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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1940
Page
6
The fragmentary text mentions license deadlines, a Gary City concert, Columbia Gas and Electric, stock dividends, census warnings to enumerators, Navy recruiting totals, and various local notices including disappearances, quarantines, and school contests observed in a 1939 era publication.
A new group of actors directed by Thomas Roelofs will stage Ceiling Zero at Senior High School on Thursday and Friday evenings in April. The Athletic Association sponsors the comedy drama production featuring twenty two roles and enhanced by unusual sound effects.
A fine crowd is expected for the opening of the Unxl-day series at the local Christian and Missionary Alliance church led by Rev. George B. Morgan assistant district superintendent of the eastern Alliance. Last Sunday Doroth y White of Titusville a Nyack Missionary Training Institute graduate was installed as a deaconess.
Mrs Daisy Webb aged 38 wife of William Webb of Spar tansburg died at 3 20 this morning at her son Arthur Knapp’s home on Sciota road. Survived by her husband, son and four grandchildren Donald, Maxine, Cora Lee and Loreen Nap. Funeral set at Torrey funeral home Spartansburg Thursday at 2 pm.
List of quiz answers includes Solicitor General for question one and January 1 2001 as the date for question two. It mentions King Richard III, a drone, Oslo, a yes, and a 4 group of art museum buildings in Paris France.
The early modern surge in exploration and trade shifted Europe from feudalism to capitalism. Dutch and English rise challenge rightful authority, leading to an 1581 abjuration declaring subjects and ruler in contract. This seeds later US independence and French rights movements.
The Journal informant says a dozen or more five to six room homes would sell or rent quickly and April 1 is the peak moving period. Moving day this year may be quieter due to housing shortage and weather, with talks of remodeling apartments and building new homes in the city and a possible definite announcement in the coming weeks.
District No 10 of Scouts of America presents a benefit screening at the Grand theatre on Wednesday March for a 7:30 pm show. The film covers Boy Scout camp life and outdoor skills and aims to raise funds to stock a Boy Scout literature section at the public library with proceeds from a five cent admission.
Erie March 26 Five hundred city and county men joined the Works Progress Administration ranks here Wednesday morning. The influx, the largest in months, follows new highway projects and expanded duties on other works. WPA engineer A H Gredel said several projects including a southwest Erie sanitary sewer system will start soon. L White Erie County Public Assistance chief praised the move noting relief expenditures will drop as men shift to federally funded WPA work assigned from relief rolls. White had pressed Franklin officials for more Erie projects to replace direct relief funds.
The nationwide unemployment compensation program now covers more than 27,500,000 business and industrial workers. This expansion broadens eligibility across the U.S. labor force.
A jumble of small ads and notices offers help wanted for a male 29 on a farm by month and various farm goods and services. It lists numbers and names with addresses in Corry and Erie Pennsylvania, plus horse and livestock sales and a poultry supplies shop. The legible items include loan and financing ads, musical instrument repair, and farm animal sales.
On March 26 the Pittsburgh wholesale market showed slow demand for de mani with steady apples and various prices for New York Baldwins and Macintoshes. In New York trading, leading stocks declined with Chrysler and General Motors among the notable declines while a list of quotations followed for several companies. The piece also notes a meeting invitation for Young Republicans in Harrisburg with state leaders and party officials slated to speak.
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