Twenty Years Ago From Journal Piles October 21 1930
A digest from the Journal lists candidates visiting Cory as illness kept John M Hemphill from meeting locals. Sedgwick Kistler Bard and Douglas are noted. Death of Dewitt Wallace follows injuries from a tractor incident near Wheelock. A local Beneficial Lear Society opens on South Center Street. Police note a crime wave amid a safe heist at Hammond Elevator. Gerry’s Community Ghost reports 11477.06 spent in the year ending Oct 1 with emergency funds of 2287.28. The UN Charter remarks and postwar aid context are summarized along with a Pittsburgh strike update showing no settlement after 21 days.
Roaming Round Highlights Local News And People
Norpac forms to attract industries in northwestern Pennsylvania with founders including John A Blatt and Earl T Cherry. Richard Alfred inducted into Order of Gownsmen at University of the South Sewanee for high academic averages. Richard Hoskins studies at LaSalle College Washington preparing for the Christian Brothers. Halloween pranksters damage tires causing headaches for motorists. Raymond Debury stationed at Camp Edwards Massachusetts. Doe and Lena Cohen plan to keep the North Canter Street home while moving to Toledo. Automobile accident in front of Steenthy plant noted as fourth recent incident. Detroit reports 1951 models priced near current lines. de Luxe cars priced higher. Cost study shows education expense in Ene county schools up about 10 percent. Sale of North Center street business rumored, bidders about $10,000 apart. Harry Minard dies. former Ajax Tron Works rep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norpac
Pennsylvania
John A. Blatt
Earl T. Cherry
Richard Alfred
University of the South
Sewanee
Tenn
Richard Hoskins
Isabelle Hoskins
West South Street
LaSalle College
Washington, D. C
Christian Brothers
Pittsburgh
Hallowe'en
Jack Stahl
Raymond Debury
George DeLury
Camp Edwards
Mass
Doe
Lena Cohen
North Canter Street
Toledo
Steen Thy
Detroit
Ene County
North Center Street
How's Your I Q and a Pennsylvan ia Railroad notes
The clipping discusses IQ scoring with categories from Genius to Poor a note on a due process appeal under the 14th amendment references a Pennsylvan ia freighthouse at First Avenue repainted in railroad grey and mentions polio patients from Corry being moved to Zem Zem Hospital in Erle for treatment and education. Sunshine Packing Corp asks tea locker operators to help with wholesale storage of juices and fruits as tomato juice is unloaded to Corry Locker Service for cold storage and fall shipping concludes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Appeals
Pennsylvania Railroad
First Avenue
Duke View Hospital
Corry
Zem Zem Hospital
Erle
Sunshine Packing Corp
Five Years of the United Nations
The United Nations celebrates its fifth anniversary on October 24, marking growth in membership from 61 to 84 nations and a budget rise from 215 million to 41.6 million for this year. It notes expansions in secretariat staff, key divisions, and agencies, plus mixed reports on achievements such as regional disputes, while highlighting limits like atom energy control and an international police force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Truman
Russia
Byrnes
Washington
Ukraine
Poland
League of Nations
Costa Rice
League
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
Military Staff Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
FAO
Unesco
WHO
ILO
IRO
International Bank
UN Assembly
Palestine
Berlin
Internaional Court
Gorfu Channel
Albania
United Kingdom
Yolke Bernadotte
Sweden
Pales
Shakespeare play balcony scene name
The questions refer to famous works and terms. Answers include Romeo and Juliet for the balcony scene, glue and mucilage come from plants, The Razor's Edge author is W. Somerset Maugham, Bream as an invisible gas is false, a foible is a minor character flaw, the author of Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis, the Pentagon building was named for its pyramidal shape and strategic function, the first ten amendments are the Bill of Rights, Emperor Maximilian ruled Mexico, and France presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babbitt
Pentagon
Washington, D. C
U. S
Maximilian
Archduke of
Austria
United States
Local notes from Corry area and regional business updates
A fragmentary page mentions a Texas resident Mr Mipard passing after a cerebral hemorrhage, Harold Johnson serving aboard USS Massey, and Jim Allyn among early WWII POWs to receive a daily payout. It notes beer price hikes by distributors, a potato industry parade effort led by Oscar Langer, unusually warm weather effects, red raspberries found on a neighbor’s lawn, Camp Atterbury wartime training for Company A, and gas line work reaching Route 6 with pipeline crews moving toward Westfield and a Carter Hill pumping station. A Phoenix Insurance rep visited, presenting a mahogany wall clock to F E Davis and Son for 70 years of agency representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Mipard
Midland
Harold (. Johnson
USN
Claude Johnson
Corry
Ri di
Massey
Jim Allyn
Oscar Langer
K R. Benson
East Bond Street
Atterbury
Whttr
H. ©. Price Co
New York
Sherman
Westfield
Tutte
Carter Hill
Oes
Local notes mix: sales, staff moves, and hearings
The Corry Hospital nurses seek weekly half day off amid a broader local business and civic mix. A Buffalo educator from the American Educator Encyclopedia contributed tape transcriptions to a city event tied to Pennsylvania Week. Geese migrating south signal cold weather as courtroom news ties to the high court for Ray mond Fernandes and Martha Beck in their appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery Ward
John Zepka
Erie
Corry Hospital
Ed Gitchell
Buffalo
Gitchell
Pennsylvania
Raymond Fernandes
Martha Beck
Fernandez
Jane Wilson Thompson
Elgin
Spain
Beck
New York State
Also Mentioned on This Page
John M. Hemphill
Cory
Sedgwick Kistler
U. S. Senate
Guy K. Bard
George F. Douglas
Wheelock
Wayne Township
Dewitt
Wallace
The
Beneficial Lear Society
St. James Building
South Center Street
Ben F. Starr
Ught
Columbus Avenue
Hammond Elevator Company
Eagle Street
Gerry
S.B. Elston
A. G. Postlethwait
Donnell
R-Mo
Wheeler
D-Mont
Taft
R-O
Harry Minard
Ajax Tron
Ite
Stahl Jewelers
South Center
Page & Nichols
Nucva Oleo
Hershey's Syrup
E. Main St
Pillsbury
Crisco
Columbus
Clare Gordon
Columbus, Paree
Aise Tietaediences
Firestone
Barney
J. F. Gahan
Phoenix Insurance Co
Hartford, Conn
F. E. Davis and Son Insurance Sigenay
Thomas Crags
Fogle Lumber CO
Wrankin St
Corry, Pa
America
Academy
Meerdine’s Home Furnishings
West Main and
Spring
Kinley Insurance Agency
S. Center St
Jodhpurs
Al’s
Clothes
Sete
Dodge
Martin Motor Sales
West South St
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