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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
4
Local shop window promotions and holiday items fill the week as retailers advertise bargains. Featured are sweaters, stationery, gift items, and a Christmas program at Hatch School with entertainment planned for Wednesday night, December 18.
Local ad for C J Woods Cash Market at 413 Concord Street lists grocery items and prices. Foil pound prints Pancy Pure Gard 12c, wheat lard 36c, corn, pork and beans, tea, peas, string beans, salmon, soap, bacon 21c, sausage 14c, Sauer Krant, coffee 28c per pound, and a sale note of hogs killed at Beaver Dam Friday. Also mentions sale in-store Saturday with prices 10c per pound and up.
Downeys Drug Store spotlights perfumes and toilet waters from leading makers. The ad lists Christmas gift ideas including ornaments and fashion items. Community notices detail a police incident, a child’s tonsil surgery, and a rector’s visit. Notices cover telegraph route restoration and reduced cable rates to West Coast Mexico, plus boxing gloves and footballs for sale.
District officials announce seed distribution to aid local gardens. The plan includes flower and vegetable seed assortments packed for delivery, with requests sent to a Washington address for reply and handling by local representatives.
Large shipment of furs including mink, fox, and ermine sent by the Drought Company via Welly Fargo Kapress around Thursday afternoon. The consignment, valued near 25,000 dollars, includes sacks of pelts and represents one of the season’s largest shipments to a leading manufacturer in the world, with buyer C. H. Morley handling orders through the region.
H M Alford brought to min city today a fine assortment of furs purchased during a week long trip through Chautauqua County. The display included red fox, mink and windred and windsty-onw kin. The skins were gathered from rural trappers around Findley Lake, Clymer, Merman and nearby points in Okay.
Display of holiday novelties by ndvelwis M. A. Cameron starts Saturday December 11 1915 at Cameron Block. Dolls with complete outlines shown in Burkhardt's Art Shop window while Glenn Ro Davin Co and Downey's Drug Store promote gifts and candy with prices and limited time offers. Children and social events noted at local shops with refreshments and demonstrations.
The Presbyterian LadiesAid held monthly meetings in church parlors and reported a surplus from the bazaar. Trustees including Alex Moln and a committee approved allocating funds toward carpet, hardwood floors, and a planned pavillion, totaling about $800 for the church floor project.
A fragment from Perkins Crocery lists various food items and prices. The notice mentions corn tomatoes pumpkin kraut and fruit items like apples and parsnips along with general produce. Also advertised are fancy Canadian produce and a compound product called Magié Landry Compound.
Worded invitation highlights an extensive range of flowering and ornamental plants. Primroses primrose varieties cyclamen ferns and palms are showcased alongside seasonal favorites including roses carnations violets and other decorative blooms for the holidays.
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