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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1941
Page
2
Local notes report grocery ads for Wilcox and Reich stores, new wallpaper at Lanston's, and radio repairs by Davis Radio Lab. Obituary notes Leonard Mong 95 Civil War veteran and a Meadvill Labor Day gala planned. Court news include Brock pleaded guilty in Clearfield County and Huber sought for embezzlement in Reno fire dept. coverage.
Alaskan quarry accident at Sitka harbor site kills six workers and injures one survivor. Premature rock wall collapse during blasting on Japonski Island. Names of the deceased and surviving worker listed with hometowns. multiple companies and local officials named in scattered notices and ads within the same clipping.
An important meeting of the Tadies Class A City Bowling League will be held Tuesday evening in the city building. Captains, members and others interested in joining are urged to attend. Miss Marie Nugent, Mrs John, Otta Way and Miss Susie Cullen of Union City were visitors in Corry last evening. Miss Gorolyn Anderson of Columbus was a guest at Miss Phyllis Anderson’s home on East Columbus Avenue. Thursday and Friday Mr and Mrs L M Strohm and daughter, who spent the past two weeks at Cottage Park Columbus, left this morning for Harrisburg.
A gas line explosion during a heavy storm at Allegheny County Airport seriously burned two U S soldiers, Private Glenn Hart Jr and Private Larry Theobald, who were taken to Marine Hospital. The blast occurred at the Army Air Corps hangar as lightning was observed in the storm.
An old advertisement extols Thompson's Borsoma Tablets for kidney support, claiming they stimulate kidneys to purify blood and remove poisonous waste. It urges insistence on genuine Thompson's Borsoma Tablets available at all drug stores and suggests Golden Lax Tablets as a constipation remedy.
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