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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1928
Page
4
Corry Evening Journal published daily except Sunday lists publishers and advertising representatives. It notes mailing details from Corry, Pa and rates for mail and carrier delivery, with prices per year and per week.
The piece celebrates Motor Courtesy Week and a taxi firm offering a Lady Motorist Emergency Service to help women with flats or engine trouble, praising rare urban chivalry. It then discusses Italian tomb seed discoveries and hopes seeds from ancient tombs might yield living plants or crops, noting limits to long-term seed viability.
Reader questions from a language column asking what is wrong with the sentence He took the paper off of the table and seeking guidance on pronunciation and word choices. The page lists several language tasks including synonyms and usage exercises with partial phrases and garbled OCR input.
Answers cover multiple items: distance to Washington Monument stairs if no elevator, League of Nations members, Ireland’s greatest poet, the first printer in the American colonies, and the burisen burner. Includes Italy Mussolini decree, Washington Irving, 121 degree land sale, degrees 26 20 seconds, forever true from slavery, mockingbird, and Susquehanna.
A street fifty feet wide and forty rods long is to be graded down an average depth of twelve feet. Excavation costs twenty seven cents per cubic yard. The solution uses a numeric puzzle, with steps described: subtract three from one hundred fifty six, divide by twelve, multiply by forty, subtract nine dollars and fifty cents, then divide by three.
An old ad claims Ely's Cream Balm clears nasal passages in one minute and relieves head cold symptoms. It describes fragrant antiseptic action, soothing swollen membranes, easing breathing at night, and urges readers to buy a small bottle from their druggist for instant relief.
In Ashville on January 19 a young boy named Harlana H Burt aged about ten months died when crushed beneath a hay press being moved from the Burt residence on Wellin Road. The accident happened around 5 PM with Lloyd Burt guiding a double team. The skull injury was fatal and the boy is survived by his parents Lloyd and Joyd Burt, three brothers, and grandparents Arthur Burt and Whitman Mead. Funeral is set for Saturday at 2 PM from the family home.
Dorcas class in the First M Church enjoyed a luncheon with sixty two attendees and families. The church orchestra, under J York, played selections appreciated by all. Rev. Wily Bartlett spoke briefly. Play books for Patay from Dakota were distributed and rehearsals start soon. Proceeds helped cover the church deficit. Next class with Miss Thelma King set for January.
The W E A will hold a regular session Friday evening in the Mace hee Hall. All officers and guards are urged to attend. Lodge will be called at eight o'clock sharp.
An old advertisement touts Bronchuline Emulsion as real medicine for persistent coughing. It claims the formula contains no harmful drugs or sugars and works quickly in two doses, promising relief from sleepless nights and miserable lungs.
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