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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1897
Page
2
Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia on Friday June 4 announces a large third floor sale of muslin and cambric underwear with fresh stock daily. The ad highlights boys clothing from suits to knee pants, reefers, wash suits, shirts, waists, corset covers and various price points, emphasizing quality and fade resistance.
Lengths of two to seven yards offered at half value. Goods that sell up to 10c a yard include lawns organdies batistes ginghams lace lawns. Also sale items up to 18a yard with pompadour lace lawns percale lappets organdies dimities. First floor east store.
Readable sale note offers two children's reefers in navy red Gobelin and green cloth. Sized for ages 2 3 and 4 years. Regular 1.25 now 95 cents each. Also a lot of fine cloth reefers previously sold at 4 now 2.98 each.
At 11 o clock today the store offers a bargain on well hung stylish dress skirts from a leading American maker. Also featured are second floor silverware, tea sets, Rogers 1847 goods, and a large line of summer fabrics with reductions noted in this security sale listing.
Advertises monogram engraving on pearl gloves and matching embroidery for eight engraved buttons. Also features silk gloves, Chicago Electric hose at 15c, lawn mowers priced from 2 to 2 3/4 dollars, and electro magnetic razors at 2 dollars with guaranteed satisfaction and cheaper importers samples.
Special Telegram from Wilmington notes strong urban interest in the Saturday city election with Republicans and Democrats optimistic. The piece also mentions Horace Greeley Knowles denying ties to Robert Harman, a depositor case at Wilmington Savings Fund Society, a royal kiss between Queen Victoria and Mrs Bayard, and Oliver Courtney's administrator suit against the city ending in 750 dollars verdict after an overnight jury deliberation.
Judge Pennypacker presided as the jury found Martin Mullen not guilty on a forged written instrument charge. Assistant District Attorney Barlow argued a $3,000 bond forged by Augusta Morrison and Samuel Morrison in favor of the Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company, but the Common Pleas Court upheld the signature as authentic, leading to dismissal of the Quarter Sessions action.
Mary Magdalene Dailey aged 87 widow of Charles Dailey died in Stroudsburg. Sydney Brown aged 81 died at her East Stroudsburg residence from heart disease.
The Philadelphia Select and Common Councils debated a resolution to investigate city employes and revise salaries amid financial strain from a Supreme Court loan decision. They also approved a 25 year Dock street wharf lease with the Pennsylvania Railroad, amid amendments limiting term length.
The council defeated a resolution aiming to limit labor saving machinery on city projects linked to Reading Subway work. It considered loans and various ordinances allocating funds for gas, highways, water, and education while debating a joint committee to oversee city employment and finances.
Abram L. Herford a pugilistic trainer won an injunction in the Circuit Court restraining Joseph Gans from fighting under any management except Herford. The agreement from January 1896 gave Herford exclusive SNE and profit shares of forty percent for Herford and sixty percent for Gans.
A broad promotion extols Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription as a universal cure for women s diseases and infertility. Testimonial from W R Malcolm of Knobel Arkansas cites a healthy baby and absence of illness during and after pregnancy attributed to the remedies, alongside notes on Dr Pierce s Pleasant Pellets.
Postal inspectors traced missing letters between New York and Hackettstown New Jersey to railway clerk Walter Johnston of Washington New Jersey. Johnston confessed May 27 to rifling bundles, taking valuables and discarding rest, with rapid identification hailed as swift detective work by Chief Inspector Ashe and the local team.
A wide run of civic, political and social notes including Baroness von Turkheim leaving Montreal for Buffalo, San Quentin unrest ending, West Point exams, Nashville travelers association officers, Dublin Indiana conference elections, Brooklyn voyage to Queen’s Jubilee, Utah colony plan, Missouri election margin, Canadian anti kinetoscope bill kill, Bryan world trip rumor, Worden appeal, Gill death, Loyal Legion Detroit session, Boston bank cashier Whitney death, Navy graduation, Modern Woodmen law talks, Cincinnati pastors English sermons, Nashua streetcar president death, L S navy graduation trip, Torrens land title law strike, bank theft charges, counterfeiter sentencing, Bartley embezzlement arraignment, Nevada bullion robbery, Bermuda expedition, Knowles Poole factory revival, Farrington shortage, Havel steamer arrivals, convention delegates outing, pooling bill resolution, Perrin Sumner ramp.
West Chester reports the death of William B. Waddell president judge of the Chester County Courts from heart trouble. Born 1828 in Philadelphia, he studied law in West Chester, joined practice in 1852, and served as state legislator and senator before becoming president judge in 1888. He aligned with Republicans after earlier Democratic ties.
In Bridgeport on June 3 a sensational trial scene showed Guiseppe Fuda testifying in his own defense. He denied killing his wife alone but admitted aiding the crime and accused Nicademo Impassino, awaiting trial, of murdering the woman. He then detailed the tragedy for over three hours.
Margaret Maller admitted stealing underwear valued at 3.50 from Louise Gillingham. Sentence suspended as a friend offered to return her to Rag team parents, with judges allowing release until a steamship sails tomorrow under guard.
The Harvard delegation of about thirty oarsmen arrived at Poughkeepsie today to take possession of their Hudson quarters. Coach Lehmann oversees the crews and praised the four mile course as the finest water for a boat race seen. Practice row planned later today if shells are rigged in time.
George Grossman found guilty of aggravated assault and battery on Mrs. Bella Miller and sentenced to $10 fine plus fifteen months in Eastern Penitentiary. John A. Smith convicted of coal larceny from Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, fined $10 and six months in County Prison. William Steel, Walter Dewey, and Andrew Carney convicted of beer larceny from a Pennsylvania Railroad refrigerator car, each fined $10 and eight months in County Prison. James Smith pled guilty to riot and assault on Pennsylvanian Railroad yard official, sentenced to two months in County Prison.
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