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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
4
Announcement that the Civic Employees Association is considering a large Labor Day celebration for Corry draws praise from residents urging revival of past holiday demonstrations. The piece warns against costly duds and urges sponsors to fund worthwhile entertainment and recreation to win public approval.
The state fog catcher visit and ensuing seizures of dogs found running at large bring widespread complaints from canine owners. Many question the officer's right to seize dogs near owner premises and other circumstances. A public reminder emphasizes duty and rights under Sec. Hon 19 of the State Doe Act, authorizing officers to seize dogs found at large or on others' property, with authority to enter premises in pursuit of unaccompanied dogs.
A reader questions the term trylon and argues it is a misused word linked to pylon. The piece notes pylon originally meant a gate post and was adopted to mark a race turning point, while trylon is not a valid three sided pyramid. The article also cites a JAMA note about water with meals not harming digestion.
Bruce Catton notes that William Borah and Henry Johnson remain unchanged in spirit after twenty years of Senate battles over foreign policy. The article contrasts the 1919 fight against Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations with today’s strategy, personal animosities, and the enduring resolve of the two aging senators who may yet prevail.
At the New York World’s Fair the Soviet display dominates the foreign section atop a 5 million dollar Russian building. The Worker statue, 79 feet high on a 170 foot tower, features a blazing red star and rises 249 feet above ground. Polish pavilion shows historical items and stamp sets while U.S. Post Office frieze includes 1922 issues and commemoratives. Nineteen stamp enlargements decorate the Canadian building as royal visit stamps are displayed over corridors.
Hollywood reports a surge in child actors as Deanna Durbin Shirley Temple Mickey Rooney and Jane Withers lead the top box office list. California’s Jackie Coogall law funnels much of their earnings into trust funds while studios sign more youngsters and schedule shorter school days to keep them in work across productions like The Tyderpup and The Underpup, with youth casts expanding filming timelines.
A Barbs Duck display is planned for the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland while scientists test if heredity can be altered by environment. The piece notes a father’s aside about Sonny not growing the same as his youth. It also mentions American businesswomen meeting in Kansas City, framing a broader convention of women in business.
Rit10 Princes Perkins will be guest speaker on the Women in Industry series ninth? tenth? in the Women in the Making of America broadcasts. The program airs Friday at 1 on NEBO via Blue network, with cooperation from the Women’s Trade Union League and National Consumers League. The segment highlights Great Women of the past such as Frances Whipple Green, Mary Burke and Florence Kelley.
The item lists ten trivia prompts from a classified page asking about Indigo’s employer, area measures, kleptomsnia, plural tempo, Sagebrush State nickname, kinship to the Kaiser, composer of The Unfinished Symphony, term for a place where items are made, the bank holiday month and year, and the bird family of falcons.
The passage likens doctors to detectives when performing exams. It notes general appearance, facial expression, skin, weight, vitality, voice and mannerisms as clues. First impressions guide further checks using inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation to reach diagnosis.
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