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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
6
Union City faces impure water as clogged taps reduce service after dead frogs enter pipes from the reservoir. Health authorities call for mains to be flushed and intake screens to be inspected or replaced to prevent health risks and potential epidemic.
Ads offer eight packets of named Sweet Peas for 25 cents plus three orchid varieties and other seeds. A second deal sells ten orchid flowering Sweet Peas for 60 cents. Remittance preferred. promises improved bulbs and fragrances from Avoca New York dealer Edgar A Higgins.
The Star Granite and Marble Works offers a free set of four corner posts with every order of $50 or more, claiming no agent commissions or rent competition. They invite customers to visit their Rock Island Location at 140 Mapila Avenue, Corry, PA to inspect their goods and pricing.
Terrible sores claimed relief promises from San Cura Ointment with testimonials from J. D. Hood of Townville and Karl C. Banks of Pittsburgh. The ad touts rapid healing for fever sores, ulcers, boils, carbuncles, rheum, tetter, piles and cuts and promotes Complenton Soap as a skin purifier. Price listed as 24 or 50 cents a jar and sale through N F Ames and Thos Downey, Titusville Pa.
A catalog of local businesses offering tobacco and related goods lists H Cigar Parlor Drug Store and sources such as R G Lindsley and Son . O Babbitt and Son and several hotels including European St James Exchange and G Baeder. Other listed sellers include J H Plate Blair Co Malr dros W F Lewis and Wilson Edwards. B G Crapser Fred Hoenes Perkins Bros Foster Bros Moborg Saxton Arcade Bik Chub Mrs Lieda Metagar J A Reed and W L Wilcox.
Notices advertise sweat cream for parties or special occasions and invite contact with H W Merry at Bell 202 R 14 1w25 in a terse classifieds style from the era.
An old style ad lists scrap tobacco and packing figs for a quarter, various plug and tin tobacco prices, fine cut chewing tobacco, and items like house brooms, mopsicks, scrubbing brushes, wash tubs, wash boards, large clothes baskets, galvanized pails, and extra hardwood clothing hanging.
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