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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
3
Fragmented text mentions 25 000 and local fans with unclear context. No clear names dates places or events emerge. Surface details incomplete. cannot determine full incident or subject from readable words.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions names and numbers with unclear context. It references individuals and a night setting but provides no coherent event or outcome to summarize reliably.
Readable portions reveal ad notices and diverse commentary about stocks inflation and labor politics. The text discusses prosperity despite inflation, industrial efficiency, Britain’s Labour Party, and a critique of U S legal education, quoting Dean Dunmore on law schools and lawyer quality.
The piece notes faint light in Haiti as petitions from several political groups claim about two hundred thousand supporters for a national vote under American oversight. It recalls Nicaragua’s year ago election, where US endorsement did not prevent the winner from failing, and suggests a similar path for Haiti. The article argues Uncle Sam does not seek to govern but to foster self government through experience.
A compact quiz on language rules and pronunciation with questions about sentence errors, correct word usage, and spelling. It includes prompts such as the proper pronunciation of obscenity and choosing correct forms, plus yesterday's exercise answers.
Answers discuss Texas city with Lat in name meaning Body of Christ Stratford-on-Avon as a medieval Italy reference and U S Naval Academy, plus notes on suffrage coconuts and Heligoland. The closing paragraph advocates limited supervision for Latin American powers to aid regional development and alignment with American interests.
A problem asks how long A and B would take to finish a manuscript given portions they can copy in fractions of a day. The Tuesday solution computes a greatest common divisor from numbers 1240 war and 2976 to derive a shared factor. It shows factorization steps and identifies common factors to reach the result.
Oil City reports Raymond Gatesman of 411 Plumer Street injured in an auto crash on Sage Run Road near Oil City. Highway slickness blamed, car damaged, Gatesman taken by Steffee ambulance to Oil City Hospital in stable condition. Separately, Harrisburg notes Santa Claus gift event at the executive mansion where over two hundred children received candy boxes.
Mayor Samuel A. Carlson will nominate Clifton J. Beatty to be fire chief and Axel Levin to be chief of police, to succeed Oscar C. Bergdahl, with council approval required. Beatty, Jamestown born November 18 1856, has long served in the fire department and previously worked with Eagle Hose Company and as clerk to Chief Wilson and later Rogers.
Coast Guard officers refused comment on the shooting of Border Patrolman Eugenie Downey, 27, son of a Buffalo police lieutenant, as he crossed the Niagara River in a motorboat. Guards fired with machine guns after Downey ignored halt orders. no liquor found aboard.
Mrs Margaret Hower Wilhelm, 48, of Jamestown, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon at the Harding Heights home of Charles Beckstrom while preparing Christmas dinner. She slipped on a cellar stair and died at W C A Hospital at 4:25 p.m. from a fractured skull. The Beckstrom family was gathered for a long delayed reunion when the accident occurred. A physician attended and she was moved to the hospital conscious briefly before dying.
NOGALES Arizona December 26 United Press says Roy Morrison of Los Angeles, linked to gang leader Burke, was freed after officials found fingerprints did not match Burke. Morrison had been held in Santa Cruz county jail since Christmas, with authorities noting the resemblance to the famed machine gunner in the St Valentine's Day massacre.
An air flight from Berlin and Moscow to New York via Siberia and Alaska is being organized for next fall. George J. King of Junkers is in Moscow arranging with Soviet aviation officials. A Soviet plane may join the Junkers plane, with Karl Schnebler as co-pilot, aiming to establish a transcontinental route.
Two women duel over a final say in a tense scene with bold resolve to win. One pursues a decisive finish as both press for the last word in a sharp exchange.
A review notes Ludwig's Diane in two volumes from Viking Press, praising some character figures like Count Minnsterberg but criticizing prose for being overly wordy. It also covers The Anagram Book by Silas F Seadler, Peter Arno cartoons in New Yorker, and Samuel Scoville Jr's Wild Honey essays, noting their appeal and publication details.
A list of top selling books with authors and publishers follows. Highlights include Hudson River Bracketed by Erih Wharton, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, and Ex-Husband by Anonymous, among others. The piece notes varied genres and prices, and comments on the author’s vivid, enthusiastic style across nature and adventure descriptions.
The column laments a miscredit in a bridge incident from Whitehead to Stokes. It notes the Hook League of America striking a deal with seers-Roshuck to sell memberships. John Vassos shifts into interior decorating, crediting his work on modernistic apartments. Carolyn Wells, the detective author, remains referenced in an ongoing piece continued on page eight.
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