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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1930
Page
3
An article in a Corry Pa daily urges planning ahead for next year’s outing. It promotes thrift, avoiding unnecessary debt, and using library books or folders to fuel imagination while saving in advance.
Night thunderstorm blamed as the season’s most severe. Presbyterian church sustained damage. Henry Rosa, railway clerk, injured in a peculiar train accident near East Pleasant Street. Henry and Alfred Winfield of Erie died when their sloop capsized off Presque Isle. Automobiles bought by A A Williams and G G Williams. Hugh DeLury left Youngstown after a visit. Charles Burkhardt departed to Vernon Indiana for a serious matter.
Vocabulary guide series presents a daily word lesson and usage notes. Today's focus is grievous meaning severe distress or sorrow with examples and pronunciation hints for common misuses and spelling challenges.
A reader asks how to split rent for two land tracts value 875 dollars total. One tract measures 88 yards by 80 yards and the other 75 by 48 yards. Solve proportionally by area to allocate each share, then compute each payment. The day’s answer hints at calculating with 12.8 and 0.75 steps.
By United Press July 25 three youths and an eight year old girl joined the season's swimming fatalities. Clara Koerner eight of Duquesne Heights drowned at Paris Lake during a family picnic. William Harris twenty one of near Marysville drowned in the Allegheny River near Tarentum. Alexander Cornwell nineteen of Pittsburgh drowned in the Allegheny at Nadine station.
Linkers OG City July 25 Filming of a nine reel motion picture showing the Meadville Odd Fellows Home is scheduled to start August 1 and will take about two weeks. William G Hayes of Union City leads arrangements for the project, with a leading film man directing from a major company. An initial showing is planned at the convention in September with delegates and members from across the Northwest District. John N Mark will give a Wise lecture with the film at various lodges as showings occur. Oil City residents follow Meadville work, as the home was the first orphanage established by a fraternal order. Local lodges have given substantial support for the project.
A garbled set of yesterday's questions and answers appears to confuse topics. It references names like Mussolini and a misaligned trivia sequence about biscuits, myths, and geographic details, with fractured lines and odd phrasings throughout.
The case alleges negligence by Torcasa driving a vehicle on a road near Crud. The plaintiffs Mr. Neiger and his wife claim he caused a collision with a parent who swerved and injured them. They seek $25,000 each in damages for medical costs and pain and suffering, with Petriln and Nowase representing the plaintiffs.
Union City area plans 14000 acres for drilling in Rockdale and Richmond townships Crayford county near Union City. Oil men say Standard Oil of New Jersey now controls the outfit. Attorney Humy Babe Wilts, a former Cambridge Springs boy, is to be involved in the inquiry as rig location on the W Gray farm is prepared by state geologist.
Pittsburgh on July 25 continues into testimony in a trolley crash inquiry. Motormen Edward Bain and Frank Kane, each with over 80 years in service, appeared before officials as witnesses. Additional testimony from eye witnesses and passengers will be considered.
Two youths perched in branches above Warren Texas city for about nine and a half hours before coming down at nine o clock yesterday morning. They had planned to attempt another stay next week. Local authorities reported no other participants and crowds watched from surrounding properties. It is noted a married woman in an eastern city had succumbed to fever.
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