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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1895
Page
8
Promotional lines claim proofs of leadership will show throughout the season with wide varieties and quantities of desirable goods. Text emphasizes savings for shoppers passing through the store and noting unusually early season offerings.
Gugliane offers washable dress fabrics including fust color prints, Scotch and French Organdies and Swisses, French and American Lateens, Ginghams, Percales, Challies, Gallateas, Ducks, Madras, and Piques. Assortments unmatched by any house with prices consistent with values.
An ornate advertisement lists Huck Towels hemstitched towels and napkins in various sizes imported damask Irish damask linens doilies fine linen toweling bath towels and crash toweling. The notice urges attention and favors from potential customers.
Fashion writers note the apparel items now entering the market come in a range of shades, materials and colors. Manufacturers consistently design new kinds and, leveraging a diversified market, offer varied arrivals at right prices.
The store lists a wide range of imported men and women wear. Lisle thread silk goods in tan and russet shades feature double soles and high heels. English walking gloves and a large white goods and embroideries selection promise half price savings.
Frank Donley leaves Montrose for Wyalusing to become Rocket office foreman. Local residents suffer illnesses and attend church events as Hawke families move to Nicholson and a stone mill relocation prompts town losses. Lehigh Valley traffic rises after strikes, ministers plan Easter services, and licenses are granted while court proceedings continue.
Early Sunday flames issued from the residence owned by Lawrence Howard on Dunmore Street. The Excelators responded quickly from plane G and stopped the fire. The upper floors were vacant while the basement housed a man named O Rourke. The building was insured. James F P Judge of the Scranton Index was visiting town. Joseph Kelley opened a new drug store in the Sweeney block on Lackawanna Street. Representative O Malley spent Sunday at his home here. P J Hoplin of the Electric City.
An Ohio assistant engineer testifies after years of rheumatic suffering that Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy relieved pain after two bottles and claims a full cure. The ad promises rapid relief for acute and chronic rheumatism and offers free diagnosis from Professor Munyon, with remedies mailed on receipt of price. Other items note local social visits and a ball planned for April 24 by the Electrics.
In Peckville and surrounding areas reports list Harperlodge No. 707 electing Noble grand D. Lathrup vice grand Charles Kennedy secretary William H. Walker and others. Warahpa tribe No. 211 selects officers. several residents visit relatives. Ontario breaker operated seventeen days last month. A infant son of Mr and Mrs William Warfield died yesterday. funeral at 2 pm tomorrow with Prospect cemetery interment.
An antique advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year proven remedy for teething pain wind colic and diarrhea. It claims universal global availability through druggists and urges shoppers to request the product by name at twenty five cents per bottle.
Drafted from a garbled notice, infant Archie Jones, born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Griffith Price of Main Street, Priceburg, is recorded as a newborn child in the local birth brief with incomplete surrounding details.
Funeral services for Mrs. John W. Altken were held at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Charles Lee officiating. Pallbearers included W. Hutchings and J. E. Burr from Scranton among others. The piece also notes the funeral for Mrs. J. H. Byrne, with a list of pallbearers and attendees from New York, Scranton, and Ogdensburg. Additional local notices mention social calls, store improvements by Tucker & Stevens, changes on the Delaware and Hudson line, personnel transfers, a bout of flu, and a forthcoming marriage announcement for Mary Beat rice Schotyer and J. Barry Rowelsen.
Hypochondriacal despondent nervous tired out men with backache fatigue memory loss dizziness melancholy and discouragement are treated by correspondence at home with uniform success by the Specialists of the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo NY A 136 page book on these maladies is available sealed for 10 cents postage to World Dispensary Medical Association at the hotel For over 25 years physicians have focused on these delicate diseases and thousands have consulted them and benefited from their methods.
On Monday morning at 10 o’clock in Trinity church A B Woonnacott is confined at home with a severe grip. Mr and Mrs A B Lewsley returned home yesterday. The Carbon dale Silk mill Instruction school opened yesterday. Mrs A W Preston and daughter, wintering with Dr and Mrs Pilgrim at the American house, left yesterday for New England and will visit friends in Wilkes-Barre. Sheriff Murphy of Honesdale was seen visiting friends in town yesterday.
HONESDALE Judge Purdy has returned home from Scranton. George James, ill at his home for over a week, returned to work in Carbondale yesterday. Mrs. Thomas Crossley Jr., guest here for several days, returned to her home at Richmondale Monday.
The Bell Clothing House at 230 Lackawanna Avenue markets new Spring Overcoats and Suits. Elegant design and low prices promise bargains for shoppers seeking fashion and value in town.
Advertises a trade stimulator offering a Boys' Safe ty Bicycle with full ball bearings valued at $35 free with the purchase of every Boys' Suit or Knee Pants. Drawings held on the sth of July.
A fragment describes Goodman offering many items from a local factory with prices starting at 12 cents. The note claims the selection exceeds what two stores should hold and invites buyers to view wares, noting cheap grades up to more expensive items and a quality waist garment difficult to match at any price.
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