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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
5
An advertisement touts Gordon stockings with options for work, play, and dress. It highlights sport-ready stockings, fine silk and lifle thread pairs for dress wear, stout yarns for boys, and mercerized yarns for girls and babies, inviting inspection.
Special value ladies cotton stockings made of combed peeler yarns selected for wear. High grade stockings also in black or white at 29¢ a pair. Other grades in black or white priced 36, 40 and 59¢ a pair.
Advertises ladies' fibre stockings with fibre silk legs rifle tops and double soles and toes, high spliced heels. Available in black white ecru grey bronze at 69e a pair, other fibre stockings in black white and colors at one shilling per pair.
Silk stockings offered in various styles colors and prices including 75c and up for ladies and 25c plus for boys. Girls stockings in cotton and mercerized yarns come in several colors. Children’s socks listed in mercerized and silk options at 2c to 50c a pair.
Mrs G W Knowlton died this afternoon at New Corry Hospital after an operation at eleven. She was 18, survived by husband, daughter Miss Hue Knowlton, father and brother Te Hoath and sister Mrs J Morgan of OM Gly. Funeral details to follow.
An OCR fragment lists a long string of social visits and moves among Jamestown residents and visitors. Names include Mrs John siallory Mr and Mrs CH Bagley Mrs Pagatt Prof mixer Miss Jacl Blowers Mrs A D Cul dsgeous and others. Occasional towns like Little Valley and Findley Lake appear as destinations with families from Jamestown visiting relatives and attending events. The garbled text records days spent visiting, traveling and socializing with relatives and neighbors in the city and surrounding areas.
Granulated sugar priced at 8c per pound for Friday and Saturday. Customers may purchase two pound cartons and save with low prices on Crystal White soap and laundry items. The ad promotes fifty other bargains at Wool and Company stores with a slogan We help you to live.
A local advert promotes Charli in the Trenches Al eo performing tonight with a lineup including Charliy Chay and 0. 8. silillers. Seven parts headline the evening as tickets urge attendance for a lively stage event.
Tuesday evening at the Barlow Hardware Store a Victor Vocal Course demonstration drew teachers and pupils. Oscar Saenger, noted authority on vocal training, presented the course while students heard selections and a Waltz from Romeo and Juliet. The Victor Voice program, offered by Saenger, lists Volumes ten through ten as priced at 25 dollars, with volumes available at Saenger's New York studio.
An advertisement promotes Ban Cura Ointment as a quick remedy for piles and burns. It claims many cures over twenty years, with a money back guarantee by Amos and Co. The text also mentions Ban Cura soap and vocal instruction services nearby, listing Miss Hildred Thompson and local agents W-8 and Co.
A local ad for Dr. Wm. Stanley of the Optical Shop in the Brown Building Corry Pa announces in house grinding of glasses. The shop emphasizes careful fitting, comfortable wear, and direct contact through Bell phone 449.
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