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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
10
A local bank trustee has ordered the sale of all stock from a clothing firm. Entire stock including suits overcoats and underwear to be sold at one half the normal price. Buyers urged to stock up for men and boys.
Deputy Factory Inspector A W McCoy of Meadville swore out a warrant for Jamon Bawarda proprietor of the Carver House in Warren on a charge of violating the state Women’s Employment Law. The law limits hotel dining room workers to fifty six hours per week. Bawarda appeared, requested time to answer, was fined and discharged on payment of costs with a promise to remedy the existing conditions.
A fragment from Spring Creek News Letter includes humorous mock football fever as players suffer ague like attacks. It also lists local social visits from Mildred McKelvey, Mattie Demming, Nila Knopp, and others visiting Warren, Grand Valley, Bloomfield, Spartanburg, and Corry. Local travel to Kano and St Marys, business trips by Mrs Perry Mead, Beck Tanning Co. stock news, and North Tonawanda visitors Glanda Wend and daughters are noted.
A notice to Dempsey Brothers with outstanding accounts urges them to call at H A Franks Grocery on N Conter Street Head Wednesday and Saturday until further notice for settlement of debts.
July 29 an editor misprint describes a touring car on the Clinton pike near Cochran station tumbling after brakes failed. Jamey B Rial, his wife and daughter escaped, but Rial suffered cuts including a gash needing stitches. car wrecked and taken to a local garage for repairs.
An old advertisement extols Parisian Sage as a cure for dandruff and limp hair. It claims nourished roots yield long, thick, shiny hair and reduced itching, promising confidence and youthfulness for women who use the product from Ames and Co or local druggists.
Advertisement claims Thompson's Barosma cleanses poisonous secretions and supports kidneys, with a purely vegetable formula. It cites relief for Bright's disease rheumatism lumbago backache dizziness and dropsy. Also recommends Thompson's Dandelion and Mandrake Pills for constipation. Prices 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Meadvill e July 29 George Kramer alias George Livingstone 15 is confined on robbery charge. He was found near Pittsburgh by Cambridge Springs Police Chief Daniel Connell and taken to court after a June 27 home robbery at Mary H Dill Rockdale Township. Stolen items include gold watch valued at 65 dollars a child’s bank with 3 dollars plus and a .22 caliber rifle.
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