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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1931
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a royal event and a stewart, with unclear names and roles. The readable bits suggest a brief note on a staged occasion and possible gear or trouble, but specifics are obscured. No definite entities or clear dates to recover.
Mrs BL Burford of Oil City formerly of Corry visits here as guest of Mrs W W Margaridge. Mr and Mrs Howard Harrah return to Busta c after visiting sister Mrs Fern Deeter.
A long list of residents and guests is noted in a city social column. Personal mentions include Weeks and Randall families attending a funeral in New York City and returning home, various couples and individuals visiting relatives or traveling to Pittsburgh Meadville Ogontz Erie Warren and Hinsdale areas, and several on short trips or visits with friends and relatives.
United Press dispatch from Lima Ohio reports Howard Maxwell 35 of Indianapolis was killed when his motor truck en route from Columbus to Evanston Illinois was struck by a Pennsylvania Golden Arrow passenger train and a freight train from the opposite direction. The impact shattered his rear wheels, sending debris through the walls of Mrs. Mary Puller’s house at 10 near the tracks.
Greensboro Sept 30 A passerby found flames at the cottage of farmer Tom Leonard. Inside lay the body of 9 year old Vera Leonard, murdered with a blunt instrument. Traces of clothing on a barbed wire fence suggest she was slain in nearby woods and the killer then set the house on fire to hide the crime.
A few years ago a biological survey estimated rats destroyed 200 million dollars of crops and stored products in the United States. The loss excludes large expenses of control. Wood and grain industries suffer most as common rat breeds vary in diet and behavior by locality.
The Erie Presbytery wrapped up its fall meeting at Bradford and will reconvene on the third Tuesday in January with no city chosen for the next session. Vacancies include Wickward to Sugar Grove and McVickero r, Heslip to Eastminster Erie, Herrick to Albion, while speakers and officers were reelected or appointed among Erie and surrounding churches.
Democratic leaders say the victory of Robert D. Johnson in Missouri's seventh district signals voter rebuke of the national administration. Johnson won by about 9,000 votes over Republican John Palmer after Samuel Major's death, with L. L. Collins in third. Returns from 280 of 240 precincts show Johnson 27,218, Palmer 18,007, Collins 3,843. The district typically leans Democratic by about 2,750.
A scrambled list of stocks and prices from Oli City on the New York Stock Exchange, including Amaconda, Continental Oil, General Motors, Chrysler, Studebaker, Sinclair, Texaco, Canadian Pacific, Northern Pacific, New York Central, Southern Pacific, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, US Leather, Curtiss-Wright, and more. Prices appear with fractions and percent figures, reflecting closing or near closing values across multiple sectors and exchanges.
A reflection on how a man finds no true pleasure in all the universe's beauties alone, even in heaven, without a partner to share and communicate his joy with. The passage emphasizes companionship as essential to experiencing sublime happiness.
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