After Christmas Clean Up Sale Prices on Linen Towels and Accessories
A post holiday sale offers pure linen towels and dresser scarfs reduced to 59 cents from Tic. Fancy embroidered white aprons drop to 59 cents from 65 76 and 85 cents. Ladies purses or mesh bags fall to 2.00 from 2.50 2.75 and 8.25. Peau-de-soie silk yardage now 1.45 from 1.50. Muffs in black or brown fur trimmed to 3.50 from 5.00. Sealette plush coats reduced to 25.00 from 32.50 and 37.50.
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LOT VI
Sealette
Auction Votes Help Dolls for Christmas Hope
A notice states many young girls worked for a doll by Christmas but were short on votes. Votes will continue until January 15 when the contest closes, with only 20 dolls remaining.
Lot of discounted fabric and textiles sale items
A list of reduced prices for ladies coats, cloth coats in boucle or chinchilla, heavy wool blankets, extra large double bed blankets, outing flannel yardage in pink and blue, silk floss, and corduroy fabric for dresses. Prices show substantial markdowns from earlier figures.
Parcels Post Rules Cause Confusion In Local Brief
A newspaper brief explains disputed parcel size limits under the new Parcels Post law taking effect New Year’s Day. The six foot measurement and girth method are described, with tape test as the official check. Local and 80 mile zone rates are outlined, plus weight units and delivery details.
Another Old Resident Passes in Broken Straw Valley
A long time resident Harry Raymond died at his home on December 31 at 6 01 pm aged 82. He leaves two daughters, Mrs Frank C Howard and Miss Alice Raymond, a brother Lyman Raymond of Columbus, and a sister Mrs A C Sissen of New York. Funeral Thursday at 1 30 pm. He lived on the family farm since early manhood and was respected in the community.
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Harry Raymond
Raymond
Frank C. Howard
Alice Raymond
Lyman Raymond
Columbus
A. C. Sissen
New York
Tho Farm
Corry
Jacobson
Dressmaking After Jan Tet 1 at My Home
Dressmaking and ladies' tailoring offered at my home by Miss Grace EB Gale. Prices reasonable and work guaranteed. Located near Guignon's Hardware store.
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Grace EB. Gale
Guignon
Barlow Hardware First to Use Parcels Post From Corry Office
The Barlow Hardware Co sent the first Parcels Post item stamped at Corry as a test to Antrim Pennsylvania, saving twenty five cents over express rates. Additional parcel shipments went to Helen Johnson for a Texas fund and to Jamestown, while the era of rural parcel delivery begins tomorrow morning. The piece notes W. J. Harrounk sending a package to Jamestown for fourteen cents where charges would have been thirty. A local veteran, N. V. Regiment, formerly with the 16th Pennsylvania Volunteers, is described in detail as he prepares for a trip to Chicago to join a business concern and promote advertising art. He plans to reach Chicago in two weeks after visiting Whiting Indiana.
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Barlow Hardware Company
Corry
Antrim
Barlow Company
Ains Helen Johnson
Texan
Tia
W. J. Hanrouck
Jamestown
Chicago
Jamestown Man Begins Continent Foot Trip to San Francisco
Gust Dibson of Jamestown starts a cross continent trek from Washington and West Third Streets on foot toward San Francisco. He plans to reach the Golden Gate in May, carrying letters and credentials from civic and veterans groups. He is 38, weighs 162 pounds, and previously served in the Spanish American War with Company K.
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Jamestown
N.Y
Gust Dibson
Poatoflice
Washington
West Third Streets
San Francisco
Hue
Golden Gate
Ottoson
A. Carlson
Francisco
Augustus F. Allen
Ernest’ Cancroft
Chautauqua County
Hipam W. Johnson
Galifornia
Order of Maples
Year of 1912 colder than prior year says city record
The Ponntylvania Gas Co superintendent provided the Journal with daily temperature figures showing 1912 averaged 40.08 degrees, about 1.8 percent cooler than 1911. December 1912 averaged 31.80 degrees versus 36.28 in December 1911, making last month colder by 3.48 degrees.
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Loti
LOT VL
Lot IV
Lot IX
Lot
Kabo
Nemo
LaGrecq
Sue
Livermore & Chapman
Pictorial Review Patterns
Brussels
Axminster
R. E. Palmer Co
East Main Street
Yond
Dunkirk
Green
Hatrelt
Presy
Corry Firm
Unis
Eee
Sebmona
G. N. Roberts
Bargain Pricom
Newai Uindep
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