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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1903
Page
3
The 25c Store offers fruit jars jelly glasses hammocks screen doors screens windows screen wire and yard fabrics including Japanese porch screens fans top dream freezers refrigerators lawn swings camp chairs and fly paper. They promise prompt delivery on fruit jars and jelly glasses with a candy department noted as a winner and new goods and prices daily.
An old style ad promises relief for swollen hot feet and tired feet with Allen's Foot Ease. It claims to cure ingrown nails calluses bunions and other foot pains and sells for 26 cents at local stores with address Allen Olmsted LeRoy NY.
An array of brief items reports Montrose death of H A Riley from paralysis, Beranton fore-house proprietor Joseph J Payfair died in Washington, and a large building boom in Berwick West Berwick. Other notes cover the Spanish War Veterans convention opening in Scranton, a damaged hose carriage after a fire call, runaway cars damaging a shaft near Taylor, a smallpox case in Dunmore, Reading Coal’s Pine Knot shaft at Coal Castle, and a long-time Wellsville resident Jayme Reed’s school attendance record. Also mentioned are Wanda Strof found at Crystal Lake, Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing building 40 cars for China, Scranton council corruption probe targets, a real estate dispute led by John Kelly, an embezzlement case involving Lehigh Valley Yard foreman, and Wilson Lippincott's sudden death in Bristol. The piece closes with legal actions touching county treasurers and a medical testimonial for a stomach digestant.
At the Democratic county convention in question, a tense battle for jury commissioner nomination concluded with M. H. Kelly winning on the final ballot, after initial splits among candidates including Keitch and Walsh. The session adjourned sine die as Kelly secured 118 votes to 100 for Keitch.
Walter Wallace's circus booked for Wilkesbarre on Tearsday Sept 1. Major family reunion at Fernbrook Park Aug 26 near Nanticoke. several local accidents and deaths including John H. Conrad 46 of Wilkesbarre. Anthony Kokaskie found dead by gas asphyxiation in Hazleton area. mining strike news and labor tensions in Luzerne County. a public transport trip offer to Atlantic City. Kodol Dyspepsia ad and other notices.
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