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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
2
A local retailer promotes reduced prices on Misses tailored suits in homespun Venetian cheviot serge and broadcloth. Prices drop to 3.95 from 8.90 to 9.75, 5 from 10 to 13.95, 7.50 from 12 to 15, and 15 from 25 to 29.
Sporting goods store on the Fourth floor touts expert guidance and low prices for fishing and photography gear. Highlights include Cyclone Magazine Camera frames at $8 and $10, Gem Poco lenses, U Nehring sets, darkroom supplies, tennis equipment, and a range of reels, rods, and tackle with discounted prices.
The store touts a complete collection of stock ties ideal for hot weather. A navy or black polka dot foulard tie with a white dimity collar is offered at ninety five cents, featuring long double ends that can be bowed or knotted.
A new outing hat for women features a larger form than the Ladysmith style with wings and a twist of white mull trimming. Priced at 1.35 dollars. Untrimmed Leghorns run from 35 to 95 cents. Located on the second floor.
Store offers 35c suede lisle gloves at 20c as exporter aborts regular shipments. Delayed ocean freight left gloves unsold, so importer cuts loss and passes savings to customers. Short-term offer signals bargain for shoppers.
The steamship Colorado collided with the Norfolk bound schooner Notman in dense fog near the Northeast End lightship on June 11. The Notman’s crew of thirteen was saved. The derelict Notman has drifted into shipping lanes and required the Nezinscot to locate and prepare for removal. A government test will blow up the wreck using liquid air, with a provisional date likely on Monday, drawing interest from naval and engineering circles.
The cruiser Prairie sailed from League Island Navy Yard for a week long practice cruise carrying Pennsylvania Naval Reserves. Commander Swift leads the ship with Cmdr C W Ruschenberger and Lt J M Mitcheson among officers. the voyage focuses on routine duty, gun practice, and target drills with ration pay of thirty cents daily. The battalion will be reorganized on return for state emergency use.
George R. Flowers, 39, of 2249 North Woodstock street, reportedly suffered temporary insanity last Monday and disappeared. A poorly written postal card dated Monday afternoon reached his wife on Tuesday, and his brother-in-law later received a note claiming he had injured his hand breaking china and planned to become a farmer. Flowers is described as 5 feet 11 inches, florid, with gray-streaked dark hair, a gray moustache, gray eyes, weighing about 150 pounds, wearing a gray and black checked suit, pink and white striped shirt, straw hat with a black band, and black shoes.
A store advertises men’s straw hats with prices at 1.75 and 1.25 to 1.50, claiming the 1.75 option matches higher priced rivals. It highlights three crown heights, fifteen styles, and a third floor location while promising refunds if customers are not satisfied. It also notes boys Sailor and English chip hats at about half the usual 2.50 price.
The passage describes a dangerous car incident with multiple injuries and deaths. It notes Labensky and Mrs. Anderson dead after the car stopped, Swanson unharmed, and a fragmented quote from Silver Lake. The text is garbled and includes stray names and unclear statements.
In Havana on June 22 postal delays highlighted soft salaries at the university where two under professors earned 24000 dollars annually each along with 24 assistants. General Wood ordered reforms reducing the staff to 46 including assistants, amid 450 students and varied class loads. Greek instruction was among services affected.
History and literature programs are now unified under a single professor of Greek duties. The move restructures faculty into one department with a focus on classical studies.
Pennsylvania Railroad announces a special round trip ticket for Philadelphia to New York and return at 2.50. Tickets available on departures from Broad Street Station and valid through June 1900. also mentions overdue vessels San Francisco notes and nitrate cargo concerns.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad introduced two new additions to its schedule, adding Sunday service between towns and Baltimore to expand passenger options and improve connectivity for travelers this week.
A two day inspection of the Long Island Railroad system concludes with President A J Cassatt and a board of directors arriving at Broad Street Station.Included are Clement A Griscom and Hanna. schedule covers Brooklyn division Rockaway Beach Long Beach Southampton Montauk Point with plans for ocean-going docks.
Fourteen year old Martha Welsh will live with Dr J N Hobach and his sister Annie in Green Park Perry county by her choice. Judge Wiltbank ruled she may reside with the Hobachs and must visit her birth family in the city four times yearly. The girl has lived with the Hobachs since 1891 after being brought from Polyclinic Hospital with the Miss Hobach’s care.
General Miles and staff witnessed tests of Dr. Samuel McClean’s new ordnance. A monster clip held ammunition as a machine gun mounted on a bicycle tripod fired one-pound shells with automatic action, producing all shells in the air simultaneously.
Purifies the blood to drive away disease by expelling impurities. Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to enrich blood and energize red cells, aiding transmission of nourishment to organs nerves and muscles.
Two letters from women praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian and abdominal symptoms. Mrs Many Surra from Arlington Iowa notes swelling and pain subsiding after one bottle, while Mrs Eviz Bryan of Otisville Michigan says six bottles ended years of illness and restored her health.
Washington June 22 The American Institute of Homoeopathy debated medical legislation and approved a five member national committee to seek cooperation with the National Medical Association and the National Eclectic Society. Resolutions urged state boards, uniform matriculation standards, and state university medical teaching while some motions were rejected or altered amid lengthy discussion.
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