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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1943
Page
4
A fragment outlines distribution terms and copyright, noting Associated Press exclusivity for republished dispatches and local news. It lists postal details, subscription prices, and carrier and advertising rate notices in a terse, era-specific billing language.
A speaker at an eastern luncheon warns that plain horse sense fails in running a country or guiding wartime policy. He contrasts Edsel Ford and Henry Ford, Carlos Wilson, Gerard Swope, and Owen D Young, arguing that broad knowledge and special political training are essential for national leadership beyond mere horse sense.
The OPA cites large retailer profits from broader margins, while National City Bank data show 1942 net margins at about one cent per dollar for grocery distributors. Bank notes rising costs from wages, taxes, and reporting, squeezing profits despite higher volumes, with per family food spend around 40 of 2400 annual income.
Twenty years ago today police hunted two colored men for the murder of Prince Crawford near Spartansburg as a freight train spared the city. A local Overland driver faces charges after a Findley Lake road crash damaged cars of Raymond Barnes and J A Patterson, with no injuries. Corry hospital funding was cut $3000 by Governor Pinchot amid statewide reductions. Keystone Construction near North Second Avenue and Eagle Street expects to open streets to traffic within two to three weeks. Jesse A Baccus, a respected Freehold Township farmer, died at seventy. Levy Nabholiz of Lima County Club visited Corry with Bob Randall and Doc Mehler for an exhibition round. Nabholiz, Randall posted 33 and 37, Mehler 41 and 42.
A jumble of trivia prompts asks about a nursery rhyme incident with Little Miss Muffet, Charles Curtis as Vice President, a horse head control rein, the Joliet sisters Annette Cecile Emilie Marie Yvonne, English settlement in America, the phrase I only regret that I have but one life to lose, a river boundary name between Arizona and California, the meaning of kismet, Esperanto as a city in Spain, famous painting as a universal language, and ancient wine use by Assyrians and Egyptians.
The text warns that inflation threats are used to push social reform and regimentation while masking economic missteps and the nation's poor postwar state as war ends. It emphasizes responsibility for suffering from food shortages and implies manipulation of public opinion.
Roger Babson argues for four national lessons in statistics including birth rates, education, soils, and labor. He urges voluntary sacrifice and a spiritual awakening to save America, criticizing reliance on synthetic industries and labor unions while stressing personal responsibility and national unity.
Factographs claim plant diseases cause roughly 40 livestock deaths per American farm and total losses near $200 per farm. Tadia supplied 3,000 miles of bandages to troops in the African campaign.
Judge Miles delayed mandamus proceedings in the Dan House case as Al derman Thomas McCarty of the IRS Ward contests payment of costs. McCarty issued warrants May 23 for Dan House and co defendants, seeking $121.68. Willis, the county controller, has paid only $30, despite completion of prosecutions and sentences.
Jamestown reports volunteers rush to the fruit belt to harvest raspberries currants and later beans and tomatoes. Camps of berry nickers and Jamestown and Dunkirk workers join Chautauqua Lake youth camps and store employees to avert crop loss due to late spring cold weather.
At the Brocton Central school annual meeting the tax rate for the coming year was set at eight mills, below the prior four year average of eight and a half mills. The budget of 118,040.05 was approved unanimously, with 29,892.88 to be raised by district taxes and the rest from state sources.
The White Horse troupe from the Nebraska ranch arrives in Corry drawing attention as they stage a 7 PM parade through the business district before the 7:30 PM show. Fourteen white horses with riders, a trained white bull and cow, and a dog perform for the No-Bir Riding Club which organized the visit and reports strong advance ticket sales for this first local exhibition.
Lieut Col Philip G Cochran, a North Africa war veteran, spent a few hours in Erie on Wednesday night as part of a bond drive tour. He traveled with his father, Bernard Cochran, a local tax expert, and appeared in Buffalo earlier with other army officials.
Four Freedoms War Bond Show officer Wo Gye returned to Buffalo after a four day visit and is expected to be in New York today. His father says Cochran has traveled by plane across eastern states since leaving after the stay, and his movements are known only to the crowd, with no determined return date.
The article discusses how many European children eat eagerly while U.S. children often resist meals. It advises parents to avoid pressuring a child, offer small portions of a balanced meal, and remove uneaten food without comment. Missing occasional meals won’t harm, and the child will eat when hungry.
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