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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1938
Page
3
A collage of brief items: 1937 retail sales up 5.2 percent over 1946 with high totals. unemployment and welfare payments reported. tax deadlines, voter registration drives, and local notices from Corry and Erie. Also mentions weather patterns, road and rail activity, and a Harvard president speech.
Harrisburg urges careful trimming of roadside trees to protect wires and maintain form. Forestry unit cites scarred branches and deadwood, warns against excessive removal, and notes cooperation with owners beyond rights of way. Abilene chamber opens new $200000 office with museum and lounge facilities.
A immigrant recalls severe illness after mine work and catarrh. He credits World's Tonic with restoring health, enabling steady work and sending for his wife and newborn. He notes he had no money to bring family earlier and praises the tonic's global remedies.
Clyde Miller, a 37 year old printer, is lashed 20 times at the Baltimore city jail as punishment for beating his wife. Sheriff Joseph Deegan oversees the flogging while Mrs. Miller, bruised, tries to attend but is refused admission. Miller receives a six month sentence after the brutal punishment, described as the first of its kind in seven years.
Girl Scout Troop No 4 entertained mothers at a Mothers and Daughters banquet at the Lutheran church. A dinner featured St Patrick’s Day decor and a varied program with readings, solos, trios, group singing, and a local Erie County director’s talk on scout activities and a summer camp at Beinboro Lake. Movies from Alaska were shown to conclude the evening.
Corry Chapter of the American Red Cross sponsors a showing of Anna Upjohn paintings depicting children in European scenes at Junius High School Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock. The exhibit aims to foster closer relations among Junior Red Cross groups worldwide. Children in grades three through six will attend. Marjorie Chatham of the Brie chapter will speak briefly on each painting. adults are urged to attend.
The article reports that school officials plan to arrest parents of striking students to enforce attendance and tenures. Informations were due this afternoon with hearings before a justice of the peace tonight as parents preferred jail to sending their children to class.
Announcement of a civil service examination for a rural carrier vacancy to be held Saturday at Sealy High School. Details appear garbled. likely includes reporting time and contact information for applicants.
Jamestown March 2 The City of Jamestown steamer long serving Lake Chautauqua for over fifty years will not be junked. Owner Richard P Helmany of Charleroi Pa offered it for sale or lease after a civic drive to save it failed. Chamber committee will pursue navigation facility improvements while others discuss taking over the vessel.
Six young men aged 20 to 29 were taken into custody after an assault on Donald Burfield of Stump Creek. William Logan 20 Fayl Smith 21 Baward Aisin 29 James O'Brien 3 Joseph Barlesquieh 20 Dominic Gknnis 20 were charged with assault and robbery after belting Burfield and stealing his pocketbook containing twenty dollars. Police learned of the incident near Spruce Alley and West Long Avenue and arrested the group in the tower section.
Mrs Bertha Weber invited friends to dine at Reiewoil Estates and use a new $180 stove. Thieves arrived earlier, and the stove had been used by them before the guests could eat.
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