Street paving to start soon in Corry area
State highway department plans street improvement work in Corry and vicinity with Center Street from Grove Street to city line to receive an 18 foot bituminous surface. Projects include Northwest and West Church streets and a three mile Erie county line to Sportingburg route. Contracts expected awarded within days, aimed to finish this fall. Paving jobs to provide employment for a moderate number of men over the next two to three months.
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State Highway Department
Corry
Wall Wave
Harrisburg
Jigs Day Mentioned In Month’s End Pages
Fragmentary OCR note hints at a calendar reference tied to a jig or jig day near month’s end. Limited readable context prevents precise event or location identification. Further text needed to confirm subject and entities involved.
Corry News Roundup of Local Events and Incidents
City residents plan annual trip to Leaver ta rand Valley for a major event. Train No 2 from eastbound Millersville scheduled for 7:35 am. A car at a Greenville Meadville crossing collided with an auto. no injuries reported. A resident reported sighting a large brown bird near the Library, possibly an eagle. County Controller Harvey Willis projects the year 1952 to be debt free. The Erie County WCTU holds its annual picnic at Glenwood Park. Rep Louis McFadden seeks to back Reed for Senate after clashes with Hoover. McFadden backs Reed’s candidacy. CCC workers reduced Pennsylvania woodland fires with 25,000 man-days of labor. State liquor-sale declines cited as temperance sign by Sec. Beamish. Hepler Motors shows a Cromwell green Terraplane to Harry Powers. Claudette Colbert negotiations rumored for four-film, $80,000 per picture deal. St Joseph’s Orphanage Band to perform at St Thomas church lawn festival. concert 8 to 9 pm. Mrs Cora G Smith and Miss Lotta Bonsteel cruise in San Juan Port Rico, en route to South America. Police round up 10–12 boys in a revevoir misuse case by Corry Water Co. mayor to hear cases. Mayor Glen Miller notes weed-cutting laws. property owners to clear weeds or face costs.
Erie Scribe Club Speaker Delivers Pymiatuning Talk
Twenty three members of the Erie Scribe Club and one guest, W. A. Redmond, heard Walter Jack of the Erie Dispatch-Herald describe the Pymiatuning Dam and reservoir in an illustrated luncheon talk. He showed dam fire pictures and construction scenes, plus photos of Corry club members from years past, and included maps aged 200 to 300 years.
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Hotary Club
W. A. Redmond
Walter Jack
Erie Dispatch-Herald
Jack
Erie
Corry Club
Elimination of Smoke Principle Described
A fragment explains a principle for reducing smoke by mixing air with volatile compounds heated to promote cleaner combustion. It notes how heated vapors transform and burn more completely, aiming to diminish harmful emissions and improve efficiency.
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Alus Samily
Grace Phelan Wins Typing Record at World’s Fair
Grace Phelan, 20 year old Duquesne co ed from Etna PA, won first place in an international typing contest at the World's Fair with a score over 100 wpm. She was the only entrant above 100 words a minute and added a gold medal and cup to her awards. Phelan previously earned a Diamond Expert Typist emblem in 1929 and set a county record of 109 wpm in the Allegheny Commercial contest.
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Etna
Grace Phelan
Duquesne
Miss Phelan
Toronto
Erie High School
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh Academy
Duquesne Tive Wilys
Boston Navy Yard Seeks Trades Apprentice
Boston Navy Yard advertised for a trade apprentice drawing 1125 applicants. The large turnout showed strong interest in the position and the defense sector opportunities for youths.
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Boston
Boston Navy Yard
Intercoastal Canal Becomes Realized Dream at Last
United Press reports the long quest for a New Orleans to Houston intercoastal canal nears completion with August readiness for commercial use. The $18.5 million project spans from the Mississippi to the Rio Francie, Houston to New Orleans section finished, dredging near High Island completed, and officials seeking ships and cargo to use the route. President C E Holland, founder 29 years ago, notes canal will be 100 feet wide bottom and ten feet deep, encouraging canal barges and providing a water link across the continent via Chicago and the Great Lakes.
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United Press
Houston
Tex
New Orleans
Intercoastal Canal Association
Ke, M. Markham
Coroua Christi
Mississippi
Rio Francie
High Island
E. Holland
Claria
Holland
Sioux City
Frankfort
Chicago
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
Horston
Bex
Old Ax Heads Found In Bronze Age Hoard
Ancient copper ax heads were found by volunteers in a field, believed to date to the Bronze Age. The discovery was uncovered during a salvage dig led by local historians near Stamaki, yielding several ceremonial tools and suggesting a ritual cache from a distant era.
