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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1930
Page
3
The United States Senate voted to cut immigration from Europe to 1 percent of nationalities in 1890, reducing yearly arrivals from 150000 to 80000 while western hemisphere entrants rise. The piece forecasts fewer unskilled jobs, more machines, and a broad shift in American citizenship identity by 1990.
A Sacramento air to ground test demonstrates instant matching sketches from watchful observers and a parachute rescue. meanwhile publishers dismiss a five day week as untenable. The piece weighs Gandhi's Indian independence aims and surmises Dominion status as India’s likely gain, noting Ireland already pursues dominion self government.
Assemblyman Samuel B Bayle exits the state senate race clearing Henry A Clark. J Walter Clough of Barlow Hardware recalled the ninth anniversary of big natal day. Corry Tea Co reports five new ice wagons for local delivery and Cambridge Springs use. HG Weaver travels to Falconer for a funeral. J J Bartholme and Ed Stowe head to Corry for a Chestnut Society concert in Union City.
Daily guide from W L Gordon on vocabulary use and pronunciation. Highlights include common misuses and mispronunciations, with a focus on acuity as sharpness and examples contrasting weather wording and tense usage. The piece promotes expanding vocabulary through daily word mastery and practical language guidance.
Answers include Kaiser's deformity, author of The Single Hooks, meaning of hydro electric, Yellowstone ownership, and the date of the Roman Coliseum, with a speed of 186,000 miles per second, tiny eyes in some species, Kappa Kappa Gamma, a date of 1836, Gatun Lake and Panama, and 4,413,000 acre feet at 87 feet.
The problem asks for painting a round tank with diameter 7 feet and length 10 feet at 21-20 dollars per square foot. Surface area calculated as 2 ends plus side. Ends area 2 × π × (3.5)^2 and side area π × 7 × 10. Total surface area multiplied by rate yields the total cost.
Anna Meliodona, four years old, appears in Niagara Falls police court on a kidnapping charge. Prosecutors say she (sic) abducted Elizabeth Mowrey, 24, from Richmond Hill, kept her in an attic apartment for over nine months. A material witness, Mowrey is held as the case proceeds.
Rural carriers based at Cot Yy office and their wives paid a surprise visit to Frank B. Crowell of South Center street bringing baskets. Guests included Horace Wetmore and wife, C S Bentley and wife, C A Johnson and wife, Amos Allen and R Seymour and wives. Music and a dance followed. Postmaster Bentley presented Crowell with a rocking chair in appreciation of his service since Corry’s 1901 carrier establishment.
May 3 Ridgway WV. Hik Tanning Co suffers about 120000 in losses as Paw Paw tannery burns for several hours. Fire began at 7 30 pm with crews fighting stubborn flames. About one third of the plant destroyed. origin in yard undetermined. Reconstruction to begin at once.
Northwestern Arts Association holds a meeting at the junior high today. Community Savings and Loan in Titusville opens Monday morning. Warren and Corry singers perform The Messiah at the high school auditorium Monday evening.
The Women's Benefit Association held its annual May party at the armory last evening. A concert preceded dancing with performances by Kenneth Hixson, Robert Reagle, Vennie Follett, Milan Williams, Miss Wilma Paulson, Miss Charlotte Bachomner, Leata Scott, and Mike of Brie. Over one hundred couples danced to Roth's Hunters Lodge orchestra from 9 to 1. Organizers Mrs. Ernest Bachomer Mrs. Wilbur Scott and Mrs. Earl Jackson led the event. A Handel Messiah audition notice follows with tickets on sale at 8:30 Monday morning.
A benefit party staged in Grange Hall at West Spring Creek last evening for the Glenn Jaquith family of Columbus Pa R D 1. Over sixty couples attended the dancing program, refreshments were served, and sixty dollars was raised for the worthy cause. Music was provided by Cad Cooley J L Tubbs and Caleb Jewell, Corry residents who donated their services.
May 3 Warren report details a near tragedy as Harry Green Jr. a 1-year-old boy, fell from a sailboat at the east end of town near Glade Bridge. Fire crews deployed the rescue boat from the central station and pulled him to shore uninjured after a quarter-mile drift.
Ralph and Edna Mumbulo are set for trial May 19 in Erie over the killing of their eleven year old daughter Hilds on March 22 at the Pittsburgher Apts. 6th and Lighthouse. Defense counsel say they will not seek a continuance and will pursue joint trial. Grand jury will hear the case next Monday. The couple, detained April 5 after arrest in the Oneonta mountains, have exhausted funds and rely on relatives for defense costs. They will remain in Erie until Saturday when they return to Norwich No 316.
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