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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1939
Page
4
A new movement for young and future voters discusses launching a “Voters of 1940” forum to educate citizens, reduce party blind allegiance, and promote independence. It highlights work for relief programs, local governance, and the potential of Pennsylvania’s public projects to provide jobs while testing the new relief plan.
Wayne King returns to CBS Saturday evenings in October with updates on network plans. Lily Pons and Andre Kostelanetz plan another tour after warm receptions. Marian Shockley, teen actress, played Phil Baker’s mother on Hones ly Bound and joins upcoming projects. Tune Up Time returns August 21 with Tony Martin MC and Alice Faye in NY. Dave Elman resumes Hobby Lobby on NBC August 23. Broadcaster Bill Stern covers the College All Stars vs Giants at Soldiers Field August 20. Joe Stanley Baldwin to speak Democracy at Work on the Blue network. Kay Kyser broadcasts from Hollywood College of Musical Knowledge. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt hosts Hobby Lobby on the Blue network. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Mark Huling guest with George Jessel on Red network. Various music programs and concerts announced across networks with notable performers and broadcasts from Chicago and Toronto. Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour salutes Ut City Thursday. Regular broadcasts feature plights and wartime realism from Plattsburg broadcast.
A fragment notes Frito TS and a reference to a favorite Italian dish made from chopped ingredients. The brief appears as OCR from a historical page with limited readable details.
Bruce Catton reports from Washington on the Department of Agriculture proposed food stamp program. The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation foresees a self accelerating effect, with Rochester as first test and potential for wide expansion across the relief system and milk markets. Observers warn the plan might become a large, hard to stop experiment altering relief costs and farm economics.
Turbulence resurfaces as a new obstacle challenges the easing crisis at the milk mint area. Authorities grapple with shifting orders and unclear mandates. Environmental and economic pressures complicate the path toward stabilization and reopening.
From the Medical Society of Pennsylvania a discussion notes sleep disorders and brain disease links. It mentions excessive sleepiness, narcolepsy, catalepsy, and hypersonia with symptoms like slow pupil reaction and irregular breathing, plus sleep-related phenomena such as dreams and sleepwalking.
A reader’s scan of a bygone classified page lists seven trivia questions. Topics include national parks, science, newspaper flags, British possessions, U.S. presidents, pronouns, and Lent’s first day, with garbled notes about locations in Africa and champagne.
A county commission race in the fall draws interest with three new candidates George M Ream John S Rogers and C B Trisket. Army veterans return home from overseas including Corp William Geertson Sergi Archie Morris Corp Harald Marsh and others with updates on their service and orders remaining in France.
Hollywood report describes Jack Pennick training militia settlers and drilling the Continental Army for the 20th Century Fox film Drums Along the Mohawk in Utah. He oversees camp security and daily routines, directing duties from bugle wake to campfire gatherings amid mounting production activity.
Stamp news notes the withdrawal of 3 cent Hawaiian commemorative and 3 cent regular issue George Washington stamps from sale at the Philatelic Agency. Hawaii stamp debuted Oct 18 1937 in Honolulu and Washington stamp June 16 1932 in Washington DC. Also mentions inaugural trans Pacific air service and a proposed special cachet. Robert Louis Stevenson portrait linked to Samoa site commemorates occupation. Referenced are Speicher’s film casting and Utah residents in extras work. Common error guidance present.
A fragmented column fragment mentions a dance tonight with many girls, a rebuke about being cooled, pollen and hay fever, and a weather forecast. It also references Alfalfa Bill Murray and an overseas vote idea amid a reader problem column style. The text is garbled but hints at satire and public commentary.
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