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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
8
A Corry store advertises a June sale featuring drastic price cuts on silks, taffetas, and gowns. It lists Black Mesaline Silk by the yard, sale dresses, skirts, nightgowns, and bed linens with substantial markdowns, plus cheap Turkish towels and bath linens aimed at attracting shoppers.
An advertisement touts attractive confections while noting strict government purity standards. The piece also recounts Mozart’s imagined appeal for money, a minuet sold for a dealer, and a light collage of trivia about whales, peerage, Christmas goose jokes, and a northern American landscape description from the Denver to Colorado frontier region.
A fragment notes that impatience leads to wasted effort and lost value, warning that making impatience a lifelong habit causes inevitable losses in achievement and progress.
About 50 boxes of linen finished papers regularly selling at 25 0 then 35 cents are grouped for 18 cents. A few 50 cent papers priced at 29 cents and some boxes of initials stationery at 10 cents. Initial tablet paper 18 cents. Come early before they are closed out.
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