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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1944
Page
4
An article on old shoes and foot care notes old footwear worn during rationing. It explains corns and callosities from pressure, differences between hard corns on the outer toe areas and soft corns between toes, and urges proper shoe fit when new shoes become available.
Corey's weather hit 4 degrees below zero with 18 to 20 below in the business district Sunday morning. The Cartmanity Players cleared about 500 dollars from Nothing But the Truth to help the high school stage remodel. Fire damaged two homes in town due to overheated chimneys causing roughly 1000 dollars in losses over two days. Knights of Columbus plan to take over Municipal Club rooms by April 1, moving into new space in the Harlow block. A Carnegie Tech student earned a second mention in a national architecture contest. A baby died from jaundice at 18 months. The piece stresses preventable fires and the cost of carelessness in war production, urging vigilance at home to aid the war effort.
Erie February 2 Samuel Bufalino 17h anu Parade streets allegedly chained by a 15 year old student forced to sell gasoline without proper coupons and with short changing. Albert Berger acting chief enforcement attorney announces five violations of rationing regulations by OPA. The youth's father filed a delinquency warrant. Hearing set for 10 a.m. Tuesday in Room 623 Commerce Building before a hearing commissioner from the New York regional office. OPA Erie will seek suspension of Bufalino for the duration.
Silver Creek February 25 a heavily loaded tractor trailer rolled down a steep icy Oak Hill and ended on its front against a wall. Ogden W Duffy of West Bloomfield, driving the truck, forced a wheel to avert following cars then slid past the curb tore through guard rail and plunged down the embankment. Dusty jumped and was not injured.
The State Bureau of Animal Industry teams with police to curb a mid winter rabies outbreak spanning 21 counties led by Dr C P Bishop. Some 2065 dogs were destroyed by law enforcement and 92 by state agents in January. Erie reports 20 dog deaths in ten days. Officials deploy BE Higbee and M P Hendrick to assist Erie authorities and Meadville bureau liaison.
The American Petroleum Institute notes gasoline needs drive bomb production and sustain troops overseas, contrasting private energy initiative with government owned resources. Louis Bromfield tours warning that small business and professionals feel taxed, squeezed by rising living costs, threatening middle-class stability and civilization, urging better support for writers and professionals.
A L Raymond of First avenue received word of his sister Mrs Geal Mickle who died Thursday at 3 pm at her daughter Mrs Harold Dine's home 196 West 21st Street Erie She was 93 years old Surviving are a grandson and a great grandchild
Frendson of Bole and several nieces in Corry. Funeral services in hermery will be conducted from the Dinie residence Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Trial of Edward Jordan of Carnegie on a charge of shooting a man by mistake for a deer postponed to the May term at Tionesta. The case attracted much attention in this section.
A West Coast blaze destroyed a two and a half million dollar concern’s engine-building facility for Liberty ships. Twenty four engines in various stages of completion were also destroyed, undermining urgent wartime production.
Questions cover war food administrator authorship of Pickwick Papers correct slogans and geography. Includes requests to correct a sentence ask Whitsunday alias and naming authors and rivers feeding the Mississippi plus origin of the lima bean.
Anna Davis filed a $10,000 civil suit in Erie alleging John and Frank Mead, co publishers of the Erie Daily Times, assaulted her in their offices on November 7 1941. She lists medical and related expenses totaling 348 dollars as direct damages.
Electrician's Mate Edward W. Eruner, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Banter, has been officially declared dead by the Navy Department after being listed as missing for more than eight years. Secretary Knox wrote that, given the time since the cruiser S. S. Cushing went down at Savoy Island on November 1, 1942, the conclusion is that he is deceased. Mrs Bauer had been told that her son was at his battle station in the chart room when wounded. he was moved to the dressing station, which was later hit, and he is presumed killed there.
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