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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1929
Page
3
Corry readers ponder the zeal of British critics over American film slang and accents. An exchange cites London papers praising slang while fearing future delivery in orators, with emphasis on how U S speakers should perfect English for cinema and schooling.
Mussolini launches a forceful policy telling rural and urban migrants to return to farming. Authorities enforce the movement as a directive rather than preaching. Those who stay on farms face economic pressure and coercive oversight.
Jesse Martell 26 Jus Burne 19 and James Cole 21 of Surveyor were sentenced to between one half and three years in the Western penitentiary at Pittsburgh after pleading guilty to assaulting and robbing Birney Newsom at his home in Odes on June 7 1928. County Detective W L Couser helped trap Martell and obtain their confession.
The fragment presents a mix of questions and garbled words about World War scores numbers places and names. It mentions German submarines and avators with unclear context and includes stray phrases about a peninsula in southern Mexico and Emerson Hough. The text is incoherent and unreadable in parts.
A vintage weight loss promotion touts Kruschen Salts as a four week plan to shed pounds and fat while boosting energy health and skin tone. It promises quick results from a daily dose and claims long term vitality and wellness with minimal effort.
Miss Ceclin Dugan, formerly of Corry, wed Otto P. Ellert, son of Mrs. Anna Kilert of Oil City, in Stephen’s Church Oil City. Ceremony in Independence blue crepe gown, shower bouquet of Olympia roses, attended by Mrs. John Ellert and Jessie Morrison. Reception for forty relatives. After May 25 the couple will reside at 604 West Second Street Oil City. Ellert employed by Kramer Wagon and Auto Body Works. Guests included John Dugan, Willer Dugan, Helen Gould, Katherine Graves, and several clergymen.
A mathematics brain teaser asks how high a wall shadow would be if a 10 foot pole stands 12 feet from a wall casting a shadow 11 feet up. The text also notes an Oil City Chamber of Commerce meeting with about four hundred attendees and lists speakers including Mayor T L Blair S Y Ramage Leon H Gavin WW Freeman Thomas Cochran and Patrick Irving O Hay.
Members of the Young People Society of the Presbyterian church were entertained by Union City society in the parish house. Fourteen guests, with Mrs A Perkins and Rev R il Uressey, attended as Robert Shreve welcomed them and Keppel Tiffany spoke for the local group in Fred Ewing's absence. Games music a playlet and refreshments followed. Corry society to host Union City members later.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will gather in the church parlors on Friday afternoon. Hostesses include Mrs Hepler Mrs William Cole Mrs Dor Kincaid and Mrs Amidon. A tureen supper will be served and a large turnout is hoped.
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