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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1928
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment shows legal and property notice language including mentions of bids, structure descriptions, county claims, and an executor or administrator. Names, dates, and places are largely unreadable, but the item reads like a local public notice with probate and debt references.
Philadelphia police traced money from bootleggers to two politicians bound for the Republican National Convention in Heiresburg City. Ward leader Matthew Patterson and Police Captain Charles Schoenlober face arrest warrants as grand jury testimony links Ehrenreich to the scheme, with more than $12,000 shuffled to cover tickets and expenses.
Bridget Haynes widow of James F P Haynes died at her home 1841st Congress Street at 7 this morning after months of illness. Born in Canada she came to Corry in the sixties and ran a millinery store and dress shop on West Main Street. A devout St Thomas Church member she contributed to charity and to the erection of St Bwarda school. Survived by nieces and nephews two nurse nieces Kelley assisted in caretaking. Funeral Friday at St Thomas Church.
A Waterford man and two others died when an automobile collided with a New York Central Railroad train near Al x grade Golding. Victims include Mrs. H. Lockwood 27 and her five year old son Victor of Kingsville and P T Tate of Waterford. Mrs. Lockwood’s other child Pat Vivian Lockwood 3 suffered a fractured skull and died at a hospital. The bodies were taken to the Kingsville station awaiting coroner disposition.
Senator Charles Curtis, Republican VP candidate, lands in Denver and Omaha on a Western tour attacking Alfred E. Smith farm relief proposals. He accuses Smith of lacking machinery to carry out the plan and warns Western farmers against high tariff pledges, while defending Republican protection from foreign competition. He faces hecklers in the audience.
The Corry Public Schools teachers and the Board of Education attend a Hotel Corry dinner hosted by the society to replace the usual weekly luncheon. Former State Senator Frank Miller of Meadville will give the address, with vocal numbers by Mrs Dorothy Waller Griffiths and music by Katherine Désmond and Clyde Wilcox.
Perry of West Washington street was convicted in Erie federal court of violating the prohibition law. He was sentenced to three months in the Erie county jail by Judge Nelson McVicar after a Monday trial and late jury verdict of guilty. This marked his second appearance in federal court for enforcement action by prohibition agents.
United Press reports 70 people dead and 230 injured in the Nave dades Theatre blaze in Madrid. Officials say 45 perished in a stairway crush as 4 000 patrons fled, with Primo de Rivera visiting the scene and a damage loss around 5 009 000 pesetas.
Herbert Hoover will fly to Elizabethton Tennessee for a major southern campaign rally. He leaves Washington Friday night October 5 and arrives Bristol Saturday morning with capacity to hold 160 000. After the rally he visits Johnson City and a veterans hospital then returns to Washington by evening.
Walter Kohler a Hoover supporter and Wisconsin Republican nominee predicts Hoover will carry the state in a tight race. Kohler notes Blaine’s decline and says La Follette and Waybner will stay out of the presidential contest while Gore Smith plans a 36 hour visit next Saturday.
Red Cross officials report poor response to aid efforts for Morda storm victims. Headquarters were at Ames Drug Store today. Donations may be left there or with Mr W M Houghton, Mrs Foante Heath, and other listed helpers.
Ira Sweezy a 46 year old brakeman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad of Poxburg Pa died in a Kane hospital after slipping beneath a moving freight car while switching near Kane Pa He was struck by the car as it moved away from a train and sustained fatal injuries according to a United Press report.
Gov. Alfred J. Smith will depart Helena at 11 this morning for a two day trek to St Paul and Minneapolis. He plans to reprise his speech there focusing on inland waterways and the St. Lawrence waterway while denouncing the Hoover administration and urging repudiation of what he calls a cold blooded fraud. The trip follows a Western tour through Montana and North Dakota amid enthusiastic receptions and a whispering campaign against his religion.
Foremen and department heads of Raymond Manufacturing Co. met at Hotel Corry for a dinner and announced BD. W. Feldt of Bristol Conn has been named factory manager of the Total-spring-manufacturing plant. Feldt comes from Wallace-Barnes Co. in Bristol and will reside at 118 Franklin Street.
San Diego reports Lieutenant D D Cornelius of the Three Musketeers killed when parachute failed after plane crash at Rockwell Field. Lieutenant RB Williams died at Mines Field during national air races, leaving one Musketeer survivor.
Congregation in Erie holds farewell party for Rev W E Bartlett and his family as they leave for DuBois Pa. after four years in Corry. Speakers praise his pastorate. gifts include a gold purse and a keepsake picture from the choir.
A big meeting of the Dairymen's League is set for Thursday in the city. The event opens at 10 A.M. at the V F W hall on West Washington Street with a noon dinner. Rathbun of Oneida County New York will speak in the afternoon session on league affairs.
The seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Paul Harvey of Gould Street was seriously injured Sunday on East Washington Street when he fell into a wall and hit his head. He was unconscious briefly but showed improvement today as he was en route to church with his parents.
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