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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1910
Page
8
Corry shoppers rush to a major sale across all departments with ready to wear garments and linens deeply discounted. Bargains include white wool skirts at 4.75, several coats and white serge suits discounted, linen dresses, jumper suits, gingham and chambray dresses, and numerous tailored suits at fraction of original prices.
A noisy list offers yard wide muslin in multiple cents per yard, bleached and unbleached crash and toweling options, dress ginghams, towels, and prints. Prices range from about 6 to 19 cents per yard with several textile types highlighted.
A local ad promotes Seco Silks at 35 cents per yard and Pami Cloth Suitings at 10 cents per yard. Limited stock remains, described as nearly like finding money for buyers. Colors include pink blue cream and lavender.
Bethlehem Steel will pay 60 million dollars over 20 years for coal from the Davis Coal and Coke Company. The deal, negotiated by President Schwab and President Tush, starts after 200 ovens are completed with 400 more to follow. Minimum yearly delivery is 720000 tons and potential annual tonnage reaches 2000000 tons. Davis plans a 1500000 dollar property expenditure to fill the contract.
A fragment records Loulaville Gourier-Jourail recalling being chased by a bull rhinoceros while denying detention by business. The remark blends humor with a quirky exile voice.
A seven month shy girl visits a store asking for cloth to dress her dolly. She asks the price and is told nothing is free. She plans to have Grandma pay tomorrow as quoted in a Ladies Home Journal excerpt.
President Taft shows marked improvement in his injured right ankle with swelling nearly gone after compress treatment. He plans to ashore in Rockland on Tuesday, with early signs suggesting pain-free movement by then. The Mayflower party attended church and then traveled to Nicolin for dinner before boarding the yacht at Mt Desart ferry.
In Kittanning Pennsylvania on July 25 a masked highwayman fatally shot Mortom Graf an office employee of the Widnoon Coal Company as he and two companions attempted to carry $2800 in cash to pay miners near Pendleton. Superintendent M Brown escaping with the funds was pursued by the robber.
London July 2 The White Star steamer Lafirentic will depart Wickurete today with a new arrangement to expedite Canadian mails. Under the plan the White Star steamers sailing Saturdays for Quebec and Montreal will carry mails specially addressed for Canada and deliver them the following Saturday.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Timothy, wheat trade terms, and a discussion of pricing. Details are unclear with garbled phrases, but references indicate commodity discussion and possible market notes in a local column.
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