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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1911
Page
3
A promotional note praises The Winning to Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright. It calls the novel a landmark tale of reclaiming Southern California’s desert land with dramatic incidents and moral reversals. Scheduled for sale on Saturday August 19, priced at $1.30.
Fragmentary ad style text lists various grocery items and prices. Mentions teas, cookies, crackers, sweet potatoes, lard, potato starch, paper, cleaning powder, and oil with scattered prices and promotional claims. No clear event or persons emerge.
Fragmentary OCR lists various school stationery items and prices including bookkeepers supplies, rotted or blackened materials, high school tabulations, and pocket hooks. It mentions handkerchiefs and items for students, signaling a catalog-like notice of reductions in school materials.
A fragmented OCR item notes medicine lines with quantities 480 bottles and 260 units. The garbled text hints at a catalog or advertisement listing multiple bottle sizes and prices, with unclear product names and dosages.
Readable lines describe streetcar accident near Oil City with eight passengers uninjured, a large wild eagle captured near Kane then to Jamestown for display, several sales and promotions around Kimballa and Corry, a purse of crime stories including a bank break in South Dayton thwarted, a Gowanda automobile wreck, and community events from Chauntauqua season to church services in August.
The notice warns residents of the last day to pay taxes with a potential penalty for late payment. It lists Lyong and Murray as a referenced location and mentions WHIOW as the source, reflecting a historical public notice about tax due dates and penalties.
Union City Times reports a noon collision on the Wyner Hill road north of town involving M. Graves, Mrs. BK, and others in multiple vehicles. One man, Hanford, suffered a fractured left leg while others escaped with minor injuries. Dr. Humphreys treated the young boy and the party was brought in by Mr. ALB. Trent with vehicles damaged but no serious casualties.
A Ghhan defends publishing the Ruf Detentive tales in the Sunday World Magazine. The New York World editor justifies the selection as superior detective fiction. The editor argues the stories are marketable and beneficial for readers who should subscribe weekly.
Washington August 21 Postmaster General Hitchock announces designation of forty first class offices to begin operations September 22 The partial list includes Hagerstown Ashland Middletown D O City West Chester Pa Huntington WV and others
A. F. Messenger & Son advertise as sole agents for the International Tailoring Co. in the Sno area offering custom fit clothing at reasonable prices. The notice emphasizes made to your own measure tailoring and urges customers not to be misled.
An excerpt heavy with garbled names and stray phrases from a Philadelphia Record aside and Lippincott's mentions. It references a graduation speech, a joke about the class of 1907, and a humorous misaddressing of the female graduates.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a painting shop scene with customers and workers discussing a paint smell and requests for a bat and service. The text includes names like Walter and Arthur and a note about Dragon's Blood used for varnishes and medicines sold in India.
Fragmentary reflection on self knowledge and humility urges avoiding sharp judgment of others while exposing personal failings and the urge to imitate or critique. Cited phrases imply a caution against hypocrisy and vanity in judgment.
A reader reports relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills, purchased at N. F. Ames & Co Drug Store, noting substantial improvement and recommending the remedy. Sizable ad copy cites Foster Milburn Co as U S sole agents, price sixty cents, urging belief in the product.
The Traveling Salesman a James Forbes comedy plays at the Library Theater on Thursday evening August 2. Don MacMillan stars as Wake the traveling salesman with Gustave Abies and Hy Griswold Plant actors also listed in the cast amid a brief note of a boating accident where a worker sank after falling overboard. the body was recovered Monday morning.
Why Not Get a Tailor-made Suit Call Curly and let us explain our plan by which you can pay in small installments if necessary A B Messenger Son 212 West Main Street 126
A garbled reminiscence confuses a crowd as a speaker recalls his father and a lifelong journey. The text weaves between misread names and stray phrases, hinting at a political scene where a son addresses voters about his parent and personal memories.
A shrewd lawyer ends questioning by judging a witness’s likely statements. He explains he dismissed the witness after predicting he would reveal the attempted bribery, noting his intuition in a New York Times report.
A fragmentary widow tale centers on Henry Ball of The Merry Widow who faces a libel claim about womankind. In a dying moment a woman asks him to marry Mary Simpson, seeking a vow for revenge before death, revealing tensions around marriage and social judgment.
In a quirky excerpt a boy at Wise Bay recalls a bell by the water pump and a bell ringer’s instruction. A jay asks where his yell is, and a line about warming the fire and not touching something appears. The piece reads like a faded local humorous note from a magazine.
A fragmented report describes a confrontation near a dentist's shop on Tramant Street where a young woman resists etiquette rules while her mother commands restraint. The exchange includes a demand to “hy de and weep,” reflecting a tense family moment in a public setting.
A fragmented text presents quirky lines about celebrations and oddities. It mentions a holiday, paying big bills, a fairy tale, a bid that didny cry, a dog that bites, mosquitos in a suburb, a man who never gives in, and a debate about judging theories by how they sound when spoken.
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