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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
2
A June shoe sale at Gimbels highlights low prices on summer and fall stock. Excursion tickets to Philadelphia offer one fare round trip through June 26. The store touts large inventories, including 2500 broken lots and shoes for boys and women, with emphasis on affordable pricing and rebuilding shopper trust.
The store urges timely flag display for Convention Week and Independence Day. It advertises Government standard all wool bunting flags 4 by 8 ft at 2.50, all sizes and silk flags, cotton bunting sold as weather tested at a discount, with red white and blue colors available by the yard.
Wide assortment of travel cases and bags advertised with a focus on alligator grips, enamel and brass mountings, and steel frame suit cases. Prices range from 50 cents to $23 for various sizes and styles, with mentions of telescopes and bag shapes. Main floor Market Street.
An advertisement touts 5000 yardy Awning Stripes in blue and brown guaranteed not to run. It notes they regularly fetch higher prices and invites sharing a good purchase while stock lasts on the fourth floor.
A local hat shop announces a large Leghorn hat shipment in three grades for women, misses, and children. Prices run 58c 75c and 95c to 1.75 with trimming at 25c, and many trimming articles on sale. Second floor Market street.
A catalog of skirts and waists displays numerous styles and prices from 50c to 95c. Fabrics include police percale lawn Madras garber’s percales and Belfast linen with numerous pleats, tucks, and borders. Second floor shows full gathered fronts, lace, embroidery, and varied cuffs.
A linen store advertises a salesmen line of napkin samples from 18 to 27 inches, sold by the piece at 5 to 40 cents. Bleached and cream remnants of table linen, 1% to 4 yard pieces, priced 35 cents to $2 a yard. Sheeting and pillowcase linens, and dress linens, all offered at about a third off.
Remnant shop promotes a special sale on usable lengths of black silks and printed fabrics. The note emphasizes minimal losses for customer goodwill and highlights items like foulards indias jap silks wash silks taffetas and salon silks on sale.
Seven hundred blue denim Brownie style overalls at 25c, plus twelve hundred washable knee trousers at 25c and cheviot knee trousers at 50c. Sizes 3 to 16, ready today and likely gone by tomorrow night.
A Gimbel Brothers department showcase features wrappers priced at $1.50 and two piece suits in lawn and chic styles with braid and ruffle trim. The display includes light and dark effects, full wide skirts and five ull rd floor arrangements for music and fashion.
Chicago is the scene of a fatal streetcar crash after motorman H. A. Morgan died of heart disease on the platform. An Indiana Avenue trolley, with passengers aboard, shot across Fortieth Street toward a freight train with gates down. The conductor halted the car after the crash, and the incident ended with Morgan dead on the front platform and the car stopped.
Results show $18 000 of $25 000 raised for the Betsy Ross House at 238 Arch Street with plans to purchase the property soon. Flag Day activities drew large crowds as students sang patriotic songs and heard speeches by Mayor Dr. Edna Brooks and Captain Charles E. Clark.
Moise Tabet, 19, son of Abraham Tabet a noted leather merchant, died by suicide after being scolded by his father over gambling. He went to the Grand Prison putine and lost about ten francs.
An American named Schiller was approached on the Avenue de l Opera in Paris by a stranger who invited him for beer. The pair lunched together and later went to a nearby exhibition, where the stranger coordinated a plan to separate Schiller from about $200.
A north bound passenger train and an incoming accommodation train on the Southern Railway collided miles north of Atlanta. Initial reports indicate multiple fatalities with details still developing.
Ex-Common Councilman Mangel J. Happn was acquitted in Quarter Sessions Court of attempting to bribe Councilmen Leo Meyer to vote for an ordinance to source ground at Thirty-first street and Lehigh avenue for school purposes. Prosecution abandoned after two witnesses with no direct knowledge.
H. K. Nicholls resigns from the Philadelphia and Reading Railway after nearly five decades of active duty, most of which were served as chief engineer. The long-time railroad official ends his career with a note of steadfast leadership and engineering work spanning half a century.
The Neptunus, an Italian steamer, chartered to carry 5602 tons of coal from Philadelphia to Venice, marking a first for such a laden voyage. The move signals potential new trade with Latin Europe as Italy shifts away from continental coal suppliers due to strikes and shortages. Ambassador Draper notified Washington quickly, prompting local importers to act.
London honors United States Ambassador Joseph H. Choate who distributed prizes at Leys School Cambridge twenty fifth anniversary. The American anthem played and prize compositions read as a vote of thanks was given to Choate. He expressed sympathy for boys who did not win, noting the US value of majority rule.
Indiana Attorney General W L Taylor announced a flaw in the indictment against W S Taylor of Kentucky. He says the document names the Republican claimant as an accessory but fails to name a principal in the Goebel assassination. The error he says the Kentucky Court of Appeals must address.
A Keystone Telephone Co crew in Cleveland awaits a message from the Independent telephone firms convention. A sleepy official awakens with a punch, a door burst brings four Reserve officers and a messenger bearing a nine dollar and eighty three cent note from J B Hogue about a bold franchise venture and a planned return home.
Mrs Gladstone widow of the late William Ewart Gladstone died in London after a period of unconsciousness. At 88 she was the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Girone and married to Gladstone in 1839. She cared for him through illness and followed him to Westminster Abbey at his funeral.
The Brooklyn Standard Union recounts Hanna’s 73 vote election to the Senate, noting a vast anti Hanna coalition offering bribes to split the majority. It asserts Hanna's victory stood despite a rotten conspiracy and vindictive opposition in Ohio politics.
Walter Eck 25 years old of 2408 Redner Street is charged with theft after a recent discharge from work as a milk wagon driver and paper distributor. The article notes his humble background and effort to win his sweetheart, with the claim he stole from his employers to please her.
Myron Clark, a dairy operator near Hailyville, became insane and forced his wife to drink strychnine at gunpoint. He prevented help as she died, then disappeared with his weapon after driving the children away from the house.
The White Star liner Teutonic landed twelve hours behind schedule due to a machinery disarrangement. The issue was not serious and was fixed at sea. Weather en route was rough for the crossing from New York.
Simla reports over 6,000,000 people are now receiving relief. Bombay saw no weekly increase though 200,000 were destitute last week. Cholera and scarce monsoon conditions drive continued suffering.
Fragmentary OCR shows contact at 29 South Poorth and references printers and a printed notice. No clear events, names, or dates emerge beyond the trade context and location.
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