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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1932
Page
5
Philadelphia, Feb. 15. A 19 year old woman May Coates sobbed as she told of being dragged into an automobile by several men and chloroformed. She woke in a house and remained dazed. a hospital examined her, but investigators could not question her due to hysteria. Theo Williams left for Pittsburgh on a business trip.
A flood of visitors and travelers passed through Corry, with Mrs Mabel Latsch returning home from Conneaut after a week with friends. Miss Lillian Zalzneck of Gil City left for her teaching job after a weekend with parents on West Washington Street. Numerous relatives and acquaintances from Warren Erie Jamestown Union City and surrounding towns spent Sunday in Corry or traveled there for short visits.
United Press reports in Charleston on February 16 that Mrs. Bolton White, 39, recovering at home with her newborn, learned her husband killed four children then took his own life. Neighbors found the infant safe while Hilda 2 and James 11 died at a hospital. Kathleen 9 and Malcolm 11 suffered skull fractures and remained in grave condition.
Theodore Legters, a longtime Clymer resident born in Holland in 1864, died this afternoon at Corsby hospital after a lingering illness. He is survived by his widow and several sons and daughters. The body was taken to the family home in Clymer by Undertaker Spitzer.
Harrisburg February 15 Governor Gifford Pinchot urged U S Senators David Reed and James Davis of Pennsylvania to back the La Follette Costigan relief bill amid rising support in the state capital.
Stock quotations furnished by Log an Bryan of Oil City, NYSE member Lloyd M Bracken, manager. Listings include Conners American Smelters Anaconda Butte Copper & Zinc International Nickel Motors Shryster Continental Motors General Motors Hupp Motors Packard Studebaker Willys Overland Yellow Truck and others.
A fragmented OCR style list names numerous oil firms refiners pipelines and related companies including Atlantic Refining Continental Oil Pure Oil Sinclair Socony Texas Oil B and O Canadian Pacific Chicago Great Western Missouri Pacific Northern Pacific and others. also mentions steel and electrical firms such as American Locomotive Bethlehem Steel General Electric Curtiss Wright and Westinghouse. The text reads like a catalog of industry brands and potential corporate connections without a coherent narrative or event.
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