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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
6
Catholics in Bieler parishes observed Ascension Day this morning with Masses marking Holy Day of Obligation. The observance highlighted the feast 40 days after Easter as Christ’s ascension into heaven.
Backache and dizzy spells linked to kidney fatigue are described as caused by poisons from kidneys. Thompson's Borsoma Tablets are promoted to stimulate kidney action and increase urine flow for rapid relief, with a price of 60c. Also touts Golden Lax for constipation at 25c.
Frank Neylon of Erie died yesterday morning at St. Vincent's Hospital after a residence in Corry most of life. He was a shipping clerk at the Spiegel-Fry Erie company and survived by wife Hazel Finucan Neylon daughter Norma and son Gerald with five sisters and two brothers. Private funeral services will be held at Brugger Funeral Home with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
A suspect who escaped a police trap at Girard High School on Wednesday has been taken into custody. Robert Howard Lawton, 21, was booked at the city jail after a confession obtained by State Police Sergeant John Mehal Meek. The report notes fresh dressers and a 130 Second Avenue contact, with further details from Erie officials. Memorial Day prayers and local civic notes fill the rest of the page, including cabinet speeches, school district budget talk, and ordination ceremonies led by Bishop John Mark Gannon for two Catholic candidates.
An advertisement promotes Teol as a penetrating foot fungus treatment with an alcohol base and active medication for quick germ killing on contact. It claims fast results at Widmann and Pein drug store with a one hour guarantee.
Jack Martin won the Erle chapter Fraternal Order of Police election, defeating the incumbent Police Sergeant Leo Waldinger. A sale item listing appears for Mrs Hulings at 250 Delaware, phone 2-1581.
About 5 production and maintenance workers at the old Manufacturing Co will vote in an NLRB union representation election June 2. Voters may choose representation by the Lord Employers Association, the CIO United Rubber Cork Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, or neither.
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