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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1940
Page
4
Fragmentary newspaper clerical text from Corry Pennsylvania shows advertising and postal details including publisher address 81 W 44th St New York and rate references. The readable items list multiple cities and building names with vague notices about mail and delivery terms.
RePORTS FOR PEACE stresses timely peace efforts alongside war. The piece urges public and private action, warning that aid to GENCE may aid democracy, while noting the upcoming national census beginning April 1. It highlights the extensive data gathering on population, resources, and economic activity as the world’s largest statistical survey and calls for citizen participation.
A sprawling schedule lists Oliver St John Gogarty Dennis Taylor and others joining a Troima session on the network. Benny Goodman headlines Alec Templeton Time with various guests while Rochester, Firestone, and other programs fill the night with music drama and talk across multiple stations and times.
Fragmentary text describes barbed prison break incidents in Nova Scotia and inmate anger over perceived moral decay. It references a New Year's Day drum majorette exhibition in Pasadena, a football game, parental advice against military toys, and scattered garbled names and dates.
In Terre Haute a general strike led Indiana Governor McNutt to call out troops and declare martial law. The article records McNutt’s interview defending labor relations and stating he would rely on recognized labor leaders’ views from that period.
Governor McNutt defends pro labor stance, supports collective bargaining as a legal right, and backs federal protection via Wagner Act. He cites favorable Indiana labor legislation, calls for equal footing between labor and employers, and notes ongoing New Deal social security expansion as essential to national needs.
The 1939 year showed notable national health figures with 49 weeks of data from 1930 to 1938. Diphtheria totaled 2,564 cases in 1939 versus 99,098 in 1938. scarlet fever 16,1214 cases in 1939. smallpox 9,279 in 1989 and 19,805 in 1939. typhoid 12,416 cases last year, 14,808 in 1938. whooping cough 166,887 cases in 1939 and 190,54) for 1938. measles 268,803 cases in 1930 compared with 785,07] in 1938. The year 1998 was the worst measles year on record with lower percentages of clear materials.
United Press reports the Long Beach Elderblooms, an all-widow chorus aged 62 to 76, signed by Warner Bros. for Ann Sheridan’s first starring picture In All Came True. Led by Vivian Sproul, the group toured in a private railcar, performing two part harmony, tap, rhumba and yodeling, aiming for a new show business niche.
Charles Michelson argues against claims that a Republican president will instantly solve crises. He critiques budget balancing plans proposed by Dewey Taft and Tate, noting they would cut social programs and defense, while preserving costly aid, and highlights skeptical newspapers and columnists challenging the approach during the wartime era.
In wartime items the Czechoslovak Army air force is praised for its 600 pilots fighting with French and British flyers on the Western Front. A 1940 issue honors the Czech air force with eight stamps in four designs showing aircraft types. The ad also notes phonograph related stamp covers and Nigeria’s new higher airmail rates.
A 1920 item notes Comy's new iron plant work starting, J S Rogers buys the C R Mogers building on East Main, ex governor Pink B Wil of Ohio to speak on Reverence for the Lowe. Chief of Police reports scarlet fever case at Merle Wilson's home. Cary Fibre furniture names Biss president, Laurie VP, H C Home r cemetery, P M Raymond treasurer. Elston’s 1919 vital stats show 17 births, 99 boys and 77 girls. Corry woman ill near home, Nat Hotel property sale to Marcos Brothers.
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