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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1931
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment references a timing and location detail with unclear names. The readable elements show a schedule sense and potential event action but lack concrete entities, dates, or places to confirm an exact item.
OCR fragment mentions Chicago references and numbers, but lacks coherence. It signals proper nouns such as Chicago and personal names, with partial numbers, suggesting a local notice or short item but no clear event or outcome.
Fragmentary text references players and a tennis match with scattered names. The readable items include Phylliss and Whit and team mentions, but details and structure are too garbled to determine a coherent event, outcome, or context for a standard newspaper card.
Hay curing and grasshopper control are described as timely summer topics. The piece discusses sun reliance for hay drying, the use of choppers and blowers, and later notes about a proposed large dirigible project and job implications for Ohio workers. It also reports on a Chicago race riot linked to Communist agitation and the wider context of urban distress and immigrant displacement.
Answers provided include 1 Louisville Kentucky as the largest tob market. 2 Both Home and Milton share blindness. 3 Catholic means universal or general. 4 The Euphrates is the largest river in western Asia. 6 The political existence of the United States began at the battles of Concord and Lexington.
Twenty years ago items show unfair freight rates hurting the city’s Radiator plant, a Board of Trade inquiry planned. A planned flight by Harry Atwood from Milwaukee to New York may pass over the city. Mrs. Heerlein suffers illness as her son Robert, Jr arrives from Pittsburgh. Local families move households to West Newton after plant closure. Council discusses Brooks street sewer but takes no action. Paving plans from last Spring fail. Carrier pigeons released by Prof H G Wilson return home quickly from Jamestown New York.
The page highlights word usage and pronunciation problems with examples. It defines urban as relating to cities, notes misused and misspelled words, and encourages vocabulary growth by mastering one word daily. It cites Collier's to illustrate urban nation demographics.
A garbled puzzle asks how many men are needed to clear acres in eight days at twelve hours each, with hints about 50 feet and a rough geometry explanation. The OCR text also mentions sheep islands and a Teoland Bhefland area, suggesting a distorted map or place names.
The Sunday schedule lists five top radio entertainments across networks including WABC CBS NBC and WEAF. Programs feature Scroung the Samoven, Theatre aaraphaoke, Band concert, Continental quartet, and South Sea Islanders with listed times from 6:00 p m to 10:30 p m.
Oklahoma governor Murray looms at the Democratic convention with plans to control the state delegation and push a strong platform. Friends say he could deliver many speeches and influence the nomination, while Gray emerges as a favorite son candidate for president and possibly VP.
The Munson Liner Western World, en route to Buenos Aires from Rio de Janeiro, struck a rock near Ponti do Boi close to Santos in fog. Minor damage reported, no injuries, passengers later returned to the General Osorio 46. The Western World is a 17,000-ton passenger ship of 18,712 gross tons operated by Munson Steamship Line of New York.
New York drama critic Jack Gaver discusses Heywood Broun's Shoot the Works a cooperative revue aiming to help unemployed workers. While two songs shine under William O Neal, most material is dull and the show lacks professional polish and coherent energy.
Aug 8 Ghumivesure report: five persons injured when a car was struck by a hit and run driver on Lincoln highway near here. Antonio Piando 44 and wife 40 suffered skull fractures. Nicholas A Menchio 43 Greensburg Lena Phindo 16 and Marie Menchio 14 sustained injuries including a fractured leg and contusions.
Reports from western New York detail two fatal crashes. Mrs. Sarah Bit Cameron, 32, of Frewsburg, died after a car left the road near Wellsboro, Pa. Mrs. Edith Grubbs Grubbs, 80, of Airborne Waterford Pa, was killed when her husband’s car rolled over near Mayville. Coroner William Crandall described speed and road condition as factors.
Lebanon Ind Aug 8 Mrs Harvey Miller 46 of Gineinnali Ohio died when her car burned after a crash on a bridge while en route home for a vacation Her daughter Mrs Harvey Foster 22 was critically injured and her 21 months old granddaughter suffered severe burns Three other occupants survived unhurt
While driving a New York Central train car, J P Elm Gruber, Cleveland official, knocked a large hawk that flew low. A rattler clung to the hawk and fell across the car controls. Gruber briefly hesitated as the dangerous reptile lurched. He finally pushed the snake over the spark and continued.
Warren police officer Charles Britton is injured after his motorcycle collides with a air motor roller on Rogertown Road east of the borough. Britton suffers a fractured left ankle and is treated locally before being taken home. Police say Britton was attempting to pass a steam roller when the crash occurred. two other riders were only slightly hurt. The Cameron family and Miss Et left on Thursday for Shamokin, Pa.
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