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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1931
Page
3
CORRY EVENING JOURNAL notes a shift in reading: from economics and business titles to books that entertain and distract. Chicago Public Library chief says realism wanes as readers seek fantasy and escape, favoring Dickens historical novels biographies travel and fiction over current affairs.
Read guidance from the Bulletin of the National City Bank of New York. It urges individuals families and businesses to act by organizing their affairs for the upturn reducing wastes cutting costs and tightening the business machine. The text argues adjustments and debt repayment as the path toward restored equilibrium and recovery.
Thousands of American communities are plastered with political posters after campaigns. The writer condemns poster campaigns as the worst form of billboard defacement, noting poles trees fences barns and building exteriors bearing notices. Laws exist to curb posting but enforcement is weak and removal often occurs only after elections.
A quoted passage argues a newspaper must print the truth on urgent industrial problems. It urges frank discussion to solve widespread gloom and solve practical issues rather than ignore them.
Twenty years ago the O R Rogers and Co building on Main Street was nearly complete with a full heating system. The elegant Waclash Titanite Company offices were already in use by that firm. Amreliis defeated the Giants by 18 to 2 with Baker starring, and State Senator Frank M. Knapp of Warren visited the city regarding the Corry Spring Creek road project and other business.
OIL CITY Oct 17 Local railroad officers misdrew as Trader Horn arrived by foot in OIl City from Frewsburg N Y after low water thwarted his 12 foot boat voyage toward the Gulf of Mexico He planned to reach Alliquippa Pa by water but weather and river conditions forced him to press on by foot toward Pittsburgh while eyeing a spring return to water travel Traders route and plans are framed around an Abpictivesque journey along the Allegheny and connected waters with his dog and a cobral spaniel in tow.
Walla and K H Hoff traveled to Oil City for a convention of electrical engineers. Mr and Mrs Bert Scott of Meadville visited over Sunday with Mr Scott’s parents. he is the city editor of the Meadville Tribune. The Palm Restaurant changed hands as Guy L Guignon sold the property and goodwill to Charles M Stewart.
Daily lessons in English by W L Gordon discuss common misused phrases and pronunciations. It highlights preferred word choices and errors in spelling and usage with examples and guidance to expand vocabulary daily.
The reader lists five questions with provided answers: first president to serve five terms is George Washington, the Latin quarters of New York City are Greenwich Village, the term for World War II camouflage is camouflage, the Biblical walker on water is Peter, and New Orleans’ Crescent City nickname derives from the bend in the Mississippi River creating a crescent shape.
The problem asks how to split 1536 into three factors in the same ratio as 21-6, 31-4, and 41-8. The solution uses a volume approach with a disc formula and wood volume, outlining a division by a8 times 3-8 times 22-7 times 1-8, yielding the factorized result.
A meeting in Akron will organize the Central Industrial Basketball League with reps from Cleveland Akron Chicago Fort Wayne Pittsburgh Canton Columbus and others. Oil City invited and represented by Oil City. George Chucona led interest and will decide on franchise purchase. Players will come from various industries and the league aims for a strong amateur level with former Central Pro and American Pro players involved.
Jamestown October 17. Albin T Carlson 19 of 78 Glasgow avenue touched a high voltage street lighting wire while outside his home. He was electrocuted. firefighters and police used resuscitation gear for two and a half hours, but he died.
John J Burgoyne elected president of the Erie County Motor Club by the board of directors at a hotel meeting. He had been serving as president the past three months to fill the unexpired term of H Lie Munger. Other officers were reelected and directors named. A nearby radio aerial caused electrical hazards during bad weather.
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