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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1926
Page
5
United Press reports copper stocks join a rally as prices rise to about 14 cents and March trade shows firming trend. Weekly reviews note moderated demand despite earlier strength, with extended orders and improving trade conditions among major miners and smelters.
Personal mentions list residents visiting relatives and traveling in and around North East, Erie, and surrounding communities. Entries name Mn and Mrs Willard Jones, Grace Pierce, John Dubitstrand, June Mearlond, Margarey Wellh, Oysl Allen, Stella Stave, Bessie Privé, the Dabistrands, Mrs L. Shustick, Mrs Kate Gould, Mrs Vincent Desminanth, Mrs Gertrude Bufis, Paul Bartlett, Miss Nina Silerphy, Rev and Mrs W F Parley, and others with destinations including Rochester PA, New Castle PA, Erie, Clymée, Columbus, and Cresgan. several visits with relatives and trips to attend events or rest local cottages.
A dense list of company names appears, spanning steel, oil, railroads, and utilities. The document notes market activity for firms including American Smelter American Woolkin Anaconda Atlantic Refining Bethlehem Steel General Motors Reading Radio and several railroad names like Missouri Pacific and Northern Pacific, with scattered references to commodities and offshore brands.
The report describes a deadly blast at a depot that killed 11 service members and wounded several others. Marines Private Vatter and Private Oy We Siler are named among the missing or wandering survivors. A rescue effort followed as authorities began identifying casualties and locating the injured amid scattered debris and ruined clothing near the site.
Franklin Pa July 1 George Bennett 49 of oil City was fatally electrocuted while touching a live electric field wire during bridge printing work above the Allegheny river near the Pennsylvania railroad. The accident occurred moments after he was warned of the danger.
Jasah Kirby, ex-head of the Cleveland Discount Company, began serving a seven and a half year sentence for mail fraud. The case, tied to a collapse valued at roughly 480 million, followed a second federal court trial and involved Atlanta and Cleveland as key locations.
German entomologist Prof Wilhelm Goetsch reports that loneliness shortens a bee’s life. After years studying Taserts he says a bee must have companionship or it will die within five days regardless of honey or surroundings.
Australian flyer Alan Cobham arrived in Bushire en route from England to Melbourne by air on a round trip. Sergeant Ward accompanied him, replacing the late A B Elliott who died from a rifle wound near Jasra Front between Bushire and Baghdad.
The text notes a non Shakespearean translation of an ancient Greek poem by Palladius of Alexandria. It presents a retrofitted version claiming the line All the world’s stage appears as a show to learn one’s part with heart or bear woe, attributed to A J Butler.
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