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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1942
Page
4
The Har BAS Magazine features Theobert Agar arguing civilization hinges on rules and discipline. He links German trouble to a global sickness, urging nations to heal inner flaws while detailing Burma and Asia war dynamics and criticisms of Allied efforts.
Fragmented wartime letter-like text discusses nations claiming credit for resisting Nazi forces. Mentions Poland Greece Norway and others, referencing education minister Evan Sekeris and alleged German interference. The prose is garbled but centers on honor, resistance, and the imagined fate of the German downfall.
War emergency closes 42 million acres of U S forest in the Sierras not on the coast to safeguard vital utilities and war industries. Hunters campers and sightseers face closures as foresters cite arson risk and fire danger while mills keep running and rangers face reduced firefighting manpower.
A collection of brief factoids describes a high speed bomber burning huge fuel in an hour, only a fraction of the U S mapped, belief in perfect maps, the Japanese typewriter’s 3000 characters, and a Modoc forest fire around the year’s lightning.
A Bureau of Home Economies note, part of the Prom Medical Society of Pennsylvania, surveys average American women's height at about five feet one and a half inches with measuring context for garments. It cautions that there are various races and builds, and the data are not a universal standard but reflect a range across groups.
The item lists seven quiz prompts from the Daily OUI asking for new names of government agencies, locations of ports, historical figures, and geography trivia. It notes common errors such as using nouns improperly as verbs and cites examples like suicide and suspicion.
Corry native Joh William Love son of Mr and Mrs John E Love will be ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood at Saint Peter and Paul Church in Miami Illinois on Saturday May 5. Bishop Joseph P Hurley will officiate with attendance by his mother Mrs Love and relatives. Mrs Love and kin travel from Lake Worth Florida to Miami for the rites. Father Love will celebrate his first mass at the Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Corry on Sunday May 17. A reception is planned at St Edwards hall May 12 from four to seven. A committee led by Charles P Keating coordinates the parish welcome for Corry’s first priest.
Twenty years ago a Corry survey shows unemployment falling across the state. James P Drawn, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, notes few idle men in Corry. The Corry Post Office reports April treasury savings certificates totaling 2625 dollars as residents seek safe principal.
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