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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1922
Page
3
Corry Evening Journal notes headlines on homemade liquor dangers as J M Doray warns prohibition deniers about acetaldehyde risks and organ damage from home-brewed spirits. Also reports on German Christmas toys arriving in New York, highlighting teddy bears jumpers and mechanical toys as safer than war matériel.
A local report notes Mayor Dr Tolila M Rogers unveiling a community health initiative at Daytona, a well known winter resort, with plans to provide medicine and public welfare services to residents and visitors alike.
Reports from Perry include travelers to Los Angeles via Eve seeking homeward return and a Pheific coast trip by Dr Powell and wife. Harrsiburg hosts a side convention, while a new oper house is planned on Mein street with two stores. A Perry restaurant employee, Warren Mirror, wakes after sleep to a mysterious death hindering attempts to rouse her.
Dolores Schimts, eight years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Merv Geo J Schimts of Brussels, is in critical condition at Andrew Kul Memorial Hospital after being struck by a car on Brussels street. She was riding on a coal wagon when a car coming from the Burk Nome side failed to stop and the child stepped into its path. The driver tried to avoid the collision but could not.
A quirky mosaic of half remembered phrases and stray quotes from a bygone issue. Odds and ends touch on football, crime, parrots, rivers, doctors, and odd aphorisms, all presented in a fragmentary newswire style with no clear single story.
Nine year old Marlin Mann, son of Mr and Mrs John Mann, was struck by a car while children played on the sidewalk near his father’s home in Slann Tuesday evening. The auto halted after running over him. Marlin suffered a fractured skull but was able to walk home and is reported to be feeling well today.
A Harrisburg report notes a police dragnet raided narcotic selling centers in eastern Pennsylvania. About 20 people were arrested including sellers and users as part of a coordinated operation led by District Attorney Phillip Moyer and the State Bureau of Drug Control with Philadelphia’s Narcotics Division chief and the regional inspector involved.
Youngsville reports the well drilled to over 5000 feet has halted due to an injury when worker Littler Murry Coppex was pulled into clamps and bruised. A physician says recovery will take about two weeks. The company reorganizes while awaiting repairs. the well near Glades was begun May 30, 1921 by L L Anderson to reach a gas supply.
The New York produce market report shows fluctuating prices across dairy eggs poultry and grains. Notable figures include creamery firsts at $801 score, eggs and fresh milk receipts around 19,210, and steady to firmer markets for cornmeal oats rye and wheat with specific regional values and scales for various grades.
The speaker decries extending federal aid for state services as economically wasteful and politically dangerous. It would create a vast Washington bureaucratic apparatus, shift power from states to the federal government, and erode local initiative and enterprise, undermining the federal system.
John A. Quinn presents the Better Pictures Association of the World aims to discourage objectionable motion pictures and misleading advertising. It seeks improvements in film art, safeguards against unreasonable regulations, support for worthy productions, and a Merit Seal of excellence. It also promotes expert services and opposes unfair criticism and propaganda against film.
A reflective piece argues that materialism, framed as a science grounded philosophy, has been decisively undermined by scientists themselves. It frames physics and science as harmonizing with spiritual views, suggesting a cooperative progress toward justice and brotherhood rather than blind material forces.
An old warning argues that food production per acre has peaked and urban overpopulation threatens future hunger. It claims that only about five people can be supported per acre, with luxuries for only a few, urging economical living and skepticism toward intensive farming methods.
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