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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1947
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions poisons and urinary issues with unclear context. No coherent names, places, or events to anchor a factual summary.
A wide Erie County report covers divorce outcomes, a license sale record, real estate transfers, and local court actions. It notes nine adultery cases, a marriage license for Smedley Curtis couple, and arrests of Meadville proprietors for liquor violations. Also details bids on Highway Route 18 work, Boy Scout encampment planning, a perjury case, and state-legislature expense allowances.
Pete Williams leaped from a second-story Alderman Martin Newell office window but was saved from death by two constables who grabbed him by the heels. Selbert Eldon Williams landed amid plate glass after Newell ordered him held for court on radio theft. Police guard placed at Allegheny General Hospital. Williams weak from blood loss with tendons severed in hands and arms.
On June 14, 35 general handling firms agreed with Local 249, AFL Teamsters Union to a wage contract offering a 20 cent hourly raise, totaling 1.744 cents across the board with a 2 cent holiday premium. The settlement relates to an 18 day freight truck strike near Pittsburgh. Mr Foster is noted as working at Meerdink's Furniture Store this summer.
Erie June 18 C H McKeel 70 of Pitman Road North East suffered fatal injuries when he fell from a roof scaffold into a cellar excavation two miles east of North Bar Route 5. Deputy Coroner Kenneth Kelly said the death appeared from a broken neck. two co workers aided the attempt to transport him before he died en route to Dr Gordon Massey’s office.
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