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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1911
Page
8
We offer three embroidered coats at $10.00 each and lace coats at various sale prices. Lace coats priced at $7.50 and $6.50 are highlighted, with larger lace coats listed at $10.00 from an offered $25.00. The seller stresses urgency to clear stock.
Classified want ad from Johns Steamship Agency at Durham's Drug Store promoting European travel rates and earnings incentives. Encourages readers to act by stating if you can earn more you are worth more and urging to tell what you can do and do well in a journal want ad.
Fragmentary report notes a figure named Mack Poppaea associated with Nero in a historical context. Details are unclear due to damaged text, but the item suggests a personal or ceremonial rank intended to guard complexion or status within the imperial circle.
In Nashua Iowa Henry Blekholt was momentarily unable to speak after stepping on a tack in a blacksmith shop. The tack penetrated the shoe sole and caused a stroke like episode. after the pain he recovered speech and could converse normally.
Touthed telegraphic misspelling describes a local transport notice for Union Depot services. The brief mentions first class service across the city and special attention to trunk and baggage transfers, with two phones listed.
A vintage pitch touts The Economy Vacuum Washer as a labor saving device for wash day. It claims vacuum operation without wheels or levers, draws boiler water from bottom and discharges from the top, and promises 10 to 20 minute boiling cleaning. A return policy offers $8.59 within 60 days if instructions are followed.
In Shelbyville Indiana on August 12 Mrs Wil Ham Crosby 17 and Tina Mott aged months drowned in Sump Creek. Mrs Crosby apparently fainted while walking with the child's grandmother Mrs Ida Croley. The woman fell in with the baby, both drowned. The baby was recovered later and Crosby was carried across the byway by the grandmother.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a quirky family exchange where a child asks about air being wet and cites a parent telling the mother that a lend shove water could not be escaped. Names and some terms are unclear, but the gist involves a misheard comment on damp air and parental remarks.
A short reflection on human weakness and mutual forgiveness. It notes that people have faults yet we can choose to focus on the good and practice forgiving one another as we hope to be forgiven ourselves.
A description notes the largest weathercock in London on the cupels of St Peter-Upon-Cornhills and a dragon weathercock at St Mary church in Cheapside. The piece comments on stubborn forgiveness in matrimony and a man bringing his husband home late at night with feet out of a cab window.
Advertisement from Burkhardts Art Shop offers home piano tuning for 2.50 dollars including cleaning. If not satisfactory, money refunded. Contact C. P. Burkhardt at 128 N Center Street, Bell phone 210.
Office hours listed as 8 30 to 11 80 pm and 2 to 6 pm. Other tours by appointment. Office Room 3 Ajax building Residence 206 Maple Ava Union Phone 140 Members of AoA.
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