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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1912
Page
9
From the Garment Department a clearance offers deep cuts on dresses and outerwear. Highlights include Silk Messelin and Embroidered Silk dresses in sizes 34 to 36, Red Taffeta Silk dresses, Wash Suits, White Wool and Gray Wool suits, Silk Taffeta Coats, and 36 inch Black Taffeta Silk sold at substantial savings with several items under five dollars.
Look Look Look this store promises daily activities and a Saturday avalanche of bargains. Quantities are limited and there are no duplicates, so shoppers should hurry to secure the advertised articles.
Drapery items including white scrim with colored stripes sold 18c per yard and 12 1 2c per yard. Printed scrims with bordered edges priced at 7c and up to 12 1 2c per yard. Double faced scrims with bordered sides sold up to 19c per yard. A lot of lace curtains offered.
A brief notice states a sale includes three pair lots and a discount of 33 13 percent, highlighting a limited price reduction on the bundled items.
Readable text shows a dress goods department advert offering satin stripe voiles Marquisette at 35 cents per yard and satin foulard silks in stripes at 65 cents per yard. Also listed are 12 styles of silk mixed wash goods priced about 39 cents per yard, targeted for party or afternoon dresses.
Local stock sale offers apron ginghams at 6 cents per yard as remaining stock is cleared. Prices reflect old stock levels with emphasis on value for bulk purchases. Limited quantities available.
The notice advertises children's Summer Vests three for 25 cents, Gingham Rompers, and various hose options from 8 to 210.6 years at 250 Dry. It promotes ladies Black Gauze Hose at 10 cents per pair, ribbed hose for 19 to 15 cents, boys ribbed hose, and wash dresses in pink white and blue sizes 34 to 40, with sale prices around 2 dollars from up to 6 dollars.
Cincinnati Aug 21 Testimony in the murder trial of Mrs Charles Radcliff revealed she is near motherhood and claimed she shot her husband to protect herself after learning from a letter that he had not divorced her. She said she had married Stocker of Gary Indiana before Radcliff’s death and that his alleged attack prompted the shooting.
In Woodbury New Jersey Aug 21 lightning struck Thomas Wentz house on Glassboro road entering a bedroom closet and igniting clothing then struck the kitchen stove and caused a hose in the floor. A yard tree splintered Wentz was stunned and Mrs Wentz burned while she fought the flames. Dr Stout treated both and they are out of danger.
In Leesburg New Jersey farmers report a strange disease rapidly killing stock. Veterinarians are pressed by the malady. Postmaster Joseph Sutton reports six horses and twenty pigs lost, with other sufferers named as Lilburn Cox Howard Riggins Henry Reeves and Samuel Cox.
A San Cura advertisement recounts a Pittsburgh mother with leg ulcers spared amputation after using the remedy for four to five months. The letter thanks the Thompson Medical Co and cites a May Drug Co purchase in Pittsburgh and a Garrett Pa address. It claims cures and urges others to try the product with priced mail orders.
Allentown notes a will of Dr. Edwin G. Steinmetz of Hoken Antiqua bequeathing Woodlawn and part to Oliver Steinmetz with books and medicines to Margaret Kreglow. The residue over $100000 goes to Jennie Faulkner, then to Miss Kreglow. relatives contest as kin were ousted from the house before death.
Weather bureau reports show conditions in New York Albany Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Chicago St Louis New Orleans Washington Philadelphia with temperatures ranging from the mid sixties to high eighties and variations between clear and cloudy skies across the day.
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