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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1930
Page
3
Ada players edged a rivals squad as excitement surged in the venue. Key contributions from prominent performers propelled the comeback and sealed a narrow win for the home team amid loud cheering and local media attention.
A chaotic scene at the arena arose as players and officials scrambled to seat the lineup, causing delays and confusion before the opening tip. Fans reported unclear instructions and lingering disputes over seating assignments.
Fragmentary text references Wasu league items, a deceased subject, a fox, wine, and uncertain values. No coherent event or identifiable names emerge to form a complete news item.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions athletics and a late night event. It references names and a schedule but lacks clear facts, dates, or outcomes. The readable parts point to an athletics item with possible night action and community note.
The article discusses a gasoline price war among large distributors pushing prices down in surrounding cities, with concerns about unfair head-chopping tactics. It also reports on state approval for a Lear light at Smith and Center to improve a dangerous intersection, plus progress on Hast Columbia Avenue paving and a long-term highway project toward the Warren county line, highlighting local officials and funding hopes for 1981.
The piece argues that eight hour day sobriety has reduced drunkenness while bootlegging remains a problem. It notes broad support for prohibition in its current form but acknowledges issues such as moonshining and graft. It calls for cooperation between wets and drys to refine methods and achieve better outcomes.
The piece argues thousands of youths face a choice between continuing school or taking jobs. It urges staying in school, citing earnings differences and long term benefits. It notes higher incomes after extended schooling and warns against increasing unemployment in hard times.
The column asks for the best eye cinder removal method suggesting two grains of Maxsap placed in the affected eye. It also queries the author of Captain Courageous and where it was written, with Kipling credited for Captain Courageous at Brattleboro Vermont. A note on love binds birds cites ten species of diminutive parrots and their affectionate behavior.
A mixed reading covers Halley's Comet size and past appearances, plus a question on which U.S. presidents have appeared on stamps. It mentions basic stamp history and a list of presidents cited as having portraits. Also includes stray notes on free trade and metal alloys and a botched Easter Lily care tip.
Columbia University will offer over 150 religion courses next year with home study options in religious history and literature, plus religious conferences and public lectures. The college highlights a genuine demand for religious study despite potentially lower patronage compared with other branches, noting religion persists even as its expression changes across generations.
W L Gordon presents guidance on correct usage and pronunciation. It highlights misused phrases such as T shall go and despite the weather, notes common misspellings, and explains synonyms and the daily goal of expanding vocabulary with a focus on the word facsimile as an exact copy or counterpart.
Twenty years ago in the Journal Files reports a Lyric theatre showing of Jeffries Johnson fight photos starting Monday. Police arrest a dozen in war robbery cases with five from Oi City and one from Couny City. City Treasurer Postlethwait notes high tax prepayments, Lynn Hodges dies after poisoning his wife, Henry King narrowly avoids injury riding a wheel into a telegraph pole, Hugh Bedlent joins Boston club of the Americas League, and Warren Mivyoi Brest Bunce, 16, suffers a head injury at a chair factory fire.
A 10 ft 6 in wheel mounted on a shaft touches the floor. As the wheel rolls the contact point on the floor traces a path corresponding to a 34-7 pass. Determine the shaft length. Answer notes subtract .996 from 1.000 and divide into 12.5 for explanation.
Answers list from Saturday include Samson 2 55 and five values. storm at Spartanburg. Fred S Bares identified as culprit. References to Belgium food supervision by an American after the war, and a clambake quantity. Also notes on mountain and gravity concepts. North America peak cited as Arizona.
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