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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1934
Page
3
Partial readable fragments indicate a local public notice with action, authority, and deadlines. Names, dates, places, or exact actions are unclear, but the fragment suggests official proceedings or a sale notice awaiting full details.
Philadelphia considers creating an Efficiency and Economy Commission modeled on Pittsburgh and Baltimore efforts. Mayor J Hampton Moore supports reducing waste, with twelve leading Philadelphia corporations offering executives and expertise to form the commission and aid city departments.
Australian explorers report crossing high mountains into a remote New Guinea area. They describe a fertile brassy plain with patchwork gardens of sweet potatoes bananas and beans. Inhabitants, a Stone Age group, lack farming skills and use clay whistles unlike any seen, hinting at ancient connections.
Western congressmen from a progressive wing plot to prevent Bertrand Snell from obtaining the minority leader post in the 74th Congress. They also eye Buell for a possible Republican presidential nomination in 1931, while Gallvin Coolidge remains noted as a prior Amherst graduate. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce moves its headquarters from New York to Washington, citing cheaper air transportation costs. Fell Roosevelt, president’s son, is a vice president of the chamber and expected to reside in Virginia, offering a views from the front lawn.
An analysis notes Sen Arthur Robinson and others face limited invites to Republican committee broadcasts. It discusses freelance shift in film work, where stars may hire themselves per project, benefiting lenders studios and audiences, while mid tier actors risk obsolescence. Examples include Gable Colbert, Temple, and Davis as stars borrowed between studios for major hits.
Paris fashion notes by Mary Knight describe cork jewelry necklaces and cork sandals with crocheted toes, plus celluloid and glass accents. Watches, hats, and umbrellas in cork, cellophane, and treated materials appear as Riviera novelties for beach and town ensembles.
United Press report from Lansing argues decentralization of industry long tied to Michigan’s auto capital. It cites Ford’s pre New Deal decentralization moves, centers on Plymouth Northville Manistique Waterford L Anse Pequaming and Ford’s spread across Pontiac Flint Lansing Detroit and other cities. Major plants total 113 with 266000 workers, framing decentralization as a continuing trend.
Early winter forecasts predicted a strong travel year with the industry showing its busiest pace since 1920. Americans spend billions moving by car, train, bus, boat, and plane while hotels, food, and fuel flow through cash registers as domestic travel rises and foreign trips edge ahead modestly.
In a reflection on canal, bridge, dam, and tunnel engineering, the article praises British and American builders from ancient Rome to modern times. It quotes King George opening the Mersey tunnel and notes awe at monumental works like the Thames, Firth, Hudson, and Sydney Harbor bridges, urging gratitude for the labor behind such feats. It also imagines future projects including bridges in San Francisco Bay Boulder Dam and tunnels under mountains and rivers.
My Earl Field sent a gallon of Atlantic Ocean water to Professor Oliver P Watts of the University of Wisconsin. Watts, a summer resident there, planned to use the sample for experimental purposes.
Twenty years ago a Corry firm, the Corry Brick and Tile Company, secured the contract to furnish brick for Columbus and Gridley school buildings in Erie. The city announced a Chautauqua tent would be set up at City League park grounds on East Washington Street. Other notes include favorable business outlook with scarce rental and sales activity, plans for school reopening September 1, real estate and local events, and railroad construction progress on the Pennsylvania Railroad line from Lovell to Corry.
The column advises action during August with good expansion and high deals, notes a favorable stretch from August through August 22, and warns of adverse periods January 8 through January 23, 1935. It gives specific dates for letter writing and cautions on dangerous days and socially favorable early September.
The article notes Ruth Bryan Owen’s return to the United States from Europe, with stops in Teeland and Greenland and a brief stay at her Wieridi home before resuming travel. It mentions varied temperatures and a lighthearted note about wagers on crop production estimates in the agriculture department, including a dime bet and an AAA press agent winning $1.00. It also references officials and newspapermen contributing.
The column cites Richard Hemming of Columbia who cannot eat rare roast beef without pistachio ice cream on the side. It also mentions Nils Asther cruising Hollywood Boulevard in an open car wearing a large white hat, described with playful literary flourishes about the breeze and bystanders.
Frank J. Fahey, 60, of 518 West 1sh Street, died Saturday after a brief illness at home. A Erie railroad worker and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen member, he leaves two step-daughters, one step son, three sisters, and is to be buried at St Theresa's Union City after a service at his home and a mass at St Peter's Cathedral.
Aug 18 ReguwAy Cobb 20 an employee of Conneaut Lake Park Co was seriously burned about the hands arms and upper body when a large pot of coffee tipped off and spilled on him Saturday afternoon He was tending the ref isiments for the Shriners' picnic and was moved to Spencer Hospital for treatment.
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