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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1931
Page
5
A Harpers essay argues that overburdened mothers affect children and that serenity starts with a simpler standard of living. It urges one pioneer to break with old ways, encouraging groups to simplify life to restore stability, rather than embrace a complicated, anxious existence.
Ministers at the American scientists’ annual convention speak on science and faith. A preacher notes similarities between states of mind and religious faith while another minister says science equips religion for humanitarian work. Dr Robert A Millikan calls science compatible with religion and guiding belief. GE Lab director cites nature’s laws as the will of God. After mutual hostility, religion and science move toward harmony with broader outlooks.
Walter Damrosch reports a large poll of radio listeners on an ideal symphonic program. Most favor Wagner, Schubert and Strauss, with the top four selections echoing favorites from 25 years ago under his orchestral concerts.
After five months a man paid 15 dollars interest on a note issued at six percent. Find the face value of the note. The solution references adding numbers and dividing by six and uses arithmetic steps to derive the face amount.
A retrospective from January 24 1914 notes Cory Pair and Driving Park Association stockholders plan for the 1981 exposition. Harbor Creek farmowner H H Parker sells to Rev Wienker to be converted into a Catholic boys home. Asa D Yochum linked to a costly yacht loss in a Pittobug bank safety deposit box. Funeral services held for female Joseph Graker. Clavie Pam returns from New York City to join Citizens National Bank. August Jones of Columns injured by a wagon accident on East Main Street. Mrs R P Dawson and daughter Mary depart for Los Angeles via Salt Lake City. Mr and Mrs Frank Raymond head to Florida for rest of term.
Tips on correct word usage and pronunciation. Includes guidance on misused terms such as relations versus relatives and inherent pronunciation. Prompts readers to expand vocabulary with daily word focus, today Tenable defined as capable of being held or defended with a Scott quotation.
Answers list includes Lake Superior as the shallowest Great Lake and notes Oliver Wendell Holmes as author of Old tree sides. Paterson New Jersey is noted for silk mills. The U S Bureau of Education is in the Department of Interior. The banyan tree of India sends down roots from its branches to form extra trunks.
Brocton resident J. Cran dall, pioneer grape basket and general manufacturer, died Friday at 12 25 p m aged 71 years 4 months. He was born in Brocton and had lived there all his life. He married Misti Adelle Cary on May 16 1883.
Rural Pennsylvanian church survey shows overchurching in towns with small populations. In five counties 388 churches with 56 005 members average 4 4 per church and home mission aid of 13133 dollars. The Rev Hoover to discuss remedies at the pastors convention. Miss Agnes Connell and Teil Murray visit Erie.
Allen Smith notes Education of a Princess by Munte a grand royal memoir style novel tracing Marie Romanoff from Russian nursery to revolution. Other new works include The Limestone Tree by Hegesheimer a Kentucky saga of the Abel clan. Portrait by Caroline by Sylvia Thompson a study of a painter wife and her lovers. Back Street by Fannie Hurst a Cosmopolitan edition. Roads to Glory by Aldington. Grand Hotel as February Book of the Month. Sam Love’s South American jungle tale forthcoming from Century.
George B. Campbell, 60, of Oak Park HL, was found dead Thursday morning in a bathroom at Kenmore apartments on Boylston Street. A burning gas smell filled the room. an officer broke down the door and found Campbell cold in death. Coroner says death likely from alcohol and gas fumes. man had been drinking the prior day.
The Gang Buster brings Jack Oakie as a Arkansas gangster who derails bad men and rescues a damsel in distress. A riotous Screen success touted as Oakie’s latest comedy thriller plays at the Grand theatre Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thieves forced entry through a rear door of the Franklin store on 13th Street and stole about two dozen pairs of ladies and men's shoes. Proprieter Frank A. Pankratz reported the break in early Friday morning. Nearby resident Charles Robinson heard a disturbance at 8:46. No cash was taken and the total loss is under investigation.
Fourteen churches and charitable institutions receive funds from the late Mor tis Schaffner of Erie. A $2,001 trust for the Brith Home for Children Fairview and a $1,001 insurance allotment aid the home. The will also leaves gifts to St Vincent’s, Hamor, St Joseph’s Home for Children, and several aged homes, hospitals, and organizations, with the remainder to the widow and children.
Joe Butera, accused of killing Steve LeFaro, turned himself in after more than three years on the run. He spent most of that period in a small inland Canadian town that also housed "Big Angelo" Caramels, another DuBois native and seven year fugitive.
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