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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1931
Page
3
The armory hosted the annual spring inspection with a well tilted balcony in view during drill. Visiting officers attended the event and a banquet followed. Several local residents were noted traveling via Corry and Columbus Street Railway.
Two Erie brothers Albert nine and Theodore six rescued their younger brother Carl six from the icy bay near East Second Street. The trio were playing marbles when Carl fell through the ice. the father returned home to find the boys crying and the boy recovered, all three shaken by the near tragedy.
Erie Feb 14 Constable Jack Alexander of Wealeyville facing nine charges over bribe settlements for liquor cases was discharged from St Vincent's Hospital last Monday. His counsel successfully requested a continuance of the cases to the May term due to illness. No final word on resuming the trial this term.
WABC CBS schedule lists New World Symphony at 6:45 p.m. on WABC and 9:30 p.m. Floyd Gibbons adventure on NBC. 10:00 p.m. Jesse Crawford organ on WABC CBS, 10:30 p.m. Slumber music on WJZ NBC, and NBC at 11:10 p.m. Russian Cathedral Choir.
County superintendent of highways announces the annual meeting of town and county highway officials at Lee Court House Mayville on Friday Webbuny 27th at 2 p m. Delegates will hear about Sections 161 and 10 of the Amended Highway Law and state wide town supervisors bonds. A Department of Public Works district representative will attend. Election of officers of the county Town Supervisors Association will be held at a later date and place.
The piece notes Franc R Stockton’s 19th century submarine polar dream and compares it to Sir Hubert Wilkins and Lincoln Bilsworth preparing in May to depart from Spitzbergen in a similar craft funded by five scientific institutions. The aim is to reach the Pole by a submarine style voyage and possibly surface in open water.
The article notes Soviet emphasis on industrial goals over political messaging. It states Russia seeks foreign capital and credits, prioritizes machinery over agitation, and believes reducing propaganda will improve trade relations and global goodwill.
The visit of Premier Bennett of Canada to Washington focuses on the St. Lawrence seaway project. Opposition comes mainly from Montreal fearing cargo profits and from New York fearing loss of traffic. Economists say benefits would rise with increased traffic. current timing offers cheap materials and idle workers for construction potential.
The page presents language notes by W L Gordon on preposition use and pronunciation. It compares phrases like in the Mbox with into the Mbox and highlights mispronunciations in several words. It defines labefaction as a weakening ruin and notes its potential harm to morality.
The text asks quiz style questions about crops in North Dakota, a walking custom, a literary hero, a U S state river location, and a Carthaginian general famed for invasions. It appears to be a Q and A style snippet from a newspaper page.
The Erie Board of Education passed a resolution to specify that only Evie Iabow and Ming materials be used on district contracts after a lengthy two hour debate. A Building Trailer Council delegation backed the measure led by Director James Speet while the board debated legality during the session. A telephoned discussion with school solicitor Attorney A. Chapin facilitated the final approval.
Local residents hear a radio reading titled He Knew Lincoln as part of Lincoln birthday remembrances. Civil War veteran Michael Gardiner recalls meeting Lincoln in his youth and describes the president’s height hat and welcoming handshake from Washington.
In Clarion county at Lamartine two youths were injured and three cars damaged when a high speed collision occurred on a slippery highway. William M. Rook 23 of Mt. Jewett drove into Carl Newell’s car causing a chain impact across the road injuring Pauline Byerline 17 and Lloyd Summerville 14 in the other vehicles.
Judge Joseph J. Bouton in McKean county county court Friday found George Kramer not guilty by a jury of stealing 55 chickens from a farm owned by George J. Baker between Lowville and North Teast Faolan 18. State Troopers Richard Gray and William Hayman arrested him several days after the alleged theft.
In former times water and refuse fell from roots and up per, windows into an open diteh between street and sidewalk. Women were given the side farthest from the diel. D'Artagnen, 4, Maine, Hannibal.
After two decades of effort Conneaut will gain a new federal post office at Washington Street near State replacing the makeshift structure. Bids expected to total about 105000 dollars will be opened in Washington on February 20 with a contract awarded soon after.
Corry Business and Professional Women's Club hosted a dancing party in the Masonic Hall last evening. Forty five couples enjoyed decorations of red and white balloons and a grand march as Sherrick's Troubadours played from 9 to 1 o'clock. Ruth Clyburne chaired the event with committee assistance.
The junior department of the Corry Woman's Club announces a dancing party at the club house on Mott Street Monday evening from 8 30 to 12. Tickets cost fifty cents a couple with proceeds for club benefit.
Henry Bush of Jamestown pleaded guilty to a reduced petit larceny charge in city court, receiving one year in Mon vot County Penitentiary and a $200 fine. He had been charged with first degree robbery for a gas station theft on Fairmount Avenue last week.
A wall collapse at the H B Smith Paper Box plant on the waterfront trapped and killed 37 year old Edward Braebender and injured three other firefighters, Edward Heffron 36, John Didiges 46, and John Mullen 27, as authorities assessed $50,000 in damage.
A shot from Police Captain Frank J. Nobles failed to halt the fleeing thief, who dropped cigars worth about $25 and discarded the loot in the alley behind Main and River streets. The Monarch Pool Parlor at 53 Main Street had its rear window jimmied in the break, but police have no suspect identity.
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