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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1911
Page
8
The ad highlights towels priced at 26 to 29 cents and dress skirts at 1.25 to 1.05, made from heavy yarns and duck fabric. It touts versatile wear for street or house use, includes pique and dress linen at 50, and notes current sale pricing to clear stock quickly.
An advertisement touts the Economy Vacuum Washer as a nonmachine device that uses a simple principle to make soap and heated water do the work. It claims boiler incorporation and automatic operation, drawing water from the bottom and discharging at the top, cleaning items in 10 to 20 minutes and priced at $3.59 with an 80 day guarantee if not effective.
Fragmentary text mentions a gem movement and an Australian black operation. It references locations in New South Wales, a prison, a prisoner, and elements like a matrix and fronstone. The garbled prose limits clear facts or coherent events.
Raymond D Woodworth offers draying and general team work in Inton with phone contact 27.
Administration investigates tea as a food item, clarifying what constitutes tea and detailing a Treasury ruling on prohibiting colored tea imports. The board appointed by the secretary of the treasury rejected admission of artificially colored tea, noting American tea culture lacks true tea whey and that color arises from fermentation. Importers complain of price shifts and supply splits between eastern ports and the West Coast.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a stage scene with a popular actress speaking of love loss and an autonomous public figure. The text references a play titled Weouged Wife and a special commission husband who saves the actress from returning to an unhappy life.
National governors conference set for Spring Lake New Jersey with thirty five states expected. Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey chairs the planning committee as speeches by Wilson of Kentucky Morrin of Montana Allel of Nebraska and Carey of Wyoming are announced. Several prospective declarations include Harmon of Ohio and Johnson of California with uncertain attendance by President Watt.
A clipped dialogue references Flyntskyn and a Home Tile Aga hy Wun figure as a near friend. The spoken lines imply surprise and a tense dynamic, with unclear context and garbled names suggesting a fragment from a larger quotation.
C R Rogers and Co Inc promote electric irons toasters hot plates fans washing machines vacuum cleaners and other household electrical appliances. They highlight the new day current from the Lighting Company and offer to demonstrate or install apparatus on trial. The firm also lists building materials electrical machinery and supplies including pulleys hangers belting plaster structural steel wheelbarrows electric lamps wire switches fuses tape batteries gas ranges concrete mixers and related items.
A fragment from a Dotrole Free Press item features a dialogue about love and belief between two speakers. The exchange centers on assurances of affection and sincerity, capturing a moment of romantic inquiry and confirmation.
The article notes extensive Chinese match manufacture with factories at Tienfo, Peking, Motu, Shanghai and other sites. Viceroys limit new plants while one Hankey factory employs 8,000 workers and produces about sixty tons. Early seventeenth century polishing debates are mentioned.
Young men and women are urged to enroll as the Davis School advertises rapid job growth in fields like bookkeeping and stenography at General Electric, with fall term starting September 5 and easy payment terms offered. railroad travel benefits to commuting students.
A local ad offers a home piano tuner service promising refunds if the work is unsatisfactory. Price listed as 2.60 dollars including a tor e cleaning. Contact FR Burkhardt at Burkhardt's Art Shop located at 143 N Center Street. phone number appears as g10F.
Anson C. Greenlee and Sophia E. Greenlee list office hours 8:30 to 11:30 and 1 to 6 p.m with additional times by appointment. Location is Office Room 2 Afar building and residence 206 Maple Ave Union, phone 140.
Schedule in effect July 1917 for Corry and Columbus Street Railway lists trip times from Corry to Columbus and return, with departures at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm among others. Additional cars run to North Corry and Hast Waynd Street, with connections to Penn Flyers South and North Corry Sundays first service.
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