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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1937
Page
3
Air temperatures rise as a city park concert unfolds while parade plans form at the Baldwin Club event. Highway work near Spring Creek advances. a Canadi an speed typing record is set in Ottawa and Pennsylvanian oil output climbs to a new weekly peak.
United Press reports figures from the Bureau of Public Roads show $19 544 000 16 cents of every dollar went to non highway use last year an increase of $22 202 000 over 1935. Federal and state highway outlays totaled $1 131 000 000 with major shares to highways local roads and administration. States derived $691 420 000 from gasoline taxes 359 784 000 from registration fees and licenses and 15 137 000 from motor carrier taxes. The bureau criticizes non highway use of automobile taxes and notes one third as much was spent on non highway items as on building and maintaining state highways.
The Department of Labor and Industry enforces five new laws starting Wednesday including a forty four hour work week for women and an eight hour day. Provisions cover employment records safety requirements and inspection procedures. The changes require annual renewal and set standards for workplaces and wage compliance.
Grace Phelan of Etna Pennsylvania achieved a world amateur speed typing high at Toronto by typing 120 words a minute in the international typing contest. The event crowned her champion among non professional typists, reflecting a notable performance amid entries like piano sales notes inadvertently mixed in the source.
Harrisburg reports seven additional cases of infantile paralysis since August 95, bringing totals this year to 88. Dr Ruth MacBride-Dexter, health secretary, announced. Meteorites: half the meteorites falling from the skies are iron.
Wilke Clay and G Dudyrhuerer, parts manager at Piegl Motor, awarded for outstanding equipment and service work. They and others will attend a Ford Motor Co banquet in Cleveland and receive a two day Detroit trip, funded by Ford, as a reward for efficiency and diligence.
Police arrest a group of young thieves connected to a pattern of shoplifting and street theft near Wat River and Lane Street. Investigators name suspects, outline recovery of stolen items, and note ongoing inquiries into related incidents.
Funeral services for Mrs Eva E McElroy were held at Brackut Keating chapel on Saturday afternoon with Rev W A John officiating. Interment followed at Pine Grove cemetery. Pallbearers included Edward Hawkins, Rean Mutt roy, Harry Roberts, and Clyne Cook. Many relatives attended from Buffalo and Ol City.
A theory suggests golf evolved from a marble game where players struck balls with a stick or club. Proponents note similar play areas and equipment in early Europe and Asia. The idea remains debated among historians of sport.
A noted breeder of Angus cattle, William Hap, aged 56, of Mercer, Pu, died after sustaining a wound to the abdomen by a Nay fil. Hope’s SUL, he had won several prizes at county fairs before his death.
fragmented OCR reads as a note about increased home building in Toledo with mentions of Morvernie and new projects. It references issuance of something tied to construction and local development, indicating a busy period for housing growth in the area.
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