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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1938
Page
5
The readable bits reference a tonight event and a small price, suggesting a brief local notice or advertisement. Names, places, and context are unclear, but the fragmentary text implies a nighttime gathering or sale with a price near 25 cents.
Miss Ileene Gaston of Girard is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Barnes at their home. Miss Phyilis Lindsey visits Chautauqua Lake in New York with Miss Mary Helene Hillstrom. Minneapolis voters will study a Toledo like city manager charter before a November decision.
A flurry of personal mentions lists Mrs Anna Koford visiting in Titusville with Mary WirchfA and the Tuniclittes from Sanford and Bowling Green, Ohio. Locals Lawson, Youngs, Hinmans and Braley families are noted on various trips and weekend stays from Buffalo to Niagara Falls and Chautauqua.
Extensive improvements at St Elizabeths church were completed yesterday including 35 collapsible seats to ease overcrowding, exterior painting of the shorelt and rectory, terracing and sodding the grounds. Seats installed by Tellers Organ Company of Erie.
Arrangements for the annual Garden Party on the lawn of St Thomas church and rectory are nearing completion. Committees have prepared booths and entertainment with strong advance ticket sales. Proceeds will fund redecorating of the church.
Joseph Unterreiner a 250 pound paralytic ended a 96 hour lie down in Turtle Creek borough building after accepting a civic group offer to place him in Presbyterian hospital for a week of observation. Officials must decide if his decade old injuries can be corrected.
Practical lunch box planning for school children outlines prep the night before. Suggested fillings include chopped spinach with peanut butter, ground carrots with nuts, prunes with candied peel, and moist breads. Tips cover sandwich moisture, bread variety, and avoiding soggy results.
Demand light on Pittshires wholesale market with apples steady and lettuces, onions, potatoes and peaches showing varied bids. Cattle and hogs steady to higher. New York stocks eased in light trading after week’s highs. list includes major industrials and rail stocks with few clear price gains.
Chicago authorities probe the ninth gangland slaying in six weeks. Joseph LaPorte, 27, was executed by three men who forced him into an alley near an elevated track and shot him five times as a passing L train thundered by. LaPorte had a police record and had been a Democratic state representative candidate last spring.
In Muncie Indiana an auto skidded on a curve and struck a telephone pole killing Archibald Steckel seventy and two others from Columbus Ohio died after admission to Ball Memorial Hospital. Mrs Tona Steckel and Mrs Ella Boschaar died soon after. Mrs Court Wich aels of Tiffin Ohio was injured.
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