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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1930
Page
3
A new trout pool venture offers equipment, bait, and fish for use at moderate rates, letting customers catch and cook their own trout on site. Stocked from half a pound to a pound and a half, the pool aims to broaden fishing appeal as golf did, with concerns about fish sustenance and training.
Local notes from December 30 1910 recall Elks minstrel preparations for February, flood fears eased by cold air, Al Corry team routed Union City 254 to 18, Crippen at center praised, Downey and Guignon highlighted, Mayville loss 64 to 22 by Corry High, a derailment nose buried in roadbed, Mrs Minnie Wales Spear departs for New York with son Arthur remaining with grandparents.
Reading notes cover misused phrases and pronunciations with daily vocabulary goals. Reports include J. Lloyd Sullenger departing for Detroit to join Chalmers Automobile Co, Erie attorney Robert J. Firman seeking district attorney nomination, Judge Charles F. Amidon visiting family, and Maggie Noel suffering burns from hot water with slow recovery.
A set of trivia prompts and yesterday's answers covering figures and facts. Questions include Gaston Doumergue, England's national flower, whether the moon shines by its own light, Alaska governor appointment, and Moorish conquests in Europe.
Erie, Dec. 30. The county grand jury may review the Erie board of education after its official report is filed Jan. 8. Probers reportedly found many of Director James E. Speed 10 charges well grounded and a 100 plus page report expected to cause city commotion. Missing $2,000 in building permit fees is cited as authentic, with one fee returned to the board coffers. Rumors say several local groups may press the findings to the next grand jury.
A T pint vessel and an 11 pint vessel are used to measure exactly six pints. The solution explains using the two jugs to transfer and subtract amounts until six pints remain, following standard two jug measuring techniques. The text also oddly references a time calculation about watch gains and days in a week, which does not affect the measurement method.
Jefferson and Venango counties expressed interest in creating a prison farm to ease crowded jails. A committee led by Charles R. Davis will study feasibility, with eight-county district approval required. Evie County will not pursue the matter in 1931.
Frank Cole of Portville suffered a fractured right hip right knee and ankle plus head injuries after being struck by a car driven by Richard Ellis on the main highway near Portville. Raymond Simmons of West Sullivan Street sustained cuts and bruises when his sled was hit by a car driven by Floyd Alger on West Sullivan Street Hill. Mrs Gertrude Carpenter of Eldred Pa suffered a dislocated and fractured right hip after a fall at a new home and was taken for x ray examination and treatment.
ONeill, a Warren youth aged 20, was hospitalized with a fractured kneecap and body bruises after a Sunday evening crash on the Warren-Sheffield road. Allan Keebley, 26, of Water Street, drove a Ford coupe. Bror Anderson of Kersey, Pa., drove a Fort roadster. ONeill and Alpheus Hubley were passengers in the Keebley car. The wreck occurred near Crary farm as Keebley pulled aside to yield to the out-of-control roadster. Two women with Anderson were uninjured. Wrecker crews to the Post Office Garage transported the damaged cars.
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