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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
4
The Corry Pa paper lists mailing addresses in New York Chicago and Detroit for advertising and mentions Republican and AP dispatch use. It notes subscription rates five dollars per year mail and three dollars in restricted territory with a carrier rate of fifteen cents per week.
Reports from Moscow warn the city could fall to German forces, with Britain blamed for slow support. The Russian campaign damages Germany's war machine, costing thousands of German troops, tanks, and planes. Some call for intensified Western and Italian offensives to aid Russia and early peace talks if Moscow collapses.
Citizens are urged to buy defense bonds and savings stamps beyond personal capacity, with emphasis on public support and redirected income to counter inflation. The piece notes past wartime drives and argues for modern publicity, citing Tom Girdler as an example of industry shifting toward patriotism over pure profit.
A quirky item tests readers with seven trivia prompts including geography history anatomy and a mail question. It mentions Bedloe Island the Duke of Kent and asks if a registered letter requires an addressee to accept delivery.
Reprinted from Defense On Main Street, the piece urges boosting democracy as efficient and modern. It highlights Grand Coulee Dam and other projects, arguing democratic achievement surpasses dictatorships and promotes national pride.
Daily Dozen notes alarm over claims that 45,000,000 Americans lack essential foods and 50,000,000 have impaired health from wrong diets. An inquiry of hospitals and dispensaries finds less than 1 percent of low economic level patients show food deficiency, arguing vitamins are needed daily.
The article notes moving and storage are now precise, with items checked on departure and arrival. Aluminum, once rare and valuable, fell from 545 dollars a pound in 1852 to 17 cents today due to ongoing research and improved refining methods.
Mary Campbell, born Maytown 1862, died at Summit hospital after a fall from the second step at her Kane home. She slipped while descending to the first floor, suffering a broken clavicle and severe facial injuries. death attributed to shock.
Jamestown New York October 16 a five month old girl Sandra Jean Hale daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hale burned to death when their five family apartment at 653 East Sixth Street burned to the ground Fire Chief Rudolph Swanson said the fire started in the room where the baby slept and spread rapidly Mrs Hale 15 left the child in its crib while visiting next door and the baby was in a carriage beside an open gas fire it is believed the child kicked a blanket onto the flame and the fire enveloped the room the report noted also that every family on Sedar Island off North Carolina owns its homes with no mortgaged property remaining
Erie Oct 16 Pennsylvania motor poller admitted balking in determining how six sticks of DuPont dynamite with 40 percent glycerin base reached the Peninsula the dynamite found Friday 600 feet beyond the administration building concealed off the road packaging was careful Corp Charles Soro who investigated checked every construction company reporting dynamite theft and concluded the dynamite was not their property He believes it had no connection with anything subversive and is possible the act was casual.
Mrs Josephine Pietron of 819 East 2th Street widow of John Pietron won 3800 in workmen compensation from District Referee Jesse G Smith Warren against Liberty Mutual Insurance and Erie Forge Company. Her husband died July 8 1940 of occupational disease. insurer appealed to the compensation board in Harrisburg. Jane had an idea about dynamiting for sh but that’s only a guess Sovok said.
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