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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
3
Fragmentary text suggests advice on slimming with nonstarvation methods and personal improvement. Mentions measurements and appearance benefits, but content is garbled and lacks clear specifics or identifiable entities.
Pathologists at Vion and WSiale Colleges report a potato blight outbreak. County agents urge spraying with thirilense ante tire, mortumodiaty siolp, and spraying machines. a remonstration event will advise on power equipment and weed control as planting continues. The notice cites Arch Webb near Walon City and a Saturday meeting at Mr. Webb's film ALD.
A severe storm struck Wateron causing damage to the fire alarm system. Lightning followed wiring into the dispatch center damaging the lower board and halting station operations. Crews led by Chick Gorton began repairs, with the city reporting significant disruption and warnings of lengthy restoration.
Executorship granted to Lewis Olds for the estate of Mary J Chaputts. Creditors and claimants must present debts or demands to the executor without delay for settlement.
A body found in a potato patch near Erie was identified as not Kane’s relative Artie Cournean of this city. He last spoke from Hele on Saturday night, left Friday on a 6:80 train to Erie for job exams, and failed to return. Erie police summoned Cournean’s father-in-law to verify the identification amid foul-play concerns. A concurrent ad seeks an unencumbered man aged 21 to 50 for child welfare travel work, with a contact at B44, care Journal.
Aug 18 Andrew Rainer of Pittsburgh held by the court for a day on charges of having run away with Glailys Curtis of Wattsburg, this county, and had been married.
Fragmentary notes report young couples from Mayville being married by local authorities. The record mentions a Mayville ceremony and a vow of fidelity, with references to youth, families, and communal acknowledgment of union. Details are incomplete but suggest a community practice of arranging marriages.
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