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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1942
Page
4
Mrs Titile Herman of Mend Floyd Mound left today to visit a home in Kane with Margaret Rounds and Hannah Gaye. Will Snyder and East Main Street residents hosted visitors in Rochester yesterday.
The article outlines anticipated rationing by Babson era guidance, noting coupon prices replace money prices in stores, with caps on items like clothing, furniture, utensils, and canned goods. It warns on quotas, possible leases controlling retail sales, and predicts intense shortages across kitchens, office supplies, and luxury items as war lengthens. It urges immediate purchase of scarce items and emphasizes uncertain timing and official forecasts.
Buffalo social group visits grandparents on West Pleasant street while others depart for Norfolk Detroit and Camp Livingston. Families journey to Jamestown Erie and Salamanca with extended stays noted. Local travels include Corry residents returning from Great Lakes trip and Johnsonburg weekend visits. Lemon juice tip at end notes fruit and berry fillings.
Chautauqua Institution enters the sixth week of its 1949 season with a packed docket August 10 to 16. Dr Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador, is the keynote speaker. Boward Griggs opens Shakespeare series with a lecture. Mischa Mischakoff Quartet performs. Manon by Chautauqua Opera Association. Dr Arthur A Allen discusses birds. Mary Van Kirk solos with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. golf exhibition by Horton Smith and Jimmy Thomson. readings by local figures. Pinafore will be repeated by Opera Association. Skylark and other programs add to a diverse week.
Highly porous wood charcoal is described as extremely porous with hull approximately one third the tube size of the source wood. The text also notes Ireland volcanoes and claims 107 volcanoes in Tceland with thousands of craters known to exist.
Military and naval forces require leg splints for immediate treatment in trenches and field hospitals. Thoring steel splints cost 2.25 dollars per pair and are scarce, with rifles sometimes used as improvised splints. Buying War Bonds and Stamps funds essential splints for injured soldiers. join the Ten Percent Club and invest via payroll allotment as urged by the Treasury Department.
The Nazarene Women's Missionary Society held an all day meeting Friday at Mrs. Frank Smith's home in Columbus. Thirty members and friends attended. A dessert was served after noon. Indoors activities included sewing and visiting in the afternoon. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Clarence Bailey's home on West Main Street on September 4.
Local Montgomery Ward staff in Jamestown honored Joseph Sherwood at Colonial Gardens with gifts after his acceptance of a position at Aero Supply Co. About thirty guests attended the dinner and dance.
Honey Rae and Marilyn Ingram hosted a Wiener roast at their Grove street home last evening entertaining fourteen guests in honor of visiting John Brown from Pittsburgh.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sank in Corry hospital this morning in Elgin. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lord at the local hospital last evening near Spring Creek.
Radio listings show NBC 7 with Haven MacQuarrie and War in the Al Barn Dance at 10 15. CBS 5 features Matinee Soldiers With Wings Parade and soprano performances. MBS and WOR add London programs and orchestra broadcasts. NBC I lists Sammy Kaye Army Hour and Star Spangled Vaudeville. CBS 12 40 covers Salt Lake City tabernacle and Kostelanety with Autry and Preman later.
A fragmented report notes pitches and hits with incomplete names and numbers. It mentions players from the Cubs and Dodgers, rough point tallies, and a tense late inning moment, but much of the text is garbled leaving uncertain specifics about scores, dates, and participants.
Fragmented OCR reads like a local notice about a performance or event with limited readable details. Names, places, times are unclear but imply a public theater or show note in a small urban area.
The brief notes describe a Tri-County league basketball game played Tuesday in Ville Elen. Players from Pitt and the Lions are mentioned, with Lions attempting to gain control and the result indicating a close contest and readiness for the next matchup.
A fragmented OCR note reports a clash between Bub and Gus sparked by a likely eye incident. Details are unclear but the event appears to involve a dispute and a public scene with limited readable context.
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