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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1931
Page
3
The Corry Evening Journal discusses American newspaper advertising as a key business medium. It cites Bradley W. Trent confirming ad peaks in 1929 and a December 1930 valley, with a rebound starting January. Advertising and business grow together, shaping thinking and enabling timely buying, production, wages, and profits.
The piece argues unemployment stems from idle capital and that industrial profits continually require reinvestment. It calls for a policy shift to balance production with purchasing power, proposing higher wages, efficiency gains, and lower profits to stabilize the economy. It notes some capitalists resist, labeling the plan socialist, yet suggests they may accept steadier, smaller profits over booms and busts.
The article traces the streamline concept across transport modes from airplanes to locomotives, noting speed's role in efficiency. It cites nature, claiming birds and fishes mastered wind and water resistance long ago, while humans lagged, and even proclaims women as better streamlined.
The phrase vic major denotes an unavoidable accident caused by natural forces, one that could not have been prevented by care or effort. It describes events resulting from nature’s operation rather than human action.
A Washington meeting of Democrats exposed sharp factional splits among regulars progressives and others. The piece notes the regulars seek resumes power while progressives cling to unrealized ideals, with Henry Ford era parallels and a sense of intraparty turbulence at the conference.
A roundup of brief notes from twenty years ago including a rail death mystery near Bear Lake as police seek the man who died after a fall from an Erie Railroad train. Miss Minnie Linendell injures her arm on an icy Concord street. Thomas Brooks Fletcher heads west. D Warren DeRosay wins brick contract for a Polish Catholic college. A blizzard slows business to mostly snow shoveling. Ye silent being built on West Wayne street. Military officers from the 16th regiment seek assignment in Texas. Sheffield High School Hoyle plans a Friday night home game. G H Barlow and C P Rogers Jr with Walter DeJean relocate to work in a barber shop. E Lowry Humes returns from Harrisburg en route home.
Daily guide notes common word errors and pronunciation. It highlights misused terms like do not so and reproof versus reprove. The lesson emphasizes vocabulary growth and features today’s word predilection defined as a prior liking or partiality with an example about baseball.
The responses list the ounce value of pure gold as 20.67183, designate President Hoover as Commander-in-Chief of the U S Navy, pose a hypothetical with Mt Everest at the ocean depth, claim the serratus magnus as the largest muscle of the back, and identify Maine as the state bordered by a single neighbor.
Gene Walker aged 40 a longtime Eldred resident died suddenly on the Newton Hill road while carrying two pails of water from a neighbor to his home. Coroner Rd Lowrey ruled death from heart attack superinduced by over exertion. Snow 2 to 3 feet deep. Walker lived alone and collapsed en route with neighbors present. Survived by children including Mrs Charles Drake Corry and Mrs Ettel Wagner Westfield NY. Body removed to Hall after taking rooms at Youngsville. funeral plans not complete.
Miss Mary Anderson a Concord street teacher fell Sunday while leaving a friend’s home ice coated steps from dripping eaves caused her to slip on the upper step. Dr Smith cared for her injury and her ankle is casted. She will be disabled for a time while recovering.
Mar 16 sack Planto aged 50 and Chais Norton aged 35 emptied a nickel and dime store of about five dollars in mementos. A floor walker alerted police. detectives arrested the pair and larceny charges were filed before Alderman Barber. They were remanded to the city jail pending hearing.
United Press book editor H Allen Smith surveys new works from Herman B. Deutsch Theodore Pligier Leane Zugsmith Leane Zugsmith Leane Zugsmith Charles Hanson Towne and Robert Nathan. Titles include The Incredible Yanqui Goodbye and Tomorrow The Kaisers Coolies New York of Mine and The Journal of Babie Merrit.
A reader asks for a father's weight given a minute child is four times lighter. The weight difference between them is 120 pounds and with a stated hint 13 the father’s weight is 4805. The solution notes subtract 1265 from 8347, divide 7082 by 2, and then add 3041 and 1260 to reach the figures.
President Hoover is set to visit the West Indies estates and government buildings, with brief stopovers in each location. The Virgin Islands, purchased from Denmark in 1917, cover 733 square miles with about 20,000 residents, many of whom have moved to New York City, and the visit will contrast old colonial landmarks with slave-era structures and native huts.
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