Gimbel Brothers All Silk Ribbons at Fractional Prices
A large new display from Gimbel Brothers features 6 000 yards of all-silk Picot-edge baby ribbon and 21 colors at 5c a piece. Gros grain, Moire, and plain Taffeta ribbons in widths from No 5 to No 80 are offered from 3c to 38c a yard, with dozens of patterns and styles, plus sash ribbons and moire textures. Additional lots arriving soon.
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Paterson
N. J
Alsc
Eac Lece
Paris
New Derby waists in zephyr cloths on second floor
Prices and fabrics described for waists on the first and second floors. The text contrasts cheap waists on the first floor with desirable Zephyr cloths and new Derby waists from Anderson, offered in pink, lavender, or light blue with a narrow white stripe at a $2 price on the second floor.
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Shepherd
Anderson
New Lightweight Storm Serge and Linen Suit Arrivals
A brisk sale notice announces very light weight Storm Serge coats in black or navy with Eton and blazer cuts, braid loop and button details, lined with black taffeta. Linen suits with Eton fronts and double reverses are offered as a fresh lot. Second floor features Valenciennes laces and insertions, twenty five patterns at 25c per dozen yards, plus smaller widths and finer grades up to 3.00. First floor.
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Ascot
Eton
Underwear Line and Boots at One Uniform Price
A local catalog lists colored lawn negligee gowns with Empire and high neck styles, Hamburg lace trims, and various night gowns chemises and drawers. It also advertises Perfection boots on third floor, hand-sewn welts, leather soles, and canvas-top boots priced at $2.25 and $1.90 respectively.
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Hamburg
India
Valenciennes
Pointe de Paris
India Lawn
Sterling upright refrigerators offered with multiple features
Sterling refrigerators boast pure dry air circulation, galvanized racks, charcoal packing, slate shelves and double ice boxes. Prices range from 10.50 to 32 dollars with a design that reduces cold-air loss when opened. Also advertised are discounted Limoges China sets and Theodore Haviland pieces at deep discounts.
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Sterling
New York
Limoges
Theodore Haviland
Broad household sale of lamps textiles and more on first floor
Store announces deep discounts on American dinner sets Japanese teapots and tumblers plus Banquet Lamps and 24 to 30 inch lamps in tea rose decor. It highlights Turkish glass globes bargain hose fabrics curtains screens chairs pillows linens and odds and ends at fixed outlet prices on the first floor north aisle.
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Dorflinger
Irish Point Table Covers 32 Inch Square with Delicate Borders
Irish point table covers eight elaborate designs 32 inches square feature 4 inch delicate pink or blue cambric borders in fast colors. Also suited for Summer pillow shams and other novelties in Irish point. First floor.
Embroidered flannels remnant sale advertised
White gauze summer weight flannel 29 in. considered excellent value at price for this lot of only 425 yards a yard. Embroidered flannels a large lot of remnants of fine white embro flannels with sparse home stitched scalloped edges for babies wear most soiled by handling closed out at remnant prices lengths 1% to 3 yards. First floor east aisle.
Bargain on Fine Unbleached Sheeting Today
A sale offers twenty yards of unbleached sheeting in two widths. The offer lists 24 yards at 12 -thirds cents and 24 yards at 14 -thirds cents, though the normal price would be 17 1/2 cents and 19 1/2 cents.
Railroad Employes Meet In Secret Session In New Castle
In New Castle Pennsylvania on June 20 members of five great railroad labor orders gathered in Elks Hall for a secret meeting. The press committee will only release the resolutions, but a federation may form. Resolutions urge arbitration with employers and call on the Republican party to pass an arbitration law quickly. They protest extensions of time for auto brakes and favor restricting foreign immigration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Union
Elks Hall
Republican Party
Hastings
Conference Committee
Senate
House
House Judiciary General Committee
Délec
Seyfert
Philadelphia
James Gay Gordon
Frank H. Leonard
New York
Simon
Andrews
Hamilton Road
Jonas H. Price
Quakertown
Virginia
Moyer
Funk
Bucks County
Price
George Nox McCain
Philadelphia Press
Peter Bolger
Philadelphia Record
Man Rescued After Suicide Attempt At Delaware River
John Brice aged 52 of 722 South Diamond Street attempted to drown himself by leaping from Meade Street wharf into the Delaware. He was rescued by police and ice company workers, exhausted but alive after being taken to Pennsylvania Hospital. Brice had suffered chronic illness preventing employment and provision for his family.
