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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
3
Advertisement notes cheap pansy plants in dozen lots and mentions carnations and Titian varieties sold by Otto O Shrock. It appears as a proprietor notice for garden stock.
A compact scan lists meetings and social events from the Buffalo Wholesale Merchants’ Association excursion to arrive April 27, May party by I O T M on May 2, W T A meeting with Mrs Alcorn, plus various notices on marriages, deaths, shop sales and public works in Bradford and nearby towns.
Article discusses the concept of escape velocity required for a body to leave Earth permanently, estimating around eleven miles per second. It notes this speed is not yet achieved artificially, but exists in nature and has implications for Earth's atmosphere loss and lunar behavior.
A muddled excerpt discusses a theory of free hydrogen in the atmosphere and its effects on planetary temperature, suggesting gas loss, solar heating, and atmospheric friction. It appears to mix science fantasy with quoted newspaper items and jokes from various sources.
In a New York department store a customer’s daughter wore a wedding veil charged to the customer’s account. A clerks’ luncheon sighting led to a church ceremony misidentification, revealing the veil’s origin and resulting bill corrections. A manager confronted the impersonation and the customer paid $300 while $200 was returned.
A garbled excerpt references a jail visit wish list with about forty nine or forty people to see, mentioning Indianapolis Ness and a speaker asking who to bring or who to see. The legible bits hint at a personal priprity but lack clear facts or names.
An old advertisement lists children rompers in blue ink and tan sizes from one to eight years and muslin drawers for ages one to twelve priced at about 60 cents and 50 cents respectively.
A booklet titled Cure for coughs and throat troubles claims exclamation and relief. It promotes masks and therapy and cites a Dr Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia address for evidence and cured cases.
An advert promotes select named sweet pea varieties for 25 cents per eight packets postpaid. It touts orchid flowers The Countess Spencer and The White Spencer, with free bonuses of double poppy and Queen of the Market seeds. Edgar A Higgins, Sweetpea Specialist, Avoca, Steuben Co.
There has been a good excuse for men of moderate means buying handme down clothing, but now they can have them made to their own measures and notions more cheaply and better by the International Tailoring Co. of New York, with ALF. Messenger and Son as sole Corry, Pa. agents.
Corry Public Library located in the north wing of the high school on South Street entrance opens every weekday evening from 7 to 9. Miss Sue Williams serves as librarian with hours also offered Monday Wednesday and Saturday from 2 to 5 in the afternoon.
An advertisement for Lyon Knepp offering painting and interior decorating services at 61 N. Flist Avenue with Bell phone 164R. Urges homeowners to choose honest materials and workmanship.
A fragment of a rural market page blends a joke about breaking news gently with a long ad list. The piece notes Irishmen fishing with a drowning casualty and a humorous line about Tim's wife, followed by numerous low price items such as soap, seeds, flour, and household goods offered at small cents per unit.
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