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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1946
Page
4
The Daily Dozen notes research spurred by wartime activity into rodent and insect control. It cites 1080 sodium fluoroacetate and Anty as rodent poisons, DDT DDD and 66 as insecticides, while warning that new substances supplement but do not replace established methods like rat proofing and eliminating breeding grounds.
Repairs at Climax plant delay work until Monday afternoon and staff resume Tuesday. Exe County Fish and Game Protective Association riders travel to Hunter Willis farm near Erie for dog trials and rifle matches. Corry High opens with Principal Sheen in charge at Titusville after Coach Owens leaves. Veterans of Foreign Wars plans to buy Norton property on West Washington for lodge headquarters. Aphtheria cases rise in Corry with four definite cases and two suspected, prompting quarantine. A barn on Minnie Joy’s farm near the State Fish Hatchery is struck by lightning, bursting into flame and burning with contents.
Complete relief from forest and brush fires was aided by rainfall totaling nearly two inches over the past two days. The passage frames a quiz referencing wartime price actions and historical events, asking readers to turn to the Classified Page for answers and listing questions about OPA beer prices, Allied actions in 1944, draft registration, state nicknames, biological classifications, cinchona bark uses, WWII airmen, presidential portraits on stamps, and immigrant brides from the 1940s.
The article outlines Republican aims to gain control of the House by capturing 24 Democratic seats across 16 states, detailing potential state pickups from Delaware to Wyoming and noting past midterm trends. It cites historical margins from 1944, contrasting Democratic and Republican gains, and lists subscription and advertising details.
Democrats privately concede weakened chances as Wallace’s foreign policy critique and Cabinet dismissal widen rift with radicals. Republicans publicly claim a fighting chance to gain the Senate, needing nine seats to overturn the 16 seat majority. Thirty five seats are contested in November, with eight likely staying Democratic in the South and in the Southwest, eight likely Republican.
Bradford Carl L Peterson contact officer for the local Veterans Administration office fell yesterday leaving his home for work suffering an incomplete fracture of the left hip. He reportedly buckled on the front steps and dropped to the ground. He previously served with the United States Army and sustained a severe leg injury from shell fire during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1945.
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