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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1911
Page
8
Corry bargain store touts hot weather specials on hats coats and dresses. Listed items include Dutch snare nock effects French Matiste trims and embroidery skirts with low sale prices to save dollars and cents.
Simple house dresses offered at 1.00 dollars claim easy wear from neck to hem and buttoned front. Perk quality material described as persnse with options including girdle cords and silk grisle in assorted shades.
Sale notes ribbon values in taffeta and moire at various yard prices. Discounts offered on cording and samples, with quoted yardage and penny savings.
The season's latest patterns in Gainty dimities and sidebands feature Hor al design. Faxon Material offers fine sheer at 196 a yard, with eyelet embroidery and decorative fabrics priced below standard. Superior fabrics and garments are advertised with special lows like 1.26 for certain items.
Innd offers the season’s biggest bargain on white dress trims. Embroidered galoon trimming priced at 26 cents per yard, advertised as worth 45e a yard.
Advertises Ladies silk hose at 59 to 69 cents a pair with silk toe and tops, cambric finish, and four-stitched hems. Includes girls rompers for 35 to 69 cents, dotted and striped fabrics, corset covers with embroidery at 26 cents a yard, and crochet bed linens at $1.00 with a two cent savings per item.
A vintage ad describes dresses with square Dutch necks, kimono sleeves, and embroidered fronts and backs. It touts fancy colored prints and Persian wash work, offering an ornate lingerie or dress piece for 31.25.
Ad copy highlights pongee coats in various styles with trims and collars. Prices advertised include 86.00 and 3.05 with a premium coat at 4.95. Describes the garments as desirable for cool evenings and emphasizes value beyond asking price.
Advertises lace trimmed skirts with embroidery and a deep embroidered yoke at discounted prices. Claims fine quality fabric and special value with a $1.95 price point and additional lace options at reduced rates.
This ad touts two white pinderskirts offered at 1.50 in Corry. One style features Wal Lace with ten tucks and face insertion with ribbon trim. the other has 18 inches of embroidery on cambric. Regularly 2.50.
About 1000 yards of new torchon laces and insertions offered in widths up to 8 inches. Goods described as good value at low prices with special cent offers highlighted in this advertisement.
An infant garment sale lists a meat blue baby carriage robe with Boo Peeps in white for Boo Peeps girls. The item is priced at 75 cents and described as interesting to the little ones.
Advertisement announces house dresses cut from 2.00 to 1.60 and a 1.09 per dress special. Ginghams offered at 100 yards with 45 selections in colors described as flat and up-to-date, highlighting a 160 quality at a special price.
In a nineteen century piece Rev A H T Clarke profiles Professor Richard Porson a master of memory who could recite Gibbon from memory A farmer challenged him to trace his name Jeremiah King from cucumber Porson threads a vowel path from jeremiah king to gh e r kin concluding with cucumber. Time and a mower joke conclude. Also notes Corry Columbus but railway timetable.
Rise with a resolve to make the day happy for others. A kind word or small gesture can lift the sorrowful and encourage the striving. Trifles lighten the spirit and, done now, will bless you in youth and guide you calmly through old age toward time’s end.
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