26 Sep 1912
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1912
Page
1
The Warren National Bank in Warren PA promotes opening children's accounts to teach saving habits and fund future education or business starts. Accounts can be started in infancy with parental control until the child reaches age, earning 4 percent semi annual compound interest on interest accounts.
A scrambled OCR note references Warren National Bank, security and service issues, a miss event in Philadelphia, and a ruined food incident. The fragmentary text mentions a party, rent, a vent, and an customer or staff name Andrien with unclear details about the incident and location.
Temporary chairman Guthrie opened the convention after 11 am as Senator Brookett spoke, with delegates hearing reports on platform and resolutions. If Low or Wadworth or Hinman advance, the convention may nominate Low. Root supports Low but does not dictate. Factional pressure from Hedges Wade Wadsworth and Burnet faces internal splits as key leaders resist a quick nomination and discuss possible compromises.
Berlin on September 26 reports Women Socialists held 27 meetings to protest rising food costs. They adopted resolutions demanding government open frontiers abolish duties on cattle and discontinue import certificates. They urged local authorities to provide meat at cost price.
Ambiguity surrounds reports of American marines killed by Nicaraguan rebels. Dispatches from Admiral Southerland say U S forces quit Granada areas, rail service to Granada resumes, and rebels have turned Lake Nicaragua steamers over to Major Butler. Sizable rumors about General Mena’s fate and Granada’s fall persist, with official word scarce.
In Pottaville on Sept. 26 heavy flooding threatened Readings company colliery lower workings. Twenty miners were drowned after one man returning for dinner was trapped by rushing water from an abandoned shaft. The peril followed warnings of rising water near the abandoned mine.
Pottaville Sept 26 Coroner Moore investigates a case where a child of Mr and Mrs Munroe of Lincoln near Premont died while under the care of a local witch doctor who practiced pow wow. No physician was employed. Authorities believe proper medical care could have saved the child.
Heavy rains over two days flooded the Susquehanna River area and Vosburg Tunnel. Lehigh Valley tracks between Sayre and Pittston were submerged, forcing trains from the Lackawanna line to detour.
Albany Sept 26 Governor Dix issued a proclamation designating Wednesday as Fire Prevention Day and urging statewide cooperation. He calls for a general cleanup of rubbish trash and waste and proper setup of heating appliances and chimneys to reduce fire risk in homes hotels and factories.
London dispatch reports Signora Marcon Witt of the whel en inventor listed among those injured in a motor vehicle crash. The telegram notes Signor Marconi’s condition as fragile but not definitively stating the danger. Signora Marconi’s sister is reported uninjured.
Brief note reports on time deposits and foreign country dealings amid routine banking activity. Directors discuss policy and financial movement, outlining minor shifts in deposits and international transactions within the bank's operations.
An advertisement claims Putnam's Corn Extractor or Wart Extractor dissolves corns without jal, cutting, or pads. It promises lasting relief by removing the cause, though it notes not for callous or bunions. Sold by druggists as Corry by Thomas Downey.
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