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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1947
Page
4
Advertisement text outlines republication rights for AP content and mailing rates. Mentions Weightman Building in Philadelphia and Corry Pennsylvania post office entry. Provides pricing for mail and carrier delivery and states rates by year and territory.
Twenty years after, confirmation arrives that the Corry plant of United States Radiator Corporation will shut down for an indefinite period. A one year old boy, Richard Becker, was bitten severely by a dog near the Junior High School. Rev Caleb G Haskell longtime resident dies at his West Columbus Avenue home. Kiwanis Club meets at Hotel Corry elects R W Brown president succeeding Rev Bartlett.
Agriculture Department data show steady farm prosperity growth from 1941 to 1946. Cash receipts from farm marketings rose from about $11.15 billion in 1941 to over $24.14 billion in 1946, while costs of farm inputs also climbed. Net farm income, including government payments, increased about 117 percent from 1941 to 1946, despite partial accounting caveats.
A Masonic Hall gathering last evening drew about 25 couples including lodge members and friends. Plans for a Christmas party are underway with Wallace Hammond as chairman and assistance from C. M. Howard and Mel Parkhurst.
The Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania notes Americans enjoy freedoms about bathing, with tubs widely used in the United States. It cites a rise in bathtub exports, from 22 000 last year to 30 000 in the first half of this year, and traces the tub’s popularity to early indoor plumbing in the 1830s. The piece urges cleanliness as self respect, health, and social conformity. It lists bath varieties and promotes warm water and soapy water for cleansing.
A reader asks seven quiz questions from a 1940s Classifieds page covering conventions in 1948, spring dates, Babe Ruth and others, a Marine corps general, TVA, grammar correction, Man o War race wins, National Service Life Insurance grace period, a football score, and a painter initials R V Ri.
Mayville report says 44 year old Jamestown attorney Edward J. Ahlstrom paid $1000 to counsel for the purchaser in a real estate deal connected to his grand larceny mistrial. Witness Huberk W. Kuhn testified a $1000 check from G. R. Jamieson was used to pay mortgage and legal fees, but mortgage payment and fee extraction were disputed. The article also includes unrelated notes on soap antiseptic effects and Abraham Lincoln’s Indiana move.
A 48 year old father, Thermon R. Hendrickson, was critically wounded in Meadville while hunting with his sons Bruce 18 and Roger 16. The 18 year old fired a .22 rifle accidentally as the boy attempted to unload a snapping shotgun shell, the bullet entering the chest and piercing the left lung. Hospital attendants report severe shock hindered X rays and probing.
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