Red Cross Poll Totals and Local News from 1931
Final report on the 1981 Red Cross poll call shows Corry chapter raising 486.45 dollars and enrolling 372 members for the coming year. Corry High School basketball practice starts Monday with opener against Corryton on December 11. Veterans returning include Dick Bachomer Orris Thayer and Sonny Daye. Local post office reports Halloween mailbox vandalism. Two more cases of contagious diseases, scarlet fever and erysipelas, were reported to health authorities. Mrs J D Flanigan hosted a dinner bridge for Miss Mary Sullivan’s birthday with prizes to Mrs L R Donaldson and Mrs Paul Phelps.
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Red Cross
Milton L. Brown
Corry
Corry High School
Cochranton
Dick" Bachomer
Orris ‘Thayer
Sonny’ Daye
J D. Flanigan
North Center Street
Dinner Bridge
Mary Sullivan
Bridge
L. R. Donaldson
Pail Phelps
City to Enforce Seven Hour Parking Ban
City officials plan to enforce a seven hour parking ban. The move follows routine council actions including approval of a Christmas lighting fund of 50 dollars and discussion of summer recreation funding. A hazardous condition at the U S Chair factory on East Main Street will be corrected, per health board notes.
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Page One
Hams
Hubert Vaughn
Lawrence Douglas
Corry
J. 3
Bettes
David Livingston
Retail Merchants Bureau
Board of Health
Merrill Fattereon
Ald U
Ingathering at Thanksgiving Day Service at Emmanuel
The annual ingathering of fall harvest fruits will be received and placed in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church chancel on Thanksgiving Day at 10:30 am service. They will later go to St Barnabas House near North East run by Brothers of the Order of St Barnabas aiding men and boys of all races. Rev Joseph R Clair asks offerings of food to be brought Wednesday evening. The case is expected to go to the jury today.
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Emmanuel Epiacopa Church
St. Barnabes House
North East
Brothers of the Order of St. Barnabas
Joseph R. Clair
Jack Dilimen
Sulphur Shortage And Newsprint Supply
The non Soviet world faces a 15 to 20 percent sulphur shortfall affecting newsprint availability and costs. Sulphuric acid and derivatives power munitions, steel, paint, rubber, and fertilizer, with production rationed by international agreements and U S controls. New deposits in Louisiana Texas Mexico Chile offer hope yet years away from impact. meanwhile supplies dwindle. The piece notes Chicago’s Wrigley and Tribune towers marking berths once used by beaver-trappers.
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United States
Louisiana
Texas
Mexico
Chile
How's Your I. Q. Memory Test Headlines
A reader memory test explains scoring from 1 to 19 with grades Genius to Poor and suggests tracking monthly averages. It directs turning to Classified Page for answers and lists question prompts about a senator’s state, the OGPU NEVD MVD lineage, a coal based material, and WWI naval strength comparisons.
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Senator Wiley
U. S. Senate
OGPU
NEVD
MVD
Great Britain
United States of America
Japan
France
Jamestown Man Dies of Infantile Paralysis at 29
Gordon J. Erickson of Lakewood aged 29 and a press operator at Art Metal Plant 1 died after a four day illness in Jamestown General Hospital. The World War I veteran born February 19, 1902 in Jamestown was a member of Mission Covenant Church and a 1936 confirmand from Jamestown High School.
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Jamestown
Gordon J. Erickson
Lakewood
Art Metal Plant 1
Jamestown General Hospital
Mr. Erickson
Oscar E. Erickson
Mission Covenant Church
Jamestown High School
Mixed history quiz about Henry VII and rulers
A set of trivia questions asks if Henry VII had four wives, names Lehman as a former governor, inquires who wrote The Court of Miles Standish, asks which two presidents came from states west of the Mississippi, defines a martinet, and asks how to eat a drinkable cocktail, whether with a fork or spoon.
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Henry VII
England
Henry
Lehman
Miles Standish
Mississippi
Abortion Trial Opens as Jury Hears Testimony
In Franklin on November 20 Nick Ellis testified before an eight woman, four man jury in Vensago County Court. He described taking Audrey Cornelius, a 22 year old Wesleyville woman three months pregnant, to Dr J Henry Hoerner to obtain a miscarriage. Ellis said he paid $25 after the girl provided it. Dr Hoerner faces abortion charges for allegedly using an instrument. He was arrested at his Franklin home on July 26 after waiving preliminaries and pleading not guilty, with bail set at $3,000.
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Franklin
Nick Ellis
Erie
Vensago County
Wesleyville
J. Henry Hoerner
Hoefer
Miss Cornelius
Pyle
Bruce A. Reeder
Hoefner
Pvt. Reeder
Cpl
D. A. Gehr
Franklin State
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Hele
Springfield Township
Board of Assessment Appeals
Elmer D. Laughrey
Lois Wright
Springfeld
ICITY
Rossbacher Insurance Service
First Avenue
Corry, Pa
Wrigley and Trumne Towers
Chicago
I. Q
Thiessen
Union
First Presbyterian
Wilmer Heffer
The
Corry Ministerial Association
anCise
Weceteria
Cas
Smart Buys
Buick
I W. W. Waterhouse
South Street
Leeds
LEED
General Electric
MO Tana
Meerdink‘s. House
General
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