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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1928
Page
3
The Corry Evening Journal reprints Walter Lippmann’s view that smashing the political machine is impossible without a replacement system. He argues democracies rely on party hierarchies and informal groups outside legal forms, with patronage and graft persisting unless responsible leadership develops.
Twenty years ago a class of four girls Florence Thomson Florence Blakeslee Hazel Dorm and Minnie Jackson graduated Spartansburg high school for 1908. Born April 27 to Mr and Mrs L Smith of Amity Hill a nine pound baby on. About thirty Baptist youth surprised Mr and Mrs George Beecher at their home on First Avenue last evening. Corry society attended May party hosted by L A P M. Misses Frances Connelly Grace McDonnell and May Moran and Arthur Ritter of Titusville attended the May dancing party here. Mrs George Doan of Brie visiting Mrs Charles Stewart returned home this afternoon.
A clipping presents a math puzzle asking for the road breadth surrounding a circular area. The outer circumference is 560 feet and the inner circumference 420 feet, prompting calculation of the road width between the two circles. It also notes yesterday’s problem and a pyramid volume formula snippet.
Uneven text fragment mentions how to do something with rowing and names Vivi ta dln M-ordan, but details are unreadable. No definite event or entities are identifiable to summarize into a coherent news item.
A historical column presents five language puzzles and errors to spot. It asks for correct pronunciations spellings and word choices with answers referencing yesterday’s exercises and common misuses in punctuation and diction.
A jumbled OCR text fragment lists scattered inquiry items about Look and Learn Apparatua Use of reflected sun or suningat, Lapland, a famous incomplete poem by Byro g, a national hero of Spain and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Civil War, Lord De la Warr, trees that have tired Lo stone, Sudan, Cuba, and an unclear prompt asking for a name.
A speculative Washington column analyzes a possible Smith and Reed presidential ticket with cross-party appeal. It weighs risks and benefits, noting regional tensions, nomination dynamics, and the unlikely but intriguing pairing as a political frame, concluding the matchup remains highly unlikely.
About one hundred Erie Railroad freight agents and officials will attend a two day convention at the Hotel Jamestown May 24 and 25. Attendees include A Moynihan A Morin and A Bart Jow with business sessions planned and no entertainment program. Other notes mention a Schneider airplane speed cap inventor's death and a Gettysburg Memorial Day address by President Coolidge.
Charles L Mitchell claims a new method predicts weekly weather up to seven days by charting high and low pressure on a world map. He says his outlooks already enhance the Weather Bureau forecasts published each Saturday. Mitchell notes his storm around the globe traveled Montana to St Lawrence. The report also covers California political results with Smith leading Walsh and Reed, and McAdoo fading.
United Press reports the first regular New York to Atlantic air mail flight ends in disaster in Philadelphia. Pilot Verne Treat is not injured. A special ship carrying many letters landed, then proceeded to Venmond, Iowa. The second plane’s mail departed Philadelphia by a special aircraft.
Progressives gather at the church at 6:20 PM for a party with dinner and a business meeting. Members may obtain slips from Helen Dahlstrand or Paul Bartlett before the event and election of officers will occur after dinner.
Robert Go Turmul of Bath Ontario was elected governor of the 27th Rotary district at a Toronto conference. He succeeds David M. Wright of Stratford Ontario. The district includes 62 clubs in Ontario and parts of New York and Pennsylvania.
Financial notes show Scruire with a weekly total of 414,594 ears, up 32,317 from the prior week, while Atlantic Gulf and West Indies steamship lines report profits and share figures. American Writing Paper Co reports net profit of 63,520 in the quarter ended March 31, with Bon Am Co posting 298,181 in the first quarter.
Congress committees hold hearings on Boulder Dam debate agriculture subcommittees investigate the campaign finance question. President campaign fundraising under scrutiny as Congress reviews inland waterway aid and related bills. Senate and House proceedings indicate ongoing oversight and legislative activity today.
In Philadelphia two men tied to an alleged pontidenue game faced $2,900 bail each as police court hearings were scheduled. Witnesses and unnamed associates linked to Rosé and a Leenton estate figure in the case, with several others named as suspects or associates. A separate item reports the drowning of 5-year-old Vance Vagelaong near Mechanicsburg after falling into a quarry, with a cousin's unsuccessful rescue attempt and mention of a sister Thelma.
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