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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
6
Miss Elisa Beth Irwin principal of New York's Lite Red School House offers toy buying guidance for Christmas. She urges selecting imagination stimulating durable toys, avoiding flashy he most mechanical items, favoring hand operated trains and large muscle toys, games of skill over chance, and considering age and taste. Dial 38-034 for more want ads.
Railway Express Agency predicts a strong holiday season with record sales volumes. Agent H Severin cites improved industry conditions, falling unemployment, and higher public buying power as drivers, while promising increased holiday shipments in corporate city areas and free distribution of attractive address stickers.
Historical notes on extreme ocean conditions report a 80 foot wave in the North Atlantic near December 23 192% aboard the Majestic. South Atlantic and South Pacific storms produce seas five feet high in full development. The Bay of Biscay and a flea trainer anecdote follow with unrelated details and uncertain ages of seas.
Harrisburg reports the state highway department will install 8000 reflector units at feeder route intersections with major highways. Designed by safety engineers, the units, made by the welfare department prison labor division, will be erected after January 1. If successful, more units may follow.
A Los Angeles television station celebrates eight years of broadcasting with a steady lineup of programs and local content. The milestone underscores the station’s ongoing role in serving the community and expanding regional reach.
NEA Service profile of Finns leader Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim. At over seventy, the Finnish savior resumes frontline duties guiding the defense against Bolshevik pressure, maintaining a pivotal role since Finland’s 1918 Civil War and guiding national security through recurrent Russian tensions.
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