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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
2
The store promotes fruit jars jelly glasses hammocks screen doors and windows screen wire by the yard Japanese matting porch screens fans ice cream freezers refrigerators lawn swings camp chairs fly paper and delivery of fruit jars and jelly glasses. The candy department is a winner with new goods and new prices daily and the only inducement offered is good goods at very low prices.
In Lackawanna Court Judge Edwards rules on a May 6 1899 act for junk dealers confirming its constitutionality and rejects the quash of indictments against Ira Leber Isaac Leber Loutitch and M Rossinger. The opinion upholds state authority over commerce and contract in junk operations.
A chain of brief items reports deaths in Vandling and Scranton, missing postal workers, city salary talks, a runaway coal train incident, and other local happenings. Notable entries include the fatal rock fall at Vandling mine killing Thomas L. Jones, the death of an elderly Seranco resident, layoffs or declines in local institutions, a physician’s revival story, and community notices from Wyoming County Grangers about a rally and library bequests.
News items report a man named James Fitzagibbon leaving his foreman post at Richards Follery Mt. Carmel for Kingston Coal Co starting about Sept 1. Obituaries note Mrs. Patrick Lavan of Wilkesbarre Heights dying after five weeks illness. Daniel McGraw Willan Howells and Elizabeth Reese pass away. Henry Ridler a veteran with Confederate prison history. A fire at D L W Co Auchincloss breaker near Nanticoke was quickly controlled. Lehigh Valley moves acquire Buffalo real estate. excursion to Atlantic City offered. Advertisements urge Scranton Business College enrollment and Greene’s Tar Syrup guarantee.
The 524th annual convention of the Grand Lodge of the American Protestant Association opened in Wilkesbarre and continues through tomorrow afternoon. A proposed change in initiation degrees sparked debate while the secretary reported a large membership rise. Officers to be elected this afternoon with plans to meet in St Louis next year. Delegates attend Edwardsville lodge tonight and visit Harvey's Lake Friday as guests of Good Samaritan Lodge.
A fragment discusses nervous exhaustion and a doctor titled A W Chase. It notes the public use of Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills at 60 cents a box from Buffalo NY and mentions a signature on packages. The passage references a letter from a husband and a Washington Star exchange with the Boston Herald.
Scranton resident Etta Peer who suffered a cerebral shock entered a prolonged unconscious state lasting about three days. Doctors used electricity to revive her, restoring partial consciousness though memory remained fragmented for events after Sunday. The episode followed a severe fright and Naples of a nervous condition described as a form of hysteral coma.
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