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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1914
Page
4
An advertisement touts a labor-saving Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet offering, urging readers to bring their husband to see the device and visit tomorrow to appreciate its value at a very small cost. It frames the cabinet as a solution to wasted time spent writing letters or fetching stamps.
The notice lists the R H J Club meeting with Mrs. Chas on Thursday afternoon and various small ads. It reports on local events including church services for Mrs Sophia White Jackson, Halloween plans, a football injury update, and a post office job examination.
Community notices from Corry reflect a busy fall week with ads for fresh chocolate covered nut caramels at the Arcade and a real estate pitch, a parade gathering of Lady Maccabees, a theater showing Love Luck and Gasoline, school and club updates, a birthday party, a Canal Zone talk, and upcoming cemetery auxiliary work plus a Famous Players feature at the Library Theater.
United Press reports George Myer a Columbus butcher was charged with the murder of his sweetheart Miss Jesse Garner after her body was found with marks on the throat at her parents home. Authorities say Myer grew enraged upon finding a rival at the Garner residence and allegedly strangled the woman.
United Press reports the Red Star liner Greenland en route from New York to Naples with copper cargo was detained at Gibraltar. No reason for the hold at the British port is provided. The State Department acknowledged the detention in Washington.
In Plymouth Ont Judge Hugo A Dik Duque sentenced three grammar school boys for breaking and entering summer cottages to a thrashing with a birch rod at home. The offenders Edward Clough Frank and Anton Perry were sent to a reform school as an alternative. The judge urged parents to carry out the court order to ensure it hurts.
Aston Pennsylvania resident Odeley Green, a 16 year old colored girl, ran away with Dr Robert W Hoxcock's Bethlehem baby and was later arrested in a Shivgion hotel. She pleaded guilty to forgery and larceny, entered a plea of not guilty to kidnapping, and received six months for larceny with suspended sentence on the kidnapping charge as her attorney argued she was fond of the child.
A compact classifieds item offers domestic nurse work at Patterson Clock in Washington and Park atreat, followed by a farm sale two miles east of Corry Pa. It lists one filly one year old three spring colts all bred from the Colegrove horse plus one registered holstein bull two closeup springers ix spring calves. Owner: W H Timmons RD No 10 Corry Pa advlwNa.
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