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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1911
Page
3
The Corry Floral Co advertises fresh flowers and plants for all occasions from its Columbus Ave and Center St location. It highlights funeral flowers and personal bouquets with special attention to service, noting Bell phone and proximity to the street car line.
City and vicinity notices list Hendersons offering road hand pianos cheap, Moreland Stationery Co selling water color cards, and local theaters showing The Deluge at the Amusu theater. Ads highlight china decor, reductions, and local shop specials with a Franklin bound Home Watchmen update and a court divorce note.
Arcade Mole-Scots marshmallow center candy and Arcade Caramels with nut filling and plain are now in great quantities. Cocoanut Cream Sticks remain a top favorite in large trays. The shop also highlights Arcade Trends and other popular confections celebrated nationwide and offered locally.
Numerous small ads list wallpaper sales hot water bottles and syringes spring fabric remnants and discounted waists and shirts. Lost dog Kelly sought reward. Events include a Pythian supper and a Hall dance with admission 25 cents. Letters report friends and travel plus a proposed curfew ordinance for county youth. New porcelain china and dinnerware arrivals advertised in basement showroom.
A jumble of notices from Vitagraph and Biograph listings plus local social notes. The Cambridge Springs Enterprise mentions license hearings and a playful street scene on Mott street as residents discuss commerce and theater.
Knight's Tea Store in Corry Pa invites the public to a free flour giveaway on a Saturday night at an unspecified hour in March. The advertisement claims this flour bakes the best bread and urges residents to try it, promising to pay customers to trade at the store and noting a barrel of "Very Best" flour to be given away. It references February 20 as a date.
A noted antiquarian entry explains that trug denotes various measures and objects across England. Yorkshire uses it for an oblong trough, Cumberland for a wooden box, Oxfordshire for a basket, with regions using trug as two bushels of wheat. notes a 1767 parliament seat price rise and a London Standard snippet.
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