After Two Decades Corry News Highlights
A 1970 Corry School feature notes a booming manual training program aided by alumni and popular with students. Local figures Mr and Mrs J M Smith hosted a holiday party for their daughter and friends. Industrial progress includes improvements at Alexander and Company and Metal Furniture Co as weather complicates chimney work. Local deaths include John Shuler, 74, long-time Columbus resident. A special train carrying President Underwood and VP Stuart visited briefly. Richard White sustained serious injuries in a Spar Town coast accident. Prohibition debate prompts calls for persistent education on temperance.
Coroner’s jury holds Walter Scott in man’s death
George Herman, 50, proprietor of the Hoffman House, was shot in front of his restaurant Friday morning. Walter Scott, 42, captain of the Perry Iron Works police, was held responsible after a coroner’s inquest. Edward Fischer testified Herman obtained a pistol at 1 o’clock Thursday night and carried it in his pocket. Herman died Friday afternoon. his wife Bessie was wounded but in satisfactory condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie
Purty
Congress Achieves Wide Legislative Agenda in Closing Session
The President highlighted a broad package of laws and reforms including federal wage boards, apportionment fixes, tariff revision, radio and power commissions reorganizations, federal prisons upgrade, parole and veterans’ benefits expansion, prohibition enforcement strengthening, narcotics bureau creation, river and harbor improvements, highway expansion, and public buildings growth, along with ratification of a London naval treaty. Critics urged careful appraisal of these substantial actions rather than solely football strategy.
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Federal
Warm Board
Tarif Commission
The
Radio Commission
Federal Power Commission
Department of Justice
Narcotica Bureau
Congress
New Peter Arno Book Tops Critics Gift Picks
The Dec issue highlights Peter Arno's Hullabaloo collection from Horace Liveright, lauded as witty and devastating in single-line inscriptions. It also reviews A P Herbert Water Gypsies and Francis Wallace Huddle, noting Notre Dame and Rockne as targets of amusement, plus D H Lawrence virgin and the Gipsy seen as incomplete.
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New York
Peter Arno
Horace Liveright
New Yorker
Arno
Urday
Attenton
Wallace
New Dominion
Lawrence
Virgin and the Gipsy
Auttho
Six Held For Store Burglary In Comderport Case
A gang of eight, including Drotieys Grant Morlun Ageule Blade Francis Snyder Wiley Bursee Gerald Randall and Keene, faced Justice S. L Lewis last week for breaking into Higgins Brothers Co store in Austin. Ted Anderson aided by Chas Evans and J Cooper helped capture suspects after a window was pried. Police secured signed confessions linking Randall Snyder to other robberies including H Bunker Oswego and J A Fessenden Milport.
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Comdersport
Bec
Lewis
Drotieys
Grant
Morlun
Ageule Blade
Francis Snyder
Smedlport
Wiley Bursee
Ford Hill
Gerald Randall
Coxdereport
Keene
Higgins Brothers & Co
Austin
Chas
Evans
Simeone
Ted Anderson
J. Cooper
Hvans
Anderson
Kees
Tools & Hand
Irom
Randall
Snyder
H. Bunker
Oswego
J. A. Fessenden
Milport
Randall and Meesee
Plymouth
Visiow Monte
Gold
Lady Aviator Lands on Bahamas Island After Mistaken Flight
A female Australian stunt flyer, starting from Havana bound for Miami, landed on a Bahamas island about 30 miles east of Miami after wind confusion. She believed she was in Mexico upon landing, navigators puzzled by the arrival. She later sold her story to a syndicate for $1,500 and pursued exclusive pictures trade. The piece cautionarily notes such figures do not benefit female aviation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Miami
Fla
Bahamas
Mexico
Temperance Movement and Francis Murphy’s Rise
Curiously the piece recalls Francis Murphy and his temperance movement. It notes Murphy spoke in Portland sixty years prior after a drinking past he factually acknowledged, and describes his persuasive oratory fueling a nationwide drive. It mentions a burst of pledges in Pittsburgh and a shrinking surge in recent years amid debates on prohibition repeal and compulsory deprivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Murphy
Murphy
Portland
Pittsburgh
Answers to Saturdays Questions and Local News
Answers to Saturdays Questions include Boston Mass as the woman question, Robert Louis Stevenson as the first motion picture reference, and The Vatican as the question about the lightful known chemical. Local items note Eli Johnson attending funeral, Mrs Gay returning home from Warren after a visit, and a large Elk sighting on Ridgway Oster Hout hill with hunters pursuing it.
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Gron
United States
Ieee
Union
Boston
Mass
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enigland
France
Vatican
Ridgway
Oster- Hout Hill
Bic
Mas Long Usefulness
A coconut tree reaches maturity at seven years and can live up to about 150 years, according to the source. The note emphasizes the long productive span of the palm, pointing to its utility and longevity.
A Problem a Day Balloon Surface Area Reduction
A Problem a Day asks how much surface area is reduced when a balloon shrinks from W inches to 1W inches in diameter. The solution uses a multiplication by 0.50 and a division into 50, yielding a 25 percent reduction.
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Day
Changed Position The Colophon In Early Printing Era
The colophon, placed at the end of books in early printing, carried information now typically found on a title page, marking publication details and credits.
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Journal
Corry School
J. M. Smith
Dis Alexander
Alexander
Foster Davis
Wetmore
Dell Darling
Carl VanTassel
Alexander and Company
Metal Furniture Co
Barnison Kepple
Kenneth Haig
Kingsley
Paul DeRosay
Chamberlain Military Academy
John Shuler
Columbus
Underwood
Stuart
Hirle Railroad
Richard White
van White
Spartansburg
Laurie
Wy . Nutting
W. L. Gordon
Poe
de Quincey
Scott
Hanley
George Herman
Paul
United Press Sn
Francis’ Wallace
Farrar and
Rinehart
Sat
Johnson
Randolph
Thomas Oastrom
Frank Gay
Warren
Joseph Craker
West Congress Street
Thes
eClub
BC eClub
Citizens National
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Coats
North Center Street
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