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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1928
Page
3
A fragmented historical sports note mentions boxing and a heavyweight challenge with unclear names and places. The text references Heaney, a Boston Heensy, and a challenger from Ue levessar, with rounds and a verdict described but details are obscured by OCR errors.
A long feature describes Kingston Arkansas transforming a poor isolated village into a model rural community in ten years. Led by preacher Elmer J. Boucher and schoolteacher Otto Ernest Rayburn, the town built a $75,000 community complex with church, school, library, and public facilities. It hosts a high school, a 6,000‑volume library, a people's college, weekly newspaper, monthly magazine, and a modern hospital with unique amenities, illustrating modernization in a hard-to-reach locale.
The piece notes Ontario government liquor sales under strict rules and a recent criticism of brewers for advertising liquor. It cites a Toronto distillery pushing a five cent pencil bottle and a cigarette lighter ad as examples to be halted. Americans in Canada face mixed reception when seeking drink. The other item reports the Louisenstein mystery nearing solution with a body found near Boulogne. The remaining question is whether death was suicide or accidental from a high altitude fall over the English Channel.
The National Guard plans a home posting today and a new fire depot at Columbus is finished and occupied. Mrs Davenney of Greenville continues with dining hall duties at the fairgrounds. C I Allen and A G Cornell promote the Perseus Miracle on West Main Street. Horses are arriving at Drivin Park with arrivals from Long Island Dayton Ohio and Fayetville Indiana. Rev RN Stubbs visited the city and traveled to Galatia? to attend the Sunday School Workers convention.
Answers to yesterday's questions list several items. It mentions Lincoln Garfield and McKinley, asks about a stadium capacity and the Great Lakes region’s Toronto location, and credits Sholes with inventing the typewriter while noting 1874. It also references the Warren Haddings trial and a Texas item.
Washington Star quotes a fragmented opinion piece discussing courage in reporting and the tension between truthful messaging and audience expectations. The text references a figure described as the sage of Chinntayen and uses archaic phrasing to question belief versus desired narrative.
A problem describes a paint formula of 8 vermilion to 1 white. The painter mixed -parts vermilion and % parts white. The correct fix must adjust quantities to restore the intended color without waste, using proportional scaling and division steps as guidance.
Brig U S coastguard urged to start a lookout for Josephine Delky, last seen with three men, estranged from husband Henry Delky. She reportedly jumped from Wiecliff and drowned off Lake Erie near Likeside cemetery on Sunday. Investigator Daniel S Hanley, life corner, is probing the case.
County officials clash as Commissioner Rogan questions July 12 actions altering voter registrar appointments. County Solicitor Mok rules no legal procedure to test the legality, outlining limited rights of affected voters while majority controls. Rogan plans to highlight the issue to Democratic registrars and leaders before September registration day.
Kane Pa July 24 William C Biswell 68 was seriously injured when a falling tree caught him at the Central Pennsylvania Company's lumber yard in Bear Creek district sixteen miles from Kane He was taken to Kane Summit Hospital with a broken back and crushed body about 20 accidents have occurred in this numbering operations in recent weeks hospital staff reported
A fragmentary report recalls banners in early Christian churches dating to Constantine. It mentions an emperor named Constantine and a vision or dream that inspired a banner motif, claimed to have appeared to his troops and then faded or cured.
On July 24 in Onesta Pennsylvania Harol Hillis a youth was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the face and chest. He was at a relative’s home when a struggle over a theft occurred with Robert Ellis, brother of Sheriff Frank Ellis, leading to a firearm discharge. The elder Ellis is reported to have fired the gun as the youth fled toward a touring car. The youth’s condition was described as serious with a prognosis of possible recovery.
Rudolph O Keefe a New York City attorney was arrested in Erie after federal agents raided an alleged key club at 1814 Turnpike. He was charged with violating prohibition laws and resisting arrest then released on $1000 bail by U S Commissioner Filer.
Greenville Pa July 24 Fred Parkes 29 was instantly killed when a radio aerial he was erecting touched a high voltage wire. He suffered severe burns all over his body. The Old City Derrick notes a plan to raise 6000 dollars for building a stone road from the President township line to Henrys Pend sad etier along the river is under consideration.
A potato tour for Erie County farmers is planned. The group leaves FH Barney Farm in Girard at 7 10 AM on Wednesday August 1 for Linesville Thompson Bros Linesville and Sheltity and Sons in Andover, then Warren and Akron to the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster. A second day August 2 will be spent at Wooster and Smithville with possible return stops at Burton Painesville and Ashtabula. The trip totals about 850 miles, participants may join at any point and white streamers will help keep the group together.
Wanted to rent a modern five or six room house or flat. Address L. M. care Journal Office, 3126.
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