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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1935
Page
4
The Swedish government and people celebrate five centuries of parliamentary governance. A limited monarch heads a nation praised for wartime restraint, stable currency, and falling unemployment. Sweden’s cautious, peaceful status draws global attention as the 500 year milestone approaches.
The article compares British MPs pay and workload with US Congressmen. It notes UK MPs work seven months a year, long hours, with some nights in session, earning 400 pounds annually about $2,000, while American representatives earn about $10,000 yearly. It raises the question whether MPs pay is fair and asks what Congressmen deserve.
The article quotes a commencement speaker predicting rising prospects for Wie New Toric School of Retailing graduates. It foresees graduates entering a hectic first decade then a private era, with an improving world allowing educated youths to find a place. Columbia graduates already have jobs, and youth are deemed fortunate despite uncertainties.
The piece reflects on Viscount Byng the World War era and his public offices. It notes his roles as governor general of Canada and later head of Scotland Yard in London. It discusses the dignity and duty of public service for a young person pursuing a career in public life.
United Press report explains a Public Works Administration map celebrating its second anniversary. It features drawings of projects from states including Rhode Island and Louisiana with captions like Protect ia Atlantic beach and Water For thirsty San Francisco. Secretaries and senators comment on regional pride and jokes about the “4% states.”
Hollywood Calif June 12 Harold Lloyd, once paid 80 dollars a day and later 3 as a film extra, became a $100,000 a picture star and an independent producer. He teamed with Hal Roach, acted in J Warren Kerrigan films, and created the now famous horn rimmed glasses. His next project The Milky Way will be produced independently after this Paramount effort.
A dated forecast column discusses favorable signs for those born late in the year and advises健康 tips. It predicts varied influences in the afternoon, urges rest and health, and notes potential financial success in March 1936 if extravagance is avoided. It mentions alliance from December 1939 and references a larger front fire incident.
A 1918 Journal Files item recalls a closet fire at the Chase block in North Center street with small losses. It lists a large slate of committee appointees by President J Walter Clough for the Board of Commerce and Industry and notes a serious runaway accident on Northwest street injuring a delivery driver Lester Kepler. Additional notes mention a June 11 birth in Horn and social visits involving Miss Mary Wilcox and Mr. Dietch family events and a brief remark about Charles Wey spending a week in Bathalg.
Observations show bar patrons in New York are increasingly slender, with reports noting that beer lovers among lighter-framed crowds persist, while some drinkers appear more frugal with portions.
Japanese reinforcements in full fighting gear with field pieces and horses arrived in Tientsin and marched into the French concession amid an atmosphere of martial readiness. Evacuating Chinese troops moved south as a city corps of geisha girls served drinks. French authorities permitted 700 troops to pass through the concession, with observers estimating about 1500 in total.
Paris notes a Worth summer collection featuring patent leather belts silk tassels and flowered capes. An evening gown in bright state with a bold purple taffeta sash is paired with a scarlet cape and asters in the hair. Flowers figure prominently across gowns prints and touches like garlands and hair corsages.
Anthony Gigeorge, 55, died from a fall of five feet when a porch railing broke during a wedding celebration in Strubhnville, Falls.
The John Brown Memorial Association plans a bronze tablet on a boulder at the John Brown Tannery ruins in New Richmond. The August 4 ceremony will mark the defent e of the memorial at its annual meeting. The design by Pruni Penfold Brown, a Wollinboro freshman and great grandson of Frank Penfold, was chosen by a computer in a competition judged by association members and local officials.
Harrisburg June 12 Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti announces the appointment of Frank P. Martin and Percival H. Granger, both of Philadelphia, as attorneys for the liquidation division of the state insurance department. Granger had been named to the state-wide committee on constitutional revision and Martin is a Pittsburgh Law School graduate active in Philadelphia and Allegheny county bars.
Gov George Warle received a bill repealing the industrial police act for signature. Sponsor Rep Frank A. Coolshaw of Allegheny reports Senate approval was unanimous as part of the governor’s labor and social security program. The measure aims to roll back industrial police powers amid ongoing Democratic campaigning.
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