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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1928
Page
5
Brief OCR fragment shows unclear terms sly baked yy plek ssc 48 just aries and him. Reads as incomplete game or player notes with no identifiable names, teams, dates, or actions.
A partial readable OCR entry mentions Abe A La Phoyueld in a local context. Details are limited, but the fragment implies a person named Abe connected to a community or event. No dates, places, or actions are clear from the legible text.
Mrs Pred Gleason of Harrison visits Erie with Mrs G A Biston and sister Mrs J W Casnriie as guests. Miss Katherine Winton stays with Hastings Jones in Jamestown for a few days. Mr Harold Cauley and Mr W Stewart, with Mr P L Hogue and daughter Doris, plan a spring visit. they live in Warren.
Local residents and visitors are named as they travel for visits, business, or hospital care. People include Mrs. Butters, Mrs. Moul, Miss Gregory, Miss Mead, Miss Sanderson, Mr. Hapwood, George Butters, and many others connected to Oil City and nearby towns.
Mrs. Mary Henry of Cambridge Springs died yesterday after a hip fracture and a decline in health following a period of bed confinement. She was 79 and is survived by four sons Frank Roy Lyman and Cay Henry. funeral services set for Wednesday afternoon with burial at Miller's Station cemetery.
The closing market catalog lists numerous oil firms including Atlantic Refining, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Skelly, and Continental, alongside steel producers like Armco and Republic. Major rail and auto names appear with Studebaker, General Motors, Canadian Pacific, and Chicago Northwestern. Prices and exact movements are unclear due to OCR garble but indicate broad mixed activity across energy, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.
Death claimed Je Winans a well known Spartansburg resident at 3 o clock in a Philadelphia hospital after an operation for throat trouble on January 17. He ran an Undertaking business in Spartansburg for thirty years and was active in the community. Survived by two daughters and several siblings, the funeral arrangements were pending and the body was being brought home to Spartansburg.
State Troopers patrol the Lashar mansion in Bridgeport as Walter B. Lashar chief executive receives three extortion notes demanding 25000 dollars. The letters signed The Hand offered no kidnapping hint and indicated an educated writer. Guards, floodlights, and an infant child with Mrs Lashar accompany the family as authorities investigate the threat.
The piece reproduces garbled OCR reflecting a crime reference in Los Angeles, a confession and awaiting actions, plus a condolence message from President Coolidge to the Goethals family, and a stray line about classified ads and opportunities.
At Rockview Prison in Bellefonte Pa on January 23 Leon Stoyern a 20 year old from Northumberland County known as the Sheik murderer faced execution. He was strapped into the chair as guards stood by while the condemned man began his death march.
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