Portside tale notes man named Wright and date mystery
Fragmentary OCR mentions Charles, age 28, and Pit Wright with numbers 178 and a starry sail. Context unclear, but preserves a naval or portside reference with names and a numeric clue.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1928
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR mentions Charles, age 28, and Pit Wright with numbers 178 and a starry sail. Context unclear, but preserves a naval or portside reference with names and a numeric clue.
Union services open Sunday at 8 o clock in the Chautauqua tent with Ghorehes of the ety and Andon Kervived Gbthie as speakers. Guthord Gordon will deliver a sermon on Hold fast America and address the 2028 Chautauqua program launch. Neat music by the Crisne Bingham Company accompanies the evening service. Public invited to attend the union gathering and lectures.
An explosion at St Juliens ammunition depot in Norfolk Virginia was blamed on spontaneous combustion. Damage amounted to 52560 dollars. The blast affected ammunition magazines with supplies drawn from Portsmouth Cradondon and the Navy yard.
A fragmented classified style listing offers several vehicles with prices including a 1925 Jordan sedan at unknown price, a 1925 Ford sedan, a 1924 Overland coupe priced at 250, a 1924 Chevrolet sedan at 100, and 1924 touring cars at 80 each.
The Sunday School lesson discusses the shift of early Christian leadership from Jerusalem to Antioch and the launch of foreign missions. Barnabas and Saul are set apart by the Holy Spirit, embarking to Cyprus and Asia Minor, with Mark the cause of later corrections and eventual usefulness.
A description of Puget Sound noting its depth from 69 to 10 feet in some parts and its protection from wind on all sides. It highlights the harbor as one of the world’s natural harbors and mentions easy landings along its coastline.
United Press reports Cosmo Lang, archbishop of York, approved by King George to succeed Randall Davidson as Archbishop of Canterbury. Lang, born 1854, pursued law briefly before dedicating life to ministry, rising from curate at Leeds to dean of Magdalen College, Oxford, and champion of church reform through preaching and social campaigns in London's East End.
Ted Harris, 18, of Wilkes Barre, Pa., was beaten and robbed of $5 by a taxi cab driver in Pittsburgh early today, according to police. A second item reports a boy rescued in New York after being trapped in an alley near stone walls, with the rescuer named Fraser.
The McCray cemetery lies 1.5 miles south of Lovell Station on James McCray’s Concord township farm. Land was given by his son Robert. The first burial was James McCray in 1833.
Readable notices from United Brethren, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian Science, Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Episcopal churches list Sunday schools, morning and evening worship times, prayer meetings, and special union services. Also calls for rides and attendance reminders accompany service details and pastors’ names for local congregations.
The primary seers at Uist church hosted an enjoyable evening with Mrs Berirat receiving a loving gift for her friends and the new son David. Mr and Mrs Charles Hunort welcomed visitors, and a delicious luncheon featuring an apple and wand cake was served. Favors honored Bertram, Falti, Peiffer, Monroy, Parsons, Whiteheat, and Rickess as the celebration included birthday and garden showers. Emmanuel Ghutch services welcomed all for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity. For sale a good farm on pave with Holy Communion at 1,000 dollars down and a sermon topic Are the Tenor villal farm Sunday. Bert Weldon, 140 Gould Street.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church at East Washington Street and Maple Avenue, led by Pastor Rev. George B. Morgan, offers a 6:45 A M Sunday School.
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