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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1940
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment shows prices and items for sale or collection counts. It mentions a 25c and 1.25 dollar figure, with references to percentages or deficits and a 1.40 85 175 sequence, indicating a catalog or advertisement with numeric pricing.
Fragmented warehouse note lists ore 3598 item and pricing hints. Mentions 13 cents per package, 18e in WF, multiple dozen quantities, and dog references unclear. Likely a price or inventory snippet from a historical catalog or ledger with incomplete context.
Today’s News in Pictures notes Mani Rumanian peasant leader thrust into international spotlight over Axis dismemberment of Romania. Reports place him in Cluj organizing resistance to Hungarian occupation. Film figure Atlee Whalen, 26, joins news after Las Vegas wedding to Alexander D Arcy, 1, misc. actor. Migs Whelan, former manicurist, noted in Hollywood hotel lore.
Icy accident near Olymp NY leaves 13 year old Lawrence Goring son of Mr and Mrs Goring with a fractured leg. He was treated at a Corry hospital where the fracture was set and he soon returned home. In Salt Lake City Willam Hing appears to have secured the United States Senate seat after a decisive primary showing.
Warren Pa A bond salesman identified as H Anderson received a heavy sentence after pleading guilty to twelve indictments charging fraudulent conversion larceny by bailee and embezzlement by agent He had previously served time in Warren county jail and was convicted for selling unregistered securities About 88000 in securities were alleged to have been sold to Mrs Clare B Shoffield including 77200 in a Canadian gold mining company The man was arrested in 1929 by the Westgeler for the Blue Securities Commission and a city officer after being summoned by Braddock Schofield then Philadelphia assistant district attorney and safety director He had earlier failed to register as a salesman and later pleaded guilty at the term of court
Disjointed report notes Romanian cabinet collapse and a threatened king as unrest spreads. In Brasny guards block telephone offices while unions of guards man the switchboards and troops deploy near oil depots amid unconfirmed sabotage rumors.
At Vatican City on September 4 Pope Pius XII urged a return to faith and Christian doctrine for people raised amid apnosticians and secular collapse. He spoke to over 6,000 members of the Italian Catholic Action Society assembled inside Papal Hall as Vatican radio broadcast the event.
Partial returns from 200 of 384 precincts show Samuel Platt leading Reno’s Republican nomination race with an unofficial edge. Results from the United States Senate race remain unsettled as voters continue counting from the remaining precincts.
Meadville Pennsylvania four boys, Leonard Geer aged 16, Warto 14, and Franky Mayow 14, confessed in Crawford County Court to thefts. Judge O Clive Kent ordered two older boys to Huntingdon Industrial School and one 14 year old to Morgantown. A shooting wounded a guard during the incident.
The article reports, by John A. Moroso, that the first year of World War I’s naval aspects caused massive shipping losses. It cites Associated Press figures claiming thousands of ships and millions of tons affected, with England gaining vast merchant fleet control while Germany and others suffer. It notes conflicting claims on losses and the difficulty of proving a clear balance of naval damage.
Erie residents Joseph Mifsud and wife and their children aged four to twenty four escaped a carbon monoxide incident from a faulty water heater in the basement at 2128 Rast Ninth Street. All eleven were overcome but recovered. a doctor treated them on scene and none required hospital care. The father recalled returning home Monday night with a baby in tow when a child lit the heater fire, leading to exposure.
A statewide study estimates Erie County households gain buying power totaling millions through lower prices and improved retail access. The report places national and local wealth impacts, noting significant portions of state retail profits return to residents via wages and taxes, with details on appliance and grocery sectors.
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