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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
8
A fragmentary ad touts a midsummer sale with 59c jacquard silks and French ginghams. It lists multiple fabric types and colors including jet blue champagne wine violet and striped lawns for waists dresses and childrens wear at reduced prices, plus foulard silks and lawn fabrics with limited patterns remaining.
The brief text plays with geographic trivia about Rhoda Island Bristol County and hypothetical comparisons to big counties. A rehearsal anecdote follows where a manager mispronounces a line, asking what’s the matter while joking about a “pig h pltet” and a “Great Scotty” misstep.
Visitors to Sagamore Hill were barred as Colonel Roosevelt rested after a morning of reading and organizing his correspondence. He planned speeches for a Western trip and expected no callers for the day, enjoying a quiet week with Mrs Roosevelt before meeting Outlook callers later in the afternoon.
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on July 2 Mrs Elia Jane Hess widow of Lewis P Hess was struck by a freight train at Merthitstown and fatally injured with five fractured ribs head and arm injuries. She did not hear the approaching train and was mother of Virgil Hess a Fayette county politician Major J Fren US Army stationed at Fort Hamilton and William Hess a miner. Dies After Boxing Match in Lafayette Indiana on July 31 Russell Miller 23 died after one hour after a boxing match. The body found in the morning. Goronoy Skill 18 investigating. Three crates found on Miller's fuel, believed a heart blow caused death. He was a well known young athlete.
In East Liverpool on July 21 a statement corrected a prior report. It shows Charles Rigot was fined 500 dollars and sentenced to the workhouse for violating local option laws, but the defendant named in the record was actually Mrs. Frank Mot.
Pittsburg glass industry noted for prominence in 1709 and the year 48, highlighting its longstanding role as a major glass making center.
A collage of quirky passages from the era draws a picture of daily life. A New York Herald detective meets a hungry tramp, a humorous exchange ends with the detective paying for dinner, and Eskimo child care is described with biting winter detail.
Nonsensical OCR fragment mentions a dog named Tarwwid and McPherson, a biscuit reward, and a murky exchange. Context unclear. no coherent event or outcome is discernible from the readable text.
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