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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1913
Page
4
Bargain list shows reduced prices on household staples and toiletries. Items include soap, large powder, laundry soap, pine essence, cocoa, and canned goods. Occasional misspellings confuse brands but the sale focuses on everyday grocery essentials for the coming week.
A promotional notice for Today's Magazine, described as the largest and best edited magazine, priced at 500 per year with five cents per copy. It invites ladies to request a free sample copy and premium catalog and provides the address at To Day's Magazine in Canton, Ohio.
An advertisement by C C Babbitt & Son touts a skin remedy claiming dramatic results. It pledges a personal guarantee, cites a dermatological-sounding formula, and urges readers to try the product with a money-back assurance if not satisfied.
Classified notice seeks 90 girls for immediate work at NuBone Corset Company offering good wages. Employment details are brief with no further terms provided.
Huenlsburs Mal ff Senatos Veacock of Montgeuieny introduced a bill to permit Friday Astin The bill, presented in the house today, aims to reorganize the auditor general department and reduce the bureau to prepare a digest of its statements. Mayor Magee of Pittsburg spoke at invitation and urged careful consideration of measures expanding municipal powers. Senator Homsor introduced a congressional reapportionment bill and local option headquarters announced a new bill for submission next week. It would replace the Rockwell measure and is expected to win more votes. Williams of Dauphin introduced two SPCA bills to require animal drawn vehicles to carry owners’ tabs and addresses in cities.
Residents report Mrs. B Hinson hosting a guest of her cousin, Miss Sapkir Crook, with Frank Crane in town for a pub lic ante. Mr Grane and family plan moving to West 2d Street this week. West Green Ladies Aid served dinner and cleared. F Knapp sold 2 span of colts to Warren Moore for 3200. Feb 18 marked a birthday event for M M Porter and Iela Blackiner, with friends from Wattshure gathering for a surprise. W B Newton of Arbuckle purchased Mrs Stoke’s sawmill and begins lumber production. Mrs Denver Mats of Huron City visited her parents, J J Long and wife of Arbuckle. Union City received a carload fertilizer brought by Jay Applebee. Frank Applebee will deliver pothtook to Union City this week. The Multed Brethren tundins Ald Soolbly met with Mrs Goole Denne fon Thursday.
An old advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound claiming rapid relief from cold symptoms and flu with two hour dosing and a list of side effects. The page also includes a hair dressing parlor listing for Mrs. Klin B Dalrymple at 102 12 Bust Washington St, Corry, Pa, offering molding, coloring and hair goods.
Washington reports a heated Senate debate on a large public buildings appropriation bill. Senators Hoke Smith and O’Gorman opposed the measure citing treasury risks if their policy is pursued, while proposals included a $100,000 post office building at Jasper, Alabama.
Ella Page Bracken, secretary of the Corry Humane Society, presents the annual Humane Work report for 1912. Cruelty cases and animal welfare actions are outlined with numbers on child protection, animal rescues, and education efforts, noting reforms and international guidance while urging more humane societies to join in rescue work. The report highlights 195,488 children and 1,462,128 animal cases handled, calls for stronger animal welfare laws, and comments on transportation slaughter reforms and global efforts.
An ad touts Parisian Sage hair tonic promising to halt hair loss at a low price. It describes a guaranteed benefit and urges readers to buy a bottle for 60 cents, asserting the product preserves natural color and vitality.
Copyedited notice offering affordable eye care and glasses. Encourages readers with eye troubles to visit for assistance and reasonable prices.
Dr D Padole announces a new optometrist and optician practice located in the Traction Building Room 1. The move formalizes services including eye exams and eyewear fittings for Friday openings. Local residents are invited to visit for consultations.
A historical ad promotes chiropractic treatment by Dr Andrew McKelvey at 20 W. Smith Street claiming to remove the cause of disease. It lists ailments including appendicitis, asthma, constipation, dyspepsia, diabetes, deafness, female trouble, gallstones, hay fever, headaches, lumbago, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, rheumatism, infant paralysis, and spinal curvature.
Corry bank lists Henry Keppel as president with Smitty and Andrews as cashiers among directors J Smith Elmer H Kineald and others. Transacts general banking business and pays interest on time deposits with drafts on foreign countries.
Readable ad shows a weekly sale listing items and prices. Includes mantles, oranges, syrups, dried beans, salmon, starch, noodles, spaghetti, crackers and other groceries with bulk offers and per unit prices. Pigment and OCR quirks aside, it preserves the reader-focused shopping teaser from the period advertisement.
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