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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1942
Page
4
The War Department estimates 16 087 buyers paying 18 15 each needed to fund a single flying fortress and 4 000 buyers for one navy fighter plane. The piece argues individual purchases are insufficient and that the war requires broad sacrifice until complete victory is achieved.
Amid harsh tax talk and war debt concerns, lawmakers weigh surtaxes and excess profits levies while Frank Parsons exits Hammond Electric to pursue contract work. Churchill and King gestures spark symbol talk, and a Pine Grove cemetery accident fractures a worker's arm. Wedding of Marjorie Auer to Dr George Peck noted. School bid rejections and company picnic plans also reported alongside a lineman's electric accident.
Twenty years ago report recalls a late night accident in Youngsville when a car carrying four Warren youths veered off an embankment beside Rowse hospital. Miss Garena Zobriest, 17, of Stoneum, suffered serious injuries while the others escaped with minor bruises.
An American report finds Goebbels refuses to acknowledge German war material output. He claims German industry is failing, plants are stalling, workers idle, and wages rising. Informed Americans say German production is strained by overuse and lack of repairs. The piece urges Americans to push for maximum production and decry union excesses.
A damaged OCR passage laments Nazi leaders and the war toll. It references Hitler, power, and a sense of impending doom, with jagged phrases suggesting distress over national life and divine judgment amid conflict.
Mount Olive actor Sam Byrd, famed for Townesend Road stage runs, uses Navy leave in Charleston to visit New York and discuss how writing a book nearly wrecked his sinuses. He recounts dirt on the stage, the cost of staying clean, and how a publisher urged him to turn his manuscript into a real work. Byrd earned a Life in Amelia prize from Houghton Mifflin for the book proposal.
A reader curates a list of history and trivia questions labeled Daily Quiz. The items ask about seas facing Bombay, Maj. Gen. Spaatz’s theatre, coronation years for Norway’s Haakon VII, Sadducees, Lydia’s location, sweetness of acogeherm, a ferry bread quip, presidential initials M F for the 16th president, author of Cross Creek, and the location group that hosts Eiska.
A fragmentary item promotes apples as a daily health aid. It cites vitamin C benefits, digestion ease, and a general push for frequent apple consumption amid a harvest theme. Mentions 50,000,000 barrels of apples and everyday routines.
Fragmentary notes describe a game of jacks as exercise for developing dexterity and grace in hands. It mentions rubber salvage requiring one and three fourths pounds per gas mast and steel saved by Upsiline the rise of Dinckplate 1H bottle caps as contributing to efficiency.
The article describes early American maple rooms and Pennsylvania Dutch furniture with lively motifs in bright reds yellows blues and browns. It highlights hanging shelves cupboards chairs and dressers painted in distinctive motifs to create a quaint homelike interior mood.
Sparta Spartanshire Vocational School opens for term in a renovated Mall building. A long faculty list includes Principal A Bennett Agricultural supervisor T Berkley Home economics supervisor Nola Yous athletic director Mrs. Raymond Morton and many teachers. Local clubs meet tonight with officers to be elected and social activities planned. An active week with community events fills the town as students enroll and local residents travel for gatherings.
Popularised Baseball U. and Marine Corps teams helped popularize the national pastime in China the Philippines Guam and Nicaragua through tours and exhibitions, boosting interest and participation overseas. The effort showcased American baseball to military personnel and civilians alike, laying foundations for subsequent growth in the region.
Five naval writers affirm that musketry by marines was a crucial factor in winning sea battles fought at close range during the American Revolution.
Westfield Memorial hospital was formally opened Saturday with music by the high school band under William Ross. Dedication remarks were given by W. Heckman, T. Welch spoke for the hospital board, Tolley praised from the New York State Department of Social Welfare, Judge Lee L. Ottaway delivered the dedicatory address, and Marcia King cut the doorway ribbons. Over 7,000 visitors viewed the facility Saturday and Sunday, with hostesses guiding tours and refreshments served. the hospital has eight beds, two private rooms, five semi private rooms, and a children's room decorated by Mrs. Wallace Peterson.
The Automobile Club of Southern California cites off dilution as a common cause of rapid engine wear. It advises using top grade oil, draining the crankcase regularly, avoiding kerosene or gasoline, using good fuel, applying the choke sparingly, not idling, ensuring the motor has good compression, and that valves are properly ground and adjusted.
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