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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
3
A Carnegie Foundation study shows adults learn faster than children, with grown ups gaining in 100 hours what children take 10000 hours. Night schools, night high schools, and night colleges flourish, including Cleveland College with over 7000 adult students in its fourth year.
A New York proposal forms Autg ust Belmont and Company with Pomeroy and Salmond to unite 50 or more Pennsylvania banks and extend to other states. The plan envisions a national banking chain, sparking worry for independent local banks and raising questions about the flow of local money to New York versus funds reaching communities.
A jumble of quiz items and faded notes lists several trivia questions and partial answers. Topics mention Tennyson's longest poem, spider eye counts, a term for power of attorney, and a question about coin production by state, along with stray phrases about a naval rank and salt scarcity in water.
A man drives a motor boat 7 miles downstream in 28 minutes, then rests 6 minutes, and returns to the start 1 14 hours later. Find stream speed and boat speed in still water. The answer to yesterday’s problem is 4.24 inches. Explanation involves arithmetic steps dividing 96 by 16, multiplying by 3, then square rooting.
A compact reading notes common word usage errors and mispronunciations. It highlights phrases to avoid such as the falseness of figures and suggests corrected forms like the falsity. The piece includes guidance on spelling per annum and promotes vocabulary growth by mastering one word daily with an incredulous example.
Announcement that funeral services for Miss Jeanie M. Patterson who died Tuesday evening will be held Friday at 3:00 PM from her Parke Place home. Interment in Pine Grove cemetery with Rev. L. D. Utts officiating. She was nearly 80, born in Sugar Grove, longtime Corry resident and parishioner of Hmmaguel Episcopal church.
In Clearfield, a wide search was launched for Vernon Nicholas of Columbus after he attempted to ram Sergeant F J Crimi of the state highway patrol, causing a crash that damaged both machines. Two companions, Robert Sills and John Daniels, were arrested for questioning as Crimi was injured lightly.
United Press reports five men led a $1,000,000 counterfeit ring linked to a New York discovery. John Hitonti, Brank Totco, Phillip Beller, Dominick Costada, and Frank Caramoni were detained after agents bought $1,500 in fake bills in a sting that spanned New York to Detroit. Salamoni, under custody for questioning in a police killing, was among those connected.
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