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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1940
Page
4
Local paper lists press credits for the Associated Press and announces advertising rate structures. Includes mail and carrier pricing, with annual and weekly options, and restricted distribution territory details.
Dorries reports community charity in action as Lindsey family fire relief efforts expand. Donations from diverse sources push toward funds that may enable a small farm start, with a central committee to oversee spending ensuring aid reaches the children.
The message to the American Farm Bureau warns of a dangerous year ahead for homeland. It urges allied help in airplanes, munitions, ships, and finance to secure victory. It frames the Atlantic and Pacific struggles as pivotal and cites Fascist collapse in Italy as potentially beneficial.
Lieut Charles Keating returns from three years in France and plans to resume work with the Graves Registration Service after January 1. Local community notes report Christmas Seal proceeds of about 400 dollars from Corry, Mrs Judson Blakeley’s accident, and a string of holiday events at homes and schools including Miss Ashton, Miss Pope, and Miss Aner.
The first long mason portrait shown in America starred Sarah Bernhardt in the title role and appeared in New York City in 1919. The passage notes shifts in training fields over 50 years, highlighting mining’s rise and later decline in favor of vocational courses while condemning Hitler and the regime as ideological rubble to be swept away.
George Tucker EW York notes Rags Ragland Pat Harrington and Trap Hyers gaining notice as Panama Hattie brings a lively, reckless Broadway comedy. The piece traces their rise from burlesque and New York night clubs to legitimate stages, praising TK and noting Ginny Simms’s onstage look and a political costume campaign anecdote.
A fragment from Daily Dozen discusses acids and foods. It states there is no danger in orange juice with milk and that a well balanced meal is best. It warns against overreacting to acidity and urges proper nourishment through a normal diet.
A reader quiz lists ten questions covering history, architecture, science, and military service. It asks about wax containments, Pharland name, Wright brothers first flight, cord wood volume, Wendell Willkie WWI service, Shah Jahan Taj Mahal, Speaker of the House in 1910, Tuffy Leemans sport, U.S. paper money production, and Offenbach composer. Also notes a common language error.
An ancient fragment credits Thales with bringing science to Greece after his trip to Egypt. The text also mentions a hybrid orchid named Alice by D Johnson, described as nearly black purple. The Red Cross notes a six percent rise in students taking first aid courses over two years.
A farm house fire near the city destroyed the Craker home and shed while a fireman was injured. Hose lines stretched about 700 feet but water arrived too late as flames overwhelmed the structure. The Mixers recently moved, insurance status unclear, contents reportedly uninsured. This fire follows a pattern of four major blazes in two weeks with deaths in the Tripp and Lindsey incidents nearby.
Harold Nurtela, 28, of Ashtabilla Ohio, died after a two hour forty five minute ordeal when an auto train collision trapped him in the front seat of a car at Erie. John Ryland, 37, Case City Michigan, first assistant engineer of the Jake freighter, suffered facial injuries and possible rib fractures. Mrs Helen Stroud, 25, of West 12th Street, suffered severe shock and forehead lacerations in the same accident.
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