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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1921
Page
3
Corry daily notes a brewing public debate over film censorship and Prohibition policy. It reports on cinema industry meddling, exhibitor responsibility, and a push to restore temperance ethics alongside wartime era concerns.
Fragmentary text discusses reducing violence, enforcing law, and a potential new inquiry. It references obedience, regular practice, and a proposal to strike something, but lacks concrete details or identifiable entities.
Police report details a waves of liquor smuggling near Buffalo involving Erie men captured while boats carried freight valued around 19000 dollars. Prisoners named include George Aster Tok McNampa and others from Wilke shore. One woman, Mrs Wealey Toward, was moved to hospital after illness, as family hopes for improvement.
Fragmentary text describes a device or nerve builder affecting both old and young individuals. Mentions fears and exhalation, with unclear references to people and places. Content is garbled and lacks coherent facts or identifiable entities.
An Erie man fired at his wife and mother in law in their apartment late Saturday. The suspect George Sheldon had just been released from jail. Coroner’s examination followed with unclear details and the wife sustained injuries.
James Disalvo from Batah Franco Pennsylvania a mining town captain of Butler is held by police on nine charges of murder in East Brady Pennsylvania. He was brought to Randolph Saturday by patrolman Rickwed. He gave up his name and was taken to the sickroom where Dr. Borgen Histon attended him after waiving extradition. He will be sent to Pennsylvania soon as an officer from East Brady arrives.
In Warren on Sept 19 a cloudburst struck Russell, causing rapid flooding. A second deluge damaged homes, basements filled in moments, gardens became torrents, and waters surged through streets, harming property and disrupting life.
A political advertisement requests support for James A. Henry as Director of the Poor and promotes Dr. Smith Tissue Remedies. It mentions merchandise and a book set, with a call to send funds to the Dr. Smith Family Co. and lists Harry E. Wagner as a Republican primary candidate.
A jumble of classified notices lists rental offerings including suites, furnished rooms, and eight room houses with baths at addresses such as 21 West Pleasant Street and 140 Mott Street. Additional items include apartments in Livermore block, furnished rooms near West’s Grocery, and numerous sales posts for livestock, dogs, household goods, and real estate with contact details like H W Smith Everett’s Bucket Store and John H L Clough.
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