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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1897
Page
2
Gimbel Brothers announces The Embroidery Sale with fine embroideries at twenty five cents on the dollar. The Nazareth waist for children and now for women and misses is highlighted, plus a range of baby linens, pillows, dresses, slips, and skirts on the first and third floors.
White or colored petticoats range from changeable silk to linen color at 50c. Many women still sew skirts though ready options exist. White muslin at 75c with umbrella shape and ruffle. Colored styles at 50 to 58c and black silkoline umbrellas. Changeable taffeta silk with span silh flounce priced at $8.98.
Several hundred cross striped summer curtains in seven colorings offered at half to two thirds off. Patterns include hunter green forest blue pink terra cotta and maroon all three yards long and full width some fringed. Screens feature black and gold embroidery solid oak frames and three fold designs with prices from 1.10 to 4.50. Fourth floor sale urges postal card requests and notes silk waists from a top maker at reduced prices.
All sizes lined waists with detachable collars offered on sale this morning. Designs include taffeta silks, Japanese silks, grosgrain satins, habutai silks, checked taffetas and more in black white red blue and green. West End waists, once 1.75 to 2.25 and 2.25 to 3.50, now $1.20 and $1.60 respectively. Also a hot weather suit for $5.90 with navy or black cheviot fabric, rhadame lining, hand tailored. About a hundred suits in the lot.
An advertisement lists adjustable waist forms for dress fitting and a wide range of sale items. It promotes Chase bicycles with a $25 price, bicycle sundries, scis sors, enamel paints, pumps, and various hardware and automotive parts. The ad highlights limited quantities and special prices on a selection of home, outdoor, and sporting goods.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated on Monday the fifth, as the holiday must follow a Sunday. Memorial Day rules may shift if a pending bill changes observance to align with other holidays. lawmakers expect a vote before July 1.
Across the city public schools held patriotic exercises on Flag Day with flag raisings and speeches. Visitors toured the Betsy Ross House at 239 Arch Street, where the first American flag was made, as Charlies P. Mund and patriotic societies distributed small flags to children.
The Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames hosted four city schools at their Congress Hall headquarters. Addresses by Mrs. E. D. Gillespie Mrs. Mary Channing Wister Mrs. C. Stuart Patterson and Assistant City Solicitor Albert B. Kelley outlined patriotism and the flag meaning. Two sessions featured the Alice Lippincott Washington Florence and James Forten schools with flags and songs.
About 1,200 pupils and 1,000 spectators gathered for Flag Day at Gustavus 8 Benson School. Rev Getz opened with prayer, a chorus of 80 sang America, Rev Bolton gave remarks on heroism, and the flag 36 by 20 feet was presented by the Church of the Holy Communion.
Grand Army of the Republic veterans in Asbury Park protested an Italian flag atop a boarding house and forced it to yield to the American emblem. Commander Borden and a C. K. Hall Post delegation requested the change, and Rose Cabranco complied after a stern warning. Camden river craft and others also displayed the flag in observance of Flag Day.
The Phoenix Iron Company sues Atlantic City for 15000 dollars over 7000 dollars in extra work on the new boardwalk. City officials refused payment, contending the extra work was worth only 2000 dollars beyond the original contract.
In Harrisburg on June 14 the annual conference of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg opened at the episcopal residence in Sylvan Heights. Bishop McGovern presided as about thirty clergymen attended and a retreat was scheduled for 8 p.m. in the Sylvan Heights chapel led by a Passionist father from Pittsburgh.
New York June 14 The General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church met with about half the delegates present. Bishop Cheney of Chicago denied resigning and withdrawn his resignations from committees. His resignation was accepted. The council postponed changes to the constitution and canons until 1900 and adjourned after a memorial service for deceased members.
Lewis Wilkins a 23 year old from Kansas stands 8 feet 2 inches tall with a 58 inch chest and size 24 shoes. He travels with partner Otto Heinemann performing a shooting turn in Europe and is not currently exhibiting in the United States.
A Philadelphia committee outlined the first day of the jubilee events with plans to invite British merchant ships in harbor to participate. Sons and Daughters of St George and related British groups will host a Washington Park Grove gathering featuring running races bicycle events and British games. A friendly rowing contest on the Delaware near the park is proposed with trophies for each event winner.
