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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1927
Page
3
Public notice header with advertising rates. publisher and advertising rep listed. pricing mentions for mail and carrier delivery. city names Chicago Tribune and Pittsburgh involved. appears as a damaged OCR passage with repeated lines and unclear entities.
In a provocative tirade Poiret argues against uniform fashion urging women to resist slavish trends. He condemns mass uniformity while defending personal style and criticizing obsession with legs and physical traits as an erosion of individuality in dress.
In a thickly populated neighborhood a frequent accident spot near an intersecting street damaged lawns and parked cars. After residents pressed for relief, the city installed an overhead signal and a police presence. Since the signal began operating, there has been no further accident in over a week.
A social at the Congregational church drew many attendees with a fine program and light refreshments. A chimney fire prompted a call to the fire department around evening time at Mrs Aylis residence on West Washington.
Answers to Yesterday's Questions include General Sheridan for the first query. The second answer notes a threat from oxygen deprivation at the flame. Munna appears for the third. The fourth mentions a distance to other planets. The fifth cites a European struggle over Canada and references The Golden Gate, with Saturn as the finish.
A garbled problem appears to describe packing multiple cakes of soup and a box with dimensions 2 feet by 1 foot by 1 foot. It hints at calculating volumes and percentages, mentioning 430, 6 percent, 2443, four months, and one third of a year, but the readable facts are fragmentary and incoherent. The text seems to be an OCR artifact rather than a coherent news item.
Two Erie children died from diphtheria reported Tuesday. Margaret Enis Teubert, 10, daughter of Emil and Marie Teubert, died Monday at 1133 West Fifth Street. Fred Louis Steger, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewh Steger, died Thursday morning near Lake View Terrace. Local private funerals were held under quarantine. Interment followed at Calgary Cemetery.
Cadets at Staunton Military Academy engage in spirited discussion on prohibition, sparked by Lamar Pickett son of a Methodist temperance leader. The piece notes pro and anti views, references Senate probes, and cites immigrant influence and press role in shaping public opinion.
Investigation by Loraner Hanley and police into the death of John Bucktes alias Bucholts a former Dunkirk resident concluded he died from a fall down a flight of stairs at 105 Frencht Street. No inquest will be held as there were no eyewitnesses of the fall though others found Buckley at the bottom. The pathologist Dr E J Armstrong believes the injuries were too extensive to be caused by a fall from that height.
KDKA, the Pittsburgh broadcasting station, marks seven years on air with a special program. The outlet began broadcasting on November 2, 1920, featuring figures from its early days and reflecting on the presidential year when Warren G Harding was elected.
A brief note tracing the Ottomans, Turks of Tartar origin, from their early districts in southern central Asia in the sixth century through their initial conquests starting in the eleventh century under the sultanate in Turkey.
Chicago November report says Mayor Williams Hale Thompson targets Supt. William McAndrew over alleged pro British teaching in Chicago Schools. Witnesses include teachers patriotic groups and editor Frederick Hranklin Schrader who allies with Thompson to expose objectionable literature. Schrader promises disclosures at the McAndrew trial.
Washington November 2 stock in the Erie and Pere Marquette Railroads optioned last spring by the Chesapeake and Ohio for a merger has gained over 28 million in value. O P and M J Van Sweringen of Cleveland engineering the merger said options were $4190 a share for Erie and $110 for Pere Marquette, figures now surpassed. The system would total about 1.81 billion in assets with 225 million in surplus, promising strong competition with Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads. Henry Wanderson, minority stockholders’ counsel, was to appear later.
A nursing woman reports improvement after taking Vinol, an iron and cod liver elixir prescribed for weakness and nervous fatigue. Advert says Vinol strengthens and aids appetite and sleep within the first week, promoted by Ames & Co druggists in New York.
A Chicago ad promises a trial packet of Foley products including Honey and Tar, Foley Pills, a kidney diuretic, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. It emphasizes mail order of sample packets to readers and claims relief for colds, croup, sore throats, and headaches.
The Corry district campaigns against a $500000 county road bond, arguing the area is entitled to a proportional share and benefits from state matching funds. Opponents fear past promises and seek inclusion of Spartansburg Beaverdam routes in the program.
A train struck a fawn between Cartier and Brockway. Both hind legs broken, survived after being taken to Ridgway. Game protector EW Turley treated it before release. A second deer, a 74 pound doe, was killed by a BRT train near Johnsonburg and delivered to Rik County General Hospital by Game Warden Turley.
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