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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1930
Page
3
Police chiefs and crime commissions call for stricter firearm regulation to cut crime. They cite rogue gun sales and a bootleg arsenal and urge licenses, buyer bans, identification, bonding, tougher penalties, and extra sentences for felons caught with weapons. The issue warrants action by state legislatures.
Paul T. Franklin argues in favor of honest architecture, praising the steel skeleton and concrete during construction. He says modern buildings should reveal actual materials and avoid false surfacing, applying honesty to office buildings, hotels, churches, and homes.
The Corry population reaches 5991 in the thirteenth census up from 5860, a gain over eleven percent. Notices include the death of Howard M. Buller in Bellefonte, a Jamestown marriage of Lillian Paddock and Homey Hewitt, and Mrs. Ella M. Tucker becoming matron at Whinboro State Normal School. Holiday car decorations impress crews and Harry V. Drown arrives with his family to spend the holidays locally.
A rectangular garden 60 by 40 feet is surrounded by a 6 foot path. The paved area cost 35 cents per square foot. Calculate the path area by subtracting the inner garden from the outer dimensions and multiply by 0.35 to get total cost.
A fragmentary note on word usage and pronunciation by W L Gordon. It discusses correct tense phrasing for days and dates, the pronunciation of beverage, and common misspellings. The piece emphasizes studying one word daily to increase vocabulary and mentions remedial in a legal sense with Blackstone cited.
Answers to yesterday questions include Grover Cleveland lava not defined salary of a congressman 174 000 per year well known Trish yachtsman is not provided Ralelyn not a state capital and oceans listed include all major five oceans.
Edward Martin announced that General Howard C. Shanzion lieutenant governor elect will attend the opening of the state legislature in Harrisburg on January 6. The announcement came during his return from Columbus yesterday.
E G Otey longtime cashier of Merchants National Bank and Trust Meadville resigns to become president of McDowell County National Bank Welch West Virginia. Since July 1929 he has been a popular and active figure in Meadville banking and community life.
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