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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1934
Page
3
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The president of a major firm states fall prices remain below those in competing catalogs despite higher raw materials and labor costs. Drought hurts crop regions, prompting reduced prices on essential goods to aid customers. Company aims for higher sales volume and potential profit via lower prices and efficiency. Henry Ford is cited as a precedent for cutting prices to expand the market, then improving production to restore profitability.
The American Liberty League attracts editorials praising its aims to defend rights and property while urging government to back initiative and work. Cleveland leaders debate motives, noting the need for open expression and a robust recovery, with AJ Smith pushing for direct action in public discourse.
In Cuyahoga County Ohio the Apartment House Owners Association announces a ten percent rent increase effective September first for buildings 90 percent or more occupied. Most owners belong to the association, and many tenants may move rather than accept higher rents while the public gradually resumes earnings.
The piece argues August to September brings a national tendency to delay commitments and decisions. Executives pause, employees coast, and sales stall due to Labor Day and vacations. It warns against the habit of waiting for better times after each milestone and urges enterprising action to seize profits now.
Dun and Bradstreet reports retail trade well above last year with regional differences. In the southwest and Pacific Coast gains reach 20 to 30 percent over 1938 summer, while some areas show only about two percent. Prospects depend on renewed building activity and the Federal Home Renovizing campaign to employ construction workers and related industries.
The morning is favorable for literary parents short talks and dealing with brothers sisters or residents. The afternoon favors movies or the stage while the early evening is accidental and the night tends to be unpleasant socially. Birthdate hints caution from March 25 through April 1955 with financial decisions urged Nov 1-10. Accidental dates October 27-28 and socially favorable September 14. Maine visitors day features music by Mrs. Sarah Bigelow of Bangor aged 59 and Mrs. Rone Guild aged 95 driving.
United Press report from Hollywood details Anna May Wong visiting Chinatown in Hollywood with shy locals avoiding photos due to a Chinese belief that a photographed person loses their soul. Wong explains the superstition, reflects on fame altering life, and notes her parents sheltered her from studios while she worked in Limehouse Nights. The piece contrasts Wong’s personal philosophy with her public image and adds a short note on local dog treatment clinic in Philadelphia.
Dunkirk Aug 20 four hundred Tera workers returned to their jobs after a week of halted work. Workers objected to twelve hour shifts and walked out. Meetings with city and state officials led to assurances of possible wage increases for September. Work resumed on removing trolley rails on East Fourth Street and Lake Shore Drive, along with sewer project duties at No. Di Cara playground.
Members of the Danish Brotherhood and their wives and sisters attended an elaborate affair at K of P hall last evening. Clarence Powell, Corry boy returning from three years in China via the Mediterranean, was en route on a German ship raising safety concerns. Kuster's orchestra provided the music for a dancing party at Canterville. The Misses Annie Gray Josephine Lander, Mabel Truesdell Cecil Winger Nana Lynch Eisie Raab attend Epworth League convention at Union City. Don Smith and daughter Alice of Omaha visiting Dr. A. L. Smith. Mrs. S. E. Winger and Miss Marie Ritsch return from the County Sunday School convention at Waterford Pa. William Smalley Kane enroute to Star garage by Irvine car wreck incident.
Unnamed press report details Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers as chief organizer behind a planned strike involving at least 600,000 textile workers by September. He operates from Chester Wright’s office, coordinating centers in Pawtucket and Greenville while signaling President Roosevelt’s intervention as a potential factor. Gorman, described as determined and meticulous, frames the strike as a remedy for labor grievances against NRA policy and the cotton mill system.
Paris fashion notes by Mary Knight describe Captain Maly Jews ideas turning gloves into sleeves of dresses and coats as a practical luxury. The trend favors one piece streamline gowns from shoulder to hem in blue velvet shades, tight silhouettes with deep slits, and revived early 1900s aesthetics with ostrich feather trims.
William Cunningham and Fred J. Callen Jr aided in capturing three bank robbers near Plainville on August 22. Each man received a reward of four dollars and ten cents per year of service. The officers praised their bravery and long years of labored service in the community.
Harrisburg reports the opening of Pennsylvania public schools on schedule with 2 million pupils and 81,000 teachers. Superintendent James N. Fille credits citizen support, school directors, and teachers for improved finances despite no emergency aid.
Gertrude Turisher filed suit for divorce from Charles J Thrismer after she alleges he refused to let her vote in a Baton Aug 10 case. The action seeks separation amid accusation of marital interference and voting rights denial.
In Waterbury Connecticut on August 29 Anthony Mancini lit a match to locate a leak in a gun pipe beneath a cellar. Fire apparatus arrived just in time to save the house from a blaze.
Montreal grain dealers and Montreal Corn Exchange officials project Canada will end the crop year with a carryover below 50 million bushels after a 251 million bushel crop estimates. They expect total available wheat at 444 million bushels with 288 million exported to Britain and 120 million for domestic use, leaving about 46 million bushels in storage, seen as satisfactory given recent surpluses.
Norwalk barbers in Norwalk C drop prices in a price war. Rates have fallen over weeks with several shops trimming heads for 20 cents each.
A bolt of lightning hit the Lawrenceville High School chimney on Aug 29, blasting soot from the furnace into the basement through the furnace door. No injuries reported. Local fire crews investigated and secured the area as a precaution.
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