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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1947
Page
4
Twenty years ago, as recorded in journal notes from October 29, 1924, Mrs. Rose-Mi Ward, who has led the Community Manning Service in the city for the past year, was reappointed as community nurse for another year. V. Stewart was elected president of the Community Chest at the same meeting.
The second in a series of parties hosted by local Masonic fraterni ty drew about sixty attendees at the Cory post office area. Committee members named include C. W. Smith Sidney Histon and B. Paulson Caprier with advertising rates set at four cents per copy and twenty four cents per week.
The article details how Civil Rights guarantees operate against government action, not individuals, and traces post Civil War laws. It explains the 14th Amendment limits, two surviving provisions, and their use against peonage, poll tampering, police brutality, and election fraud. It notes historical court invalidation and limited effectiveness in issues like lynching.
For the second time in moments the fire department was called to Shuss Auto Repair Show on North Center Street just north of Star Garage. Defective wiring is believed to have caused a blaze between the ceiling and foot, threatening the structure.
A reader questions a sequence of historical trivia from a classified page, asking who succeeded Woodrow Wilson, the national commander of a veterans group, the drive for British food parcels tied to Princess Elizabeth's wedding, and other items. The prompt lists multiple choice and factual prompts about kings, measurements, Stalin's surname meaning, U.S. Army pigeons in WWII, a veteran actor with a death month noted, presidential succession order, and Raleigh’s execution by a particular means.
The article notes Dr Thomas George Morton in Philadelphia performing the first successful appendicitis operation in 1887. It discusses shifting views from whether to operate to when to operate, and cites dramatic drops in mortality from about 20 percent to 2.44 percent in Philadelphia hospitals by 1933, with University of Pennsylvania data showing operations since 1936 for acute peritonitis and gangrene with death rates under 0.5 percent. It asserts no medical treatment exists for acute appendicitis and dismisses cold therapy as ineffective.
Advertisement promotes Thompson's Hor soma Tablets claiming to purify the blood by cleaning waste matter from kidneys. It warns of back aches and general pains from clogged kidneys and urges readers to demand genuine Hor soma Tablets at drug stores. It also promotes Golden Lax Tablets for constipation as a waste-removal aid.
In the county age 45 and under, appendicitis causes more deaths than all malignancies. An estimated 15,000 plus patients die yearly from peritonitis due to appendicitis. Sulfa drugs penicillin and streptomycin help prevent peritoneal infections. Early operation remains best, but when delayed these new drugs can reduce deaths.
The Treasury report dated October 29 lists receipts of 71,604,087.0 dollars and a national balance of 3,857,975,024.55 dollars as of October 27.
Carl Johnson, 32, of Jamestown, was sentenced to two years at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after pleading guilty to tractor truck theft. He was arrested September 19 in Jamestown on license and public intoxication charges and linked to a Pittsburgh theft on September 16. FBI investigations led to charges under the national motor theft act and the arrest of Robert L. Cook, 23, of Grand Bais Mich, in connection with the case.
Mayville October 20 William Dowson age 1 ad 1 Lakewood pleaded guilty before County Judge Hugh Y Bodine to burglary third degree for entering the residence of Merle Tiffany on January 24 1945 He had previously pleaded innocent to five other indictments by the grand jury October for attempted grand larceny first degree The Bronx resident Andrew Stengele 27 pleaded guilty October 8 to one of the five indictments after declining counsel and was assigned Wayne T Herrick James to Little further details provided
Ross Weeks previously assigned as counsel for Lawson faces sentencing for grand larceny linked to attempts to pass two bogus checks at Jamestown banks. Erie Parks Director Welsh announced plans to test borings in the bay between Chestnut and Chevy streets to evaluate a potential breakwater as part of a long-range bay preservation program.
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