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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1951
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Moore School related fire events and responders. Names and concrete details are unreadable, but reference to a fire, a stove, and responders imply a small incident at a school site. Further readable elements are insufficient to determine location or outcome.
Two Ohio men arrested in Cambridge confess robbery of the Girard American Legion Post safe last November. County Detective Jatin Coates said Belt and Stempfel named six other men, tying them to an interstate safe cracking gang with activity across New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A third suspect from Painesville remains at large. the eight-man group allegedly committed multiple robberies including in western Pennsylvania.
An old advertisement touts HADACOL as relief for aches and pains caused by deficiencies of vitamins B1 B2 Niacin and iron. It cites Mrs Lydia Pfeifer of Detroit Michigan praising the product after using three small bottles and a large bottle and states HADACOL helps build hemoglobin and delivers vitamins to the body.
Spring Creek reports show Mr. and Mrs. D. H. McKay of Sheffield as guests of the McKays in town. Various weekend visits include Jimmy Crane of Corry with grandparents the Cranes, and Harry Merz Jr. and sons from Pittsburgh with the Gotins. Corry visitors, hospital recoveries, and local movements fill the week with neighbors visiting relatives and moving households.
The long trial and execution of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez unfold as they are electrocuted for the 198? murder of Janet Pay, a widow from Albany, who was slain in her Valley Stream apartment after Pay grew suspicious and asked Fernandes to prove his love. The pair had enticed Pay after she entrusted $5,900 of her savings to them through a Lonely Hearts club scheme.
Mrs Dororthy Mae Stevens survived a record low 64 degrees after being found in a South Side alley on February 8. Doctors at Michael Reese Hospital performed an amputation below the knees as a life saving measure due to extensive muscle damage, with possible further finger removals to follow.
News notes from Beaverdam report World Mission Day at the Wayne Valley EDB Church with a special offering for Miss Dorothy Miner RN serving in Nigeria North Africa. Also mentions a Sunday film event and various local visits and gatherings including the WSWS meeting and officer elections.
A fragmentary social roundup lists residents and visitors in Kent and nearby towns. Names include William Fwvitt, Mrs. Ivan Millet, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mulvyn, Mrs. J Leon Maneval, Harold Tien, and several others visiting at homes and attending gatherings over the past days and Sunday evenings.
A garbled passage records a family visit pattern with names such as Mr and Mrs Claude Mayor Mrs Ray Brown Sparhansbore and Mrs George Mulvin along with Mr and Mrs Davis Doolittle Waterford. It also mentions Mr and Mrs Gary Proctor Erie visiting Mr and Mrs Walter Proctor on Sunday with afternoon and evening guests.
Actress Jeanne Cagney was granted a divorce from Rast Latimer, a film photographer, in Burbank California accusing extreme mental cruelty. The divorce followed three reconciliation attempts after their New York marriage, separated last November amid a change in their family life.
Erie news notes renewed efforts to fund the Amos Judson house on Main Street Waterford for restoration. An open house reception is set for Saturday at 2:30 pm at the Waterford Museum hosted by the Evie Chapter of the Daughters of American Colonists with state officials expected including Donald Lent and Sen. Arthur Blass and Assemblyman A. Key figures discuss past grants and a 19,000 state allocation for a land purchase. The project aims to return the historic structure near Fort LeBoeuf to its 1090 era condition.
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