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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1910
Page
8
June brings a World of White as Corry Evening Journal invites shoppers to the White Sale. With syndicate purchasing, the store promotes savings on Indian linens Swisses laces embroideries ready made dresses and all white goods offerings.
In a Corry store sale, linen torchon laces and insertions from one to two inches wide are offered at 1 yard 45c. Flouncing embroideries at 50c, wide and showy, normally 75c. White sale prices include 25c yd wide waists, 35c yd sec o silks, 45c yd dress linens, and 350 yd sailings for coats and suits. Multiple fabrics and garments advertised as bargain stock.
An old advertisement describes Nainsook Finest Nickerbocker fabric packaged in ten yard boxes for fine lingerie and wear. It lists 36 inches wide at 1.50 per 10 yards and 40 inches wide at 1.05 per 10 yards.
Mrs Alice Crown Litten a 17 year old wife of Charles Litter who wed at 14 was found murdered near her home. Harry Noland 19 and Larry Barringer are held as suspects after a struggle left bruises and a cut throat. A third man was arrested and released. The crime occurred in a clump of oak and thorn near the residence with fresh footprints and pinpointed attack location.
A Rockford drum shopkeeper Robert Torneman was convicted of selling liquor to drunken men and fined $100 plus costs, the first prosecution under the model saloon ordinance. A separate report from London notes an earthquake seismograph derangement with tremors lasting about forty minutes and a tremor felt across Ireland and Britain.
A Chicago couple Freda Brown of Washington Heights and Charles Roy Kindt of Davenport postponed their wedding two years as requested by their parents. They received a total gift of 85 000 dollars comprising 10 000 cash and real estate and 75 000 in opera house in Moline. The wedding happened Wednesday evening. Mrs. Kindt is 20, daughter of W H Brown, and the groom 28, son of Davenport businessman Charles Kindt. They planned a Colorado Springs honeymoon for a month.
A reader asks if there are many shoe manufacturers and notes over a hundred high grade makers. The speaker asserts nine years of selling shoes with equal value and claims they always offer as much for the money as anyone else.
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