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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1933
Page
3
A fragmentary OCR line shows a stray reference to a street, avenue numbers, and a time marker, suggesting a disrupted public notice. The readable elements include mentions of avenue names and a potential 16 hour signal, but essential details are missing.
The piece urges restraint on government spending as public debt climbs past six billion dollars since Hoover began his third year, with Roosevelt planning three more billion next year to fund recovery. It cites New York Times praise for budget cuts and calls for economy to protect government credit during the emergency.
Announcement from Alabama states J Tom Heflin will seek Congress in the Fifth District. The former senator, inactive since losing reelection, vows to aid Roosevelt and challenge monetary policy. Democratic and national leaders fear a Heflin comeback in the Senate era.
Three Erie men met in Washington Monday to discuss creating a new bank by consolidating Second National and Erie Trust. Attendees included A J Kelm Second National officer F H Payne depositor committee chair and Mort Davis Tex Charley Davis of the Chamber of Commerce. They planned conferences with federal banking officials and noted the meeting followed a deer hunting trip and a brief chase.
Twenty years ago local efforts aimed to raise twenty thousand dollars to enlarge Meadville orphans' asylum. Mrs Haley, long tied to the Roosevelts, was hired as the first lady's personal maid and recounted meeting with Mrs Roosevelt. Reports also describe budget burdens, a new office building for C B R Rogers, and various local happenings including a death at Corry Hospital and holiday events across towns.
Norma Shearer, back from five months in Europe, says Hollywood and nearby Santa Monica are her adopted homeland and she plans to stay. She praises Hollywood as America’s vital, progressive center and notes the appeal of the local film industry and its creative minds.
Paris fashions advise high front necklines with low backs to enhance the torso and neck. For gowns, front follows the chin line while backs may be very low or curved, favoring thin materials and dramatic draping. Street wear keeps necks near the ears with V shapes or napes, and a shallow front V to a deeper back V.
The 1934 plates add a curved numeral style and new words for vehicle types. Commercial tags now read Truck and Bus, with Denser letters replacing TX. Tractor and motorcycle tags gain new abbreviations MC MB MCD, and number lengths shrink to five on fruit plates, aiming to limit use on pleasure cars.
The Philathea Class of the Baptist Church held their annual Christmas party at Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Loveland’s home in West Church Street. A decorated tree and red decorations filled the house as names from the rapusle Friends were read. Gifts were exchanged, a lunch of chicken salad cranberry jelly hot rolls plum pudding and coffee was served by Mrs. Loyland and helpers. Twenty eight members and visitors attended the festive gathering.
The fragment lists a set of questions about local figures and events including Marie Sundelius leading a gang at a Lews Theatre while John Knode managed Union Telephone Co Bugbee’s sugar bush featured for youths during sugar season and Gertrude Shont teaching English at Cory High aghaul.
A coast guard cutter reported a distressed Russian vessel near Wamehatka Siberia after receiving a message relayed by a Japanese ship to a British Columbia station. The SOS said the vessel, possibly the Boursale, lost its propeller in a storm at 52 N 168 40 E, with no positive identification yet.
Kane project bids were opened after authorization by the emergency administration. The new specifications call for a frontage of 9 feet and an approximately 18,000 square foot area. Reading advertise for revised bids may follow if current bids are not approved.
Police say a makeshift device uses car exhaust to end the lives of injured or diseased dogs. A tube from the exhaust vented to the dog house at the rear of Mrs Weston’s headquarters. Animals placed in the chamber die within two to three minutes.
Mr and Mrs Jason Smith of 1222 Worth Center Street plan a Christmas distribution for needy city children through the Corry Ke Bef Fund. The event honors their late children, twins who died in infancy over four decades ago, with candy nuts oranges and other goodies for the community’s less fortunate children. Also notes a 5-year-old Indian boy Tom Williams of the Milwaukee Indian tribe who died recently and was said to have seen the first white gold seeker at Jimtown in 1849.
Unclear worded report notes Dutch Harbor Alaska and Moana Lue in Hawaii erupting at nearly the same moment. The Kanaga Island Sil ’dn volcano erupted with smoke and mud rising about 1,000 feet. Kanaga is uninhabited.
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