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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1928
Page
3
Corry Journal notes World Prohibition efforts by the World League Against Alcoholism. It discusses Canada's mixed stance, Mesloun attitudes, and U S limits. Observes liquor flows across borders despite national prohibition, urging worldwide adoption and foreign support for a lasting ban.
The report notes Lindbergh’s St Louis to Chicago round trip carried 4,278 pounds of mail, about 250,000 pieces, with postage near $26,000. It highlights air transport’s potential to replace ground routes, praising publicity and demand, and urges lower air mail rates to expand use.
A compact reader's test presents questions from a language workbook by W L Gordon. It asks about grammar pronunciation spelling and vocabulary with scattered exercises and yesterday's answers.
NEA Service writer Rodney Butcher offers humorous and practical tax tips for federal and district readers. He suggests retaining a duplicate of last year’s return for reference and notes that tax rules remain unchanged, with new figures likely. The piece mocks common filing pitfalls and highlights steps to simplify preparing the return.
County Detective Frank Watsor was in town with possible Damon Sattertee leads. An injured Dr A L Shilth on thirst avenue, the Warren Armory push, Evangelist Orubil at the Baptist church, Lena Rivers Company moving to Zrne, and A J Bates stirring Naval Affairs talk. An eight pound baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Davies. Notes on Hazel Barry, excavations for a cellar, Edy Porter in Warren on business, and a Leap Year party in Meadville. Tax guidance including deductions for 1924, charitable contributions limits, and travel expenses.
George Reid of Meadville, son of Mr and Mrs Joan Reid, suffered a badly bruised left leg when a Big Six Studebaker driven by C J Beatty skidded into the Erle doodlebug at Kim Street plaza crossing. Beatty, a Lineman for the Petroleum Telephone Co, did not see the other car due to a box car on the siding. Reid was treated at the express office by a local doctor and taken to his parents home on Petroleum Street.
Erie February theft at Wield Laboratories on Peach Street saw several hundred dollars in alcohol stolen. Police suspect a band of hijackers behind multiple recent robberies targeting local club rooms with little hope of solving the case. Suspects reportedly fled the city, hindering investigators.
The article lists yesterday's Q A with misprints. It provides opposing Waterloo commanders as Andrew Jackson, location clues Pacifie and Greece and Persia. references Nightingale and a river Shannon. The final item ends with Tob incomplete.
Two troubled youths, shown little awareness of their alleged crimes, await city court decisions that could send them to a home or longer penal confinement. One has prior penitentiary time. experts urge confinement to an institution suited to their needs.
Every estate of substantial size must pay inheritance and estate taxes. Liquidating valuable assets to cover taxes depletes the estate. Equitable Life of Iowa offers a plan to provide cash to pay these taxes at your death. Ask an Equitable Life of Iowa agent about the Estate Tax Settlement Plan.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a 1867 Des Moines home of office for John W. Lambing and a phrase This One Thing I Do with numbers 131 M and 16 W plus a park phone reference, lacking full context.
The text discusses potential verdicts including guilty as charged or with mercy, declares no halfway stance, notes the Authors' Club regular meeting for Monday evening Feb 27 is postponed for one week, and mentions long lived trees like sequoias and Tule cypress with ages estimated between four and five thousand years.
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