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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
4
City and vicinity listings note junk collection at Durham. A few items mention an audience ovation and an upcoming event starting Saturday. Local notices include a Ride-a-Wee Club meeting with Mrs Will Johnson on Thursday afternoon and Mrs Cady offering furnished rooms for weekly housekeeping on First Avenue.
Fragmented local ads and notices list repairs at Wrights Jewelers farm products and sales at Durhams Lindsley Drug Store and other small items. Includes a church event invitation, social circle meetings, a funeral notice, and a stray mispunctuated list of prices and services with several unclear names and places.
A driller named Amoz Williams travels through Kentucky Oklahoma and Texas to assess western oil fields. AVL Ains will join for several weeks as they map prospects and pursue a large contract. The Corry driller aims to locate western field prospects in the near future.
The Vitegraph company presents Robert Edson’s famed Broadway hit The Cave Man. The tale centers on dramatic frontier themes with vivid stage effects. Parts of the production draw from South Bethlehem sketches, adding to its grand climactic sequence.
Freddy Burnham Jett was attacked in his driveway as he tried to start his car. An assailant leaped from the vehicle and fled into darkness, while Burnham lay injured inside the car and a heavy dumbbell was used as the weapon, according to Captain Welsh.
Irregular OCR reports a worker named Brie Jau at Pennsylvania Roller Works in Erie killed when a boiler rolled onto him after a whistle at 4 30 pm. Coroner Dr C M Gardot ruled accidental death with Henry Grebner as sole witness. Body taken to A Bougger and Sons for arrangements.
A disjointed report describes an elderly woman, 85, from Venango and a Pittsburgh home incident. The fragment mentions a person named William G Arwal, a doctor H Wy Kunket, and an ambulance or medical response after a nervous trouble event at her residence near Ol Chiy. The text is garbled and unclear.
A damaged OCR list presents a tobacco sale catalog listing numerous scrap item names such as Red Man Scrap Old Songa Scrap and Velvet tine, with prices and quantities ranging from six bags to hundreds of tins. The fragmentary record includes vendor-like entries, multiple brands, and assorted packaging details, all in archaic catalog style.
C. J. Wood promotes a New Year sale at 413 Concord and 102 Hast Main St with wide discounts on goods like Baya Power Syrup, ground meat, mustard, shredded coal, currants, salmon, buckwheat, lard, and coffee. The ad touts price and quality across both locations, urging shoppers to compare value.
A Home Company offers life insurance with level premiums and death coverage from any cause. The policy is non assessable and remains fixed for the term.
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