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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1928
Page
10
A local drive for the Corry Hospital opens with canvassing aiming to raise 13500 in five days. The report outlines hospital need, charity work, and state support, noting 643 days of free service last year and $525.64 in home loans plus $22.85 interest paid.
Columbus notes a communion service at the Community Church on Sunday October 18 with the morning sermon Sacrament of Service. Residents Philip Denis and family return to town, buying a Webber street home built by George Hillman.
Erie Oct. 23 A four year old girl of 614 HE 22nd street died at St Vincent's Hospital from burns suffered a week earlier when she fell into a bonfire in the rear of a new home. Witnesses say she tripped and plunged into the flames as she played Barents rushed to her aid and after seating the burning clothes she carried her to the hospital. The chart notes hospital charges and charity care reflecting state aided hospital policy.
Charles Leech Gulick, organ artist and musical director of the Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, will perform at the First Methodist Episcopal Church. A native of New Jersey, he has extensive touring and radio experience and will feature the Estey organ. He recently opened a new Estey at Ford, Maine, and will visit Corry as part of a Western tour with further engagements in New England and Pennsylvania.
On October 28 a plan for a 26 000 airport in Warren was disclosed by a citizen group led by three refiners. They proposed acquiring 66 acres in the west end, a former summer fodder site, and forming a Delaware corporation. Names tied to the proposal include LC Jamieson of Viking Oil, H R Lewis of Conneango Refinery, and G G Brockway of G G Brockway Co. The agreement allows the borough to buy the field after five years by reimbursing improvements plus the purchase price.
A fragmentary clipping references a Shakespeare line “the worst is yet to be” and mentions a figure or phrase “welnar figesti” with garbled terms like “sinsage machhiv” suggesting a misread or garbled OCR. Further context is unreadable in the readable text.
Jamestown resident H. EV. Porter will speak Sunday evening at the Corry Ministerial Association gathering in the Meat ME Church. The event features combined church choirs under Mrs. Ralph B. Dewey with several numbers. Porter, a New York state legislator, is noted for public service in Jamestown.
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