Corry area news items from a busy week
Weather turn mild after late storms and thunder showers. Local business notes report Corry’s Bargain Jubilee opening May 26. Anaconda Copper reports 1938 first quarter net income of 2,885,016 and 27 cents per share. Health authorities log a case of erysipelas. Katherine Brows quarantined. Police investigate a cow scare caused by two youths. Woolworth Co reports 1987 sales and per share earnings. Willys coupe stolen in city. Circus arrives, library closes Tuesday for librarians’ meeting. Strong Vincent’s A Capella choir en route to New York for broadcasts. Local traffic accident injures a boy. Copper price relief noted. Atlantic Refining announces a $28 million 1938 expansion. Parishioners honor Rev Ruth and church leaders.
Pennsylvania Highway Oiling Starts In June
Secretary of Highways in Harrisburg announces the annual oiling program to resurface macadam, dust earth roads, and curb mud. Detours may be used on busy routes while lighter roads allow traffic with partial oiling. The plan includes bituminous material and limestone chips, with calcium chloride to reduce dust, and a two-step application schedule in June and August.
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Roy £. Brownmiller
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Man Who Is Easily Pleased Steel-Cut Coffee
Jud Tunkins defines steel cut coffee as coffee ground into pieces that satisfy a man who is easily pleased, noting it as uniformly sized with no chaff. The remark combines humor about taste and self-satisfaction in a compact, period voice.
Forty Hours Devotions Open At St Elizabeths Church
Forty Hours devotions will open at St Elizabeth's Church Sunday with a Mass at ten o'clock and a procession of altar boys. The Blessed Sacrament will be placed on the altar for a three day public auction after the procession. Special services run Sunday Monday and Tuesday with daily Mass announcements and sermons by visiting priests from Meadville Titusville and other parishes. About twenty six Bri diocese priests will assist. An invitation is extended to the public to attend.
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St. Elizabeth's Church
Joseph Seyboll
St. Brigin's
Meadville
Raymond Meier
St. Agatha's Church
Francis Hassett
St. Titus
English railroad terms from 19th century jargon
A glossary noting that 9 coal car is a mineral wagon 0 roadbed a permanent way 8 switch and point 8 freight car a goods van a brake man a guard a switchman a signalman an engineer an engine driver and a grade crossing level crossing.
Panama Canal Cuts 5666 Miles off Voyage to Liverpool
The Panama canal shortens the route from San Francisco to Liverpool by 5,666 miles, saving two-fifths of the previous distance and bringing the two port cities closer together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Liverpool
Roosevelt Highway crosses the nation from Boston to Los Angeles
The Roosevelt Highway now spans the United States from Boston to Los Angeles and avoids major city congestion by routing through smaller towns. A full color map-folder detailing the route, history, and major views along the highway is available free from the Highway Association offices in Des Moines Iowa or Scranton Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
U.S. U! Roosevelt Highway
Boston
Los Angeles
Te Highway Association
Des Moines
Iowa
Scranton
Coral Facade Covers Mahe Church Exterior
A church at Mahe in the Indian Ocean displays a coral coral facade entirely covering its exterior. The architectural beauty stands out with a luminous red glow when the sun shines in the distance, making the building strikingly vivid.
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Mahe
France
Indian Ocean
Original Meaning of El Dorado Chief Named Region
The phrase originally meant the gilded one and referred to a regional chief in Venezuela. It is not the name of a country or country region. The interpretation often attributed to El Dorado as a nation arose from later misconception.
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Venezuela
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William Scott
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Lewis Bros. Circus
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Titusville
Strong Vincent
Nt Hive
Spole
New York City
William Randall
West Wayne Street
Lovells
Pittsburgh
Bureau of Business Research
University of Pittsburgh
William ©. Douglas
Securites Exchange Commission
Association of Stock Exchange
WOR
Atlantic Refining Company
J. W. van Dyke
Philadelphia
Atreco
Texas
Kenneth Hoyt
Sugar Grove Hoy
Richard Lindsley
Wright and
Frederick Street
Hanover
Germany
Nelly Dons Hope Reed and
June Fox
F.C. Chapin & Sons
W.s
ALS
Roosevelt Highway
eosTun
Denver
American Association of State Highway Officials
Dver
Lantic
Pacific
Coliseum
Tey Moines
Chamber of Commerce
TeauTic
Sissy Asparagus Baker's
Cocoa Ann Page
Chevrolds
EMA
SUPRE
Chevrolet
H.P
Matter de Lym
Thomas Motor Company
Clinton Street
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