At a Camden Methodist preacher meeting, topics included Sunday bicycle racing and trolley cars. A resolution backed the League of American Wheelmen against Sunday bicycle racing. They criticized opening the Sixth Regiment Armory for public inspection on Sunday July 4 and threatened to skip afternoon services if morning inspection happened. The Regimental Board later said inspections would occur on a future weekday.
Louis Ulmer a Broad Way and Webster Street Camden baker drove a cake laden wagon that was struck by a gravel train at Seventh Street and Ferry Avenue yesterday morning. The wagon and its contents were scattered along the track but quickly gathered by neighborhood residents. Ulmer and his horse escaped injury.
President McKinley on the return trip from Asheville reports Mrs McKinley well and recuperated. The party faced a Biltmore House entry dispute as newspaper men were initially barred but then admitted after the President asserted they were his guests. Seven colored men fanned him at a reception in Asheville and the group proceeded toward Washington.
Judge Ashman settled Mary S Hilborn estate distributing 35962 dollars among heirs. George Jones convicted of illegal lottery at 856 Centre and jailed four months. Earl Mullen convicted of attempted larceny from John Wanamaker and sent to Huntingdon Reformatory. Charles McCall and Andrew Callahan jailed thirty days from commitment. Leonard White and James Alogan convicted of aggravated assault on Lee Wong and chair destruction. sentence deferred. John B Greenley entered vocament in Common Pleas on judgment note for 1000 dollars. Charles E Carmany pled guilty to diamond ring larceny bailee of watch and to obtaining 20 dollars by check. sentenced to three years Eastern Penitentiary. Judge Butler denied new trial in Boczkauskas case. fine and costs imposed.
Miss M Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College reports that several Girls' High School pupils gained admittance by excelling in the Bryn Mawr entrance examinations. Eight students passed preliminary tests last June, and the group’s high average underscores the school’s teaching quality and the revised classical curriculum.
Thomas F. Bayard presented three Bunyan treasures to Wilmington's Second Baptist Church a chair from Bedford jail a copy of the confinement commitment and an early Pilgrim's Progress edition. Gifts accepted by Rev Dr Richard B Cook and Rev F F Briggs as the congregation received and safeguarded them. Flag Day honored with school and society events across the city including Delaware Historical Society programs and Sons of the American Revolution observances.
Washington June 14 Army officers on duty here express hope for a change in the law requiring too many yearly removals from the ranks. West Point graduates face long waits for commissions as vacancies are scarce. Of the 1896 class six are listed as additional second lieutenants while the latest class of sixty seven all are deemed qualified but cannot be commissioned due to no openings.
John Keogh a nine year old of 20 Linden Street Camden fell from a tree while attempting to capture honey bees last Thursday. He was taken to Cooper Hospital where X rays yesterday revealed fractures of three base skull vertebrae. His body is largely paralyzed and brain affected though the fractures have not pressed the spinal cord. He may live for months and has shown some improvement since neck stretching treatment.
Judge Armstrong held a special Camden Court session and began the trial of James Kilroy charged with assault and battery on Frank Mansfield after an alleged bicycle assault on the Haddonfield pike May 20. Mansfield Dumphey and Pashber testified. Kilroy allegedly threatened to arrest them while police link him to extorting money from wheelmen as a lamps law enforcer. Armstrong reserved his decision.
Special Master in Chancery George Ingham heard testimony in Atlantic City on June 14 in the case of Edward Waldmayer versus Frank Kraemer. The action seeks 310000 damages for the loss of Waldmayer’s left eye after a quarrel led to Kraemer allegedly striking him.
The report catalogs diverse 1902 items including the steamship Saab's cargo plan of 275000 ounces of silver, the ninth International Printing Pressmen Convention opening in Detroit, the New Zealand governor's Montreal departure, and a San Jose Roman Catholic mission centennial. It notes Lake Shore Railroad’s 3 percent semiannual dividend, Western Door Company formed with 1 million capital in Rock Island, and the Grand Trunk Lehigh Valley new Toronto to Buffalo fast line arrival. Also covered are Apsley Rubber plant labor end of strike, Boston seamen wage strike, Worcester Cycle shops wage cut protests, International Missionary Union meeting at Clifton Springs, Free Sons of Israel session site selection, John B. Curtis’s death, patent medicine association formation in Toronto, Mulrey’s eight-year prison sentence, National Council of Women Halifax meeting, Virginia cyclone damage, Witte & Co. bankruptcy, Central Railroad NJ denial of traffic pact, and various court and insolvency actions.
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