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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1911
Page
7
At a shop counter a customer learns how speaking another language can broaden social circles and bring better work. The vendor pitches language study as a path to wider contact, deeper culture, and potential higher earnings, tying it to fashion and imported textiles.
Real estate listings advertise properties for sale or rent in Corry and surrounding areas including ten room houses, barns, stores, and homes along the street car line to Columbus Pa. Also noted are executor notices for James Jackman and Lawrence Coyle, auditor appointment in Gun County, and miscellaneous sales of carriages, buggies, and sewing machines.
A jumble of rental notices, lost items, and political candidacy notices appears. Included are furnished room ads on Park Place and Mott Street, a Corry Metal Furniture Co stockholders meeting notice, several county and district political candidacies, a missing checkbook, and assorted sales and administration notices with names and local addresses.
Local notice invites girls from Wantiod to pick grapes in North East Pennsylvania, with address at McLiee Heos for applications. The brief item notes the recruitment drive and location but lacks full details due to damaged text.
Philadelphia August 3 A well dressed woman identified as Mrs Anna Tospepl of Pursuit New Jersey jumped from a ferry boat yesterday near Chestnut Street. Witnesses say she ran to the edge and climbed the wall before being grabbed by dock hands and arrested. Police report she is believed deranged and she was sent to the almshouse awaiting word from relatives.
A dated ad warns readers that fire insurance should be strong and reliable from established companies. It cautions against out of town banks,pony phrases, and cheap policies while urging trust in reputable agencies with solid capital and experience to safeguard savings and property.
Seattle August 5 Lena Porter Aveno 20, who wed a Japanese on May 1, 1910, fled to seek divorce on grounds of incompatibility. She claims she does not know how she happened to marry the Japanese after only 11 days of marriage. she was formerly a Minnesota schoolteacher.
Mournful items recount the death of Mrs Anna Jacobiy of Allentown aged 62 after a trolley collision in which her husband Alfred Finn, a Civil War veteran, died. Authorities describe her collapse and death in conductor Kemeréresileit's arms as she prepared to inform her sister. Police report a separate case of a postal robbery suspect, Lawla A. Sys, before U S district court.
Fragmented prose catalogs fashion shifts and household observations. It touches on women’s shirts and gowns, bath charms, washday items, and a stray remark about a loan and friendship. The piece blends garbled phrases with stray reflections on social customs.
The piece details donations and activities related to women’s roles in education, probation work, and suffrage. It notes Mrs. Jane Eastman receiving 40000 for Dartmouth in memory of Ira Allen Eastman, Mrs. Margaret Park’s probation efforts in Brooklyn, and Mrs. Russell Sage’s grants to the National Audubon Society. It reports anti-suffrage arguments in Illinois, remarks by figures like Elihu Root and Nicholas Butler, and profiles of Miles Ashley and other women advancing in law and teaching.
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