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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1928
Page
3
Fragmented text references multiple teams including Pirates Phillies Cubs and Yankees with scattered scores and players like Wilko and Bloke. Lacks coherent events or dates, producing a garbled collage of baseball mentions and partial names without a clear lead or outcome.
The piece critiques President Coolidge and the Republican Party over power company regulation. It argues inter state business by large power concerns forms a national issue, with South era interwoven corporate control. It likens lax regulation to a courtroom mercy plea for a tiny boy.
The Literary Digest plans a colossal straw vote of 19,000,000 but experts doubt its value. The campaign year shows a new spirit of independence with many voters undecided and shifting from party to party, making a single straw estimate unreliable for predicting outcomes. As voters face unpredictable developments, straw results may have little impact near the end of the campaign.
A husband killed in an auto crash. the guilty driver received five years but suspended, with probation and a $4,000 cash payment to the widow. The offender must share income until $7,000 is paid, aiding two affected families. The arrangement aims to repair harm without prison vengeance.
Twenty years ago, fires were reported in Findlay Lake, Concord township, Horn's Sidinz, and along the P. and H. lines. Large tracts burned with damage. about 200 Italian laborers from Lae Erie on the Columbus Cut off were brought to the city for their monthly pay. A bed quilt valued at 1200 pares drew attention at the depot. Machinery for Carry Brick and Tile Co. arrived for installation at the West end. Lightning flashes offered hope of rain. Other items note piano moving, a trip to Rideway, and Sunday plans.
Billy Ranieri, ten, kidnapped 19 days earlier after leaving school near Chicago, was released without payment of ransom. He bore a bruised eye from a punch by one kidnapper, and walked into a filling station to identify himself. Police, led by Juliet and Chicago authorities, connected him with his wealthy contractor father A J Ranieri.
Answers to yesterday's questions are scattered in a cryptic listing. The excerpt references day to day trivia about Spain related terms, English authors, imperialism, and Bamburgh, with garbled clues and partial solutions.
A fragment shows a math puzzle about a pit with a 6 by 6 foot base and unknown depth, priced at 50 cents per square foot to cover. The accompanying answer from yesterday states 140/625 square miles and hints at multiplying products 1 and 36 by 2 and something.
In Barree Pennsylvania on September 19 the trial of Tinord Gaughan an 78 year old almshouse inmate accused of killing fellow inmate Denala Mack and fatally wounding Edward Murray and later Mavi is paused as insanity is argued. Separately the Wheeling Steel Benwood plant near Wheeling West Virginia shuts for repairs halting about 2000 workers.
Sheffield, Sept 1 Barnes school closed after the death of Lela Ruth Fox seven from infantile paralysis The building will be disinfected and all books handled by the child will be burned The girl was one of triplets and died Sunday morning prompting a precautionary closure by the board and the supervising principal C H Barnes
Sept 4 to next 8 4 considerable fees interest in the dike along the Brokenstraw being built by C E Wilder of Tryine on former McKinney land near Irvine. Wilder bought the land and two steam shovels used previously on Mathews Run road are now laying up the protective earth wall. He hopes the dike will forestall repeat flood damage in Irvine and the flats.
Kingston N C Sept 19 Streets and lower shops inundated by eight inches of rain in 24 hours. Eastern rivers rising and several low dams washed away. No serious property damage reported. Power lines down and trains halted. Brunt of the storm believed to pass over Cape Hatteras.
Herbert Hoover sought southern votes and planned to confer with R. B. Creager and five others in Washington. Alfred E. Smith continued a prairie to gulf campaign, stopping in Lincoln for a farm leader briefing. Robinson works with relief amid Florida hurricane refugees. Curtis pushed farm relief across the Mid-West.
Delegates at the annual convention of the League of Third Class Cities of Pennsylvania adopted a resolution favoring a graded tax plan. Reading was chosen for the 1929 convention, with officer elections set for Thursday and a bill request to the next legislature to enact the plan.
The U S Civil Service Commission issued a strict warning limiting political activity by federal classified employees during the campaign. It bars displaying campaign stickers or signs on vehicles and forbids wearing badges or buttons in official settings while affirming the right to vote and privately hold opinions.
Pottsville Pa Sept 19 a sanity commission was expected to report on the sanity of Mrs Vera Berger of Schuylkill Haven who was to have been tried yesterday for strangling her baby to gain time alone. The commission was appointed yesterday by the court after it was stated her mind had weakened during confinement in jail.
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