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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1930
Page
3
Studebaker vice president Paul G. Hoffman argues the simple disease is cautious spending and that most salaries stay stable. He says salesmen are hit, savings rise, and production slows until auto buyers return. He urges auto industry leaders to start a spending surge by May or June to revive business.
AL Smith urges bankers to use simple language instead of financial jargon so the public can understand. He cites examples like unencumbered balances and equity in securities and argues the business world speaks its own dialect that should be translated for ordinary citizens.
The piece questions U.S. hesitation to involve itself in European affairs yet willingness to intervene in Latin America. It argues for broader regional involvement, noting larger republics could assist smaller ones like Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic in stabilizing governments and protecting citizens. It sees the Pan American Union as the proper mechanism for this effort.
The item recalls a recent drama at Library Theatre with a medium audience and notes the death of Albert Neckers Sr. Clymer. It mentions the C W Society gathering at W N Jones home Marion street and the Connell Lake Ice Company closing season with 20000 tons stored. Pages describe spring approaching, a small grocery fire alarm at Nantes, Ohio Steel Company affairs, and riders heading to Colorado for homesteads. Floods sweep Meadville due to French Creek ice gorge. Erie agent T R Patton from Oil City visits for business.
Daily lessons in English by W L Gordon teach proper usage mispronunciations and spelling. The page defines intolerance as lack of endurance for others opinions and notes religious intolerance giving way to fellowship and cooperation among communities.
The Times questions Pennsylvania state control over municipal finances and projects. It cites repeated state mandates on sewer plants, bonds, and funding as hampering local autonomy in Erie and other third class cities. It notes hospital funding pressures in Corry and rising Harrisburg involvement across departments and commissions.
A freight train starts 2 hours ahead traveling 30 mph while a passenger train travels 40 mph on a parallel track. The passenger closes the 60 mile gap at 10 mph, so it takes 6 hours for the passenger to overtake the freight.
The test lists five items with answers: 1 A unit of power equal to 88 000 pounds per foot per minute. 2 Cairo Egypt. 3 Connecticut. 4 Cabbage and Kings. 5 Alexander the Great.
Police say James Johnson 25 struck Charles Simith about 40 with a pop bottle in Meadville. Simith was hospitalized at Spencer Hospital with painful but not serious injuries.
City council selects J. J. Mulheirn for the police vacancy after Glyd Service Commission tests. American Legion pushes universal draft with remarks by L. Bodenhamer. Gasoline taxes cited for 1929 by American Motorists association. London conference debates U S roles and League of Nations. Corry Credit Exchange readies a Wednesday gathering led by president Worth Hammond.
A review discusses Philip Wylie's Gladiator with its tale of a hero of extraordinary strength and moral burden. It contrasts Allan Updegraff and Gerald Enthoven in Native Soil and Springfield It, noting Springfield's modernity and its comic caricatured residents alongside a broader glance at wartime and Remarque era war books.
United Press lists top fiction and general titles with authors and publishers. Notable works include Down in the Valley by St W Freeman, While the Patient Slept by M G Eberhart, The Rise of American Civilization by Charles A and Mary Bearded, and Contract Bridge For All by Milton Work.
An Anglican volunteer chaplain in the English army is portrayed as sincere yet inadequate under the 1918 British Fifth Army retreat. The piece frames his failed service amid war’s brutal realities, delivering a stark, gripping account of collapse and its emotional toll.
A fragment mentions Richardson Wright and a humorous notion of someone craving a mat ter with sideburns. It hints at an ongoing discussion about scholars turning to popular writing and references a continuation on an interior page.
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