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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
3
A local column discusses language questions and spelling with humor and critique. It cites a robbery, fines for profanity, and readers’ tasks on pronunciation grammar and usage. The piece mixes local notices with teaching prompts and answers from yesterday.
A Life magazine style reflection on Thomas A. Edison contemplating whether to live life again, noting his many successes outweighing failures. The piece argues life is generally good, fear of death persists, and people keep living across individuals, families, groups, and nations despite suffering and joy.
In a problem a day, a pig grows from 60 to 159 pounds on 280 pounds of feed. Find average feed per added pound of weight. The provided explanation mixes arithmetic steps with an oddly stated result of 6,624 feet and a wire calculation, but the core question remains the feed-to-weight gain ratio.
An advertisement touts Bowles Red Pepper Rub as fast relief for rheumatism and related pains. It claims instant tingling heat within minutes to warm the affected area and improve blood circulation, noting uses for neuritis buckwheat and stiff neck, with genuine Rowles branding.
The product combines easily assimilated cod liver oil with vitamins to keep the body vitamin nourished, building resistance to coughs and colds in grown people.
Report notes circulating papers discuss a new daily in Corry, but no official word exists. The item mentions individuals including Nathan Geer and Miss Pearl Geer of Norwich, NY, visiting SR. Geer and family on Deud Hill and a party departing by train to California for the winter.
The Dorcas class plans a bake sale Saturday at 9 in the storeroom once used by RP Livermore Co. A full line of baked goods including bread pies cakes and cookies will be on display. Proceeds go to the M E church. Members urged to send donations early.
Answers include Switzerland for the missionary, Europe’s small nations’ wars, nine tails being a term, Dewey’s notable war, England’s town with no longitude, and factual items on commodities, the Seven Years War, Bear Mountain Bridge at Peekskill, and Spitzbergen.
Lakewood reports a burglary at the Thos. A. Wells gas station on Lakewood Road. The thief jimmied the east window and stole cigars cigarettes candy 15 pounds of butter bread bacon and a small amount of change. The desk was ransacked but yielded nothing of value. The Wells family home lies nearby and no one was on site after closing. Chief W B Granaf leads the investigation.
Dominic Albanese alias Dominic Albans, 24, arrested in Buffalo for Elle County authorities over the disappearance of minor Elizabeth Testa of Ridge Way. Report notes delays in reporting the case and describes a burglary scene near a store with no clear clues and amateur involvement suspected.
A doctor sought a tonic to rejuvenate hair color and health without dye, proposing a harmless formula to stimulate scalp and hair roots. The effort, tied to Lea's Hair Tonic and decades of experiments, aimed to restore natural color in gray hair rather than cover it.
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