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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1931
Page
3
The editor surveys how fathers fund debutante parties in Washington and says the lavish events reveal a social divide. Helen Doherty’s simple gown contrasts with extravagant arrangements as millions circulate, yet many families face pressure from rising costs.
The article argues that professional coaches dominate college sports, with big salaries and national prestige tied to the coach rather than the team. It calls for unpaid graduate coaches as a remedy, claiming it would remove the stigma and restore sport to healthier, more amateur roots in high school and college life.
German producer Max Reinhardt led two Berlin theatres for 25 years with 452 plays across 497 Shakespeare adaptions and 363 Merchant of Venice productions. He favored Shakespeare and Shaw, with Goethe and Schiller also prominent, and found more success in Germany than America.
Bell Telephone officials from Erie and Pittsburgh offices plan vast improvements to local service. Carry High School team travels to Titusville for tomorrow night’s game. Fifteen year old Wallace Palmer of West Spring Creek suffers a broken limb in an afterschool coasting accident. John H. Martin arrives as new P R R agent at Cory office. Five cottages at Geloron lake shore burn in strong winds affecting others. Reds versus Greens basketball game draws attention with local girls and teams listed. Ajax Iron Works reports rising business with an order for thirty oil well engines and a carload dispatched to Oklahoma. Eli and Mrs. Barlow sail from New York for Europe. A Bradt remains ill at Brook Street, Will Bradt of Pittsburgh caring for him. Stewart, Ajax Tron Works chief engineer, visits Pittsburgh on business.
Jones Smith and Brown walk durations 3 4 and 6 days. Starting together in the same direction they must complete a sequence of trips to coincide at the start point. The solution involves arithmetic steps that lead to a least common multiple of 12 days for all to meet again.
Learn correct usage with notes on this weeks phrases and common mispronunciations. The guide explains often misused words such as this is him versus this is he, misheard spellings, and a word study approach to expand vocabulary.
Answers reveal that two states touch the most others, with three neighbors each. The oldest signer of the Declaration is debated, while a perennial puzzle places the largest animal among others. A tree bears fruit and blossoms together, and passenger trains average a certain speed in the U S. Answers list includes three times, coffee, Aurora Borealis, Winston Churchill, and California.
Gotham show features streamlining and color variety with Marmon and Cadillac displaying first inline 16 cylinder designs. The modern Marmon rides a 45 inch wheelbase, while the Cadillac is slightly larger, with a 48 inch wheelbase. Baby Austins and Mathis mini cars compete for pee wee honors as prices range from 450 to 16500 dollars for the Duesenberg town car. The show opened Saturday drawing more than 25 000 attendees.
Hundreds of Corry area students head back to eastern colleges while state legislators travel to Harrisburg for the 1981 session. Train No. 580 operated in two sections due to heavy weekend traffic, with sleepers and diners from Corry and Warren and Driftwood making up the New York and Washington section. Rail crews report one of the heaviest passenger movements in months as through trains see similar loads.
Judge John R. Hazel in Buffalo federal court ruled New York state troopers cannot search cars on western New York highways for liquor. He dismissed transportation charges against Erie men Harry Larson and Francis Preston and upheld suppressing their auto as evidence. The ruling restricts state police over highway liquor searches while Pennsylvania authorities retain authority to stop and search for contraband.
Salamanca, Jan 5. Chester Turner, 58, of West Valley, hanged himself in his home. Coroner P. H. Bourne said the body was found by a neighbor after Turner had not been seen. the death likely occurred the day before. Turner left four brothers and two sisters.
New York Jan 5 The government sand dredge Raritan sank off Craven Shoal near The Narrows in New York Harbor. The five man crew were rescued by the government mail boat. The City of Montgomery liner was involved in the sinking incident and authorities report no further danger to vessels in the area.
A car carrying four youths collided with a sleighing party on the Big Four Road near Conewango Avenue Extension around midnight. Herbert Cederquist, 31, of Clark Street, is hospitalized with a jaw fracture. Harold Lerne of Erie and two Warren women suffered cuts and bruises. The auto followed ruts and could not stop before hitting the sleigh team.
The Erie conference of Methodist Episcopal churches across 41 congregations in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York will observe a two day day of prayer and fasting this week. About 70 000 Methodists in over 800 churches are urged to show spiritual interest in church life. Corry First Methodist joins the call with a program including Bible reading meditation and prayer from noon to 2 pm and clergy and lay addresses. Fasting the noon meal is requested with periods of formal and silent devotion and private conferences with Rev Wimner and Mrs Joshua. The church bell marks each period. Also noted is Harry Gretzler and son departing for Miami Fla for several weeks.
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