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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1931
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR item mentions Argin Pa and eight port at St. Aue. Readable name fragments hint at a local notice or brief but insufficient to confirm event or official action. No clear person, organization, date, or place fully identifiable.
The elegant Viele motor car by the Pennsylvania Motor Car Co. of Warren arrived in Corry this afternoon around 1:90, drawing attention in the city. It is seven feet long, entirely of steel construction, seats 50, and can carry 100 people.
A local W C J U institute met in the M E church parlors with Mrs Harriet Durham presiding. Attendees included Miss Anna Adams Gordon memorial remarks, reports by directors, and discussions on temperance laws. Public notices mention bank rate cuts and railroad leadership changes.
John Sidie of Mt. Carmel and Lawrence Ireland of Toledo, both 22, admitted stealing a Hudson sedan from Philip Molvoy at 203 Hust Street. They appeared in court but were remanded to county jail to await trial as Judge Avira warned that lawyers could not aid them. Sidie told his story. Ireland largely admitted guilt.
The National Orchestra of Wales disbands after subsidies shrink and Welsh support falls short, as costs rise and luxury asks outpace funds. A Pittsburgh coal leaders’ meeting signals government control proposals amid outlays and declining profits. Wheat storage costs soar while surpluses grow, urging shifts to industrial crops to ease the farmer’s burden.
A quiz-like piece asks which reptile changes color, naming the chameleon as answer one. It credits Manfred von Richthofen as the top German WWI ace with 80 planes to his credit, and notes Montana as the leading sheep state. It cites Alpha Centauri as the nearest star at about 2,066,000 times farther than the sun, 92 million miles away.
The Fire Railroad ordered several hundred freight cars now in production. G H Barlow of the Circus National Bank received notice of the bank's appointment Postal Savings Depository Bank No 1288. North East Sun cites Findley Lake fishermen getting high prices for fill at 20 cents a pound and two reasons weight. New potatoes have fallen in price over the past two days selling at 70 cents. Frank Say reports Willie Printice is dead. A dog owned by G W Sullingen on Spring Street was poisoned Sunday morning. Rev Sharpley of St Joseph Missouri has accepted Emanuel Church rector post to begin October first. Nell Keating returns to Cleveland with nephew Austin Dempsey en route to Spencerian Business College. Mr and Mrs Frank Applie left for Watertown, NY to visit Mrs Ebbie's mother.
A compact page outlines common usage errors and pronunciation notes from W L Gordon. It highlights misused phrases like meant to write versus meant to have written, mispronounced authority, and mispelled crochet. It introduces a daily word study with presentment defined as a foreboding sense of future events.
A newspaper puzzle item asks for the inner surface of a box holding a large sphere. Given the sphere fits exactly, the surface area calculations lead to a result around 70 square inches, though the text shows corrupted arithmetic steps and percentage clues.
United Press reports a tale of jealousy fueling a quarrel between fisahl Timutama and Mary Reisner a former actress on a luxury cruise. Investigators seek clues to dwimura’s disappearance as Jan Ribas describes shouts and anger from Tajimuri the Japanese importer during the night before the disappearance.
Ambiguous OCR notes describe an Odd Hotel Building Coqiina used in the Hotel Ponce de Leon Augustine project. The text claims carloads of native material were mixed with cement to form a supposed indestructible composite, yet states the hotel was not built and material poured in five inch layers, with unclear figures and names.
New York Aug 21 William A Murray son of Oklahoma Governor was questioned by Justice Department agents in Brooklyn over the death of Joseph Apud assistant purser on the liner Southard Cross found dead in his state room last Monday He denied knowledge of how the assistant purser might have been shot.
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