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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1938
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR hints at a Dickinson named figure delivering a patriotic declaration. The readable words suggest emphasis on civic duty and national pride, with limited context on date, place, or full statements. Further text needed for complete article card.
Public schools will start a WPA cleanup on Friday June 20 as classrooms and buildings brace for the summer program. A Mercyhurst College alumna from Franklin earns a University of Pittsburgh PhD in botany. Marriage license apps filed in county court. Production plants at Meadville and Hornell will reopen after weeks closed. A July Chautauqua Assembly features Harry Hopkins as speaker. State authority reports $2.20 million in labor costs for 80 institutional projects. 44 percent to former relief recipients. Petroleum stocks shrink but crude output rises. Erie Railroad station gets a new paint job. Mike Conti of West's World's Wonder Shows arrives for city carnival under VFW. Warmer weather welcomed by farmers. crops expected to surge after weekend rains. College students head home for summer break.
Corry plans no observance for the 10th anniversary of the Constitution while the Pennsylvania Constitution Commemoration Committee highlights the Birthday of the Constitution. The piece recalls how New Hampshire's ratification at Concord and the rush to inform the states helped make the federal Union real. Virginia’s vote and the scheduling of messages to Poughkeepsie, New York, and Richmond are noted as pivotal in establishing the new order.
Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey shows schedule 2 and 8 p m today at Peach street showgrounds. Fatchers Day observed through Sunday June 19. John E Van Allaburg North East spent 212 dollars in campaign expenses for east county assembly nomination. Association of American Railroads reports May operating revenue 223,008,685 down 22.2 percent from May 1937 and 40.7 under May 1930. Carloadings week ending June 11 total 82,523 versus 118,584 year ago. Meadville attorney Adbert Thomas mentioned to supervise Dauphin county grand jury inquiry if started. Senators Clark and K atowdia named in Cory discussions.
The text notes that in Great Britain the use of charcoal declined toward the end of the sixteenth century as timber depleted. Government restrictions on timber cutting followed, and the wrought iron industry declined in price until the introduction of coal as a substitute.
Emmett A. Dean longtime Corry resident and former Moore Keppel secretarial employee died Tuesday evening in Flantore West Virginia. A Corry High School graduate, class of 1879, he left Corry about 30 years ago and lived in West Virginia. Survived by his wife of Corry and son Carl Dean of Albany New York. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
Prayer services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Bracken-Keating funeral chapel for infant Richard LeRoy Foster six weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Walter Foster of Corry Road who died Sunday night Rev G J Chrimes of the Christian Missionary and Alliance church officiated Interment was in the family lot at Rose Hill Cemetery Spartansburg A number of relatives friends and neighbors from Spring Creek and surrounding vicinity attended the services
The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor plans to form political action committees in nearly every election district to direct the union's influence in the gubernatorial campaign. Its executive council met to consider endorsements for statewide offices in November but postponed decisions for 16 weeks. President James L. McDevitt said endorsements will be based on party policy and other affiliations.
The Federal Writers Project under Paul Comly French prepares a booklet titled Pennsylvanians Swedish Heritage honoring Crown Prince Gustav Adal and Princess Louise of Sweden. It covers Swedish settlement along the lower Delaware and Colonel Printz’s era, highlighting liberty and equality rather than dry events. A sandstone schoolhouse near Route 22 between Lancaster and Quarryville marks 120 years of service to Lancaster County students.
Representative Alphonse Roy of New Hampshire finally took his seat in Congress after the House unseated Republican Arthur B. Jenks amid a contested election claiming 34 ballots lost. Roy received 14160 dollars in back pay for the delay.
Frank Malanowski aged 69 collapsed and died of a heart attack while unloading flour from a truck in Base Pennsylvania on June 15, half an hour after starting work as a helper. The incident occurred at the loading area and authorities were notified.
The Singing Tower in Lake Wales Florida presents the largest carillon in the world with 71 bells given to the American people by Edward William Bok and stands as a notable Florida landmark.
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