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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1936
Page
4
Corry residents describe Franklin D Roosevelt as courageous and sincere after a visit last Friday. The piece lauds his leadership, optimism, and New Deal policy as essential to economic recovery, praising his courage, honesty, and impact on the nation.
The Pennsylvania Department of Highways reports severe cuts to the highway program due to motor fuel relief and other needs. Maintenance is kept to a minimum and work will continue only to meet essential needs until registrations revenue returns in November. Secretary Wacon Van Dyke says a scarce budget must be fought to keep from red ink, noting $17,956,211 was withdrawn from the motor fund and warning that further curtailment could slow road construction and maintenance priorities.
A local gathering called to organize the predators of Erie and Warren counties is planned for tomorrow. Mrs Anna S Andrews of this city was elected Past Grand Officer at the Knights of Pythias state convention in Wilkes Barre. A summer course for 6th to 8th graders at the high school, led by Prof Milon Brown, has closed successfully. A four year old boy was struck by a car on South Center Street near the federal building. Union News shift manager Heyman announced he sold his stake. The Park Jewel Store robbery remains unsolved. The Bide-Widee Club and their husbands will meet Thursday evening with Mrs Will Johnson.
A fragmented quiz item asks what a jonghorn is and notes a city misnaming on a Michigan boulevard. It contrasts detective work with an airverb, offers etiquette guidance on introductions and engagement terms, quotes Cervantes on hunger, and predicts a birthday horoscope noting impulsiveness and intelligence. It ends with a brief answer: a best of romantic heel public indigenous to Texas is Chivasu.
Hollywood writers recount how motion picture studios trained actors to mimic Southern speech. Directors criticized staged dialects, while some actors argue for authentic regional tones. Call-outs include Leo Worth, Al Merkel, and Eleanor Boardman amid varied opinions on Dialect portrayal in films like Show Boat and Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
The sentence fragment discusses how an adjective attaches to a noun and how a subsequent fragment may link to a descriptive term. It explores whether the target of modification is the noun directly or an embedded element such as a subject or a distant modifier.
Paris fashion notes predict a change in fall and winter footwear with ankle high shoes returning, higher heels, and two tone colorways. Vamps rise, fronts feature medieval tabs, and simple tailored lines prevail. Black remains dominant while navies purples and greys appear.
Recreational facilities from the Resettlement Administration aim to create outdoor vacation spots for Pennsylvanians. The development covers Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Minoa, Reading, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton areas, with plans for motorist access and enhanced leisure amenities.
Fragmentary text suggests a historical note about Leper Isle near Honolulu adopting a modern ambulance system, replacing older vehicle arrangements. The garbled OCR makes precise names and dates unclear, but the core idea references a mid‑century public health or emergency medical service upgrade on an island location.
Roosevelts three day tour of the Northeast draws crowds in Pennsylvania Ohio and New York as political and world events unfold. Reports mention Trotskyist plots against Stalin and Soviet leaders along with gas incidents and missing plane crashes.
Review roundup covers Wassmuss in Persia and German spy legends, Sherriff on retirement, James Porman prophecies, and multiple fiction titles. Notables include Wassmuss tale by Sykes, Greengates by Sherriff, and Darcy-like catalog of novels from Stokes, Doubleday, and Putnam with varied themes from travel, romance, to crime.
A brief survey of Early Americana from Knopf and Nirarte in the Drawing Room from Doubleday Doran. The critique notes a rich collection of short pieces on the South and a contemporary novel by Erwin Greer Woot focusing on political and social currents.
Star signals outline August 12 dispositions for those born August 22 to September 22. Morning to evening moods hover from very good to good. travel pleasure and social activity are encouraged. Cautions warn against excess pleasure and fire or accident risks, with errant dates and unclear references reflecting a damaged page.
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