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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
3
India Linen from 5 to 360, Persian Lawn 200 25¢ 49¢ and 45e, French Lawn 45 Inch 26¢ 36c, French Nainsook 48 inch 60e, Organdle 62 Inches 70¢ and 8c. Linen finished suiting 17¢ 20¢ 20, Pure linen suiting 36c 606 Tse. Shrunk duck on Indian bead 12% and 160. These are all extra good quality and worthy of your inspection.
A Good Roads League steam roller, moved from Kingston to Ington, is back in service after overhaul. West Pittston plans macadamizing Susquehann avenue from the bridges to Linden street and Wyoming avenue walk improvements. The borough will also install a cement walk along the cemetery and extend cemetery strip paving.
General news notes recount social visits, illnesses, and births including Mrs. D W Jones sick with pleurisy and a son born to Mr and Mrs William Henderson Jr. at 613 Susquehanna Ave. Mentions Mrs Jane Morgans building on Delaware, Mr and Mrs James Courtright hosting visitors, and job changes at Exeter Machine Works. Also reports warm weather, a Fortnightly Club ice cream social, and Trinity Church events. Funeral service for Charlotte McMillan described with readings, prayers, and burial at Forty Fort Cemetery. escort details listed.
Wilkes-Barre Alderman Donahue sentences Mrs Purin and Mrs King after disputes. He prescribes a week of reading the Bible, then promises a fresh ruling if the feuding neighbors fail to reconcile.
The article praises dainty dressing jackets as a stylish advance from prior hideous outfits, noting Parisian influence and a shift toward charming muslins and challies. Two simple designs are showcased: a versatile toilet cape development and a jacket with accordion plaiting and an English-embroidered collar requiring little material and a few hours to make.
Fragment of a bake item describing a Maple Caramel Cake with butter sugar flour milk eggs and maple sugar. It mentions cream butter with sugar, fold in flour and baking powder, beat egg whites, add milk, and bake then glaze with maple sugar and hot water. Also notes can buy cake items at hardware store in Delta.
The partnership known as Collicott and Holmes between I C Holmes and W H Collicott is dissolved by mutual consent. Settle all outstanding accounts with Wm Collicott, 16-3 Pittston Pa, May 16, 1904. Get your boy and Irion Mai at KRISE.
Public sale to satisfy a writ of Ley issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County. Three parcels in Pittston described with Front Lincoln Curtin streets bound by curbs and alleys. Properties include two two story double frame houses and outbuildings. United Security Life Insurance and Trust Company of Pennsylvania v Herman Aram et al. Attorney J Ly Morris.
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