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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1912
Page
1
An ad for Warren National Bank Warren Pa promotes children's accounts by mail, stressing long term benefits of early saving. It urges parents to open accounts for their children, retain control until majority, and highlights 4 percent semi annual interest on interest accounts and value for future education or business start.
D M Jackson operates City Hack at Union Depot meeting all trains with service to all city parts. Special attention to transfers of banks and baggage. Phone numbers provided for contact.
In St Paul and Minneapolis large show of support for Theodore Roosevelt as Progressive candidate. Tens of thousands line streets and attend rallies. roosevelt speaks at Minnesota fairgrounds and is hosted by local party leaders. Campaign moves include New York and Atlantic City events next week.
Lincoln Neb Sept 6 William J Bryan in a flat campaign speech at the state fair grounds assailed Roosevelt and Taft for alleged admininstrative failings. He praised Governor Johnson as the leading Progressive and declared he would rather see Johnson as president with Roosevelt as vice president.
Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur aged 87, retired since 1908, collapsed with apoplexy while addressing a Civil War veterans reunion in Milwaukee. Surrounded by comrades reciting the Lord's Prayer, he died after a brief ex collapse. The crowd hailed him as a storied Civil War leader and long-serving U.S. Army figure.
In Syracuse on September 6, Progressive delegates moved to nominate their ticket for governor. William A. Prendergast pressed for the nomination while Hotchkiss refused. The platform backed by Straus and Cockran urged reform, with Prendergast likely to lead the ticket and Hamilton Fish named for a state post.
The document notes the Salient Paints in the platform adopted by the Bull Moose convention after long night and day work. Attempts to alter political matters were defeated by the Sunon pike Progres slvom. The platform was presented in part by the committee with the National Presencetyy Concluded on Page Five.
In North Irwin Sept, John Michworle and two other boarders attacked Mrs. Joseph Lawrence at her dining table, a carving knife inflicting breast wounds. Mrs. Lawrence collapsed unconscious, neighbors aided her, and the assailants were captured and held for court. The victim remains in serious condition.
A Chicago man playing a late night poker game at a city venue suffered a cracked skull when the ceiling collapsed after a drunken patron laid down its cream of hands. Ralph Donison, a traveling showman of chips, was injured and taken to General Hospital. Police and witnesses describe a chaotic scene as bystanders searched for the missing stakes and the cause of the collapse.
The Sept circular from National City bank urges authorities and bankers groups to spread knowledge of land opportunities in Canada. It notes emigrants leaving the U S seek lands in the Canadian Northwest and calls for coordinated effort to attract settlers to Canada under moderate terms.
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