End of Mid-Summer Sale Offers Deep Discounts
Last week of the mid summer sale features significant reductions across departments in Corry. Garment, linen, and dress goods are heavily discounted with numerous items priced well below original tags, including wool skirts, coats, serge suits, capes, linen dresses, and tailored suits. Strong emphasis on ready to wear and house dresses with many prices cut to attract last minute buyers.
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Specials List From a Bargain Linen Sale
A readable fragment lists yard wide bleached muslin at 8 to 19 cents per yard and assorted textiles. Items include pitting flannels, dress ginghams, towels, bleached and unbleached toweling, ratty miscellaneous fabrics, and assorted American prints with prices per yard or per item.
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Oxford's Legendary Founding Ties to King Alfred
Oxford is said to trace its founding to King Alfred the Great with early legends dating to 872. The claim appears in historical notes, though precise origins remain debated among scholars.
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Linen fabric sale offer echoes through ad period
A fragment advertising low priced fabrics lists 65¢ and 35¢ per yard Seco Silks and 15¢ Pami Cloth Suitings with colors like pink blue cream. It promises limited places left and binds money savings when buying by the yard.
Silk Foulard Silks Offered at Special Price Per Yard
Special one yard price on foulard silks in lavender color. Silk yardage offered at 65e per yard, a remarkable value for soft finished fabric. Don’t miss this limited offering and price unless sold out.
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White Goods on Special Price for Dresses
Vendors advertise white goods fabric at 18 cents a yard, with 15 cent prices cited earlier for 18c and 20c items. Available in large and small checks and stripes suitable for waist or children's dresses.
Hosiery sale advert with assorted prices and brands
A fragmented advertisement promotes hosiery offers for children and women. It lists 15 cent past tack seam toss hone in all sizes, two pairs for 25 cents, ten cent per pair seamiess hose, and Lisle seamless hose in all colors at 25 cents per pair, with brand names unclear.
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Chinese army building urged by Chings rulers
London July 27 a daring plan emerges as Chings rulers push to create and develop a Chinese army with Lord Kitchener’s non employment leveraged against the government. The idea places emphasis on the army’s growth with any assets named by Kitchener deemed cheap for service.
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Barbers in Early Timid Times Describe Restricted Roles
A fragmented historic note describes barbers in early times as craftspeople who performed minor medical tasks and extractions under limits set by law, with physicians barred from simple haircuts or beard trimming during that era, shaping the barber's shrinking professional scope.
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Estrada Changes Turtle Catch Rights in Cayman Waters
Message reports Estrada regime in Kingston Jamaica abrogating treaty that granted British subjects eel catching rights around the Cayman Islands and surrounding waters. Estradists plan to assign rights to an American to corner the turtle supply, provoking potential protest to Nicaragua.
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Physician Takes Poison After Personal Crisis
Dr Frederick Graves a leading western Connecticut physician fled Bridgenort Genna after a deadly drought of poisons taken in a personal crisis. He was melancholy and believed himself incurably ill. His wife Fan uleamon, a devout Christian Science follower, had urged him to cease practice and adopt Christian Science.
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Mapmaking from ancient times across cultures
The text traces mapmaking to earliest picture writing by savages, citing table guidance for explorers and Eskimo examples. It notes Ethiopian mines from Sethos I’s era, long before Ariitageras, and mentions a bronze tablet describing earth’s circuit. New York American quotes Tipton on geniality and cold first impressions.
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Poem-Bent Youth Hints At Doctor’s Aid
A confident young man tells the editor he has a vein of poetry and seeks a chance to bring it out. The editor bluntly suggests he should see a doctor and have his talent tied to a task, implying a cure or professional guidance.
Fragmentary report hints at daily crown mill and testing
A fragmented OCR note mentions a crown of a million daily and references untested items. The text is unclear but implies some details about daily output or production, with dates like May 1 and June 3 appearing amid scattered terms.
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