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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
5
Community notices include job ads sales real estate listings personal notices and event reminders in a dense garble of OCR text. Entries mention property for sale rent reunion notices hotel ads employment openings and local happenings with dates August and various street names.
A historical stock list shows prices and names such as Anglo American, Atlantic Cult and West Indies, General Motors, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Texas company stocks, and others. The entry lists multiple companies with share counts and figures, reflecting a period market snapshot.
Every business day in August the store promises much lower prices than competitors. Shoppers are urged to come after 8:00 A M and 1:00 P M, as the store closes sharply at 7:00 P M and staff will not sell after that hour.
Wholesale and retail prices for flour oats onions oranges and other staples listed. Includes Gold Medal Flour Fancy Pastry Flour Creamery prints New Cheese Bermuda Onions California Oranges Joy of Household Brooms clothes lines granite wash tubs and Veribest juice plus canned goods and pantry staples with varied per unit amounts and sizes.
A garbled OCR list from Erie retail produce shows assorted items with scattered prices and units. The readable entries mention beets lettuce cucumbers celery onions peppers potatoes corn cantaloupes and various local farm items with unit prices and vague quantities, reflecting a market pricing sheet from a Pennsylvania wholesale or street market. The text is inconsistent and includes many misread words, but preserves the notion of a communal market catalog with item names and price data.
Scattered OCR snippets reveal rental and sale items: housekeeping room for rent in Orange County with unclear rate, a house with postal venue, a garage or storage space, a motor washing machine for sale locally, and other brief listings. Names and locations are partially legible but fragmentary.
A short, typed ad lists items including watermelons in Georgia and dairy products from Butler creamery. Prices show 95.70 for dairy and eggs described as strictly fresh. The terse entry names Sand Choose and ful cream with unclear spellings and a stamp-like notation STAD.
An advertisement urges homeowners to act quickly for roof repairs painting or coating with guaranteed workmanship. It emphasizes prompt service and a contact line for estimates.
A faded notice lists names awaiting advertised letters at Corry Post Office with work ending August 4, 1620. Names include Lavern Tmtty Woyd Thorson Rove Walhace and Frank 1 Rabbit among others.
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