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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1941
Page
4
A fragment from Charles Stewart recounts anecdotes about Japanese officials and hospitality, including interviews with business figures, naval officers, and a U.S. Navy captain. The tale centers on cultural differences, personal diplomacy, and a Tokyo reunion, highlighting politeness juxtaposed with stern protocol.
A clipped and torn wartime summary discusses Yugoslavia resisting Axis pressure with potential aid from Greece Britain and Turkey. It highlights bold decisive action as critical, notes Churchill’s Africa campaign, and calls for unity and swift national effort amid global crisis. It touches on American labor, strikes, and defense production shaping wartime resolve.
A fragmentary wartime note discusses rubber as a crucial material for many uses in the war effort. It references supply routes and origins in the East and mentions transportation of rubber by sea and land, indicating concerns over availability and logistics amid broader military production pressures. The text is rough and garbled but centers on rubber’s vital role and related supply issues.
The Guaranteed Twist Company of New York discusses how wartime defense spending drives a new industrial sector toward tens of billions in output. The piece notes shifts in production, government controls, and the transition from peace-time to war-time economies, with lasting changes possible beyond the emergency program.
The readable fragments reference flags and named places such as Fleur de, Spainy Wavls, Mexico, Lone Btar, Texas, and Alabama. The passage is garbled and lacks coherent events, dates, or a clear narrative, offering only scattered proper nouns and partial phrases without a determinate outcome.
Twenty years ago local notes report Mrs H A Manley and Minnie Warnhouse visiting Buffalo for a few days. Anglers anticipate the New York state fishing season opening Saturday April 2. Sixty new members joined the Maccabees at a Marathon Rally. W Irwin resigns from J W and A P How ard Co and will move to Gowanda to take a new job. Mrs C B Kennedy returns from Westfield. A marriage occurs at St Elisabeths Church with Helen Rupp and Albert Owens. Local fishing trips head to Clymer and Hare Creek road moves noted.
The article notes kite flying as an ancient, fascinating pastime with risks. It warns of wire or cord hazards near power lines, which can conduct electricity if a kite entangles, posing dangers to children and bystanders alike. One incident mentions rescuers retrieving a kite lost in a tree as evidence of hazards.
The provided text is garbled OCR with many misspellings and missing context. It mentions the Panama Canal, milestones around 1900, and various scattered terms that cannot form a coherent event or date. No verifiable persons or organizations can be reliably identified from the fragment.
Test your knowledge with seven questions from a miscued quiz page. It asks about film stars, presidents, geography, and history, with garbled OCR style clues and prompts to check answers on the classified page.
Washington era residents tell the tale of Knute Hill and four men in Ephrata who pursued the Grand Coulee dam idea from doodles on a cafe tablecloth to a nationwide project. For nearly two decades they faced ridicule and indifference while lobbying Washington and federal leaders, finally seeing the dam opened on March 2. The story centers on William M. Bing Chapman, Gale Mathews, Rufus Woods, and Jim O'Sulus, their persistence, and the community’s belief that large projects can become reality through vision and effort.
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