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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1896
Page
5
Hats trimmed free of charge advertise Easter millinery including French Gerson and turban styles. Describes stylish hats and turbans from $4 to $10 with a full assortment of popular and imported models and children’s trimmed hats in mourning and everyday styles.
Crowded selling space features low prices on fancy straw hats for misses and children at 2 3 and 4 cents. Ladies and misses receive trimmed hats free of charge with selections in satin silk Milan and lace effects including Japanese Italian trims. Broad range of shapes and colors offered with ready-made options and discounts.
The advertisement lists flowers ribbons laces veiling and millinery items with prices marked in cents and dollars. It promises free trimming and free lace and ribbon work, featuring Dresden ribbons satin gros grains veiling and straw braids among other accessories and ornaments.
Dunn & Co previews a spring trade upturn with their quarterly failure tally showing 4 081 defaults totaling 57 425 135 against 2 802 with 47 513 683 liabilities. They note stock adjustments, easing unemployment, and cautious optimism amid steel, iron, and agricultural markets, plus firmer railroad earnings but uneven demand.
In Sun Prairie near Madison on April 3 Joseph Kleiner and family and relatives drank poisoned buttermilk. Mrs Kleiner and one child were found unconscious. others recovered. Chemist A Mitchell examines milk samples for poison traces. investigators suspect contamination in the cream.
The report covers lay delegates elected to the general conference with George S Bennett and A I Decker among speakers. It notes resolutions on ministerial representation and a large audience for historical lectures by Drew Theological seminary’s Dr. Rogers. Bishop Vincent presides at joint sessions and praises home mission work and women’s role.
In Paris on April 3 a new sensation centers on Henriette Condon who claims to be the intermediary of the archangel Gabriel. She exerts strong influence on visitors who bring letters of introduction and refuse money or gifts. Her prophecies of future trouble in Europe are vague, with talk of a coming holocaust for France and England. The archbishop weighs the matter as skeptics and believers clash.
Antona DiPeach won a Hoboken District Court judgment against Charles Hoff man, a Brooklyn livery stable keeper, for failing to send three coaches to meet a bridal party on March 14. The late coaches forced DiPeach to hire different vehicles, costing $18.50, as the church ceremony proceeded.
An advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a cure for all skin diseases with no internal medicine needed. It promises to heal tetter eczema and eruptions on face hands and nose, leaving skin white and healthy and asserts unique healing powers. The Nickel Plate Road line is noted as running along Lake Erie and through Erie Cleveland Fostoria and Fort Wayne.
The Philadelphia market showed quiet trading with a slight uptick over regular quotes. Beef and pork items varied by age and cut with several items priced per barrel or per hundredweight, while lard and tallow remained steady to dull.
Buffalo New York markets show mixed cattle weights with quiet demand and variable prices. Cattle ranges include hogs and roughs around 2.95 to 8.96 for medium weights and utility grades, while sheep and lambs move toward handy and prime weights with lambs at about 4.80 to 4.00 and heavy export sheep near 8.75 to 4.75 per hundredweight, with other grades fluctuating.
Stock Yard Illinois April 2 cattle receipts reach 3000 head with mixed gains and losses across classes. Market shows firm opening, then easy close. feeders and hogs listed, calves and Texans priced. Hows receipts total about 17000 with lighter trading and prices around 3.00 to 3.25 for certain categories.
The report lists changes in railroad leadership and new appointments. George A. Nettleton is chief engineer of the Annaveer railroad in Toledo. E. D. Adams is named chairman of the Northern Pacific board. T. E. Adams becomes Dakota division superintendent for Great Northern. Russell Harding is general superintendent of the Western district for Great Northern, based in Spokane. