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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1932
Page
6
Fresh ale and local curiosities fill the page as scattered items report on a value of small town happenings. Mentions include Lin owned by AG Lyons of Wert Park Place, a retirement in motion pictures, a marriage rumor involving Al P. Seat, and various civic notices from Columbus to Erie.
The annual report by Frank T. England outlines the 1931 city finances for Corry Pennsylvania. It details assets, liabilities, schedules of receipts and disbursements, bonded debt, and valuations with exonerations and rebates, plus notes on municipal tax duplicates and sewer accounts.
Corry singer Corry Sings praised by Warren press for a performance in the Penn-York Symphony Orchestra concert at Warren on Sunday. The mezzo-soprano Corry Dean drew praise for her refined voice and stage presence aided by Harrigan W. Burel, pianist. About 600 local children will participate in a 1992 milk benefit staged at the Junior High School auditorium on Thursday and Friday evenings with a large cast, dress rehearsal, and a school wand prelude. Tickets reportedly selling rapidly as the P T A Council sponsors the event.
A former Kane druggist, J. G. Laws aged 84, lies unclaimed in a Pittsburgh morgue as the Daughters of the American Revolution seek proof of his ancestry to Francis Lewis, a New York delegate who signed the Declaration. Laws’s former wife, Mary Ellen Lewis of Franklin, declines to claim the body amid the inquiry. Branch offices in Harrisburg support vital statistics work across Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
Mercey Buster and Becky of the American stage, Mrs. Fiske, dies quietly at a Long Island village estate. Her husband Harris Grey Piske announces there will be no public funeral, noting her decades of avoiding publicity after retiring from the stage. She had been under physicians care.
The 1931 state department issued 87 requisitions. Of these 270 sought governors of other states to return justice fugitives wanted in Pennsylvania and 211 warrants were issued on requisitions from other states.
Unemployment relief funds totaling 242510 are allocated to Erie County following a Dauphin County court ruling upholding the Talbot Act. The act appropriates 10 million dollars to Pennsylvania poor districts, enacted during a special legislative session to provide employment relief. County distributions include Crawford 80487.08, Jefferson 70023.92, Venango 64974.23, Mercer 114092.72, and others.
Blagden recounts five days missing after being abducted by an armed gang. He describes being forced to eat drugged food, writing a ransom letter, and surviving a brutal journey through several cities before escaping in Cleveland with help from a stranger. State troopers and friends had searched the Adirondacks.
Fragmentary report mentions George Wil nection near Ut right N Lenn ley and a railway track. Names and places are garbled, with scattered references to Jack County and local locations, lacking clear event details or dates.
A fragment notes pace and path related to a runner or event at a checkpoint or station. Names, places, dates, and concrete details are unreadable, leaving only a vague reference to speed, location, and timing in a damaged context.
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