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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1938
Page
5
A damaged fragment references West Africa and an early trade context with mentions of Indies and numbers, indicating a fragmented historical note about distance in miles and country origins. The text lacks clear events or dates but suggests colonial era exchange themes.
Local notes report a Friday light snowfall and a regular Board of Education meeting set for Monday evening. Other items include auto production figures, tax filing reminders, and various community notices from Pine Grove Cemetery to local relief changes.
Pittsburgh officials unveil an Emergency Flood Plan to manage future Allegheny and Monongahela river floods. The plan designates district brain center at Federal Building and links Western Pennsylvania agencies for rapid warnings, mobilization, and coordinated relief with secondary hubs at Johnstown and Wheeling.
A specimen of glaurochs, an extinct wild ox and ancestor of European cattle, was exhibited at a Thames Conservancy Board meeting. The relic was found during dredging operations below Bustet Lock near Farinton Berkshire.
Will J Wilcox and committee named by Golden Rule Club announce the March sale of chiv members to repeat the 88 cent sale held in February. Ads will run in the Journal on Tuesday March 29 with copy collected the previous week by club secretary Howence Stewart.
Harrisburg March 12 379 open complaint cases before the Public Utility Commission include 126 against gas companies alleging excessive and unfair charges mainly in natural gas fields. Other filings target electric water taxi trucking railroad and streetcar services with issues of high rates inadequate service and dangerous crossings.
Contracts between American Airlines and the Erie Airport Corporation are being drawn for a Cleveland to New York service via Erie. Inauguration planned for April 1 with twice daily stops at 4 pm and 8 pm to connect with West and South routes. A chief pilot and field rep from American Airlines visited the Erie airport and approved the layout though some details await next week. Pitchers Chandler Wicker Beggs named Yankees’ choice for St. Louis exhibition opener in St. Petersburg.
An old advertisement proclaims Thompson's Barosma Compound Tablets relieve backache bladder troubles and kidney issues by cleansing toxins from the blood and preventing buildup. It urges readers to accept no substitutes and notes 5c price at drugstores, with Golden Lax Tablets also advertised.
In Erie the spring term of the United States district court will open March 21 at the county courthouse with sixteen criminal cases involving 20 defendants scheduled for trial. Two federal judges from Pittsburgh will preside, and more than 200 cases from western Pennsylvania will go before the grand jury. Several named defendants face counterfeiting, liquor, postal, and motor vehicle theft charges, with one alto involving postal law violations.
Investigators are probing alleged fraud in coal deliveries to Edinboro State Teachers College after weigh slips were raised from 500 to 1000 pounds on shipments. The cor is said to have been hauled by truck from Butler county. The length and duration of the practice remain unclear while the Department of Public Instruction conducts an inquiry.
Ridgway March 14 Henry lites 26 and Mrs Joseph Bures residents along the Milfoh Dollar highway are dead from stab wounds. Coroner J Cewht Hayes begins a sporihen investigation. The body was found by the father with the wound on the left side piercing the heart. Post mortem performed at Covbe funeral parlors. Coroner continues questioning household members. Bares born Freeport Pa February 18 1817 and had lived on a farm near St Marys for fifteen years.
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