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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1928
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a boxer and a title bout but provides no verifiable names, places, dates, or outcomes. Unable to extract a coherent event or entities beyond generic references to a championship round and a governor.
Publisher Arthur Colegrove National Advertising Representative Fred Kimball Inc lists address in New York Chicago and Pittsburgh Chambers and confirms post office entry in Corry Pennsylvania as second class mail matter. Rates available upon application for advertisers and carriers at three cents per copy with annual subscription price zero dollars.
A Vancouver Sun analysis contrasts Canadian and American approaches to liquor control. It argues Canada treats liquor as a nutrition and body issue while the United States sees it as moral and economic, noting that consensus will take time and that Americans blend morality with economics.
Detroit car maker announces a practical oil-burning Diesel aircraft engine lighter than ordinary Diesels, with about 25 percent longer range per fuel weight and no ignition system. It relies on compression ignition, reducing fire risk and explosions. If proven, its value to aviation could exceed famed races and long-distance attempts.
An industrial chemist extols soft coal or “white coal” as a vast, versatile fuel and raw material. He notes it already yields smokeless billets, dyes, and chemicals, powers electric plants, and could outlive hundreds of years of supply with future refinements. The engineer predicts a shift from raw burning to scientific combustion as the soft coal industry expands.
The piece lists yesterday's questions about Lookout Mountains and Channel swimming, plus a note that adultery remains the sole recognized divorce ground for the Carlisle Presbytery. It reports a Harrisburg meeting where willful desertion was removed from church discipline as a grounds for divorce.
A fragmented set of language practice items asking for spelling fixes grammar corrections and vocabulary tasks. It includes questions on correct punctuation mispelled words similar terms and using words in daily speech with various examples and prompts.
Seventeen Italians were arrested in Columbus by fisheries detectives on dynamiting the lake for fish. A Methodist church reception for Rev and Mrs Weaver drew record attendance. An alarm from district 46 reported a kitchen fire at James Hand’s home on West Church Street. Mrs Spencer tended the flames. High school athletic association bake sale concluded with strong profits. Leon Lindsley left for New York to complete a Columbia University pharmacy course. Mrs Griswold, Cornplanter Indian school teacher, returned home for Sunday.
A daily puzzle asks how many bricks, placed on a four by eight inch side, are needed to lay a circular pond border forming a walkway of given width. The problem gives a diameter of 280 feet and frames an arithmetic sequence of steps. The answer references dividing 249 by 6, subtracting 12, dividing by 2, and adding 12 for the explanation.
Lloyd F. Yoder once captain of Carnegie Tech football, now publicity chief for Watson Broadcasting, stopped in Pittsburgh on his way from Salem to California. He toured the Carnegie Tech squad and planned to join the Olympic Club football team on the Pacific Coast.
Jamestown police arrested Rogers M. Drew, 85, of Lakewood, a GM senior field representative, for second degree manslaughter in connection with a fatal hit and run that injured Chas. Sandberg, a building contractor. Drew confessed to driving the car, admitted one prior drink, and posted $10,000 bail arranged by GM officials and a surety company.
Castle’s entertainers appear in a vaudeville program at 8560 O’Dlock tonight after the first movie showing. Five numbers include song and banjo, whistling and dance offerings. Bebe Daniels’ latest film Hot News provides cinema entertainment for the evening.
Fragmentary notes discuss art as born from conatealnt and hives on conittet. The text references fate, vanity, and undefined sources from UWerty- Vanlty Fialt, presenting a speculative meditation rather than a concrete event. The piece reads as a scholarly fragment rather than a narrative with dates or actions.
Columbus residents urged to attend the annual Community Church meeting at the church on Thursday evening September with. Trustees and church activity reports will be presented along with plans for next year. The Community Aid will serve supper for Masons at C C F hall on September 27 at 7 P M. Helena Carrig of Buffalo visited relatives. Marlo Morris occupy John Voli Jr upper apartment.
Warren hurler Art Johnson, a Warren pitcher, has been sold to Walter Johnsons International League entry the Newark Bears. He reported to manager John McGraw in New York after a conference and will report next spring. Johnson had a stint in IL this season, then played in the Texas league with Beaumont, finishing with a 3 1 record.
Dr Edwin C Dinwiddie spoke at the Presbyterian chapel under Flying Squadron auspices. He argued there is more drinking now than before Prohibition is in effect. he cited travel experiences from New York to California and Chicago where he saw no drunken men during a seven day stay. He said dry majorities have grown larger in contested areas and praised the address as clear and persuasive.
The board of directors of International Paper Company, New York, August 29, 1928, declares a regular quarterly dividend of 1 3/4 percent on the cumulative preferred stock and 1 1/2 percent on the cumulative preferred stock for the current quarter. Dividends payable October 15, 1928 to holders of record at the close of business September 20, 1928. Checks to be mailed. Transfer books will not close. Owen Shepherd, Vice-President and Treasurer.
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