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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1947
Page
4
The Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania warns bicycles pose high fatality risk with over 1,000 deaths expected this year from auto bicycle collisions. It notes youths age 15 to 19 ride fastest, perform stunts, and may dart into traffic. Emphasis on safe riding, lights, brakes, and road awareness to make bicycling healthful and fun.
Twenty years ago notes on rail service changes in Allegheny and Re novo divisions, Erle expansion plans, and Corry’s spring mood with geese overhead. Boy Scout reorganization progress and Corry High basketball upset at Junior High. Harp recital by Katherine Florence Desmond at Villa Maria Academy Erie. Woman's Club enjoyed Prof Davis Edwards play The Poor Nut at Hotel Corry.
A traffic crash eight miles east of Erie on Route 5 left a new $200 house trailer wrecked and two trucks damaged. Pvt Vitto Reck said no injuries occurred. Charles W Holland of St Johns Mich drove the pickup towing the trailer, followed by Gene A Liggett of Beltsville, Ohio in a tractor-trailer. Holland slowed for road warnings. Liggett attempted to pass and the units collided, ran off the road, and the trailer toppled, railing and fell down a 20 foot bank. Estimated damages were 600 to the Liggett tractor, 400 to the pickup, and the house trailer a total loss.
Chautauqua residents mourn the death in Chicago Lyell Hospital of Mrs. Ralph McCallister, 37, wife of the director of programs at Chautauqua Institution, following the birth of their third child. The loss comes after the death last year of Mrs. AutarL, a member of the Chautauqua Symphony, and echoes the community’s past tragedy. Mrs. McCallister, formerly Margaret Emde of Detroit, died of a blood clot after childbirth. telegrams announced the birth and subsequent death to friends and relatives.
Three Lock Haven housewives Mrs William A McCormick Mrs William H Harmon and Mrs A B Timms win a 17590 haul from NBC Truth or Consequences including a billiard table lessons airplane car steam heating unit fur coat NY weekend Sun Valley vacation frozen foods maid service trailer paint refrigerator and more.
Wheat prices for No 2 hard winter in Chicago sit around 275 cents a bushel, up about 63 cents since January and nearly a dollar year over year. Analysts link higher wheat to bread price gains, while agriculture officials forecast continued strong demand. history shows sharp price swings from WWI to the 1940s, with export aims and July carryovers shaping the market.
The reader is directed to the classified page for answers to a mixed set of questions. Topics include anatomy, a president’s mother, radio licenses, Montpelier as capital, Buddy Poppies on uniforms, Bandoline as an instrument, a Mother Goose rhyme, hemophilia as the curse of the blind, the Marine Corps Women's Reserve anniversary, and Kurt von Schuschnigg's European nation.
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M r Haberstroh died last evening at his home 20 West Wayne Street after a twenty year illness. He came to Corry in 1945 to manage Rexall Store and later worked at Gate Drug in Union City. Survived by wife Beatrice and three sons Richard, his mother Mary A Haberstroh of Altoona, brothers Louis W James H and Robert C Haberstroh of Altoona, sisters Helen Schmild of Altoona and Ruth Walton of Coraopolis. Body to Bracken Keating Funeral Home for prayer service this evening and Altoona funeral tomorrow at Holy Rosary Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery. He was a member of Juniata Memorial Post American Legion.
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