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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1935
Page
5
A fragmentary OCR item mentions a state event and an unavailable detail about a person named Sury and a person named Agu. The readable text hints at risk or being at stake, with no clear dates or places provided. Further confirmation needed to identify exact event and individuals.
Old Spring Texas July 6 United Press reports C A Tucker 49 year old farmer poisoned his liquor to stop theft and is jailed for murder in the death of his son Ben 23 who died in convulsions yesterday while eating watermelon at the Tucker farm Vernon his year old brother became violently ill but recoveredMisses Kathryn Purcell and Margaret Helen Haight went to Findley Lake for a weekend stay
A long list of social visits and travels. Several local residents host or visit relatives in Cleveland Treto Kansas City Missouri Los Angeles and New York City. Names include Franklin S Beppitt Mari on J Skidmore Ruth Frank Ralph Waldley Meyer generations and many others with Findley Lake Warren Kane and Corry as locations noted.
Pittsburgh July 6 Mike Russo rested after swimming the Allegheny River from Warren Pa to Pittsburgh as part of a publicity stunt. The 23 year old seeks backing to race at Catalina Island or Toronto and hopes a sponsor will send him to future events. He spoke from the Pittsburgh Aquatic Club wharf, telling reporters he can swim well and needs financial support.
New York trading shows an irregular session with investment demand lifting industrials into higher ground by over a point amid tight turnover. Electrical equipment and steel shares lead gains while some railroad concerns ease. closing prices list many major names including American Can, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse Electric, and Woolworth, with mixed moves across utilities and oils.
Kane July 6 One person was injured seriously and two others escaped with cuts and bruises when a sedan rammed head on into a parked coupe on the Kane road. Edwin Dayin 23 of Sheffield driver of the sedan was described as in serious condition with a fractured skull. Jamestown New York residents Arthur Peterson and Francis Kightlinger occupied the coupe and escaped with cuts. Driver Robert Hrickson of Jamestown fled the scene. The accident occurred around 2 AM after Dayin, confused by headlights, swerved to pass the parked car and struck the coupe, pushing it about fifty feet and sending the sedan onto a terrace.
Kane July 6 Ludlow marked the third day of its Old Ims Weel, shattering attendance records at Wildcat Park. About 25,000 people attended the park’s Independence Day program from morning to night. Paid admissions reached 18,000, with 2,000 Ludlow residents and 1,027 visitors using display badges, plus 4,000 advance tickets and 10,000 tickets sold at the main gate before 3 PM.
A three year old girl from Sleepy Hollow near South Phillipsburg died in Phillppaburg State Hospital from burns after her clothing was set ablaze by a lighted match during a Fourth of July incident. Her brother Steve, four, found some of the matches while others shot fireworks around the Martha home.
The funeral for Lawrence Wilson Field was conducted at his brother Richard Field’s home in Jamestown on Friday afternoon, with Veterans of Foreign Wars officers and pallbearers present. Field, born May 19, 1896, served in World War I with the 318th Machine Gun Corps earning a Purple Heart, and lived in Corry, Meadvilla, and Jamestown before returning to Corry. Burial followed at Frewsburg Cemetery.
Steubenville Ohio police report a burglar entered the home of Mrs. M Ault and stole 200 books during the summer raid. Nothing else appeared missing, according to Ault who noted the theft involved a large number of volumes.
A Warren, Pennsylvania swimmer completed a 192 mile journey to Pittsburgh in ten days, arriving by a skiff with four friends and a letter for Mayor McNair. He was met near Sixth Street Bridge after a grueling voyage powered by a support ship and a barter of chocolate bars, juice, and water, averaging about 1.5 miles per hour.
Lester A Walton a New York and St Louis Negro newspaperman and minister to Liberia awaits Senate confirmation at age 54 Formerly a rail porter on the St Louis Star Post Dispatch and Globe Democrat He rose to managing editor of the New York Age in 1908 and later served as a special correspondent for the paper
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