Corry Daily Events Highlight Labor Day Plans
Twenty years ago Corry plans a Labor Day celebration led by the Corry Credit Exchange with a large ox toast at City Park. Tax Collector H. Gordon announces vigorous collection of delinquent 1027 school taxes after a Fourth ward couple is jailed. Warrants issued for others. Local businessmen show interest in reorganizing Precision Engineering at Sherman into Sherman Metal Products. Miss Ethel Matthews hosts Jo. F. S. Club at her Wright Street home. awards go to Mrs. Irvine Young and Mrs. Henry Decker. New flood lights illuminate the Pennsylvania Electric Company building offices for the first time. Politics remain a topic at street gatherings as Hoover vs. Smith interest stirs a likely heavy November vote.
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Ethel Matthews
Wright Street
Jo. F. S. Club
Irvine Young
Henry Decker
Mother wrecks car avoiding child's fall near Barcelona
A mother lost control of a car on Route 5 five miles east of Barcelona while shielding a child from a window fall. The child escaped injury. a bystander, Marion Galer Schell of Belleville Michigan, sustained a swollen left eye and received first aid from a passerby before state police arrived.
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Jamestown
Jolie
Barcelona
Marion Galer Schell
Belleville
Mich
Lake Erle
Wesfield State
Conscience and the Draft: Churches and Civil Disobedience
Religious groups oppose the draft with August 2 observances and calls for pacifist protest. The Friends and other pacifist bodies argue for civil disobedience under divine compulsion, while major denominations historically avoided formal endorsement of war or disobedience.
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National Association Against
Society of Friends
Richmond
Ind
The
Friends
Mennonites
Brethren
Dunkers
United States
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Justice Brewer
U.S. Supreme Court
Methodist Church
Iuirc
Reading Comprehension Quiz From 1988 Newspaper Page
A fragmented quiz asks about Rommlo Gallegos’s presidency, the WAAGP, MGM’s Easter Puste music, states called Commonwealths, TV set counts as of June 1988, and Robert Fulton’s steamship. The text blends questions and memory prompts with unclear phrasing.
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Rommlo Gallegos
United States
South American
MGM
Easter Pustede
Commonwealths
Audience Research, Inc
Robert Fulton
Steamrship
Fragmented 1920s Police Report From Jamestown Auto Shop
Police investigate a break in at Mal’s and Johnson’s Auto Body Shop with cash register funds and bills scattered after a burglary at the rail yard and nearby Coca Cola plant. Investigators note no break in at other nearby establishments.
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Jamestowm
Mal
Johnio
Merlott Knet |Ogal and Coke Company Cmc
Caah Register Anti Peanut Care Theratite
Tedny
Cosaii Coke
State Police Note on Rest, Sleepiness Driving Dangers
The State Police warn that some accident factors fall outside enforceable laws and require common sense. Rest decisions remain unwritten by statute, yet driving while fatigued can cause accidents and death, echoing anti-draft pastors who deny unquestioning obedience to conscription laws.
Bus Driver Faces Possible Manslaughter Charge
An Erie coach company driver, Raymond O Connor, 29, may be charged with involuntary manslaughter after his bus collided with a car Sunday afternoon, killing two women Mrs. Margaret McCarthy and Mrs. Marie Lindsey. The district attorney awaiting a city traffic report.
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Erie
Erie Coach Co
Otay
Daminn di, McLaughlin
Raymond O'Connor
Erle
Margaret M McCarthy
Marie Lindsey
Hamot
O'Connor
McLaughlin
Erie case outlines damage and juvenile delinquency concerns
A letter from Lawrence Berliner describes theft and vandalism at Erie buildings including a chain hoist, tools, broken glass, window frames, doors, and damaged files. He cites police involvement, notes a probation officer’s remarks about reform, and warns against misrepresentation while preserving details of the incident. He argues the crime is a felony and urges proper charges.
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ERIE
Jeanine
Proparky
Baward ‘Thomas
Odghizant
Officer Drake
Flanigan
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Precision Engineering
Sherman
Sherman Metal Products Company
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Company
Herbert
Hoover
al Smiths
Ee River
Fork City
Chuntry
Black Republic
Tunsegon
Davison-Fogle
Franklin St
Corry, Pa
Sunset
Waterford, Pa
Monte Cristo
Louis Hayward
Barbara Britton
Guignon's
Lawrence Berliner
Keystone VanCise
Shamburg’ S News & Sport Store
Barto-Christensen
Barto
Photographer's Association of America
Christensen Motors
STAHL
Astevens Trance
Steven
Triplestone
Corry's Smart Women's Shop
North Center Street
Your
Max Factor
Hollywood
Richard Hudnut
Faberge
Mee
Featuring
Park Club
Saéy
Masiar Craftsmien
Avery
Franz
ST. Mary's
Lanston’s
S. Center St
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