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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1943
Page
2
Pineapple peaches and coffee prices dot city ads while a pocketbook theft in Franklin prompts police action. Reports detail wartime transfers, medical cases, and local investigations. Several towns recount accidents, resignations, bequests, bingo benefits, and hospital updates amid ongoing war mobilization.
One lot of odd sized top quality shirts for sale this week only at $1. The Seiota Community Aide will host art afternoon with Mrs Homer Kolstee on Thursday. Red Grass sewing and quitting work is planned soon. Mrs Harold Patterson will eat with friends at ENE Glub on East Frederick Street Tuesday evening. The meeting of the official board of the United Brethren or Christ cwel is postponed for this evening.
Thomas W. Hunter city accountant in charge of delinquent tax collections was held for court on a $1,000 bond after a Saturday hearing before Alderman Tr. Shelley on embezzlement charges. Hunter, tied to St Cumberland Melwar plant, allegedly failed to account for 72291 taxpayers who said they had paid their Vority tax bills. Steen's advertises civilian clothes cleaning with moth proofed bags, dial 36-075.
The government ordered shoe rationing from the White House via OPA chief James Byrnes on Sunday. Stores open Sundays faced crowding and police raids in cities like New York Kansas City Detroit and Columbus with New Orleans and Delaware noted. Exemptions include house slippers infant shoes infant slippers and storm-type rubber wear. Coupons from sugar ration books, starting with stamp 9 for one pair of shoes valid until June 15, govern purchases. no registration or forms required for now.
Mr and Mrs Prank Grice of 549 East Main Street report their son Bd Grice with the U S Marines has taken part in considerable fighting on Guadalcanal. He is now resting at a safe refuge after weeks of active warfare in the Southwest Pacific battle zone. This is the first word the parents have received from him.
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis and his wife welcomed a daughter at Provident Hospital weighing seven pounds five ounces at 6 04 A M The attending physician Dr William W Gibbs said the child would be named after the mother The Louis family is connected to Sgt Joe Louis Burrow with Louis stationed at Fort Riley Kan
Fragmentary OCR text yields no coherent event or names. The readable bits mention numbers and a vague phrase about height and a seat or cease action. No clear persons, places, dates, or organizations are identifiable for a proper summary.
Erie County schedules a service at ten o'clock in October for the operation of a ship or vessel. Details are limited due to fragmented OCR, but the notice confirms a time and month.
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