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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1926
Page
3
Publisher Arthur Calegrove of Corry Pennsylvania is reported to be bound as second class mail matter at the local post office. The notice lists mailing and advertising rates including 5500 per year by mail and three cents per copy by carrier with fifteen cents per week. Advertising rates are said to be made available upon application.
An Emporia Gazette editorial reprints William Aten White arguing against criminalizing blasphemy, calling the Massachusetts trial absurd and asserting religious freedom. It compares penalties for atheism to treason, defends minority views, and questions state interference in faith. The piece defends separation of church and state and the constitutional right to express differing beliefs.
A university criticizes the push for universal college education, arguing many students lack the capacity to profit and may be harmed by expensive tastes. The piece urges a true democratic ideal: valuing skilled trades as highly as white collar roles and ensuring mental training without class bias or forced academic pressure.
The Journal Files from March 6 1906 report W 1 and Dell Darling of Corry plan to buy the Mansion Mouse in the city with no money exchanged yet and likely completion within days. Frederick J West of New York City sent a $10 10 check to fund cash prizes for high school essays. In venue news the All Stars beat Company A 21 to 15 in a Welterweight city championship at Gaston’s Mall. A concert at the Baptist church cleared over 475 with Desie teat George St Thomas Ruth Tope and others performing alongside a band quintette. The Presbyterian annual meeting showed church finances sound. Robert Egerlein and W T Dawson reelected trustees. R G Lindsley and Dr P G Won reelected elders.
A Webster cartoon frames a lone reader on a sofa amid plain snacks as a critique of modern entertainment. It argues people chase every labeled activity and proposes community silent nights on radio with no events to reclaim low key, guilt free evenings.
A former Titusville figure, Axel Higles, now in Crawford County, heads Tidewater Associated Oil Company created by merging major Tidewater oil firms. The consolidation, with assets over 240 million dollars, aims at coast to continent exploration and export, with Robert McKelvey also taking a leadership role. The new group plans nationwide and international expansion, uniting production, transport, refining, and marketing under one organization.
A new American singer joined the Metropolitan Opera cast for the season’s third performance of Andrea Chénier. Dorothy tors the part of a sixty year old woman drew ovations after brief solo work. Trances Peralta, Monjasnina Gigli, and Giuseppe de Inca led learning parts and allowed the young contralto to take no curtain calls alone.
Prohibition party leaders of Brie and Crawford counties meet at Cambridge Springs to endorse Rev Kirschner of Meadville for Congress. Delegates from Erie and Crawford regions attend as 5,000 to 6,000 party adherents assemble to back one candidate. County officials and party figures, including Commissioner Davis, participate in the decision.
A blaze on Walsh street near Kinzua avenue damaged a Kane residence owned by Dye Toh Me Swangon. An employee of Satsura Sills Co aided by others kept the flames from spreading to the upper story, but inner walls between Ritchey and Wath were weakened. Firemen battled the fire for nearly an hour, with water streaming from vents and mercury strife noted.
Radio schedule lists WEAF with twelve stations at 7 15 PM pieced by Josef Hofmann solo then Day. WGN Chicago 3 PM concert. WEAF New York 430 PM piano and North Carolina Glee Club. WLIO Des Moines 7 30 PM Central WHO Solon at New York 10 YM. Musto Opera.
In Hollywood California Mar a publisher and his bride to be are entangled in a civil suit. Eugene Brewster sues for two hundred dollars claiming misdealings while Brewster claims his fiancée Worldliss is not breaking an engagement and plans to stay in Hollywood.
Two men identified as Kilwa Mrump of Lorain and Courtney of Avon were killed when a freight train wreck on a curve two miles west of Lorain caused their car to overturn and ignite. Debris burned as investigators led by Coroner Myles Perry examined the scene. a train culvert, and the wreckage hampered rescue efforts.
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