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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1931
Page
5
A short note on fashion and suffrage history traces how dress and attire intersect with women’s rights. It mentions American Magazine and United States suffrage work linked to early conventions in Ben YS and 1548.
Personal mentions list residents and visitors from Erie as they travel to Andover to New Kensington and to Bristol Conn for weddings and family gatherings. Several locals depart for Indianapolis, St Marys and Cleveland while others return from visits to Cambridge Springs Johnstown and Harrisburg. Additional notes cover school trips, hospital visits and a mayor’s funeral aftermath.
United Press reports that on June 16 in Harrisburg the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania asked Dauphin County Court to grant injunctions against nine railroads to restrain them from implementing higher and allegedly inequitable freight rates after July 1. The suit names Central Railroad of New Jersey. Erie Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad. Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Reading Railroad. Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad. New York Central. and Wilkes Barre and Haven...
Irregular list of stock quotations from the New York Stock Exchange includes Oz City figures Lloyd Bracken and others. Names such as Anaconda Continental Motors General Motors Studebaker and Westinghouse appear among utilities and oil firms with scattered figures and symbols.
A rear car of a New Haven commuter train collided with an open switch at Woollawn station in the Bronx, derailed across tracks, and crashed into a standing train. Police reported about 20 injured, no fatalities, with several ambulances and rescue teams on site.
Five workers perished in a June Philadelphia cave in blamed on avoidable negligence. An investigation by engineers and safety officials cited potential causes, with a grand jury probe requested by the court, while Mayor Markey noted safety concerns at the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building site.
A clash between fundamentalist and liberal elements of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia opened with the trial of Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse on charges of slandering fellow clergymen. The Philadelphia presbytery faced dismissal as the synod overruled it and ordered a new trial, but the judicial commission failed to agree with the prosecutor and the case was deferred back to the synod.
Fear of a repeat of 1929 bloodshed spurs Deputy Warden Best to overhaul security at Canon City prison. Eleven convicts have escaped in a week, with guards reduced and unrest spreading. Best plans rapid reorganization, tighter patrols, and pluging weak spots to avert further escapes and violence.
The Board of Education met in special session Monday afternoon to further consider settlement by Frank S. Westley for the 1920 tax duplicate. The Hammond Elevator Company was awarded the coal contract for Corry School District after a property committee report on proposals from the last regular meeting.
Lancaster, June 15 two railroad freight workers were killed and a third injured when a Pennsylvania freight train wrecked in a washout on the low grade line near Columbia. The engineer Cantwell and fireman Heyden died. Conductor Dailey suffered a fractured arm and severe lacerations and was taken to Safe Harbor then to the hospital. The wreck happened in Man's Run, six miles south of Columbia.
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