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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1910
Page
14
Spring cleaning prompts a move to replace draperies, curtains, carpets, rugs, and window shades. The store promotes a new Carpet and Drapery Department with up to date house fixings and a focus on fresh, modern items for the season.
John D Rockefeller pledged an equal amount toward a new Fifth Avenue Baptist Church at 46th Street and Fifth Avenue. Dr Charles F Aked urged the congregation to raise at least 500000 with many members giving small pledges. Rockefeller and family gifts helped push the total to about 222000 after his dollar for dollar offer.
A brief Washington Blur quip notes a censorious remark about women thanking a man who gives up his seat on a streetcar. Miss Cayenne retorts that rules prevent such thanks, joking that the gesture would leave them breathless.
In Berlin on Sunday about 150000 people gathered peacefully in Humboldthain Strecktow and other parks to oppose the Prussian Government franchise bill. Speakers denounced the measure while police did not intervene, and women formed about a third of the crowd in a move seen as advancing free assembly rights in Prussia.
Mrs Allee Osborn, a missionary in Foo Chow, says American women in China are safer with a male escort than in New York. She cites having traveled hundreds of miles in sedan chairs with coolies and avoiding assault, arguing Chinese morals are higher in public life.
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