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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1931
Page
3
The Corry Journal notes a 16 percent rise in stockholders across 100 industries from 5,264,000 to 6,138,000, with smaller investors buying big holdings. Industrial and financial leaders view the trend as strengthening the economy, broadening ownership, and tying employees to both management and profits, expanding public stake in industry.
A business bulletin notes a 4 decade trend toward migration from farms to towns with some returning to rural life. Farm populations rise in many states despite shrinking cultivated acreage. Potential effects on production unclear as professionals leave farming for cheaper homes and city families become gentleman farmers.
Twenty years ago local incidents include two firms arrested for alleged pure food violations by Inspector Pelton. Jourdet named chair of a campus athletic gathering at Po sano Pines. A special train from the Trade excisions region visited the city. Five prairie wolves shipped east by Adams Express. Fred Landseath of Corry, longtime PRR man, promoted to assistant train master at Buffalo. James H. Wright and R. J. Follett returned from Williamsport after a Grand Commandery meeting. Butler’s strong team booked for Memorial Day games here. Haloh and Sons broom factory damaged by fire in Union City. A. B. Messenger improves the Boston house stores area. Joe Sullivan injured at Kurtz Brass Bed Factory by a nail hit to the eye. F. M. Plate recovering from an automobile crash near Mill Village.
In Philadelphia a group of booksellers lament slow business after 38 years of ownership at one store. They fault publishers for dollar books direct library sales privatized lists and mail order campaigns. They warn readers' curtailment could end as libraries feed renewed buying, even hinting at a revival of competitive book selling.
W L Gordon offers daily word guidance focusing on misuse pronunciation and spelling. Today's entry highlights exalted, elevated, refined, and sublime with example "He has an exalted mind" and urges expanding vocabulary one word at a time.
The fragment lists questions and mixed answers about presidents languages anatomy aircraft parts and states. It cites Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, English as most spoken language, fuselage as airplane body, a misspelled birds item, and Rhode Island Delaware Connecticut as smallest states.
The record notes Bist Lynne’s stage beginnings dating to March 29, 1503 with K Wee at a New York theater. Tepler's hall in Cutton WW Brooklyn hosted a likely early dramatic adaptation by a local playwright. Luella Western first played Lady Isabel in this notable production.
Col John L Shepard longtime Hamot Hospital superintendent dies at 61 from pancreatic duct cancer after eight months of illness. War service as head of hospitals in the American Expeditionary Force in France noted. The obituary follows with career details and unrelated Rexfeature film note about Norma Shearer in Strangers May Kiss.
Privates Zerbe and Taylor of the state police substation arrested Filward Horn, alias Edward Landini, 16, of R D 2 Port Allegany, for stealing a revolver and watch from Hertian Landin’s filling station on Route 6 around May 10. He admitted taking the gun but denied the watch. Held for the next court term under $500 bond.
May 25 in Mentor for John N Garfield 39 grandson of the martyred President James A Garfield. Military escort provided by Troops A and B of the 107th Cavalry Cleveland. Dean Bratenall and Dean White to conduct services. Elder Garfield unable to attend from Canada. Garfield led Crusaders anti prohibition group and died after illness following an operation. Five children survive. Diamonds in meteors claim discusses meteor diamonds.
Chief of Detectives Geoge Christoph asks the public to cooperate in solving the death of Mary Sopusii, 22, an expectant mother whose weighted belly was recovered from Presque Isle Bay in March. He notes reports allege an illegal operation and urges tipsters to come forward confidentially.
Laura Ray of Clymer widow of Dayla Ray aged 76 died at Corry hospital after a serious operation. She had been in poor health for a week. Survived by sister Mrs Ellen Lull of Ripley and several nieces and nephews including Dr A L Smith of this city and Mrs Nellit Myrick. Body taken to Clymer by Undertaker Spitzer. Funeral at home in Clymer Wednesday afternoon at o'clock with burial in Culling cemetery.
The Dawn biography by Theodore Dreiser, reviewed by H Allen Smith, is a lengthy but compelling auto biographical work. Smith notes its sharp recall of Dreiser’s Indiana childhood, its mix of sentiment and cynicism, and its pointed attack on Catholicism. The review ranks the book above Dreiser’s latest, A Gallery of Women, and praises its candid, nearly documentary detail of a Midwest childhood. The piece also lists several other spring reads by authors such as Julian Duguid, Lincoln Steffens, and Remarque, praising their significance while acknowledging some speculative elements in the Dreiser narrative.
A man spent one third of his money and $200. He then had left one half of his money and $100. Find his initial amount. Also included is an explanation: the square of twice a number equals four times the square of the number, so 128 is twice the square of the number. Divide 128 by 2 to get 64, whose square root is 8.
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