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John Brice
South Diamond Street
Delaware
Meade Street
Brice
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Pennsylvania Hospital
Seeley 1859 Ad for Truss Work at Walnut Street
Ad listing an 1859 business at 1087 Walnut Street describes Seeley as origination and manufacture of eber trusses with likely carpentry or structural work implied. The text is garbled and provides limited details beyond location and trade.
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Seeley
1807
Walnut St
Originatee
Manafac
Eber Trusses
Caevei
Avoia Eeeiey Ie Leupera Se
Aspen
Quay Wil Visit the Legislature Harrisburg Evening
The senior Senator from Pennsylvania plans a Harrisburg meeting with House and Senate leaders and state officials to map a plan for ongoing legislative work and revenue measures. Key topics include beer and club license bills, inheritance taxes, and the horizontal tax proposal amid adjournment uncertainty.
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United States
Pennsylvania
House
Senate
Harrisburg
Deputy Attorney General Shapes State Revenue Plan
Harrisburg dispatch notes Deputy Attorney General John P. Elkin is guiding revenue measures in the Legislature. He has worked long hours to craft tax proposals and review laws, outlining the complex situation facing the Commonwealth and state officials.
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Harrisburg
John P. Elkin
Commonwealth
Legis
Uty
Denek
Treav
State faces large deficit and Deficit prompts calls for cuts
Legislators debate a mounting deficit exceeding 3 1/2 million dollars tied to state revenues and school funding. Deputy Attorney General Elkin argues revenues of about 12 million annually leave less than 10 million for appropriations after counties share. He urges reducing expenses by 1.5 million and boosting revenue by pending bills to balance the budget while protecting education and charitable institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Elkin
Commonwealth
Biking
Friends of Education
Elkins
Warszawiak Denounced by Fifth Avenue Church
New York June 20. Herman Warszawiak a Hebrew Christian seeking Presbyterian ministry was denounced as immoral and guilty of gambling before the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church congregation. He was suspended from communion while Mrs Warszawiak claimed his innocence and was escorted from the church amid tense scenes.
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New York
Herman Warszawiak
Presbyterian Church
John Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Warszawiak
Setae
Ambler
Fifth Avenueresbyterian
Anthon Omstock
Weehaven
N. J
Youthful Hero Rescues Child From Escaping Train
Eleven year old Samuel Morrison leaped across a railroad track to pluck the 8 year old daughter of Ellen and Hugh Doyle from danger as an empty freight train shifted near Thirty-first street and Gray's Ferry Road. The child was deposited in safety and the crowd praised the boy for his bravery.
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Ellen
Hugh Doyle
Oakford Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Thirty-first Street
Gray's Ferry Road
Samuel Morrison
Baccalaureate Services and Farewell Gatherings at Lafayette College
On June 20 at Lafayette College Easton Rev G W Stewart delivered a moving sermon in the baccalaureate service. President Warfield followed with an extended address offering spiritual guidance to graduates. In the afternoon the Brainerd Christian Association held farewell services with Rev J A Watson of the class of 84, recently returned from Persia, delivering an engaging discourse via Russia. The later program featured the annual sermon by Rev Dr Gilland of Brooklyn.
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Persia
Russia
Gilland
Brooklyn
Pate Ette
Opera House
Louis Lang Dead Prominent Philadelphia Liquor Merchant
Louis Lang 82 a prominent liquor merchant died last evening at his home 1822 North Seventeenth Street from Brights disease after a lingering illness. Born in Altdorf Baden he came to America in 1840 settling in Philadelphia and later Danville in dry goods before returning to Philadelphia to run Lang Bernheimer & Co at 118 North Front Street. He was a Mercantile Club member and a Mason. Funeral Tuesday at 8 50 from his residence with interment Mt Sinai Cemetery. Six children survive him.
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Louis Lang
North
Seventeenth Street
Bright
Lang
Altdorf
Baden
Philadelphia
Danville
Victoria Jubilee Poem by Alfred Austin
The Times will publish Alfred Austin’s thirty stanza poem Victoria on the jubilee of Queen Victoria. It portrays the queen as prudent and steadfast, offering moral guidance and national unity while coping with sorrow and royal duty.
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Alfred Austin
London
the Times
Victoria
England
Severe weekend storms hit East Tennessee and surrounding areas
Reports from upper East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina describe severe storms Saturday night through Sunday. A cloud burst near Bristol washed away a trestle delaying trains on the Southern Road and displacing track on the N and W line. Beaver Creek swelled and residents evacuated as wind damaged corn and local property.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Upper East Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
State Line
Bristol
Washington
New Orleans
N. and
Beaver Creek
Emperor William urges Thessaly evacuation amid unsettled peace talks
No peace settlement yet in sight as Emperor William telegrams the Sultan urging swift Thessaly evacuation. In Crete at Hierapetra yesterday insurgents clashed with townspeople and an Italian gunboat fired two shots into the town.
