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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1937
Page
5
Incomplete text mentions rations and rolls with names like Jane Ward and Richard. Context unclear due to damaged OCR. key terms include ration, day, sign, and home events. Further readable details insufficient to identify a clear incident, date, or location.
E A Hook and others travel to Dunkirk for an Independent Baptist Association meeting where Rev B A Hook will speak. Families attend funeral services in Pittsburgh and Jamestown for relatives. numerous residents visit Erie Salamanca Corry and Meadvill e for work and family obligations amid a weekend of travel and ceremonies.
Fragmentary OCR note reflects a misread line about a habit of judging and a nun. Despite garbled phrasing, it hints at a moral proverb describing a man’s faults and judgments within a religious or cautionary context.
Clarence Chesterfield Howerton born in Salem Oregon in 1900 grew to 2 feet 2 inches tall known as Gen Mite a famed miniature figure in regional entertainment born 1900 in Salem Oregon and measured 2 feet 2 inches.
The Washington P T A held its meeting in room No 4 on a Friday afternoon with the regular business session. It voted to give the P. A. County Council $2.00. Rev. B A Hook spoke on chin Training and piano music was supplied by Miss Sullivan. Mrs. Elmer Westley and her committee served refreshments.
The report outlines requests for 50 million state aid to Penwa schools and continued funding for 44 city projects including Scranton Pittsburgh and Philadelphia street maintenance. Interest grows in an 8 million appropriation for free school books. Bills seek funds for medical facilities, animals indemnity, tuberculosis sanatoriums and hospital improvements across Philadelphia Pittsburgh and other towns, with varied allocations to numerous hospitals and institutions.
Pittsburgh area report of the murder case involving Steve Kotuly, 10, missing since December 5, found with a .22 wound near Berchview. Suspect Henry Chewhelman, 16, fled to West Virginia, police track him. grandfather Henry Oberhelman, 51, questioned and released.
In Tacoma Washington investigators and agents admit exhaust of clues in the Charles Mattson kidnapping case with no result. Officials hope the $11,000 reward may lure the kidnapper to reveal identity and whereabouts. A general description notes fingerprints were not obtained according to E J Connelly, a federal agent.
Street Commissioner Kaar Lur vington reported the weather eased flood fears as the Seneca Street intake was taxed to capacity again yesterday. Harrington and a team labored for hours to keep the intake clear and prevent sewer overflow.
The article argues that workers in Pennsylvania face long unemployment as automation and downturns reduce private jobs. It urges government action to fund public works projects such as roads schools hospitals and sewerage to provide employment, arguing long term costs are lower than ongoing private hardship. It emphasizes wealth inequality as a key cause and proposes temporary tax increases to finance reserve funds for public works.
A multiday tragedy reports three of Canadian quadruplets dying after a hospital transfer crash. In a slippery highway skid, an ambulance and a plow impact severely injuring the driver Maurice Beauly and nurse Jeanne Talbot. The surviving infant remains in critical condition as doctors describe the child’s condition as fragile and unstable.
Market observers note heavy industries lead gains and suggest a cautious approach to long term commitments. Westinghouse Electric and General Motors post notable upticks as utilities and construction demand buoy shares. A new simple chart from Young Management aims to simplify corporate and surplus tax calculations pending possible legislation.
Westinghouse Electric led a broad market surge with high gains and several steel stocks hitting new peaks since 1931. U S Steel Bethlehem Steel and Westinghouse rose strongly, while multiple major issues such as General Electric General Motors and International Nickel showed firm or improved values amid the rally in regular trading.
John Timrenza, 25, was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the bathtub murder of Nancy Evans Titterton, author, in New York last Good Friday. He confessed to strangling her with an eight‑inch twine strand after attacking her in her bathtub.
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