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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1910
Page
8
A retailer advertises a week long sale on lawns, ginghams, poplins, and dimity fabrics with prices around 15 to 35 cents per yard. It promotes imported French and Belfast sourced linens, damask, and linen napkins, urging customers to buy now for bargains and cooler dresses.
A humorous old dialogue questions a lawyer about seizing a horse over a promissory note and being told to sue for payment. It contrasts a boastful claim with legal reality and ends with a reflection on good humor and sunshine that laughter provides in life. Also notes the Jordan River distance and a brief line on religious workers preaching the gospel in many languages.
In London Wrnth a narrator recalls rising from modest beginnings by trading influence for favors. He details receiving education at public expense, earning wealth, and using patronage to climb society. Bribery and connections yield titles, peerage, and social status, with public benefactors and artists shaping the ascent.
The text argues criticism and eristic challenges test and improve a man’s character. It claims safe, gentle critique harms none, while truthful critique reveals weaknesses, aids self-improvement, and warns against failure and arrogance.
A fragment notes ancient Roman wedding practices tied to lunar cycles and planetary conjunctions. It highlights avoidance of May for spirits deemed unfriendly to marital happiness and specifies special caution during full moon and certain celestial alignments.
Ohio man Abert Smith, dispatcher for the Claelnail Hamilton and Dayton railroad at Dayton, is dismissed amid blame for the wreck that killed 28 on July 4. General superintendent A Gould defends Smith, saying his habits were good and relief was fortunate for the railroad.
Mrs Mary Amo 35 was bitten about the head face and body by a bulldog in George Bennys stable 112 Pine Street while seeking a stolen horse from her stable at 1 Pine Street. The dog was taken to Newtown police station for observation. Rumors say the barn had been broken into recently and more horses were missing.
An automobile owned by Dr W A Arnold of Tarentina, left before his office, suddenly sped off on a wild run. It struck curbstones, cleared main streets, plunged down a 20 foot embankment and collided with a box car end in a puzzling, apparently bewitched, sequence as spectators stood astonished.
Washington, July 16. Letters of censure have been sent by Beejemin Winthrop acting secretary of the navy to alleged ranking officers of the United States Marine Corps after a Naval Court of Inquiry reported on conditions at headquarters. It was the most drastic disciplinary action taken in recent years.
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