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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
6
The note announces a move to 42 N Center St and thanks customers for past support. It promotes wall paper at reduced prices and remaining window shades, inviting patrons to visit the new store location.
A lengthy local column lists residents visiting, ill, or traveling from Corry, Spartansburg, Warren, and Hamilton Canada. It notes Ed Ming’s sister Edith Kotiler sick, Mrs. Emaline Clark’s farm visit, Mina Rutherford’s return home amid a death, and other brief personal notices. It mentions public figures and local vendors, including a Buffalo Ranch Wild West feature and Steen’s sale.
A Detroit Free Press report describes a Polish wedding custom where after the feast, dancing includes a plate ritual. A gallant pays to break a plate placed by the bride’s mother, the shards funding the bride’s dowry to begin housekeeping. The aggregate often reaches fifty to one hundred dollars.
Mrs Pinkerton complains at The Impudent Store about gloves exchanged for being too small and soiled. Clerks and a doorman dismiss the issue as she and Pinkerton recall the sales dispute and the awkward unwrapping of the supposedly new pair.
Mrs B B Jones widow of a Pittshire steel founder offers her Creston cottage and grounds on the Carnegie tract for the Western Sanatorium for Tuberculosis. The dwelling valued around 18000 will house at least twenty patients while sanatorium buildings are rapidly developed. Dr Dixon awaits guidance from the Health Commissioner on acceptance or transfer to the state or the sanatorium organization.
The excerpt describes an old shotgun of formidable build and a boastful owner who claims near-mythical power. A man recounts a near-miss when a reload was needed and a firearm misfired, highlighting danger and bravado. The passage also mixes notes on Sakhalin climate and unusual plant life at different island elevations.
A freight car derailment at the Portland Cement company building in York Ma injures Harry Dy Fura 18 employed by Westurn Maryland Railroad. He dies shortly after hospitalization. Charles Lamson sues Wright brothers in US district court over kite plane patent infringement claiming the Wright machine imitates his box kite. Bradford Pa reports search for nine year old Bubuh Adams abandoned. doubt he survived in the woods.
The notice advertises rug discounts with several 9 by 12 pieces. Wilton, Amsterdam, Bayemna, and Brussels rugs are listed with sale prices around 15 to 28 dollars. The text emphasizes low prices during this sale in the carpet department.
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