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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1931
Page
3
The notice lists rates for mailing and newspaper delivery including price per year per post and per copy, with locations in New York Chicago and Corry Pa. It mentions rising rates and that rates are available upon application from the Post Office and associated advertising entities.
Mrs. Bilis Smith, 23, faces charges in San Francisco for robbing a mail train near McAvoy California in 1920 and is indicted for a separate heist near Nobel California. Police say she drove the getaway car while her husband Frank Smith was killed in Oakland during a failed escape attempt after capture.
A World Telegram feature lauds Alfred E. Smith as a premier expert on state government noting his NY reforms that trimmed boards into seventeen departments and calling for broader reorganization to boost efficiency and lower costs. The piece argues taxpayers deserve a practical, nonpartisan approach led by Smith.
A 1912 initiative titled Clean-Up Week promotes painting and cleaning by oil firms and the public. The program extends to house cleaning, yard work, and park upkeep, offering odd jobs for unemployed and aiding charity groups, showing how commercial progress can align with social good.
A daily English lesson by W L Gordon defines mispronunciations and misspellings, cites examples like woman with her three daughters, oblique, gild versus guild, and highlights inexorable as a model word meaning unyielding and relentless.
The Kapelle band plans a grand concert at the High School auditorium on May 6 1911. Loveland fills a new trolley stop at Scott's crossing. Truesdell is homebound by illness. Chapin’s The Last Days of Lincoln tops Lakeside attractions. Cambridge Springs farmers sow alfalfa as timothy seed hits six dollars a bushel.
Answers list includes John Wilkes Booth for Lincoln assassin and Colorado for Pike's Peak region. The only government offices not held by naturalized citizens are top executive roles. The term for minds that herd is gregarious individuals. The capital city of Egypt is Cairo.
A problem about pooling money at six percent yields six thousand dollars interest from combined capital. The report also mentions Charles Manley arriving with equal squares, a diagonal sequence, and a horse training process. Local people Ward Powell Glenn Myrick Gifford Westley Ralph Perkins and Rita Porter are noted in brief travels and plans.
The text discusses Herbert Spencer ideas on evolution, suggesting a redistribution of matter and motion. It posits dominant integration of matter and dissipation of motion as evolution, and dissolution where absorption of motion dominates, implying a shift in physical processes driving change.
About sixty members and families attended the Dairymen's League sub district meeting at Greenfield. Directors report market zones improving though surplus remains. no debt certificates issued this year. under thirteenth check to Eden producer. Health work and prizes for rural school children discussed. winners announced after May 28. Harry Smith to speak in Corry. Kolsts chair monthly meeting at Sciota Church with program and refreshments after business.
Field notes describe the Niagara Falls crest at the Horseshoe and American Falls showing a long term lowering trend. Since 1820 the Horseshoe crest has fallen about 8.7 feet, with a 2.4 foot drop since 1906, and the retreat is accelerating each year. Authorities expect the recession to continue, while the American Falls recedes much less, nearly negligible in comparison.
A fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed a large barn and endangered the home of Stanley Bawd near Willys Corners. A nine year old boy, while searching for eggs, dropped a lit item that ignited the blaze. Neighbors saved the house and surrounding property. all animals were turned to pasture and farm equipment and grain were lost with no insurance.
May 1 fire at Hanson Brothers grocery in Celoron damaged the Caloron Post Office area causing estimated losses of 8000 to 4000. Fire alarm sent after chimney flare, attic flames spread toward upper floors while firemen battled heavy smoke and water intrusion. Mail evacuated before damage.
Governor Pinchot fixed the execution date for Peter Spirellis, the Schuylkill County murderer, for Monday June 15. A period of respite was issued to allow clemency hearings by the State Board of Pardons at its May 20 meeting.
A fragmented archaic text discusses hospitality and virtue among the poor. It mentions idealized service and worldly woes, though the meaning is obscured by garbled phrasing and missing context.
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