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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1943
Page
4
A partial OCR line presents mixed words and letters. It references frozen, dried, and regional terms without clear context, names, dates, or places, making it difficult to identify the event, person, or organization involved.
Erie soldier Sgt. Edward R. Hamilton 2 died in an accident in the European war zone. A radio operator and gunner on a Fortress crew, he had served 14 months in the U S Army. He was formerly employed by the Pennsylvania Electric Company in Erie before enlistment. His wife Frances Hamilton, of 225 Basteth Street, awaits official word on whether his plane crashed and if others perished.
Wartime rationing aims to distribute scarce food fairly and may benefit overweight people by encouraging weight loss. It notes that excess weight lowers life expectancy and challenges insurance. It adds that ideal weight varies by individual and height, and weight loss should be done under medical supervision.
Quiz questions ask about a German city tied to a misread term, a detective figure who mutters a quip, a duel involving a White U. president, Vernon Castle's fame, and a peninsula question. The set also covers physics truth, word origins for cretin, Kiev’s location, Chesapeake Bay partly dividing a state, and Fannie Brice’s birthplace claim.
Jamestown dispatch reports 4 year old Risherd B. Potter fatally injured Friday after slipping and falling 20 feet from a silo on the Harry Slefkin farm near Charlotte Center. He died Saturday morning at 1:60 a.m. at W A hospital. Survived by two sons, Richard B. Potter Jr and Rodney Potter, and sister Mrs. Marion Gardner. Funeral arrangements at Harrison funeral home in Warsaw.
Forty three Venango County registrants from No. 1 Selective Service Board were inducted at the Bile induction station in Franklin. Navy led with two, Army ten, Marine Corps two, and Coast Guard one. Army draftees face three weeks of processing before active duty while Navy inductees await orders next week. A sendoff ceremony is planned in Franklin Tuesday at 3 p m with burial at Charlotte Center cemetery in Binclairville.
A fragment of wartime opinion questions German public sentiment over Nazi aggression and condemns civilian complicity while shifting to a critique of professional baseball as a business. It argues that big leagues fear uneven play and revenue pressures, highlighting Yankees and Cardinals as dominant forces and noting discontent with New York and Chicago.
The text introduces obscure wind names like Willliewaw and wullie fivaws and notes their expected trouble for regions including Texas. It compares winds from North Africa and Burma with others, mentioning sand blasts from the Sahara and the mistral, and hints at dispatches from France about weather patterns.
Subcribers to new hotel stock are urged to attend a meeting at the Municipal building Friday evening to select a site. Directors authorized the call to gather input on location. The notice appears in a city that is planning a major development.
Cuculilla, a 10,000 resident city in Colombia, claims no unemployment and no beggars while leading a regional coffee bag sector. Women commonly trade in the market with bags woven from a substitute fiber grown nearby due to jute scarcity. Historical trade patterns emerge from civil conflicts and seasonal campaigns recorded by Gorelan Commerce Weekly.
In 1942 inter city buses carried 835,928,703 passengers, up from 976,839,000 in 1941, an 80 percent increase. A 16th century German note claims letter carriers used stills to boost speed.
James Lawn Sept 27 Eight year old Michael Neid of 615 West 6th Street was injured Friday in a West Third street chain grocery store. He caught his hand in a meat grinder. doctors amputated three fingers and treated fractures and lacerations. Ambulance driver Arthur Dahl said the lad was cared for by the store manager and a clerk. an apron served as a bandage. Witnesses did not state how the accident occurred.
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