Corry Journal Reports Local Budget Savings And Winter Weather
The Corry Journal notes a modest but welcome cut in street lighting costs saving over $500 yearly for the city finances. It also covers Erie County Commission turmoil over appointments and a harsh winter with heavy snow, gales, and transportation disruption. The piece comments on municipal laws, peddling licenses, and a correction about Secretary Ickes and President Hoover era rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Interior
Harold Ickes
Rochester
Herbert Hoover
U. S. Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Ickes
Tatey
Road Building in 1936 and the Coming Boom
The piece notes 25000 road industry representatives gathering to review 33000000 dollars of new machinery and discuss modern methods. It claims no complete US road exists, highlights needed widenings and safety upgrades, and envisions a billion dollar year with arterial highways, feeder roads, and a national system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Road Builders’ Association
United States
Future car designs move to rear engines in talks
Automotive engineers in Detroit discuss upcoming shifts in design with gradual public adoption. Predictions include rear-mounted motors, extended body length for space, gradual running-board fade, and air springs to complement balloon tires, amid an open policy at the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auto Evolution Automotive
Detroit
Cavaas
Homor
Hollywood Stars Reveal How They Write Letters at Home
Hollywood figures share letter habits with Gary Cooper preferring telegrams for brevity while Marlena Dietrich writes in French to Europe and Mae West notes near zero personal mail. Claudette Colbert uses a typer when available but is away from home. Bing Crosby and Harold Lloyd dictate to secretaries as many peers maintain active correspondence with friends and colleagues nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Calif
Holywood
Gary Cooper
Marlena Dietrich
Cooper
Desire
Emmy
Europe
Gladys Swarthout
Jan Kiepura
Miss Swarthout
Ladislav
Hamburg
Germany
Mae West
New York
Claudette Colbert
Colbert
Bing Crosty
Harold Lloyd
Twenty Years Ago Journal Files January 23 1916
Reprint recalls Charles Parkhill of Portage County Wisconsin who was kept from service due to bad teeth. He recently turned six and reports feeling strong and healthy. The notice appears in a column titled as taken from the journal files.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Journal
Stevens Point
Wis
Charles Parkhill
Portage County
Sh Ci Wat
Paris Styles Paris Fashionable Evening Gowns
A holiday season fashion feature highlights Chanel and Paquin gowns in Paris. Chanel offers black tulle with red and green flecks, a fitted bodice, shirred front panel, semi train, and full sleeves. Paquin presents a royal blue tulle dress with horizontal bands and a matching hip cape trimmed in ermine. A fashion tip notes a black tulle gown spattered with red and green flecks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chanel
Star Signals January 23 Adverse Day Forecast
A garbled star sign note warns that January 23 is adverse with danger on yesterday today and tomorrow. It advises caution in planetary investments and changes likely in February. The text includes dates like 1938 1888 1936 and mentions caution in work and writing amid uncertain changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aris Nology
Gilard
Books in Review and Noted Novels and Poems
A critical survey of Contemporary American Women Poets edited by Tooni Gordl praises its breadth from familiar names like Edna St. Vincent Millay and Muriel Rukeyser to new voices, with Leo Keresselidae’s Georgian story and James Hanley’s Stoker Bush reviewed, noting strengths and flaws, then a brief report on counterfeit tax tokens seized in Presh, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lave
Worts
Tooni Gordl
Henry Harrison
Miss Gordi
Pegasus
Hdna St
Vincent Millay
Harriet Monroe
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Babette Deutsch
Margaret Widemer
Josephine W. Johnson
Muriel Rukeyser
Yale University Press
James Hanley
Dockside
England
Little Isle
Atlantic
Hansey
Hanley
Macmillan
Stoker Bush
Chris Bist
Jesaire
Ale
Tearty Bo'sun Rooney
Hantey
Chris
Canadian farmer hopeful for bumper year ahead
A Saskatchewan farmer, after six drought and rust plagued years and slipping wheat markets, remains hopeful that 1986 will bring better crops and improved prices. He believes the worst is behind him and a year of plenty may arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kegina
Sask
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Atree Corry
A.D. Colegrove Wines Plombard
National Advertising Representative
Frwd Kimball
44Th St
Bartlett
Milwaukee
Michigan Square
Chicago
Erie County
Tully
Wil
Tae
Board of Education
Wble
Sue Werthen Miers
Hollywood Film Shop
Books IN Review
Leo Keresselidae
Thal
Alexander
Georgia
Leo
Russia
Iving
Holland
Mediterranean
Lee
Hanters
H.C. Anstrong
Keresselidze
Manley
ScomTs
Ens
Emless
Eadoress Ket
Bologna
Honest
Dore
Dixie Oleo
Gala Dust
Libby
Law Label
Florida
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