary, with unreadable portions. Readers are urged to watch for forthcoming updates from city officials.
Publication details indicate a Corry Pennsylvania daily newspaper with advertising rates and mailing options. It references tribune tower Chicago and contact notes for advertising representation, subscription pricing, mailing class, and carrier delivery charges.
The author discusses the value and limits of public interest in sports like boxing, noting brutality tempered by gloves and control. He argues sport should challenge but not erode, while suggesting grown up aims and hard activities beyond primitive play. He also warns against long range bequests, highlighting risks of shifting institutions and changing social needs.
A Detroit designer Matthew Corbet unveils a cigar shaped dirigible touted as practical simple and safe. The 40 foot craft weighs 700 pounds uses 22 000 feet of cable and aims to appeal to youngsters for Christmas despite early test claims.
A Washington correspondent captures rival campaigns in the 1940s era, detailing party workers and leaders in Manhattan and beyond. The piece critiques Democratic optimism, Republican vigor, and the high stakes in the looming election, noting fund flows and strategic moves shaping the contest.
A dealer sells 65 typewriters at 100 dollars each with 20 percent discount 40 per coil and 5 percent. He adds 12 percent for time payments. He sells 20 percent on time and loses 10 percent of his fine yields. What is his total gain. This summary reflects a historical math puzzle and its partial solution.
The text presents a scrambled set of trivia prompts and garbled questions about Australian opera, city names, US presidents, states, explorers and ships. It appears as OCR noise with partial words and misplaced characters, lacking coherent narrative or a single factual item.
A past timeline notes Dusty & Co repair shop opening by C G Wilkins on South Street opposite the High School. Moonlight ride and dance at Lake Columbus Friday night. A street scene describes an Italian music box vendor with a monkey earning coins. Marion Smith celebrates her birth anniversary at home. Corry nips Butler 3 to in a ninth inning rally. Bickford held six hits. The Hoy Phenomenon at Titusville ends his show, refunds cash and closes. Jack Richards and friends plan a Cham chau lake camping trip. Mrs Hoarbeck and daughter Ila travel from Jacksonville to Spar tanburg.
State police and volunteers aided by Eliog Miller search the Ble Mountains near Strausstown for Miller's son Sean, missing for seven weeks. An abandoned car with rusted parts was found in the woods as investigators assess the case amid uncertain conditions.
William F Well, 40, lineman for Harrisburg Light and Power Company, was killed after touching a live wire while working a 80 foot pole. He was electrocuted and fell to the ground near Liverpool. A fellow lineman attempted a rescue as Well became paralyzed by the current.
Aug 7 Warren—The will of the late Inten t Hazeltine was probated. A 10000 dollar bequest goes to Warren Library Association and another 10000 to Warren General Hospital. Miss Alice Hazeltine of New York and Miss Edith Hazeltine of Warren receive 2000 each. Blof G. Nelson gets 1000 for 27 years as gardener and caretaker. Lloyd Blake, 500 for nine years as chauffeur. Residue goes to Hazeltine of Cambridge, Eng., and to Mrs. William B. Lynde, Hugh Hazeltine, and Mrs. Francis M. Caughey in equal shares. Executors named: Hugh Hazeltine and Francis Caughey.
Atlantic City August 7 slight improvement noted in the condition of Senator-elect William S Vare of Pennsylvania who suffered a paralytic stroke last Wednesday He is conscious but still in danger Physicians said Senator Charles Waterman chairman of the sub committee investigating campaign funds and elections has been asked by Francis S Brown Vares counsel to postpone the August 15 Pittsburgh hearing where Vare was to appear
The piece argues that lack of funds forces most children to withdraw from school and that a father's death often cuts education short. Life insurance is presented as the means to supply the necessary funds to ensure children receive schooling and shoulder fewer unprepared responsibilities.
Federal prohibition agents raided a Peach Street brewery in Erie, finding three large vats of beer and dismantling equipment. Warrants issued for the owner as investigators described the plant as a distributing hub for local bootlegging. The beer was destroyed and the premises cleared for government storage.
Russell St Clair Beitzel, accused of murdering Barbara Mauger of Philadelphia near a Los Angeles canyon on June 24, pleaded innocence. He claims the girl left after he gave her a ride and vanished. A coroner's jury urged further investigation but found only homicide. Also reported is the first heat death in the region, William Ward, 42, a trackwalker from Mennessen, who collapsed at Belle Vernon station.
Warren August 7 Adjutant Pople in charge of the local Salvation Army citadel says he is temporary overseer of the Stoneysone property and grounds and a home for aged men will be erected there in the near future A final decision in the litigation favored the Salvation Army and the organization resumes plans to improve the property A children s home was considered but set aside for now Negotiations with Mrs Blanche Lawson through Attorneys Alexander and Clark are under way to allow her to remove crops on the premises The Salvation Army is not obligated to harvest the crops though Mrs Lawson has claimed the land and the Army property board allows her to harvest the crops she planted
County commissioners Monday sold the $500 000 issue of court house bonds to B Smith Co of Philadelphia for 500 205 50. One bid was received. Architect Walter Monahan presented final plans for the new courthouse addition to Erie county judges for approval, expected late Monday. Miss Mildred Quinn of Ol City is spending two weeks in the city with her aunt Mrs Isiroh.
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