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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1914
Page
5
Unclear OCR text records box red campaign event with torn lines. Readable items mention tent and a five star rating tied to a boxed red item. No clear people, organizations, or concrete dates discernible from the fragment.
Local residents and visitors are described traveling for holidays. J H Mouray of Biglenty and D J Alexander visit on business, Wild Powell plans return from Pittsburgh, and several others head to Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Erie, Warren, and Cambridge for Christmas.
A scanned menu item lists a Christmas dinner at Home Restaurant featuring cream of tomato soup roast meat with brown gravy roast pork and apple sauce roast duck and cranberry sauce mashed potatoes sweet potatoes creamed peas cabbage salad suet pudding apple mince pumpkin and lemon coffee.
A printed menu lists chicken broth with noodles and white fish with cucumber relish, roast duck with gravy, stuffed roast, spring chicken with apple, squash, minca pie, pumpkin pie, Christmas pudding, and beverages like tea and soda crackers. It mentions varied sauces including Worcester sauce, dill pickles, and brown gravy, with desserts and teas closing the meal.
Mr and Mrs George D B Crapaer of 322 South Street marked 59 years since their Cleveland wedding. They moved to Corry years later when Crapaer became foreman at the Widnor poll factory. They have two children and several grandchildren, with a long history in Corry.
District Attorney Whitton pursued Carl Kettle and witnesses at West Hoboken saloon to testify on the Barnett Baton murder. Kettle was jailed at the Tombs then the Vend, awaiting grand jury appearance as police investigated poultry market subornations and intimidation linked to mayoral influence.
The notice hints at a matinee showing labeled Tom with Little Eva Anil in a likely local theater program. Details are sparse but indicate a scheduled display for the following day at a venue featuring these names.
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