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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
8
Local store offers dramatic price cuts on ladies coats and suits, children's coats and dresses. Featured items include silk and fur pieces with sale prices, and a clearance of man tailored suits at deep discounts. Furs reduced despite limited stock, with markdowns on mink, coney, and other fur pieces, plus dress fabrics and ginghams at low per yard rates.
Harrisburg Jan 4 Measles in the past year caused more child deaths than scarlet fever doctors say ignorance of parents undercuts efforts to control spread. Health commissioner Samuel G Dixon notes school openings spark measles epidemics and calls for public education to reduce mortality and associated illnesses.
ANOTHER NEAR WRECK ON THE P. R. R. AT KANE Lane Pa Jan 15 Passenger train No 42 eastbound due here at 10 10 a m had a narrowscape from being wrecked this morning Just before arriving at the depot the engineer felt a peculiar jolt from the big engine The spring over the left traction wheel had broken and a piece dragged on the rail If it had dropped forward derailment would have occurred The engine jammed the track near the pit and was moved back to the round house for repairs The train was delayed about half an hour while a new engine was prepared for service
William Brandt unearthed a mastodon tooth in Henry Paullus’s sand pit near Reed’s Lake, Hampton Iowa. The tooth reportedly weighed 5% pounds and was as long as a man’s head, possibly larger than the famous Hudson River mastodon tooth, and is said to be in excellent preservation.
Twenty cars of Quebracho extract arrived at the Howard tannery from Buenos Aires this week. United States Customs Officer Thompson traveled from Urle to supervise the transfer to the Howard Company's bonded warehouse. The large shipment will supply the tannery for weeks as the firm continues using the Quebracho extract in place of bark tanning, a method adopted a few years ago with notable success.
United Press reports that arbitration between Eastern railroad managers and firemen failed. Charles P. Neil and Judge Martin A. Knapp could not broker a settlement. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men orders a vote on a general strike affecting 86 000 firemen east of Chicago and north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers.
A telegraph operator escaped a wreck by quickly fastening a rail and stopping the Washington & Chattanooga express near Lynchburg Virginia on January 16. In Champaign Illinois on January 16 Glen H Abidon won the McKinley prize with a yield of 1074 bushels of waterfree corn per acre.
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