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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1928
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text mentions names and places in a garbled fashion. It references Johnny Orr and Mitch, with scattered terms like city stage meeting and English phrases. The readable fragments suggest a historical sports or civic note but lack coherent actions or outcomes.
The readable parts describe players and batting actions in a game, mentioning a sequence of at bats and the timing of a pitch. Specific names and teams are obscured by OCR errors, but the fragment indicates a mid inning batting effort and defensive setup.
Waller C Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey reports oil producers plan to limit output to prevent overproduction. Venezuela already restricting, others to follow. Rational conservation could raise prices temporarily but benefit public and long term, preventing crude exhaustion. Syracuse Herald endorses Governor Smith’s record and anticipates continued practical progress in state governance.
The Russian Soviet government proclaims plans to publish a concession manifest in foreign languages to attract foreign capital for industrial and agricultural development. It signals a shift toward inviting outsiders' capital and raw materials, ending the early Bolshevik denial of reliance on money and capital.
A scanned item presents a math problem asking to compute an area given a 9 by 25 inch rectangle representing 25 miles to the night. It includes an answer to yesterday’s problem and a brief explanation about dividing 11 250 into a difference of 3200 and Ai.
The piece argues presidential elections draw more voters in local contests and notes foreign born citizens and their families are starting preliminary steps to vote in November. It discusses implications for national governance and urges sustaining voter interest. It also reports on China news, Manchuria, and Britain joining the U.S. in engaging China on war revision while China maintains economic boycott of Japanese goods.
Answers to yesterday's questions list Annie Laurie as a person, note a cryptic cipher count of four, mention a ship reporting the Grant Atlantic cable tid, question Glenpatra's air ven and describe a diamond and gold region as big. The garbled text names Cleveland and Wilson and references The National Gily Haske of Neve York with a price of eight, plus a purse market line.
Alfred Smith faces alleged whispering tactics amid Republican attacks as critics argue insinuations and smears may sway public opinion. The piece reviews how Hoover allies handled similar rumors and weighs potential political damage. The author notes risks on both sides and questions the impact on Smith’s campaign dynamics.
The item lists a series of language questions and puzzle prompts about sentence errors, pronunciation, spelling of confine and confine as nouns, missing letters of synonyms for modesty, and daily usage tips. It notes Pershing invited to Armistice week convention in Monongahela Pennsylvania, with dates in November.
A reminiscence from 1908 notes twin daughters born to Mr and Mrs Will Bradt at their Carnegie home. Richard Dawson secured to join the high school football team. A district No 5 fire near the State Bounds entrance. Prof A H Knoll, now in New York, plans a grand vaudeville theatre in Erie. Rush Millen returned from Girard to visit his father Ex Judge Frank Gunhlaon. Col PG Boyle editor of the Ol Sly Derick in the city. TH D Putnam of Mlicottyily NY visiting his brother J M Putnam in Cohim and returned home today.
In Erie county court on Monday two of three bandits implicated in a Meyer Loan Co robbery attempt on Turnpike Street were sentenced. John Desimoni, 17, of Pittsburgh, received $50 fine and 42 months in Allegheny Work House. Jesse C. Foulds, 35, of Pittsburgh, got $10 fine and seven months in the same work house. Judge A P Roaster deferred sentence on Joe Schuler as Judge Hirt investigates his past activities. The trio, charged with assault with intent to rob, entered the Meyer Loan Co and slugged a clerk. they were captured about five minutes later by city police.
Francis Dunn reported that Paul Jaworski, jailed in Cleveland for killing a policeman, abducted his daughter Mary Dunn and Ernest Salzer near Fredonia after hitching a ride on the lake shore road last July. Miss Dunn, found dazed near Lake View ten miles from Buffalo, described a stranger who asked for a ride and dragged Salzer from the auto. Salzer was beaten and left by the road. the car was later found in Lackawanna near Buffalo as searches continued. Dunn contemplated taking his daughter and Salter to Cleveland to view Jaworski.
Erie man Harry Zimmermann, 28, formerly of Brin, drowned Sunday at Belle Isle Detroit when a canoe overturned. He and three others fell overboard. Zimmerman disappeared while others were rescued. He had moved to Detroit with his parents eight years ago.
Charles Hubertz, a royal contractor, completed an old English style rough cleft slate roof for the Union Oil Supply Company station on West Smith Street. He is to write an article for Popular Science Monthly on asbestos shingle covered roots. Hubertz has contributed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics before. Harold Taylor returned home last evening after a summer in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Officials of the Erie Railroad apologize to Mayor O W Bracken and Corry residents for an oil spill that fouled Center street crossing on August 28. Superintendent E J Edmund explains the oil was misapplied during train movements and promises discipline for those at fault while stressing respect for local rights.
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