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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
4
The Evening Journal lists advertising rates and mailing details. It notes the publisher A D Colegrove and representatives in New York and Chicago, with post office second class mail matter and annual subscription prices.
The article describes country style apartments near Times Square offering suburban open air living within a 15 minute subway ride. It highlights landscaped grounds, courtyard gardens, and convenient access to churches schools shopping parks and beaches.
Stewart reports railroad men fear postwar aviation expansion. Hinckley argues production can rise quickly and pilots trained for 50,000 annual crews. Railroads worry higher aviation will cut their passenger, mail, and freight business while army and navy envy grows.
A reader prompts seven trivia items from a classified page quiz including questions on pronunciation syllables, geography, history, and national symbols. It mentions answers to be found on the classified page and notes a common error about phrasing.
Radio listings preview tonight and tomorrow with CBS NBC and CBC programs. Mentions Ted Husing reporting from the Canadian Open, Musical Americana, Ask It Basket, Good News of 1840, Toronto Symphony with Rudy Vallee, Craft iMusic Hall, Dorothy Thompson speech at 8 20 p m DST on NBC Blue. Mercedes McCambridge discusses changing costumes between performances. Midstream on NBC Red weekdays at 10 15 a m EDST. Describes Musical Americana segments and selections, Rudy Vallee’s program, Toronto Promenade Symphony Orchestra, Bing Crosby guest stars, and World’s Fair special broadcast tomorrow featuring scientists.
The piece from the Medical Society of Pennsylvania outlines air water sleep and food as four essentials to life. It explains humans cannot live long without these functions and notes estimates of survival times without air or water and food.
A 13 year old from Joplin Missouri named Betty Brewer wins a screen test for the lead opposite Fred MacMurray in Paramounts Rangers of Fortune. Director Sam Wood praises her natural acting and says training would dull the heart of her performance. Betty supports her ill grandfather and large family on her future film income.
A concise note lists four essentials for life in proper proportions sustaining the body's even tenor.
A brief look at legislative steps from bill drafting to committee referral notes a costly coin project and a missing Gibraltar garrison. It references Quito as an ancient capital, a Cleveland astrologers meeting on Hitler, and tragic measles data from 1840. It also mentions Bermuda’s light blooming cereus, a single bloom flower.
At a meeting the lodge and several organizations including the Veterans of Foreign Wars Rotary Club Kiwanis Club and others discussed purchasing an iron lung. Representatives noted uncertainty about continued funding at the same level and agreed to report back next week to gauge maximum backing and to seek additional contributions.
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