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Avorlermen
City pushes sewer intake extension to finish job
City Engineer N R Dickson reports Uninterrupted work on the Fourth Ward sewer intake extension will run through August 8. Crews of 56 workers across two shifts push progress between Brook and Seneca streets, with Prospect Street nearing completion. The project, part of a broader relief program, aims to finish within a week with potential extra days for cleanup. The graveling drive stands out as the most extensive municipal program yet, improving street conditions at minimal cost.
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Dickson
Arller
Weet
Tony
Relief Works Division
Fourth Ward
City
N. R. Dickson
Brook
Seneca
Prospect Street
Union Street
Weather benefits seen from Jodnile tree belt
Readable text describes climatic changes from a tree belt across the 100th meridian. East of the line would gain more moderate weather and fewer dust storms. water run-off after rains would lessen, reducing erosion. The 100th meridian is cited as the agricultural divide, with wheat belt areas wetter and more tillable, while westward farming is limited without irrigation.
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Alrecht
Youth Die In Storm Near Sharon Pennsylvania
A July 31 storm in Mercer county killed Glenn Waugh, 13, who was buried under bricks after lightning struck a smoke stack. Chester Cole, 15, sustained two broken legs and possible internal injuries, while Robert Cole, 18, escaped with bruises. The high wind and lightning damaged crops and scattered wreckage across orchards, leaving debris and broken branches.
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United Press
Sharon
Iil
Mercer County
Glenn Waugh
Fadies
Chester Cole
Robert Cole
Simplicity 10 Mark Dressler Funeral Rites
Hollywood marks the passing of Marie Dressler with a simple service at Forest Lawn. Only close friends from film and studio circles will attend as a memorial poem, songs, and a eulogy honor the veteran star who died at 65 after stomach cancer. The industry stops at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as flags lower to half mast.
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Screen Star
United Press Hollywood
Marie Dressler
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Polite
Lon Chaney
Rudolph Valentinio
Fim
Jeannette MacDonald
Catherine Lewis
Metro~ Golanyi-Mayer
Hollywood
Water company acts to end reservoir bathing by youths
Corry Water Supply Company moves to curb trespass after several Fourth Ward youths used the south hill reservoir as a swimming hole. Seven more lads implicated. authorities plan to arraign them before Mayor Miller, strengthen the fence, and prosecute trespass to keep the water supply free of contamination.
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Corry Water Supply Company
Fourth Wardies
Record Wheat Yield Reached 112 Bushels on Parmelee Farm
George John son and William J. Baldwin of the Parmelee farm in Painesville raised a record 112 bushels of wheat from one and a half acres marking a yield well above this year’s average, according to Agricultural Department officials.
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Painesville
George Johnson
William J. Baldwin
Parmelee
Agricultural Department
Fragmented OCR notes on prison reform and committee roles
Fragmentary text outlines a governor, committees, and penitentaries. Mentions inmates, penal vision, prison divisions,East Rockview, Western State, and Cherry Hone listions with unclear dates and names.
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MOF United
Harrisbu
Stanley F
Western Stilburgh
Ponbert
Ph May
Wes John W
Western
Toy Penitentiany
East
Rookview Donke Sould
Gratertord
Ty Hil
Fragmentary note hints at a public event or speech
A garbled OCR passage mentions a show or procession with references to a governor and official intention. The readable bits suggest a national or regional event in a war context, with various places and roles unclear. Further details are unreadable.
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I, G. C. Frieute
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Greenville
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the Journal
Harvey Willis
Erie County
Erle Golnly Women's Christian Temperance Union
Glenwood Part
Erle
Louis T. McFadden
Herbert Hoover
McFadden
U. S
David A. Reed
Service Clubs
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H. B. Rowland
Hepler Motors
Franklin Street
Harry Powers
W. Smith Street
Cromwell Green
Hudson
Claudette Colbert
Corry Theatre
St. Joseph's Orphanage
St. ‘Thomas Church
A. E. Griswold
Cora G. Smith
Lotta Bonsteel
Caribbest
San Lua
Port Rico
Ate
South America
Corry Water Company
Glen Miller
Hiva Jeen
Miller
Erie Scribe Club
Middle West
Indiana State
Michi
Gan City
Kenneth Rogers
William C. Jay
Maurice O'Flaherty
Louis Cail
John Burnett
Runyan
P. G. A. Trophy
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Craig Wood
White Platna
N. Y
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Mississippi and
Rio Grande
Austria
Kurt Schaschnigg
Dolube
Phancellor
Austri
Schuschyige
Dollfusa
Dr. Schuechnigg
Vatican
Sketelind
Kurt Schuscheigg
Jodnile Tre
Mark Dressler
Washington
Water Company
M. Jay Green
Aince
Grea Miller
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