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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1919
Page
6
A local advert promotes a large stock of monuments headstones and grave markers sold at reduced prices from earlier season levels. The notice highlights low prices and encourages readers to buy before costs rise again.
Fifteen hundred men in the Brake shoe factory are slated for work to the end of January, with changes expected through next two months as the company adjusts employment. Officials report last week 600 workers affected, with projections showing 460 to drop from the payroll soon and the total on layoff approaching 100. The pace of retirements will likely slow after initial reductions and continue gradually as the plant retools. A separate notice seeks general house workers at West Pleasant Street.
Lieutenant Walter Stam reports from the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind that the number of blinded soldiers is smaller than expected. He notes 200 wartime injuries are covered by existing care, while those blinded by gas face irreparable losses and many cannot be housed at once.
Notice that the co partnership between D. L. Breckan and D. I. Bracken under Heneken Brovyers is dissolved by mutual consent. The business continues by D. I. Henecken who assumes all debts and liabilities, with all claims against the firm to be paid or prevented.
Corry residents C. TL Bracken and D. L. Bracken are listed for payment on January 11, 1919, with OtJ 14-21-88F4-11-18. the fragment also references a wartime style offer to buy rhoutila for winter evenings, attributed to Wright.
A vintage ad touts Musterole as a safer mustard plaster alternative that relieves sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup and neuralgia without causing blisters. It claims rapid action when massaged into the back neck and chest and lists a price of 2.50 for the jar.
Advertisement claims Neutronic Prescription 99 relieves rheumatism and nerve pain, promising freedom from suffering. It urges readers to obtain a bottle from a Corry druggist and hints at a discount offer. The faulty text imitates a novelty medicine pitch with dubious medical claims and calls to action.
Tomorrow night the M E Church organ recital will begin at 10 o clock. Julian Raymond Williams will perform a high quality program featuring Stars and Spangles and a suite by Kurtz. The event honors William and includes works by Gibbons, Bach, and Purcell with pieces from manuscripts for the first public reading.
Dunkirk, Jan 14—at a board of education meeting, new members Mrs Joseph C White and Mrs Toman Jum minis, both wives of local attorneys, will be seated. The event marks the first time women join the board, succeeding former president and other members in the city’s history.
A promotional note urges readers to purchase a tripstamp for faster mailing services. It highlights convenience, potential discounts, and how the stamp could streamline correspondence for households and small businesses alike. Local vendors may offer limited-time deals.
A wartime plea urges expanded U S food shipments to Europe and allied nations to prevent famine and preserve civilization. It warns of shortages in bread, meat, and dairy while outlining targets of 20 million tons of food from North America and continued export levels to sustain democratic stability amid postwar chaos.
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