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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1940
Page
4
A fragment discusses National Tesla Edison Day and the inventive spirit, praising Thomas A Edison as a prolific founder of new devices. It compares inventors, notes global land needs, and suggests figures like Hoover and Johnson handle world economic issues amid wartime pressures.
NBC CBS and network stars loom in a sprawling schedule listing Tonight and Tomorrow. Biographical films salute icons like Bell and Graham Bell while Allen Art Players, Gracie Allen Delaney Ross and many others contribute. News reads warn of Nazism and Germany as the era’s battles unfold through entertainment and public notices.
Washington reports that public power programs under the administration attract key industrial buyers. Aluminum Company of America orders over a third of TVA power and signs a 10 million dollar, 20 year Bonneville contract. Nevada, Arizona, and private utilities depend on Boulder and Grand Coulee projects as drought and demand shape sales to industry and utilities.
Federal Power Commission notes a sharp rise in privately produced electricity alongside public output. It cites 1992 figures where public power was about five billion kilowatt hours versus 77 billion privately produced. By 1998 public output neared 9.7 billion, while private utilities logged 104 billion. Rural Electrification Administration serves 400,000 additional farm customers since 1935, with private firms gaining nearly 100,000 new rural customers in the same span.
A chaotic OCR page lists ten trivia prompts about Eyenet pictures hieroglyphs retinopathy anatomy and citizenship. It asks about the ancient Egyptian bird statue relic, Heratic variant, alien citizenship, western anatomy, and navigational compass meaning, among others. The fragment lacks readable answers or clear context.
Werry notes describe uncontrolled, strange holon and ambi tions that impair health. The system becomes disordered with impaired digestion and pale skin. Mouth dries, respiration slows, and efficiency declines, prompting concern that every sane person must avoid worrying and seek temple tonic care.
William Haade drifted from iron worker to film actor after a 30 story fall near a New York hospital. He stars opposite George O’Brien in Bullet Code at RKO Kat the risk. His life as a steelworker inspired his role and he later moved to Hollywood where he has worked steadily since 1957. He was born in New York and served in the military before entering cinema.
A fragmented report describes a UMD flare incident with fire coverage along a route. It mentions Paula, Boston, and unclear local figures, noting police involvement and warm weather context. The text is garbled and difficult to parse into a clear sequence of events.
A mosaic of editorials and letters from several papers weighing GOP and Democrat contenders. Voters hear arguments on debt, welfare, and leadership qualities while party figures, editors, and civic leaders air cautious praise and sharp critique of Roosevelt, Hoover, Taft, Taft’s backers, and Gannett’s presidential bid.
A jumble of items notes Barbs MPHE dies and Congress rejecting Hnok’s claim that Chairyian Dies changed shirts. Fark Browder sentenced to four years. Ominat salaries tallied 1938. Puzzling phrases mock college presidents and British policy warnings hint at tension.
Presbytery calls Rev Charles S Beatty of Pateomage. Twenty three new flu cases in city limits. Washington School Parents Association held a meeting. Mrs Robert Barlow back from confinement short illness. Aaron Zaimeck injured by furnace casting. Mrs M J Brew and daughters met John T Brew en route to Chicago. Mr and Mrs W T Meduloch visiting Haworth Newark area. Freight car of Nassau goods shipped to West Coast March first. Barn dance to raise funds at State Armory February 12 music by Messenger’s band. Violins made of glass demonstrated at Leipzig fair. glass instruments praised for light weight and tonal quality.
The U S centennial stamp celebration runs the first week in May with exhibitions at the National Museum Library of Congress Pan American Union Bureau of Engraving Printing and the Post Office Department all in Washington D C Special exhibitions in other cities and an May 5 international broadcast possibly featuring President Roosevelt and King George VI. Japan promotes industrial progress with a hydroelectric station stamp Netherlands officials commission Batavia printers for stamps for the Netherlands Indies Carol II adds eight Romanian stamps and Romania honors the Balkan Exilimente with two stamps.
A 36 year old miner, Joseph C. Radaker, was killed in a rock fall at the Sargh Furnace mine near Hope, two dozen minutes after starting work. The three ton rock crushed his skull as he worked a coal hole. John McKinney, superintendent, confirmed the fatal accident.
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