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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1936
Page
4
Publication details for Corry Evening Journal include publisher and advertising representatives. It lists office locations in Milwaukee Detroit Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Milwauke MI and notes mail subscription rates and carrier prices.
Editorial urges end to partisan strife after municipal employee shakeup. Names Mayor Miller and Councilman Duke as aligned with Mulderick Nichols Wesver bloc. Pleads for improved relations, unified governance, and taxpayer benefits from stable, functioning city leadership.
A discussion on the value of work relief versus private employment, criticizing nonproductive loafing and urging strict enforcement by WPA administrator Harry L. Hopkins. The piece argues work relief offers real work, wages, and discipline while foreclosing idle dependence, and notes potential private industry absorption should relief wages be trimmed or restricted.
Reported remarks show mixed response to a proposed nomination to a job. Officials weigh expediency versus authority as criticism and support surface during a county board session. Names and precise positions are obscured in the garbled text.
February 6 1916 report items include requests for a sewer on Mutrion Street repairs claim for damages to plate glass and stock loss involving Mrs Maude Craig city paving West Main Street ordinance approval and election of Corry Fair and Driving Park directors with officers re elected plus a baby born to Harris Briggs in Selota and a note on a Federal inspection at the State Armory.
The column notes that those born August 2 to September 2 are likeliest to find luck. It cites general influences aiding the world through clergy, water surveyors, and thriving artistic and social affairs. Purchases and clerical duties are advised in context, with dated references to February 1986 and March 1926.
The article profiles Ernie Alexander star of the Twentieth Century-fox production Here Comes Trouble who, while playing a drunk, claims expert knowledge of five hiccup varieties. He details plain, molar, silent, motionless, and The Big Bertha hiccups and demonstrates them on set amid a backstage, period tone.
Paris styles describe a high-neck sleeveless vest from old fur, worn over a dress and cape with a belted waist. The garment fastens with invisible hooks and eyes, can be made from pony or astrakhan fur, and pairs with gloves and a hat to create a polished ensemble.
A Corry Evening Journal letter by E L Carlison argues planting along public highways could beautify but may hinder snow control. He suggests close, hedgelike planting 18 feet from the road, warning practical issues and farmer impact. The note ends with a request to publish clarifications and responses.
A critical survey of The Last Puritan by George Santayana, praising its wit yet faulting its philosophy as discursiveness and pomposity. It also lauds Andreas Latzko’s Lafayette: A Life as a rigorous, admiring biographical portrait, then applauds Kenneth Patchen’s Before the Brave for its social poetry, while noting Nathalia Crane and Frances Prost as notable new voices with clear local authenticity.
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