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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1929
Page
3
The Corry Evening Journal reports on Prof. Hermann Oberth plans for a Baltic Sea rocket test and a future one hour mail flight to America. The piece warns readers to expect a new era in mail delivery with high speed rockets and potential safety concerns.
In his last work Georges Clemenceau speculates that death resembles a dreamless sleep a pure unconscious state. He suggests death is an absence of pleasure and pain and notes many disagree while others believe the mind shapes its afterlife. The article reflects on certainty doubt and the notion of a mysterious beyond.
Answers to yesterday's questions cover green leaf substance chlorophyll the Duke of Wellington battle Waterloo the number of unite unknown writer of Mother of Mine unknown West Branch U S forces halt base at Quantico Virginia and quote we must speak softly and carry a big stick.
A bulletin recalls injuries and deaths from 1909 with W Holmes of Meadville losing a foot after a whirling accident and T Williams of Cortland dying. Local residents discuss timbering efforts, Ethel Hrickson becomes a stenographer at Raymond Mtg Co, and several families plan travel to New York Philadelphia Warren and Erie for celebrations and visits. Journal notes births birthdays travel and social movements among Meadville residents.
A fragmentary page includes a math brainteaser about radii and perimeters and a police notice offering a 5000 reward for information locating Mrs Beecher Conse of Utica who disappeared on November 14 while under health strain. She is described as 54, brown hair and eyes, 5 ft 3 in, 112 pounds.
Funeral services for two Warren auto crash victims will be held at Pentonville and sites in Jamestown Tidbute and Altham. W Barton Hammond dies at Jamestown Hospital. Fred W Dagon and Clarence C Rounds honored with church services as coroner weighs an inquest. Driver William Ross says truck sideswiped him. truck not yet located.
The junior church school held a pleasant Friday afternoon with games and refreshments. Older juniors enjoyed a festive dancing party in the evening with the Ciney orchestra providing music for traditional and modern dances.
Misery Walter will discuss his 70,000 mile journey around the world undertaken without a limb at 3 00 p m on December 1 in the Woman's Club auditorium on Mott Street. Robert Hiskine Ely commends his book The World On One Leg as a moving and well told account likely to impress any audience.
Ruth Nogarth of Havelhurst, 17, reportedly ran away Tuesday afternoon. Parents say she may have stayed with a Bradford friend, possibly employed by H F Bemis at 120 School Street. City detectives followed a clue but found no trace by nightfall.
Kane November says game commission expects a record deer kill as hunters move into camps for the December 2 to December 14 season. Forecasts note rising deer numbers, prior year doe-only hunting, and large bear activity as crowds gather and road watchers begin patrolling.
Glenn, general superintendent of the National Transit Co., was badly bruised when his auto was struck by a Erie railroad gasoline car at a crossing near Reid Ges Engine Co. works. He was taken home and a physician said the injuries are not serious.
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