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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1916
Page
8
Local merchants advertise extended remnant sales with new lots of odds and ends. Corry firms including B W Stennett and Son, Walker Tailor, and Corry City Bloomie Co urge customers to take advantage. Notices report births at the city police chief’s home and other community happenings.
Corry area ads list rentals at the Rogers building on Main Street now housing Corry Furniture. Hardware and electric ads parade prices, including a Hot Point item at $4.80 and electric trans price drop to $4.50. Remodeling of the David Cook home into a two family dwelling is under contract with Jim McHirey. Obituary notes: Mrs. Mona A Jewell dies at Corry Hospital after three weeks. M Munn wife dies soon after. couple would have marked sixty-six years of marriage if alive. A motorbike chill display at Corry Furniture Co offers an $1 discount daily, with price dropping from $18 to $14 tomorrow.
Fragmentary OCR shows notices for a supper, church meeting, rental, sale items, and a pawn of household goods. Includes a supper invitation at 164 Nursen and a meeting of the Missionary Society at 2:20 pm. Also lists rental at 2188 Sherman and sale of four pieces, furniture, and gas stoves at 312 South Center Street.
London reports the British vessel Masunda was sunk possibly by a German submarine or a mine. The crew are said to be saved. Built in 1909 by the Glasgow Shipping Company Masunda served in the Mine fleet before going down over the weekend.
Local ad touts last week of low prices on pork products and staples. It features Black Cross Mustard Hobbrau coffee and assorted canned goods with steep March discounts and a call to buy now before prices double.
A local notice urges Corry residents to mail their names and addresses to Harry McGahon for a Perry Nunnery Co. sales service. The ad promises reliable, well packed goods from Rochester at reasonable prices and notes a second chance for those lacking opportunities to plant.
A $1,500 bargain to close an estate describes a Hood wight room home with a small barn and about one kere of Inne or four ood Jots on a corner lot at Meanant location. Property offered by The Robert Patterson Real Estate Agency. ImmediatePowheasion and prompt action urged.
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