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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1912
Page
5
A cluttered midcentury storefront ad promotes low prices on ladies coats from $10 to $18, children's coats, and wool dresses. It highlights silk dresses, damask linens, post bed blankets, flannels, and table linen stock. Premiums offered for $30 trade, with many fabric items priced to move.
A man attempting a balloon feat with dynamite and parachute rigging fell into the Hudson River near Jersey City and was rescued by a tugboat. He was not hurt, wearing a football helmet and life preserver. His wife witnessed the event.
The state agriculture department reports lower average prices for key crops from August to September this year. Prices for corn wheat oats and potatoes fell significantly, with drops around a quarter to a third from last year’s levels, reducing farmers’ income despite higher living costs.
Navy department orders require enlisted sailors to add two pairs of white drill pajamas to their shipboard equipment. Marines will also wear pajamas. Hospital patients and ward bays previously enjoyed pajamas. The changes also include a new non-blastic chin cord and the familiar pancake sailor hat.
In Splint Michigan on November 15 nurse Christine Keyes at a local hospital donated several ounces of her blood to Orylile Browsing of Lyon Kansas after an appendectomy and hemorrhage. A direct blood transfusion connected an artery to a vein in Browsing's arm during a 35 minute operation. Both patient and nurse were expected to recover.
A Guindurlind accommodation train derailed near Scottdale in Connollavil County killing one passenger. Captain J. W. Walsh notified authorities. Rescue workers tended the scene as crews cleared wreckage and secured the line.
Report from San Francisco shows Roosevelt leading in California with 600 vote edge across three counties San Francisco Los Angeles and Yuba while Democratic officials seek mandamus to halt canvassing and contest returns A separate New York legal action seeks 500 600 against the state over a railway right of way payment and obituary notes Mrs Lewis Waller formerly Florence Wert has died in London
In Ocala a Black man accused of fatally harming an aged white man and his daughter at McIntosh was killed by a mob while held in jail. The incident follows a violent confrontation with an enraged crowd.
In Ashburn Georgia Miss Mingie Marchman aged 19 died under suspicious circumstances. A physician's examination is to determine poisoning by her fiancé Thomas Cleghorn who fled after a murder warrant was issued. The couple had planned to wed and recently shopped in Macon for home furnishings.
Mrs Pauline Strater sues George Ohl Sr a septuagenarian resident of Newark New Jersey for back pay and damages claiming he wed another woman in Cleveland after introducing him to her and jilting her. She says she loved him and prepared her trousseau before his betrayal.
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