Corry Evening Journal History Notes Postwar Trends
Five years after World War I, farmers prospered yet, farming wheat fell to 84 cents, steel rose, taxes to 826 federally. Klan spread to the Midwest. Auto ownership rose past 13 million, and Detroit brands featured. Al Smith ran New York, Illinois football fed by Red Grange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleton
Ku Klux Klan
Mide West
Chaniier
Peerless
Cleveland
Winton
Oakland
Chalmers
Marmom Jewett
Detroit
al Smith
New York
University of Tilinbis
Red Grange
Five Years After the War Global Tensions Reignite
Five years after Japan’s surrender in 1945 the United States faces renewed conflict. The piece muses on the League of Nations, Soviet policy, and rising German and European tensions. It recalls Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler, and prewar U.S. isolationism, with notes on Wilson, Harding, and the wartime debt rising toward wartime peaks.
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Japan
United States
Germany
Austria
Unites States
League of Nations
Lenin
Shhruer
Soviet Union
Europe
France
Ruhr
Munich
Marshall Lidendorff
New
National Socialist Movement
Adolf Hitler
Hirloe
Tess Inui
Woodrow Wilson
Cootidue
Diller Ho
Wilson
Sngiely
Harding
Republican Party
Allies That Became Enemies After World Wars
A garbled historic overview notes shifting alliances, citing examples from World War I and II eras. It claims postwar enmity arose from irreconcilable economic philosophies between Communism and capitalism, with scattered references to Russia, Germany, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Britain, and others.
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United States
Russie
Washington
Moscow
Japan
Tay
Germany
Prussia
Keiler
Austra
Prieli
Napolitan
Briss
Zich
Hivse
How's Your IQ Scores and Memory Gain Puzzle
A scrambled IQ style test promises memory gains and monthly averages. It asks ten questions about English places, historical events, antiseptics, and a Gettysburg reference. The fragmentary items mix misprints and garbled names, with instructions to check the classified page for answers.
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Whiteley
England
Sampeadmitmey Siete
Alice Ty Worserland
Cel Dent
Lincpin
Gettysburg
Twenty Years Ago Ax Take From Journal Files August 12 1930
Train service on the Erie Railroad behind Renovo division of the Pennsylvania Railroad halted about five hours after a major yard pileup. Six cars of an eastbound freight derailed at Maple Avenue due to a broken wheel toward the rear. Summer playgrounds end with a big August 14 picnic at City Park featuring potato race bag race and other events. A fire destroyed a tarp home near Conemil Corners when a cat knocked over a lamp. a resident left a lit lamp on a kitchen table. Ted Luther won the Western Pennsylvania Open at Pittsburgh. Corry resident Lewis Woolf died August 6 leaving an estate valued at $225,000. The coal street area saw a rope-related incident on cords damaged by a flooding. Cucumber, squash, peppers and other vegetables were damaged by a fence.
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Erie Railroad
Renovo
Pennsylvania Railroad
Erleling
Maple Avenue
Goneard Corners
Elgin Road
Brooks
Conemtl Corners
Nias
Two North Korean Lieutenants Surrender in Korea
Two North Korean lieutenants walked into Aner acim Lines today waving safe conduct passes and surrendered. American planes have sprinted the passes liberally over enemy lines. They are invitations to surrender. The lieutenants were the first North Koreans to use them. Earlier few Red officers have been taken prisoner and none surrendered voluntarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korda
Roaming Round of War News and Local Happenings
Notices report Capt. Walter W. Sears arriving in Tokyo to join the Seventh Division and Capt. Russell Clark of Lindsey Hollow reporting for duty at Langley Field on August 20. Local guardsmen weigh future callups and a payroll practice in town. Civil, business, and social notes recount polio respirators shipped, a new GLF plant in Union City, sugar hoarding rumors, a cottage purchase, a farm wagon rack mystery, C of C housing hunts, and moonshine business in Pennsylvania.
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Walter W. Sears
California
Tokyo
Japan
Seventh
Transxy Division
Russell Clark
Lindsey Hollow
Corry
Langley Field
U.S
Oman
Stanley Anerson
Tur Key Run
Ind
Wieh
Europe
Nation Foundation For
Kis
Fbr
Union City
Huyne
Birthday picnic ends with a missing cake mystery
Corry residents prepared for a birthday picnic but a full table was followed by a swim and the cake vanished. Meanwhile Mrs. James Connos, formerly Berenice Gillette, was named executive director of the Warren County Girl Beaut Council. The Korean War forced Rev. Connor, an Army chaplain, to continue the trip to Japan alone while his wife remained behind. Draft notes indicate Tony Paver missed induction by four hours due to late online entry, and Wilbur Gales of Lovell Burlington is among area reservists called up. Community concerns include allegations of housing fraud tied to a bloc purchase aiming to exploit a housing shortage. A preliminary 1849 school tax survey shows 8A percent collections with 93 percent property tax payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Connos
Berenice Gillette
Warren County
Connor
Japan
Tony Paver
Wilbur Gales
Lovell
Cally
Fairhaven
FEA
Mate
Per Capita Series Payments and Local School Staff Movements
The report notes per capita payments likely reaching about 67 percent as of final compilation. Miss Beer Graham, a local school teacher, commutes to Edinboro for additional Summer school studies. Corryltes mentions rising interest while Walter Dunham, formerly a resident, was cited by President Truman in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shake up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Beer
Graham
Edinboro
Corryltes
Walter Dunham
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Former resident named to board post recalled
Journal readers recall a year ago the former resident was appointed to a position on the board. The note references ongoing coverage and ties to the community’s governance.
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