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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1927
Page
3
Publication details for the Corry Pennsylvania newspaper list its address on West South Street and states editions published daily except Sunday. It lists contact points for national ads and post rates including yearly, weekly, and carrier prices.
The article profiles George Remus of Cincinnati known as the hootsex king. He killed his wife and is on trial for murder while acting as his own attorney from a jailcell. He defends himself claiming temporary insanity.
Cotton mill workers in Lynny Mass face a safety driven shift to low heels after frequent slipping on the job. Some workers refuse, while cobblers see a surge in demand. Separately, airplane makers predict production booms with a Ford factory visitor noting a tiny two cylinder four stroke plane prototype weighing 900 pounds and powered by an 80 horsepower engine, seen as a potential future ride.
An advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets as weight building and easy on the stomach. It claims millions are taken monthly across North America with a money back guarantee if a 6 pound gain and health improvement aren’t seen after using four 60 cent boxes or two dollar boxes.
Washington dispatches reveal Philadelphia boss William Vare and loyalist James Montgomery Beck maneuvering over Vare’s seat. Beck, once solicitor general, joins the Vare slate. Mellons and Reeds face off as Pennsylvania politics swirl around seat control for the next congressional term.
Miss Josephine Haldeman and Julius Roselle plan a companionate marriage to be supervised by parents with Thanksgiving wedding. Roselle, 20, a University of Kansas sophomore, will continue schooling while living apart. If the arrangement proves feasible after education, they may live together. otherwise divorce may follow.
A crowded Parish House gathered for a Thanksgiving donation chest packing to the Odd Fellows in Meadville. Local clubs played bowling with Ale Gumbinsky and Gene Dean starring. Storms caused major wind damage. branches and poles toppled, lines downed. Erie Railroad adds permanent housing on First Avenues. questions arise about a new opera house. Worthy notices include Harry Weeks’s kennel, T R Patton as Erie agent, and J B Manley honored for shoveling snow. Farmington Avenue hotel fire partly destroys Hartford Theological Seminary property. Thaddeus Bentley, former Corry resident, managed the hotel.
A misquoted line from Aldous Huxley appears in Vault magazine arguing that ignorance grants certainty while knowledge expands awareness. The fragment suggests a shift from rigid certainty to tolerance, reflecting on past attitudes and modern intellectual humility.
Nov 21 Little Valley pupils five girls and three boys traveling to a Springville High game in a closed truck suffer severe headaches and fainting from exhaust smoke. A doctor says they would have died had the trip continued another half hour. Students and staff evacuated to safety and recovered.
Two persons killed at Margate and one injured at Porkstone Kent as weekend storms sweep Great Britain. Shipping delayed on the English Channel and rivers along Welsh and Shropshire borders reported overflowing.
A local resident reported three small wooden blocks with nails driven through them placed under tires of a parked car on Liberty Street. Police were told of similar blocks found under other vehicles, suggesting a deliberate scheme to damage multiple tires.
Dead reckoning, used by navigators, ends a vessel’s position at sea without astronomical observations, relying on charts and compass readings. The term applies to aviation as well, with Lindbergh’s Paris flight cited as an example of no astronomical observations.
Harrisburg reports the State Highway Department will issue about 1,000,000 license tags by January 1, 1928 for cars operated in 1928. Postmasters are urged to inform auto owners to file test applications now to ease mail load and ensure timely tagging. Other states urged similar action.
Two fires in Altoona yesterday left five people injured and several narrowly escaped death. A 74 year old woman, Mrs. Rachel Stouts, jumped from a second story window and was hospitalized. Two children were tossed to neighbors by residents as flames engulfed the same house, while firemen were hurt responding to the alarm in East Altoona.
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