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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1911
Page
7
Fragmented ad text lists items for sale including corsets stock at ninety five dollars, tools and planers, dry hardwood, a baby carriage, printing office equipment, and a plant with inventory valued at AS thousand cash plus goodwill. It mentions The Evening Journal Harleson Spring Creek contact and various buyers.
Fragmentary notice lists money loan requests and shop advertisements. Mentions boutdorn at Main Street, Home Tuner, Burkhardt's Art Shop at 198 W, Ball phone 319 7 18, and inquiries about a vertical upright Plano in good condition. Details are unreadable and partly garbled.
Real estate promoters urge buyers in Corry to act now as values are expected to rise in a progressive city. The message emphasizes urgency and the likelihood of future price increases to motivate prospective investors.
A garbled catalog lists new houses, large lots with barns on Washington Street and various Wayne Street properties near Corry. Prices range from 3000 to 3700 with details on frontage, water, cement cellars, and multiple parcels including 60 by 100 feet lots and 50 by 128 foot lots. Also advertises rental properties, building lots, and a few notices for public notices and political announcements from 1911 Corry Evening Journal.
A long real estate list offers houses, farms, and lots with varied prices. Listings include 60x200 to 66x195 parcels, brick and frame houses, barns, and multiple acres near towns and cities. Prices range from 400 to 6000 dollars, with locations on Main, Washington, Pleasant, Marion, and Park streets among others. Some entries mention dairy farms, water, and near-city plots, plus several lots with buildings.
An assortment of real estate notes highlights properties in Columbus and Blair area listings. R Powell advertises bricks block and multi unit homes for sale or rent, inviting inquiries. Additional items include a center street parcel, factory adjacencies, and a Shular property near West Wayne and Smith Street. A whimsical naval voyage tale closes the page with a vanished island myth.
A reflective quotation urges treating learning as a personal timepiece kept private. It compares knowledge to a watch carried in a pocket, noting one should know the hour without broadcasting it to others. It warns against ostentation or loud displays of learning.
Jamestown Employment Bureau in Jamestown New York advertises farm hands and other roles seeking male applicants. Address applications to the Jamestown bureau.
Notice announces application to the Governor of Pennsylvania on May 21 1912 by Northrop W W Blate and Woodringster for charter of The Light Heat and Power Co to operate in Corry and to enjoy all powers and privileges of the General Assembly act. Also included are notices of administrator appointment and guidance for boroughs and townships on primary ballots and caucuses.
Notice of public auction on March 1 1914 at Corry Business Mens Exchange for twenty shares of Corry Metal Furniture Company stock to cover unpaid assessments totaling 1500 dollars. Treasurer C J Smith states the sale aims to settle the debt. Also included is a notice of a stockholders meeting of U S Chase Company in Corry on April 7 1911 to decide on a 30000 bond issue secured by mortgage to fund obligations and expansion.
Experienced waitress needed urgently. Start order conk rain stook, excellent positions, good pay. Other Koor positions open. Address Tamestown Employment Bureau Jamestown NY. Tint Wanted stonte dining room girl at St James Hotel.
In Syyisa village of Bregenz near the Austrian frontier, villagers hear eerie music from a cemetery at night. Gendarmes hide as a tradesman, claiming he played a tomb’s tune for his late bride, then is led away. Also, a plane crash at Barith aviation grounds injures three aviators lightly after breakup.
The article details General Gordon’s unwavering wife who stayed by his side through the Civil War. During the Battle of Sharpsburg she aided him after he was wounded, carried him to safety, and staunched bleeding until medical help arrived. She then remained at his hospital bedside and followed him back to join his command.
Orlanda Jo Smith asserts that great thoughts outlast physical form and survive generations. She cites Confucius Buddha Plato Seneca and Christ, arguing voices echo through ages while buildings decay and rivers run dry. The idea of immortal thought inspires enduring youth and strength.
Thaw planning to secure discharge from Matteawan asylum by habeas corpus writ. Austy Thaw’s counsel seeks release via appeal to the Court of Appeals after denial of trial by jury on sanity. Attorney Charles Morachausar to file petition in federal district court for another writ. Mention links to Nugent death under suspicion.
The gunboat Marietta arrived at New York on February 13 with all hands well. Commander George F. Cooper said there had been no yellow fever aboard. Coxswain Hi Minor died while at Honduras from malarial fever. Two men still ill were also diagnosed with malaria. the ship was ordered to Key West for climate relief.
In Erle Pennsylvanian notes, a copper lid vanished from the casket holding Mrs Anna McCallum's remains after intruders forced entry to the Scott mausoleum. Detectives weigh motives of vandalism possibly tied to a person of means seeking revenge, with investigations spreading to New York and Philadelphia under secrecy.
John Schenk sues for divorce from Aim Farnsworth Schenk, charging infidelity and naming Daniel Phillips of Wheeling as a corespondent. Alimony set at 25 dollars weekly. The brief also notes a note of scandalous talk and a court hearing on the matter, with additional local items about Carnegie Library funding in Plainfield.
Pittsburg Feb 11 construction work will begin on the Buckhannon Northern and a new feeder to the coal fields of West Virginia. The Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg Lake Erie lines plan the project with an outlay of 100000 dollars and a total cost of 1700000 dollars for the complete coal line.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Doc Squires, once a well known figure in New England, asked about a diploma. He replies he has none and soon must dig a grave in the earth, a line reflecting rustic humor or hardship of the era.
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