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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1910
Page
8
A garbled sale notice advertises coats dresses and fabrics with various prices in cents per yard. Items listed include pink rose and green linen and cotton fabrics, jacquard silk, crash sailtings and wide linens. Prominent prices include 49, 37, 45 and 29 cents per yard with limited stock noted.
A runaway locomotive from Wheeling and Lake Erie collided head on with a southbound freight near Massillon Ohio, killing the engineer. The passenger train following behind carried about 100 people with several workers sustaining minor injuries.
Washington reports that Ottoman government granted permission via Ambassador Straus for the American College for Girls to relocate from its present site near Seasark to a newly purchased site on the European shore of the Golden Horn. Also approved are new buildings for Ratert College at Constantinople and recognition of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut.
In Stanford Kentucky in September Nancy Ranin, the twelve year old daughter of prominent farmer Lee Ranin, was hurt by farmhand Shay Spellman a Black worker on the Ranin farm. Uncles captured Spellman who begged for his life and was taken to Stanford jail. Threats to lynch him are reported among townspeople.
A Life magazine quip notes Gilletta is sad because he has subway income and an teroplane wife. The remark highlights a humorous clash between modest earnings and an extravagant marriage, reflecting satirical tone.
London Sept 7 Ethel Leneve Crippen’s typist faced a murder charge for the disappearance of Cora Crippen. Prosecutors reduce the charge to accessory after the fact as Crippen and Leneve plead not guilty. Court adjourned to Thursday with bail application denied amid a crowded courtroom.
Pittsburgh public notice reports Carnegie Steel initiates a four month partial shutdown in the Lawrenceville lower union area with Allegheny Valley lines idled and mills at half staff. The Lisnoh mill and Upper Union plant on hind street also idle. departments trimmed as orders drop to about one million pounds.
In Alontown Pennsylvania on September 8 John Strauss, 24, was attacked after a party. He suffered fatal stab wounds, witnesses report a violent confrontation involving a girl at the scene. Police have arrested the assailant and are investigating.
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