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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
4
Local notice lists HL Wolsa as a sunk dealer located at 460 Delaware Avenue with contact through Ball-phone 3B in the advertisement.
Johns Steamboat Agency offers a sailing list from Durham's Drug Store for trips from Corry to Naples at a price of 42 dollars. The notice presents travel options and contact details for booking.
An early 20th century style ad announces a daily and nightly sale from Saturday through Christmas. It touts fancy select oysters at reduced quart prices, bulk candy and candy items, preserved foods, olives, vanilla extract, cereal, flour, pepper, honey, cabbage, and other staples. The dealer promises delivery within the city and offers trading stamps with purchases.
Jamestown Ministerial Alliance petitions the Common Council of Jamestown New York urging immediate discontinuance of City Hall for balls and dances citing moral concerns for girls and young women. Committee members Horace Ogden Caleb Moor Andrew Fryeman sign the resolution dated December 28 1945.
Oil City December 24 Patrick Summers ends a 50 year railroad career with Pennsylvania on the Dugesne Special bound for Buffalo at 4 57 pm. He retires on a liberal pen sion returning to Oil City. Summers born in Limerick Ireland came to America early, started as a brakeman in 1860 on the Oil Creek road, and rose to engineer by 1867.
Robert Strong a seventeen year old boy pleaded guilty to petit larceny for snatching a handbag from Miss Nellie Hansen at Sixth and Pine. He was sentenced to three months in Erie County penitentiary. The handbag valued at $30 contained a watch and chain. The grand larceny charge was not pressed.
Admiral Dewey reaches 75 with morning at the Navy Department office in Washington and an evening dinner at home with Mrs. Dewey. The day’s formal event is followed by private celebrations with a small circle of friends.
Indianapolis December district attorney Millen presented a trial narrative linking McManigal and J McNamara to the Cleveland explosion and Detroit dynamiting plot in 1910. He traced hotel registrations receipts and signatures to support corroboration while detailing witnesses from Cleveland Toledo and Detroit sites. The argument highlighted the defendants’ motive and the role of Wachtmeister and Smith in the dynamiting scheme with evidence from hotel registrants and express receipts.
In St Louis Nebraska a 70 year old man attacked a burglar after his wife was stabbed. He used a pillow as a shield and pinned the intruder, then summoned help. The homeowner remained at risk as the attack unfolded near Burnedyeuie and Greve Cocky Lane.
Reports from New York say the passengers of the transport ship were landed safely after a voyage marked by a collision with a worsted ship near the Atlantic coast. The United Fruit line vessel Pocahontas carried 18 stewards and many passengers, who waited ashore at Froston Street, singing Christmas carols and sharing merriment as they reached land.
A young woman named Miley Flock died from a morphine injection amid a Paris drug crisis. An autopsy tied the overdose to recent heroin use, while police raid Henry Jarjuet’s Montmartre residences uncovered cocaine morphine and other compounds. Jarjuet faces charges of supplying drugs to cafe patrons.
Market report notes mixed activity in New York provision market with prices listed for goods including oats eggs and potatoes. Names and figures appear distorted but indicate price levels and product types such as creamery items and state weights.
Buffalo Provision Market reports varied prices for commodities and livestock. Dairy items include creamery products and cheese quality grades, with notes on patent products and values. potatoes described as white and fancy with store estimates. Livestock prices cover prime cattle, veal, lambs, hogs, and related weights and price ranges.
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