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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1940
Page
2
In Pitisville yesterday, officials debated enactments for relocating the city treasurer. Under Councilman J M Light, the project aims to shift city responsibilities while movers only repositioned files and paraphernalia in the city comptroller’s corridor.
Local ads list bacon squares and large Calif. navels, with meat and grocery specials from Wilcox Grocery. Kane notes 57 entries in Allegheny National Forest championships won by Phill Massey and Dorothy Dahlstrom of the Rapid Amundset Club. Meadville items report police radio efficiency, a car fire, and a death. notes on hospital patients, ice conditions, and community events.
Miss Bertha Carney 48 of 919 Poplar Street Erie longtime Traveler's Insurance cashier died Monday evening at her home after a two week pneumonia illness. Former Zonta Club president and Rosary Society officer, she belonged to Catholic Daughters of America and Court Erie Chapter. Survived by sister Elizabeth, brothers James V William J and Fred J both of Corry and several nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements handled by Edward Hanley & Sons Funeral Home.
Reading January 23 Hoger G Hutchings of the American Petroleum Institute told the Reading Royal Club that the scare of petroleum scarcity was plain bunk. He said despite rising consumption of petroleum and its products, known reserves in the United States today are at the highest point in fear history.
Erie, Jan. 28 One veteran engineer with a clean wartime record faced blame after the New York Central train collided with the Vanderbilt at Wickliffe Ohio last Friday. An inquiry found John Hunt, 38, misjudged speed and distance after passing stop signals. Twenty people suffered minor injuries as the Southwestern Limited struck the stopped Vanderbilt for brake repairs. Hunt testified he was moving about 60 miles per hour when the collision happened.
A sit breeze fueled a four alarm blaze that destroyed eight Pittsburgh Crushed Steel Company buildings near the Atlantic Refining tank field. Damage estimated at 150000 dollars. over 150 firefighters battled the flames for more than an hour in freezing weather. Only two brick structures survived.
Harrisburg January 23 Prosecution counsel in the graft cases arising from the grand jury investigations of former Gov George H Earle s Little New Deal regime declared there would be no further favors to defendants and their attorneys The statement came after argument before Judge Hughes in Dauphin county court on a defense motion to quash one of the three indict ments against Democratic State Chairman David L Lawrence and seven others
A vintage style warning on picking itchy skin notes infection risk from eczema pimples and piles. It recommends washing with San-Carz Soap and applying Antiseptic San-Cura Ointment sold at drug stores, priced 81.25 for 600 units.
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