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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1931
Page
3
Fragmentary text references a final or decisive match within a season. Mentions Mayen or Mayen oni ads, a ball game, and odds like 1.000 and 4.000, plus a finale week for the team. No clear names, places, or dates are legible.
The readable fragments are insufficient to identify people places events or outcomes. No verifiable facts or coherent narrative remain to summarize into a proper historical newspaper item.
A partial masthead indicates the Corry Evening Journal of Corry Pennsylvania with publisher Archir Colegrove and national advertising representative Fred Kimball. It lists office addresses in New York Chicago and Pittsburgh and notes postal classifications and subscription rates as three cents per copy and fifteen cents per week.
A New Jersey boy’s fatal shooting linked to a mail order pistol sparked national outrage over gun violence and film depictions. The piece questions civilized norms and urges action to curb firearm sales through mail order channels. It contrasts this with a growing camping movement and debates about efficiency and independence in farming.
Vocabulary notes warn against common misuses and mispronunciations. The piece highlights words like do, often mispronounced forms, and pairs such as thin versus slender. It cites the daily goal of expanding vocabulary by mastering one word each day and gives an example word sanguinary linked to bloodshed.
July 8 1914 notes detail Chautauqua Lake crowds escaping heat to the lake, Thurston store adding electric fans, Princess Theatre new management Edwards and Baker, praise for raspberries from B A Allen, premium list task for Corry Fair, Crescents crushed by Red Sus 16 2 at Timon City, O P Haton returns from Jamestown visiting his 98 year old mother, Delilly and Wesley play with Garland against Super Grove, Harry Hart travels from Erie to join Columbus game lineup.
Questions and answers present a quirky Q and A about Shakespeare balcony scene coin mutilation and world cities. The listed responses include Romeo and Juliet New York gold Berlin with uneven phrasing and errors.
Corry Kiwanis prepare the annual outing at Panama Rocks on Thursday July 16 sponsored by the Jamestown Kiwanis era. Details to be given at the Wednesday noon weekfly luncheon meeting at the YWCA. Activities begin 3 p m and run all day with games horse shoes dancing and a special Rocks trip followed by a chicken dinner and dancing with Jimmy Howard and his Crusaders. New York District Governor Franke G Huntington expected to attend. clubs in Division 6 may be represented.
New York July 8 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, famed world fliers, were delayed at Play Bennett field about six o'clock this morning on their sight to Oklahoma due to a heavy fog. At Roosevelt Field Headle, Lockheed chief test pilot, waited to fly with Mrs. Post and Mrs. Gatty West aboard.
Two of our best cherry varieties Montmorency Red Sour, early and mid season, will be ripe late this week and last several days. Come to our orchard and pick what you want with supervision. We provide ladders and baskets and charge three cents per pound for sour cherries and ten cents per pound for sweet. Located two miles northeast of North East on Lake Corry Road.
Rome July 8 A claim in Lavoro Fascista links Don Sturzo to a plot to overthrow Fascism, saying he sought aid from Azione Cattolica. Cardinal Pacelli reportedly disapproved of the scheme as Mussolini pressed a conciliatory reply to the Pope’s encyclical issued in Paris.
Six people were seriously hurt in a two-car collision near the South Franklin street hill in Titusville just after eight p.m. The injured include Mrs. Frank Theobald, Frank Theobald, Bertha Warrel, Gay Kellogg, Kenneth Crawford, Howard Crawford, and Del Nelson. Cars were towed to Jones Brothers garage. Accident blamed on Kenneth Crawford’s misjudgment and speed, per Highway Patrol Corporal J. O. Fulton.
Big crowds at Chautauqua report receipts higher than two years at this time. More cottages rented as the season progresses. July 9 to 11 features talks by Dr James McDonald of the Foreign Policy Association on America’s Break Abroad and Europe’s path to war. William Son of NYU speaks on Making the Count. The Norton theatre presents Arms and the Man by the Cleveland Players. Various speakers and concerts fill the schedule through July 11 including lectures by Prof. Davidswards and Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouton with organ interlude and a sacred concert.
Harvey M. Willis urged a county bond vote of 75 000 to buy voting machines at the Nayemben election. He argued voters should approve payment to increase county handing power and reflect public will. Charles R. Davis favored ten year bonds without a vote to pay for 40 machines already ordered, with other machines to complete county equipment.
Washington July 8 Prohibition Director Woodcock says temperance education is essential to federal prohibition success He urges revival of temperance education while focusing on commercial violators and notes progress in the administration s enforcement efforts He warns that drinkers may escape direct punishment due to social protection but emphasizes the need to curb the market for alcohol in a mechanized era
Fragmentary report recounts that New Amsterdam became New York under British control between 1065 and 1084. It mentions officials such as burgomasters and sheriffs being replaced and hints at an acting charter of New York with references to local offices like alderman and city governance during early colonial adjustments.
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