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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1912
Page
6
The Library Theater plans a dark spell Monday Tuesday and Wednesday while vaudeville and pictures show Thursday Friday and Saturday nights continuing as scheduled.
A long list of citizens and visitors mention trips to Erie Jamestown Portland N Y Buffalo Warren Warren Jamestown Chautauqua Youngstown Cambridge Springs Corry Meadville and various towns as they visit relatives attend illnesses funerals or conduct brief business across the region. Notables include John T Brew Erie Charles Botsford Youngstown and Dr J E Weeks New York City with others visiting or returning home.
An old styled advertisement touts a hair treatment claiming to improve life and lustre instantly. It mentions a product named PAKISTAN Rage with a girl with auburn on the carton and bottle, available at N. F. Ames & Co and other dealers.
Public Service Commission records show the New York Telephone Company has acquired the property and business of multiple local exchanges. Purchases include Onontaga Independent Telephone for 700000, Albany Home Telephone for 50500, Badinville Telephone for 13000, Newburgh Home Telephone for 11800, Frenaburg in Chautauqua for 8000, and Deposit Home Telephone for 6000.
A benefit concert at the home of Mrs John R Culking entertained a large audience. Performers included Mrs Roy Campbell, Miss Bailey of Bikland, and Mrs Fred Smith with piano solos, duets, recitations, and vocal numbers. Mrs Campbell praised as a natural musician with superb memory. Miss Bailey sang with rich soprano tone and offered an encore. The event supported the Warren Conservatory of Music and the Ladies Aid Society.
In Warren County a suit filed by Anna Keating and P B Keating seeks 31,500 life insurance from Brotherhood of Railway Trammen. Patrick Keating, named beneficiary and husband of Irvine resident P A Keating, vanished from Irvine in July 1908 and is legally declared dead after seven years of noncommunication.
George A Baxter of Debution Mil died at his daughter Mrs H Hf of Corry on Saturday. He was 74 or 75 in age and had lived in the community all his life. He leaves two children Mrs H H Hill of Corry and A Baxter of Donation Hill. His wife died three weeks ago after fifty one years of marriage. He and his wife were longtime members of Beaver Dam M E church. Funeral held at daughter’s home in Corry and interment at Pine Grove cemetery.
Raymond M. Wolf aged 23 was swept into twenty feet of water while wading to the Allegheny river at Oleopolis on a Saturday afternoon and drowned unable to swim. Clyde Proper fought to save him but slipped under twice before escaping with a alarm. Wolf was a brother of Mrs F B Whaley of the South side who hosted a week end gathering at her Oleopolis summer cottage.
An old style ad touts Zemo as a dandruff cure that stops flaking and stains. It claims no odor or smear, pores receive care, scalp becomes healthy, and hair looks finer and slower shedding. The UW W Rose Medicine Co. of St. Louis distributes it, priced at $1 a bottle, with a 6 cent trial and money back guarantee via Corry Pennsylvania store.
A doctor recommends asking a family physician about a laundry soap made from borax coconut oil clean tallow and naptha. He says such a soap is cleansing sterilizing and antiseptic and will protect against ven tages in common soaps. Jory Task soap is claimed as fitting his prescription.
A Genuine Deep Cut Sale is now in progress at A. F. Messinger and Son's Store located at 912 West Main Street. Everything in stock is reduced in price, with shoppers invited to call and visit to see the discounts firsthand.
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