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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
4
The text describes anxious preparations at home as a family braces for a woman's hospital stay. It notes the need for in charge rules, a strict daily baby schedule, clothing repairs, and health routines to reassure the patient and ease convalescence.
Howard reports Sunburn meter tubes to be installed at 20 U S weather stations including New York LaGuardia and Boston Cambridge to measure ultraviolet tan rays year round. Data will reveal city versus country differences and seasonal variations with aims to guide sun exposure and health, noting tan rays as germ killers and crop aids.
A round of early mysteries and major novels is surveyed. Anna Mary Wells’s A Talent for Murder earns praise for original plotting and vivid characters, while Medora Field’s Blood On Her Shoe blends a strong house party setting with a clear ghost mechanism. Simon Harcourt-Smith’s Fire in the Pacific pairs with Frederick Moore’s Japan insights. Private Hargrove offers light soldierly humor, and James Gould Cozens’s The Just and the Unjust creates a dense murder trial framing a charged town. Costain’s My Great Billy conjures Elizabethan England with strong research. Anita Pettibone’s Light Down Stranger captures Washington Territory postwar mood. others include Shaken With the Wind and Plume Rouge for contrast.
Warren July 25 The project aims to create a Warren County Honor Roll directory listing over 900 men now serving in the armed forces. The Veterans of Foreign Wars unit will oversee erection of the board with regimental officers contacting town officials for permits. Mr Terrell is credited with the effort and the Viking is priced at $2.75.
Water rose seven feet in eight minutes sweeping away a large structure housing a store and living quarters for the Swifer family at Glen Hazel, three lies northeast of Johnsonburg. The rapid flood displaced the family after a wall of water struck their home while residents were away.
The piece argues American victory may come via air power led by Kaiser and Wrights era pioneers, praising air warfare and ship disposal from the sky, while warning of enemy risks. It references Polish tragedy, German occupation, and the need to educate and empower youth under wartime focus. It notes home front efforts like salvaging fats and cans to support munitions and manufacturing.
A fragmentary puzzle page asks ten trivia items from a 20th century reading, including figures like Rommel and Napoleon. It jumble many terms, misspellings, and unclear prompts but points to a “Daily Quiz” column inviting readers to rotate to a classified page for answers.
A fragmented note surveys 1981 road vehicle crashes at grade crossings, then pivots to ancient Greece in the fifth century B C. It references volcanic ranges, a Pacific region, and the Kerguelen Islands, noting British German and American scientific expeditions and the transit of Venus as a notable spectacle.
Guayaquil Ecuador known as the Pearl of the Eneific sits on the Guayas river bank 50 miles from the Pacific gulf. Founded in 1587 Ecuador’s independence dates to 1622 with a stormy history noted in passing. The Cathedral of Cologne is described with historical timelines. Remarks mention American Western film influence and Australia New Zealand under sea cables from 1876. Evidence of steel rod production at high speeds is noted in a disconnected fragment.
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