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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1931
Page
3
A small town high school graduation program centers on reading education with student speeches on The Value of the Press Rewards of Residing What Shall We Read and Reading Habits. An outside author and book critic warns against second hand life and urges reading that lifts imagination and ambition.
The Annalist weekly index shows wholesale prices for the first week of the month at 100.4 on 1913 base. The drop may yet show in retail prices, signaling a return to prewar levels though living costs remain uneven. Creditors gain as dollars buy more, debtors lose as repayments gain purchasing power. a stable dollar value is urged to ease this injustice.
The autogiro inventor Juan de la Cierya claims the windmill plane will be easy to operate, inherently safe, and adaptable to various landing conditions. He argues it could broaden air travel for business, pleasure, and sport and may hasten private ownership by families.
Twenty years ago Corry residents awaited Billy Sunday via Pennsylvania Railroad special. New Corry baseball captain Charles Keating led a practice. Sunday’s storm impacted areas east of Columbus with crop damage. Sam Jacobson & Co. completed improvements in men and boys outfitting. Foundation work on a new building progressed. A town social hosted by Mrs. C. H. Wallace on Concord Street. John Beatty graduates from West Point today. Pennsylvania passenger train No 54 delayed 25 minutes to load 900 crates of eggs for Philadelphia from Sherman and Clymer, N.Y. Mrs. W Meserve Young and daughters planned a Pittsburgh visit.
A compact English lesson notes misused words and common mispronunciations. It highlights retract as today’s word meaning to withdraw with an example sentence and guidance on proper usage.
The Woodman Circle Memorial services, postponed last Sunday due to bad weather, will be held Sunday June 11. All who have cars and flowers are asked to furnish them. Meet at the park at 9:30 a.m. to march to the cemetery as a group.
In Dunkirk on June 18 Mrs Harr iett Church aged 86 and her mother Mrs Villette Perkins aged 70 were badly burned when gasoline in a five gallon vat ignited from a spark from an electric washing machine. Neighbors pulled them from the cellar and fire crews extinguished the blaze. Both were taken to Brooks Memorial Hospital with severe burns. Mrs Church is in critical condition though still alive, while her mother faces a hopeful recovery barring complications.
A math teaser computes shadow heights with similar triangles. With a 10 foot pole and 12 feet to a wall casting a 5 foot shadow, the question asks the shadow height if the pole were 16 feet tall. The remainder of the text mixes unrelated numeric fragments and an unrelated monetary answer.
Fret Olson, eight, reports he killed his wife with a baseball bat at their rural Blockville home. Olson wandered for hours before being found in a swamp a mile from his house and taken to Mayville county jail. He gave no motive beyond an argument with his wife, Anna Olson. Officials documented the scene with photos and measurements.
Jobin Epton a 24 year old Harvard medical school graduate and Cleveland hospital intern was beaten robbed and bound by three men who gave him a ride and drove to an abandoned house near West Lake road in Painesville Ohio He identified one suspect as Blumenthal who was later arrested after reporting to police in Painesville that he had been robbed and hurled from a car by two men The attack occurred after the trio offered a ride and took Epton beyond the Pennsylvania New York line out of Erie Ohio State Police pursued the assailants as the injured doctor survived to recount the ordeal
Bravnunw Pa June 13 Detective J J Allison said Tony Maccio wounded Friday identified Antonio Demaco alias Tony Lorenzo as the man who fired. Maccio wounded twice in the back was glad bullets did not strike Whitchle. Demaco, a baker, was arrested at Weedville Ell County after being sought since the killing. He was brought from the McKean County jail by Allison on Dr S A McCutcheon suggestion. Ritchie, former investigator and road house proprietor, was shot with Maccio on River street as women sat in an automobile. Epton, a young interne, heads back to Cleveland where he says he is an intern.
Funeral rites for the late mayor drew a large turnout as officials and residents called at the home and attended services. Attendees included Judge Henry A. Clark. Rev. James Hopkins. Gov. George Blood. Postmaster Charles Poutee. and many named locals from cities like Cincinnati, Jamestown, and Meadville. The interment followed hours of mourning with the community paying respects across the gray day.
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