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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1935
Page
3
News of Will Rogers death spurs Mrs. Rogers to travel from Lakewood Missouri to the family home at Santa Monica Gal. Authorities attempted to shield her departure from public notice as the latest photographs of Mrs. Rogers are released.
The bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post are flown from Seattle to Beverly Hills and Oklahoma City for burial. The Pan American Airways airliner will carry Rogers to California tonight and Post to Oklahoma. A Marine guard and Navy planes witness the convoy as Canada’s flag flies at half mast.
Alaska Post describes Will Rogers and Wiley Post photographed alive in Juneau with Mayor I Gallstein and others before their takeoff toward Dalagou in Yukon territory. The mayor stands beside Post, Rogers near Crosson, and Hex Beach noted as a life in Alaska writer.
Crosson completed a 2000 mile flight from Fairbanks Alaska to Vancouver in ten hours with co pilot and radioman. Fog and low temperatures challenged the route but the crew pressed on to White Horse Yukon and then Vancouver. The funeral plane arrive at Seattle while crowds waited in Vancouver for the aircraft that carried the man known for wit and thrilling fights across the world. The crash occurred near an Eskimo sealing camp as they attempted a takeoff from a stream.
Mrs Wiley Post traveled with her husband’s parents from Ponca City to Maysville to We when word arrived of the noted tragedy. The body was escorted to Oklahoma by air, likely via Los Angeles and Seattle, with details incomplete.
Dr Edith Macs Bride-Dexter urges under professional supervision for sun or lamp therapies. She notes overexposure risks from home use, eye damage from unsupervised ray treatment, and low blood pressure patients facing adverse reactions, especially in early tuberculosis. Control and knowledge are essential.
Classified note shows a baby carriage offered in good condition with contact at 228 Hust Smith whreet aaoF.
Roosevelt approved $711,061 in federal WPA funds for projects in Pennsylvania, plus $178,697 in sponsor contributions. Programs include Meadville high school varnish interior work, Titusville guard rail, Erie stadium improvements, Girard sewer work, Venango Br additions, and several street and athletic field improvements across Crawford McKean and other counties.
Richmond Times Dispatch tallies a statewide Virginia straw poll showing 84.52 percent favor Roosevelt re election. The three week survey reports 70 plus percent share in 1922 Roosevelt Hoover contest, with counties voting narrowly against Richmond and a note on Essex Missouri doctors in Brandon family with five physicians spanning three generations.
The Lautheran Bethesda Home near Saegertown sent forty boys and girls to sing during the morning service at St. Pauls Lutheran Church yesterday. Rev R W Yeaney led the service in Rev Wagner s absence. John Yeaney accompanied the choir presenting hymns including The Hymn of the Netherlands The Song of Thanksgiving Ein Feste Burg Now Thank We All Our God and Fairest Lord Jesus.
Fort Le Boeuf Chapter of the Daughters of American Colonists held its third quarterly meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rollo McCray in Waterford Pa on Saturday. About 34 members and friends shared a noon picnic then a short business session led by newly elected regent Mrs. C K Henry of Edis burgh. The afternoon was spent visiting. Also note an advertisement for a 1928 Chevrolet school bus by Archie Hawley.
Members of the Business and Professional Women's Club attended a district meeting at Erie with a fish fry at Edgewater Beach Peninsula State Park. Attendees hailed from Greenville, Sharon, Meadville, Erie, Union City and Cory. State officers Mrs Helen K X Thompson, Ruth Marvin, and Lottie Sprouls spoke. Short business session elected Kathryn Remiler and Hazel Wait as officers, Flora Inman named secretary.
Preliminary estimates from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reveal 1934 wage salary and other income payments totaling 424 billion dollars, up 11 percent from 1992 figures, with a complex mix of declines and gains across decades. Public Works Administration payrolls and work relief programs contributed modestly to the rise, while business losses decreased in the early 1930s.
The U B Ladies Aid Society sponsor a penny supper on the lawn of the B Busa home Thursday August 22 from 5 30 until all served. Menu includes corned beef hash macaroni and cabbage salad baked beans cucumbers and tomatoes beet pickles bread apples pie ice cream and coffee. Public invited. proceeds benefit the church.
A token of appreciation was presented for her successful two year chairmanship. An invitation from the Sharon group to the fall meeting was gratefully accepted, and a record attendance is anticipated.
Bertha Stats KowsHL, 58, injured by knife thrust to the back during a dispute in St Vine tent Saturday night. Her husband, reportedly drunk, allegedly stabbed her after she complained about his behavior. She remained in serious condition at Vincenta hospital as police investigated.
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