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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1894
Page
8
Gorman's Grand Depot advertises broad assortment of fabrics and accessories. Silk displays, French challies, crepons, novelty suitings, wool mixtures and linings arrive, with parasols, umbrellas, and baby garments. Emphasizes value, variety, and low prices to attract fashion-conscious shoppers.
Special to the Scranton Tribune Carbonvale reports a Baptist chapel program Mother Goose and Her Temperance Family with local Sabbath school children performing. Horace Fox plans Hotel Anthracite opening May 1 with staff arriving April 15. Notices include visits, church meetings, and a funeral at St Rose church.
Remedy claims permanent cure for headaches and relief of habitual sickness. States it tones bowels in constipation and often breaks long resistance to treatment. Sold in large bottles for fifty cents at Matthews Broa drug store.
Out of town correspondents urge signings of full names in letters. Mrs William Seiberhine hosts a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting this afternoon. Mrs John LaBarr hosts a Thursday afternoon meeting for cob web social planning. Christian Endeavor cottage prayer at Miss Esther Parrey's Friday. Six car loads of machinery arrive for the Bonta Glass works.
Archbal d Pa April report notes abandonment of lease or purchase talks for Carbondale Traction plant, clearing path for an immediate railway extension to Blakely borough and schedule for summer operations. Also covers local obituaries, school board actions, a runaway on Salem Street, and various social notes.
In Honesdale April 8 social events draw attention. A Methodist Episcopal church gathering called a Joe Social with general admission five cents will feature refreshments. A Kirmeass in the armory, under Company E, is planned for May with instructor Miss Stewart of Kingston, NY and about two hundred youths. City council passes an ordinance limiting bicyclists to roads and discusses road improvements as seven hundred dollars remain to fund proposed plans. open East Street and road material concerns are noted.
Hallstead Pa April 3 Mrs Anna M Mabes of Binghamton visits aunt Mrs A B Osterhout and returns home. Local notices include a teachers meeting at Hon S B Chage's home Friday evening, and many residents visiting relatives in Binghamton Nicholson and New Milford. Specials note Jermyn March 3 M H Sullivan moves into Lutey & Co building. Democratic club meets in Enterprise hall. Sewer questions stir local support while Susquehanna and Lackawanna counties checker match ends. Rushbrook lodge IOOF to be installed. James Jordan of Olyphant wins $59 at Catholic Mutual Benefit, and more community updates.
April 3 notes report the Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs Wilcox home and Mrs N D Mitchell returning from Wilkes Barre. Rev J G Evans of Plymouth to preach at the schoolhouse next Sunday morning and evening. Bert Walker of Waymart visited his uncle contractor Wilcox over Sunday. Mrs J C Brown and Wee on
Mirrored at Moosic reports from the quiet suburb of Elpatric City Moosic Pa dated April 8. The Ladies' gathering draws local residents to a social event with plans for community projects and neighborhood fellowship.
Broun and Mrs Manchellette of Forest City were calling on friends here last Saturday. H D Mitchell visited Carbondale on the same day. The town reports a raid by white police officers on several parties Saturday night.
In Taylor, April 8, the Price Library association held a meeting and Rev. C. H. Boughton delivered a temperance lecture denouncing rum and its dangers to youths. John Timlin, 87, died after three months of illness, leaving four sons and two daughters. funeral set for Thursday. George L. Timlin, newly appointed postmaster, read his own obituary in the paper but is in good health.
Keystone Academy notes from April include visitors R A Cupwell and Carrie Simreli, Nellie Taylor, Frid Finn of Bucknell, with a mid April reopening after spring break. A concert in Main chapel aims to raise funds for vocal chorus books. A potato roast fire near Nokomio Meadow threatened nearby properties but was extinguished after alarm and quick response.
Misooka and Park Place residents exchanged calls Sunday as William and Louis Hollenback visited Grasswood and Park Place friends. Illness, amputations, and property improvements appear among community updates including afluenza cases, a Park Place resident recovering, and Thomas Langan's leg being amputated.
A Milwaukee mother shares her infant daughter’s severe skin disease story. At one month the child developed a sear form spreading all over, with boils totaling forty on the head and more on the body. By six months the baby weighed under seven pounds. After using Curicura remedies, she recovered within a month and is now two, strong and healthy. The testimonial claims high doctor bills and low Curicura costs, urging readers to buy Curicura Soap for skin, scalp, and hair issues.
Temple Court Building on Spruce Street features a Philadelphia trained doctor, a Penn graduate and former demonstrator, now offering consultations for nervous debility, paralysis, old sores, tumors and other ailments. He emphasizes hospital experience, bilingual English and German, and free consultations daily from 9 AM to 9 PM with limited Sunday hours.
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