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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1939
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions city matters with garbled details about vehicles or swings and a potential hire context. No clear names, dates, or actions are readable to define a specific event or outcome.
Education Week activities at Senior High include student committees, class projects on the flag and civics, and readings. Students engage in typing, home discussion, and dramatic skits while clubs plan events and a Halloween party entertains with costumes and performances.
Readers get a snapshot of a busy Cor Tisa week with singing assemblies, new sopho more voices, a snake dance, the Patty Yohe scavenger hunt, and announcements about Tris jltlam plays. Health exams, class notices, and senior year chatter fill halls as students anticipate Christmas and the varsity dance.
Funeral services were held for Joah M. Carter after an automobile accident. The service at Uttetl Brothers in Christ church included Rev. H Ray Harris officiating and organ music by Kathryn Wall-Taisel. Burial followed at West Lawn cemetery in Columbus. Numerous relatives and members of Columbus Grange attended, with many neighbors and extended family from multiple towns listed as attendees.
Detroit, Nov. 6 Rev Charles B. Coughlin in a Sunday sermon warned that under the new neutrality law the United States’ prosperity hinges on the British Empire. He attacked the cash and carry export system as pro British and French, predicting it would collapse into reliance on credit once the Allies exhaust $16 billion in ready cash.
Pennsylvania’s General Assistance rolls declined as of October 22, with 9014 fewer cases, about 33,284 people. Private industry employment led the net drop, WPA employment remained a major factor, and total aid expenditures fell by 158,937 dollars for the week. Applications fell 69 percent to 6329, while 239,007 cases covered 718,291 people, about 122,000 below the August 20 peak.
Byron Clapper ten, son of Constable Tom Clapper, was shot in a hunting mishap on his grandfather Peles Clapper’s farm. Buckshot struck his face, neck, side and shoulder while two companions aided and he was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital for treatment as doctors prepared to remove the pellets.
Kane Sov records a 11 degree low at 6 a m Saturday in the frost pocket area near Spring Wattz company. Outside the pocket, the Weather Bureau reported 1 44 as the minimum at 6 a m. Observer Stanley Iroins noted a water pan froze solid. Ponds at the Water Works were coated with frost as roofs collected early Friday evening under clear skies.
National Guardsmen from Philadelphia Lewistown DuBois Bellefonte Harrisburg and Waynesboro marched from Alliance across Interstate 76 at Inliantown Gap to kick off a three day winter war games warmup. The first contingent was called to the military reservation for an extra week of maneuvers to boost Guard efficiency per War Department plans. Local ads urge readers to use classified want ads.
James E. Hazeltine a prominent North Warren resident was struck by a car while crossing the Warren Jamestown highway near Bushfin Valve Works. He sustained serious injuries including possible ankle fractures and severe bruises, with shock. The driver, Herman Jensen, fled the scene. Hazeltine was treated at home after the incident and remains confined to bed.
In Philadelphia a major phase of the murder for hire case against Glee syndicate members ends this week as Pail Pétrillo learns if he faces death or life in prison. The dapper defendant has pleaded guilty to arsenic poisoning of Luigia Vecchio, ending a 16 day trial segment.
Verna reports acne and blemish improvement after using Adlev ika. She says her skin is smooth and glowing. The ad claims Adlev ika also relieves temporary constipation and bowel relief. Sold at Kelster's Cut Rate Store 1-10.
Sayre, arrested Friday night by Pennsylvania Motor Police, arraigned before Justice Edwin C. Anderson on reckless driving after an evening collision between his Ford coach and a Packard driven by Seward W. Young of Erie. Sayre was found guilty and paid fine plus costs. Damage to Young's car about $180. Sayre’s vehicle damage estimated at $25.
In Ridgway Nevada a fire damaged the home of Mr and Mrs Clair Pistner on Wenfield Avenue outskirts of St Marys. The blaze caused a hole in a door and scorching in one room. The St Marys fire department and auxiliary crew extinguished the fire quickly while the Pistners were at the movies.
More than 300 Erie County residents will seek census jobs for the 1940 count. About 200 to 200 men and women in Erie and surrounding areas will be employed in the district to gather information for the government. Weyer of North East will supervise all workers. Salaries vary by day week or month and testing will determine qualifications at Local Offices. Further details to be announced soon with a notice posted at Commerce Building room 314.
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