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Athens
William
Thessaly
Hierapetra
Crete
Insurgenta
Baseball tragedy kills 19 year old in Saratoga
Austin Smith aged 19 of Sandy Hill was killed at the Washington County Fair Grounds while batting. A curved pitch by Edward McGinnis struck Smith under the ear causing brain concussion and almost instant death.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Austin Smith
Sandy Hill
Washington County Fair Grounds
Smith
Edward McGinnis
Speak-Easy Raid Nets Liquor Seizure in City District
Police from the Sixteenth district raided Angelo Cranberando's speak-easy at 4087 Faglesfield street and seized liquor. Inmates Dominick Veleo and Rapeller Domario were arrested. Magistrate Hughes remanded all three in $1,000 bail for court.
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Angelo Cranberando
Faglesfield Street
Dominick Veleo
Rapeller Domario
Hughes
Young boy injured near busy horse at city corner
William Scheffer aged 12 of 3428 North Twelfth Street was near a grazing horse at Twelfth and Tioga streets yesterday morning when he was struck by the animal, fracturing his skull. He was taken to Samaritan Hospital and may recover.
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William Scheffer
North
Twelfth Street
Twelfth and
Tioga Streets
Kaiser fears American intervention over Europe says Times
Paris Times correspondent reports Emperor William does not fear Chinese ambition or anarchists but fears expansion of a great power and U S involvement in Old World affairs. The Kaiser avoids being drawn into ambitious schemes to keep Europe stable.
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London
Paris
The
Times
William
Europe
United States
Tragedy Near Pittsburg End in Jealousy Murder Suicides
Near Harmarville, Frank Karns an American Glue Works employee shot his wife five times and then killed himself after shooting at Harrison as the couple met. Karns, 35, died shortly after, his wife was wounded and not expected to survive the night. The couple had been separated after Karns suspected jealousy.
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Pittspurg
Harmarville
Pittsburg
Springdale
Harrison
Karns
Night Fire At Millinery Store Injures Woman
Patrolman Fisher found a fire at I Greenman’s millinery at 1281 South Street and quick alertness stopped major damage. Rebecca Shultz asleep in a rear room escaped by leaping from a window in her nightgown and clothing lacking. Damage valued about $100.
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Fisher
I. Greenman
South Street
Rebecca Shultz
Police raid five speak-easies in Ninth District arrest six keepers
Sergeants Jordan and Nicholson with a squad raided five suspected speak-easies Saturday night and arrested retainers Mary McGurk Bridget Gibson Michael Mitchell Thomas Dever James Duffy. The first released on bail failed to appear at City Hall hearing. the others are held on bail.
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Jordan and
Nicholson
Ninth District
Mary McGurk
Shamokin Street
Bridget’ Gibson
Church Street
Michael Mitchell
Pearl Street
Thomas Dever
North Pent Towns Street
James Duffy
Callowhill Street
Forgery charge for James Farrill arrested at city streets
James Farrill of Eighth and Goodman streets was arrested yesterday afternoon at Tenth and Sansom streets for forging a $15 check on Mary Jake at 186 North Sixth Street days earlier. He was committed without bail for a hearing today.
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James Farrill
Eighth
Goodman Streets
Tenth
Sansom Streets
Mary Jake
North Sixth Street
Two elderly men found dead in separate city beds
James Griffin aged 85 and Edward Levin aged 62 were found dead in their beds yesterday morning. Authorities report no indications of self inflicted death in either case and note the incidents occurred at residences at Fifth and Cambria streets and Front street and Girard avenue.
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James Griffin
Fifth and Cambria
Edward Levin
Front Street
Girard Avenue
Collapsible Chafing Dishes Sold by Simons Bro Co
25 collapsible chafing dishes with handle lamp and base offered by Simons Bro & Co at 616 Chestnut. Each unit $4.75, ideal for camping parties students and small spaces. Limited stock of 25.
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Simons Bro & CO
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Gimbel Brothers
China
Chicago Electric” Garden Hose
David F. Conover & Co
Great Labor Orders
New Castle
Quay
Senator Quay
Ways and Means Committee
Flinn
Kauffman
Lafayette College
G. W. Stewart
Hanan Shoe CO
Chestnut ST
Hanan & Sons
American Baby Carriage Factory
North Fourth Street
Pearl d
Fultony
Hich
Washington Monument
Gerernouien
Peter Bogner
Moses Pfaelzer
Queen Victoria
Tennessee
Emperor William
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