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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1911
Page
8
Note the Autumn sale highlights at Corry's Greatest Ready to Wear for Women and Children. Slogans promise safe returns, reliability, and fair pricing with many bargains on hose coats dresses and quilts, including marked downs on sample coats and silk lined garments for quick sale.
A local store promotes its lace curtains and drapery department with a range of fabrics and prices. Curtain Swiss, Madras, and crushable edgings are offered by the yard in various colors and patterns, with couch covers and portieres priced from modest to upper ranges.
The store advertises fall millinery and dress goods with simmer hats left for sale. Hats that may be worn this season are offered at a reduced price, previously selling for a higher amount, now close to a dollar and fifty cents.
Comforts and Blankets advertises products with blue illustrated animals for children and carriage robes. It promotes grey blankets 12-4 size at 1.25 per pair, white blankets 12-4 size at 1.50, white wool finished blankets 11-4 size at 2.50, and California wool blankets oversized at 8.100 per pair.
A Harlem neighborhood awoke to a striking window sign in an undertaker shop offering burial for seven dollars, sparking shock among residents as they headed to the subway. The note appeared amid a collage of varied clippings from periodicals, including jokes, advertisements, and historical snippets reflecting the era.
The text presents a fragmented, ambiguous exchange between characters, with uncertain punctuation and names. It appears to be a stage or narrative line showing a tense moment and a possible discussion about change or realization.
The Lighting Company introduces electric flat irons toasters hot plates fans washing machines vacuum cleaners and related accessories. They announce in stock items include split steel pulleys hangers belting shafting couplings cement planter structural steel and other electrical supplies with demonstrations and installations available.
The readable fragments present a satirical exchange about excuses and poverty amid a discussion of literary figures and an invented scene. A critic questions an excuse while references to poetry, philosophy, and a mocked inventor hint at broader social themes.
Fragmentary text describes a goldfinch and a captivity scene with unclear terms and missing context. The readable words suggest a focus on a bird and a restrained setting, but specifics are unreadable for a precise report.
An OCR fragment advertises Daviy School offerings promising business training and easy payment terms. It mentions graduates in positions and a Pennsylvania railroad mileage rate, but the text is garbled with misspellings and incomplete phrases. The fragment suggests a recruitment-like notice with promotional claims and pricing.
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