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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
8
Washington Oct 2 Postmaster General Burleson leads efforts to standardize parcel post handling methods across the postal service aiming to improve efficiency and consistency in processing packages nationwide.
Tranmcty General Banking requests information on time deposits and related transactions. The notice calls for customers to review accounts and contact the bank filing details with authorities.
The Post Office announces three experimental parcel post offices in Baltimore Maryland Boston Massachusetts and Richmond Virginia to study handling efficiency during the holidays. Postmaster General Burleson emphasizes safety of merchandise as the main objective and notes room for further improvements in drainage and service.
Jamestown reports a head on collision on the Chautauqua traction line near Victoria as a northbound passenger car struck a work car. Many passengers were thrown from seats and several women from Buffalo Street M E church were among the injured. Motormen H B Goodwin and Fred Bergeson sustained injuries, with numerous cuts bruises and crushed extremities reported. No bones broken and most injuries considered not life threatening. The crash occurred on a sharp curve near Wotori n and involved W 1 Ackurmmn in charge of the work car.
A repair crew and two other men finished work in the vicinity and began toward Jamestown. The passenger car, after rounding a curve near Victoria, collided with the work car at a fair rate, tearing them apart and injuring several passengers.
Morrisburg Pa October 2 the alien gun law prohibiting foreigners from driving firearms in Pennsylvania is to be tested in the United States Supreme Court late next month an appeal from Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling moves the case forward Deputy Attorney General William M Har gest leads the state team the case originated in Allegheny County where Papsone was convicted and fined under the act hundreds of guns have been confiscated and numerous fines imposed on violators of the law by foreigners
An advertisement from Thompson Medicine Company touts San Cura Ointment as a rapid remedy for sores, piles, burns, scalds, and infections. It claims to draw out poison from wounds, cure eczema and rheum, and includes San Cura Soap as an antiseptic. Prices are 25 and 50 cents for the ointment and 26 cents for the soap.
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