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Fragmentary text mentions a water porch and a corner near Main Wood, with unclear notes on rooms and rates. No definite event, names, or location can be confirmed from the readable fragments.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1910
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions a water porch and a corner near Main Wood, with unclear notes on rooms and rates. No definite event, names, or location can be confirmed from the readable fragments.
The fragment shows a London Tit-Bits style remark where a wife of a struggling young doctor jokes about patient care. Her sympathetic friend asks what she means and the wife replies with a cryptic line about girtwes and patience.
The Corry Floral Co located at Columbus Avenue and Center Street offers 8000 large pansy plants priced at 260 per dozen. Carnations and lilies are also available from Otto C. Shrock proprietor.
A jumble of notices from Erie City and surrounding towns, including meeting postponements, sales promotions, marriage licenses, club gatherings, a private party at the Armory Roller Rink, and local notices on auctions, religious society meetings, and civic candidates. Also reports on a lumber yard fire, a fake magazine subscription scam, and funeral services.
Report from London noting brisk sales of secondhand clothing near Portland Road with buyers joking about affordable workwear versus Sunday outfits. Shoppers quote prices and debate value, while dealers offer low-cost options and prompt payments.
The Cotty Brice & Tile Co. received an order yesterday from Morrison in McKean County for 400000 building bricks for immediate delivery. The eye eight specialist D Padoll located at the St James Hotel is listed as a contact.
An old ad lists rain coats capes and curtain materials with prices from 12.00 to 25.00. Mentions rubberized sill and nets, stockings, and a Gossard corset line designed to fit curves. Notices umbrella insurance claiming ownership retention and no extra charge for matching names.
Readers are urged to order eight half ounce packets of named sweet pea varieties for 25 cents postpaid. The offer includes orchid-flowered Countess Spencer and White Spencer, plus a free packet of double poppies and a Queen of the Market seed. Edgar A Higgins promotes Ayoca New York cultivation supplies.
Schedule in effect September 30, 1909 shows hourly Corry departures from 6 to 9 pm and half hour offsets from Columbus, with last cars Friday and Saturday nights, frequent runs to Norby Corry and East Wayne street, and additional service from Waiting Room. Sunday service begins at AUB, m.
The oldest inhabitants are surprised by the inducements offered by the International Tailoring Co of New York to have your clothing made to measure from good fabrics. A good fit guaranteed. A. I. Messenger & Son, sole agents for Corry, Pa.
The Corry Public Library is housed in the north wing of the high school building with a South Street entrance. It opens every weekday evening from Tro9 sfelock and Monday Wednesday and Saturday afternoons until 6 o'clock. Miss Sue Williams serves as librarian.
That House Needs Painting advertiser promotes honest materials and wood workmanship by Lynn Kuepp at 61 N First Avenue with Bell phone 164 R Painter and Interior Decorator Imi.
A humorous fragment opens with three trishmen fishing and a drowned friend, then pivots to a noisy sales pitch. It touts low prices on goods like Flake soap, camphor, seeds, flour, meal, brooms, and detergents, promising bold bargains and direct-from-mill values this week.
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