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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1929
Page
3
The text presents an OCR fragment mentioning an estate, a decedent, a court, a date in September, and a sale related to heirs or beneficiaries. It references a microsection of a legal proceeding with names and numbers but remains unclear and partial. The readable items include references to sale, petition, and court action with limited identifying details.
Twenty years ago A J McElroy married Miss Zuella Cady last evening. The Rev Raymond Lackey performed the ceremony for Atlantia City and New York. Corry Custor- Gormpyny on broken ground for a new addition to their plant on Avenue where a warehouse will be provided for store materials and supplies. The Pennsylvania Company installed new equipment for their supply gate on East Smith street property to improve pressure and service to Corry patrons. A telephone war has developed at Wutteburg and a correspondent claims a trick by the Bell Company to take telephones from the Union system. Miley Georgia Myers has resigned from Corry Ghalr Co to join Barlow Hardware Go. The Mozart Club and families are at Hillside near Spring Chee for a music program. Mrs C H Bracken and son Olin visited Marion O for relatives.
Readable notices list services across Advent Christian Pentecostal Alliance Christian Science Emmanuel Episcopal Lutheran United Brethren and Methodist churches. Readers invited to morning worship Sunday schools at 9 30 11 00 and evening services with special concerts by Lee Whittlesey and guest singers.
A discussion on President Hoover in the newspaper notes that letters addressed to the President may be ignored if publicized before receipt and acknowledgment. The piece weighs efficiency versus courtesy, noting mixed opinions on the policy. It then reports on Postal Savings uptake in New York City amid bank failures, contrasting low interest with higher U S rates and skepticism about red tape and appeal to immigrants.
Yesterday's Q and A reveal Scotland's best loved post is William and the Grand Banks lie off Newfoundland. A toun delay means a town delay. David's most known friend is 1b. Mr Ranier is in Carson City Nevada.
A cluttered page lists exercises from a language instruction column. It includes questions on grammar punctuation pronunciation mis-spellings and word forms with scattered references to yesterday's problems and a note that Merle Caster is in Jamestown on business for the A. W. Newhorst Shoehouse.
Kane Aug 28 two lightning bolts struck Welan Street School building causing minor damage estimated at 1000 dollars. A bolt shattered bricks and a metal plate while debris embedded in ground and wood joist. Fire Chief Valentour and janitor W O Brown inspected the building with no fire found.
Aug 24 EHUB petition filed in county court seeks separate trial for Halverson 40 Minneapolis charged with murder of Highway Patrolman Swanson near North East on April 19. Attorney S Rossiter says he may represent Halverson alone. Burd and Savic 42 may seek separate defense handling. District Attorney Otto Herbst notes no objection to separate trials.
West Ridge Transportation Company bus due in Sugar Grove around eight struck the bridge crossing Stiltwater Creek and crashed through the railing while balancing on the frame. Report says front wheel brakes locked causing loss of control. no passengers were aboard.
Listings show WJZ NBC schedule with a Roxy Symphony Concert at 1:00 EST and Peter Thbetson by Ratio Guild at 2:15 EST on WEAF NBC. At 7:15 EST Atwater Kem Hour features William Simmons, then New York Philharmonic under Van Hogastraten at 7:20 EST. The Maestro's Hour airs at 1:15 BST. Also for sale a shepherd dog from Spartansburg PA by Frank Pero.
Warren Aug 24 A lightning bolt struck the north side of a two story barn on Blas Emert’s farm near German Hill two miles from Ponests. The blaze destroyed hay crops five acres of new wheat and farming equipment including a shredder and sleds. A week old calf perished. Mr Emert and neighbors aided in fighting the fire. horses were in another area at the time.
Warren man Ward Casey and another occupant escaped injury when a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train struck the sedan at the Crescent Park crossing on Barker Street this afternoon around 1 o'clock. The machine was badly damaged.
An American aviation tragedy reported from Berlin states pilot Joseph Gross of Louisville Kentucky and three passengers were killed when Gross flight en route to Frankfort Am Main crashed in a heavily forested mountain near Fulia. A fourth person was seriously injured as the plane became lost in the dense terrain.
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