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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1938
Page
3
Fragmented local items include weather notes, municipal permits, post office mail volume, a New Year skating event, marriage licenses, and court terms. Reports cite building permits across 240 communities, residential construction up 141 percent from October, and nonresidential spending steady. Also noted are liquor sale rules, postage mail gains, and barber ordinance debates.
Story recalls Gustav Froelich the German film actor whose associates attacked Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels as he left Froelich’s wife Tide Fairvown Wukx’s apartment. Goebbels was hospitalized after the assault with injuries and missing a prominent tooth. The text follows Froelich’s exile, marriages, and shifting fame amid Nazi politics, with Goebbels’ retaliation and Froelich’s subsequent fortunes.
R M Evans, administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, reviews past programs and reports on progress in farm income since 1932. He notes cash income, farm buying power, and living expense funding have risen, with 1938 and 1932 as contrast years. He calls 1939 the first year farmers can fully study and use Triple-A, marking the first opportunity to judge real program impact.
A fragmented note states that wormwood in absinthe acts upon nerve centers, causing delirium and ranses idiocy and related home cases. The text is garbled but indicates a health warning about absinthe ingredients and mental effects.
Captain Russell Wilson born in Fredonia New York December 27 185% becomes eligible for rear admiral with retirement of Rear Admiral Clayphous on May 1. Promotion to rear admiral seems likely though not formally announced. Wilson earned the Navy Cross for code and signal system development during World War I and holds multiple recognitions of his service.
Smethport December report of a license revocation hearing for Kane House owner Frank Nicolanza, with testimony by 15 witnesses including 14 minors. Nicolanza denied the accusations as proceedings continued, aiming for a board decision on license status after prosecutor examination and recommendations.
For the first time in Australia radio listeners heard community singing and music from inside a prison. A concert by inmates of the Goulburn Gaol in New South Wales was broadcast by a national station.
The solar system is the assemblage of asteroids, meteors, meteoric material and planets with their satellites, forming a family of objects connected to the sun and practically isolated from other stars.
A terse note traces the salutation How do you do to an older form How do you noting its evolution. Citing Murray's dictionary the piece suggests the inquiry originated with this older variant and cites linguistic authority for the link to the modern greeting.
Kant, Dec. 31. Joel West of Bradford denies a report he quarreled with an Erie salesman near the time of Marjory West’s disappearance. Police investigate an unnamed man said to have argued with West before the May 3 disappearance in the White Gravel region of the Allegheny National Forest. The salesman, tied to a boot store, was said to have been in McKean Warren and Erie counties in spring. West says the denial stands and no lead joins him.
Police arrested two men Thursday in Wesco County on theft charges after a Yellow taxi was stolen and stripped. The abandoned vehicle was found on a blacktop road two miles south of McKean. One suspect, an ex-convict, and another man, Gereali Peterson, were linked to the crime through reports of the taxi being sold to a Kearsarge man.
County salary board to reorganize next Wednesday afternoon. Chairman Harvey M. Willis said a new chairman will be elected after which the three commissioners and the county controller set salaries for county employees for 1988. Only one or two employees are expected to receive increases, including Seat Way at the county registration office.
Erie officials reveal plan to spend 100000 to drive 1385 feet of steel piling at the peninsula’s second beach. Secretary Shields and Major Bruton say the work, to be funded by federal and state governments, follows recent gale damage and aims to protect Erie’s harbor.
Erie December 31 Attorney Samuel Roberts chairman of the Erie county Republican organization returned from Pittsburg after a conference with Governor Arthur H. James. He said patronage was discussed but no names were mentioned and that Pennsylvania will have a fine government under James. It may be into January or February before he can discuss jobs for county residents.
United Press reports that carbon monoxide leaks from vehicle exhaust and faulty connections cause numerous crashes. WHAIlant S. Gushing, head of a mobile club, warns that dangers exist in closed garages and freight highway driving, where misjudgment and alertness decline.
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