Greatest Crime and War Morality Reflections
A Corry Evening Journal column questions Hitler's peaceful development alternative, contrasts with Kaiser Wilhelm, warns of Germany’s possible fate, and discusses societal shifts toward firearms, housing shortages, and rural-urban labor imbalances during wartime. It laments rising plane crashes as wartime costs and urges balanced policy to aid farming and industry.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reich
Kaiser Wilhelm
Hitler
Wilhelm
Twenty Years Ago Notes From Journal, 1922
A list of local clerical changes includes three priests elevated within the Erie diocese and Rev Father McBride joining St Ann's parish. Leon F Bliss, a Corry native, died in Manila after years in the Philippines. Traffic Officer James Foley resigns to take another post. Mayor Alexander may seek state office. Fire Department civil service exams show only two applicants. A Community Service evening at the Eastern Star Hall drew large youth participation under Miss Ruby McCullough and S W Wolf.
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Corry Evening Journal
West South Street
Corry
Wiltian P. Lambert
Fred Kimball
44Th St
New York
Michigan Square
Chicago
Detroit
Chamber of Com
Pittsburgh
Weightman
Philadelyiia
Asociated Press
Associated Press
Lawrence A. M¢Bride
St. Thomas Church
Diocese of
Erie
John Mark Gannon
Erle
McBride
St. Ann's
Churciy
L. B. Bliss
West Pleasant Street
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Philippine General Hospital
Manila
Leon F. Bliss
Philippines
Eastern Star Hall
Ruby McCullough
8. W. Wolf
Noisy Wartime Savings Pitch Misuses Phrase
A reader comments on the taunt tautology in wartime savings appeals. The text criticizes the phrase going on as ill chosen and claims the simplest form is He is sixteen. It promotes saving money through a safe custodian and accumulating interest, claiming millions will welcome the war’s end by using this method.
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United States
Oil Heating Share in Pennsylvania Homes Falls Below Six Percent
An analysis of 1940 U S Census data by the Pennsylvania State Planning Board shows Pennsylvania had 2,489,853 occupied dwellings with heating equipment, 65.4 percent with central systems. About 5.8 percent used fuel oil kerosene or gasoline as main heat, while coal or coke heated 85.5 percent. Gas heat accounted for 14 percent of homes, and wood 2.6 percent, with vast rural use of wood where no central system exists.
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Pennsylvania
U. S. Bureau of Census
State Planning Board
Thc
Pennsylvania Departiment of Commerce
Pennsylv Ivania
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
New England
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
United States
U.S
Daily quiz questions test readers with varied trivia
A reader challenge presents ten questions on military slang geography language numbers voyages and history. It asks if one can answer seven and mentions consulting classified Columns for answers, including topics from naval terms to diplomacy and mathematics.
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Kharkov
Detroit
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Harry Hopkins
Joseph Davies
W. Averell Harriman
Russia
Mexico
Colum
Ameria
Daily Dozen on the Respiratory Tract and Infection Risks
The article explains the respiratory tract, airflow to the lungs, and the mucous membrane. It notes how mucus traps germs but some penetrate, causing upper respiratory disease with sneezing and coughing. It warns public exposure spreads germs, and low nutrition or fatigue lowers resistance.
Portugal and Sierra Leone in historical notes
Factographs describe Portugal as an independent state since the th century and a republic since 1910 after King Manuel II was deposed. Sierra Leone on the West African coast is marked as a great seaport with a harbor and naval coaling stations. Lima is cited as capital of the Republic of Feri, nicknamed the City of the Binge.
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Portugal
Manuel 11
Sierra Leone
British Africa
Thas
West Africa
Lima
Republic of Feri
Music by Electricity and the Novachord Instrument
The novachord is an electrical musical instrument invented by Laurens Hammond. It resembles an old-fashioned synthesizer with a single 73-note keyboard and is played like a piano. Its tones are produced entirely by circuits of vacuum tubes and are controlled by simple front panel adjustments.
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Laurens Hammond
Wilson’s rise from office boy to top wartime production chief
New York Sept 23 Charles 8 Wilson rose from a Sprague Electric office boy to general manager to lead War Production Board projects. The tale traces his early poverty, schooling, and grit, including mentorship from plant superintendent William Ruete who gave him a diamond pin as a symbol of his ascent.
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Trudi
Chavile" Wilson
Dolists
Charlie Wilson
Sprague Electric Company
General Electric
William Ruete
Charlie
Brooklyn Bridge
Sprague Ruete
Shipping Department
Hoter
Ruete
Ecountant
Volga Vital to Russ Life-line in World War II Era
The Volga River long called Mother Volga is a crucial supply route for Russia, running 2.85 miles is a major waterway linking the Caspian Sea to Moscow and Leningrad. If Nazis seize Stalingrad they would control this route cutting Allied aid. The river drains 583,000 square miles and supports vessels to seven-foot drafts. in winter it serves as a sled route.
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Volga
Stalingrad
iVolga
Russia
Europe
Caspian Sea
Moscow
Leningrad
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Caesar
Yachus
AEG
Journal Fils
James Foley
C. L. Alexander
Foley
State Assembly
L. H. Raymond
Greenfield Township
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Harry Boutwell
Clyde Paulson
Daily Dozen
Brom Medical Society of
State of
Wilson
WPB
REX Theatre
John Payne
Betty
Franz
Mrs
Jack McLaughlin
ALA
Psa
John Preno
Wing-Willi
Pillsbury
Weyenberg
Adagie
Edward A, Kimunoy Mrs
V. M. Anderson
Spiesman
Jennie Blehynster
Pete Hansen
Guy Rogers
Arvid Ostrom
Twila Nichols
Boston House
Crawford M. Woods
Alfred Haenel
Harry Markert
McCloskey
Home Bakery
Ale Keppel
Bud Sloan
Lindsley
Mrs. Mary Beduss
Grace Hansen
N. First Ave
Dial
Russell Little
B.D
C. Warner
Shambaugh
West Main
Katheryn Cobners
Andy
Unusu OC
Eomin Ple
Mnette
John Rth
Tonawahnson
Heleen
Younigsvi Averdam
Li Symer
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