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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1931
Page
3
Fragmented lines reference boxing match results and baseball statistics with several names and numbers. The garbled text mentions Helen, Boston, Sarah, Gregory, and league play including a national title context, but exact events and outcomes are unclear from the unreadable OCR.
The Corry Evening Journal discusses the growing tourist business in Canada and South America with expanding air travel and affordable trips. It urges young couples to manage finances wisely, suggesting cheaper amusements and savings before indulgent outings, while stressing character over flashy appearances.
Kansas is the Sunflower State. Robert Bruce and William Wallace are named as Scotland’s heroes. Venus is the planet mentioned. Pagot is listed as the country watered by river overflow. Tron is cited as the earliest metal. The text also notes 1819 food preservation and commercial canning, with stray phrases like fire dust and Walked Stiles.
Glimpses from 1914 include Pure Fora arrests and fines, a State Mish Commissioner linked to Supt William Buller of the Corry Hatchery, and local sports notes as Garland edges Titusville Pirates 60 to 0 with DeLury and Piérce from Corry. Also mentions a ding collie Hog injured by auto, a new residence planned at Congress and Center, a canoe trip down the Allegheny, and local injuries and returns.
Corporal Micrats White of the state police sub station arrested Joseph Spachtholz also known as Joe Sprotto in a shack near La Mont after he surrendered Tuesday night. He had been in hiding since a May 23 raid at 163 Praley Street targeting two alleged forgers. Spachtholz faced a hearing before Justice Emile Stenger and was committed to jail in default of $1,500 bail.
Lesson notes discuss common word usage mispronunciations and misspellings. It covers words like succumbing to desire and urges readers to increase vocabulary, with examples and guidance on correct forms and pronunciation.
A ladder rests on the circumference of a circular ground with diameter 25 feet. Two trees 20 and 49 feet high stand at the ends of the diameter. Find the ladder length that reaches the top of either tree when positioned across the circle. The solution involves geometry with the circle and the two end points.
United Press report from Vincennes Indiana dated August 7 says obstructions blocked a clear view at a grade crossing leading to a team automobile crash that killed four children and three adults. Victims named include Joseph Sanne, 45, driver. his wife Catherine. Anthony Sunne Wan. Josephine Vieke, 42. Lyelle Vieke, 5. Hits Deem, 2. and Stella Deem, 6.
The State Forestry Camp at Ludlow in the big woods along the East Branch has been abandoned. It stood on the Logan farm purchased for State College study programs guiding students to learn local timber. Cheris were all Bundred. Two truckloads of personal belongings were moved to Mr Alto in Sheffield.
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on August 7 thousands of tons of culm at the Cameron Pollery of Susquehanna Coal Co rose and buried Charles Bolts, a steam shovel engineer. About 200 workers were ordered to dig. Bolts was reportedly buried beneath fifty feet of coal as the bank collapsed while Stevens Chaplin Coal Co operated the shovel. Harry Rupp jumped to safety as the slide occurred.
McKean County received its first voting machines at noon Thursday as four units for the borough of Kane were delivered. One displayed in the Chamber of Commerce rooms on Fraley Street for voter familiarization before the primary. three others sent to local polling places. Two more machines for McKean County arrived in the same shipment, with one sent to Smethport for the courthouse and another to Port Allegany to ready that town for the primary. Bradford will receive twelve machines next week, with an extra unit kept for breakdowns. Delivery follows last fall’s election when residents voted to install the equipment.
A telegram from R Falconer of the Erie railroad to Councilman Kessler confirms the Erie passenger station construction on West Second Street. Construction is set to start August 15 with the main entrance on the south side facing Lafayette Street. The building will span about half a block and the adjacent street will be widened and paved into a public plaza.
The advertisement promotes 666 Liquid Tablets claiming relief from headache or neuralgia in 30 minutes, cures a cold on the first day, and treats malaria in three days. It also markets 666 Salve for a baby’s cold, presenting a broad set of medical claims for multiple ailments.
At Selfridge Field Michigan army pilots bail out after a swarm of crashes amid a dogfight drill. Parachutes deploy as several planes collide wrecking yards and homes. One pilot dies later. others suffer serious injuries. Two days earlier another training flight ended with a forced parachute landing.
Columbia Pa Aug 7 Mrs John Bink 35 mother of ten children was burned probably fatally when a gasoline stove exploded in her kitchen as she prepared breakfast. The fire gutted a two-and-a-half story brick dwelling housing 27 people including 18 children. Firemen rescued all occupants.
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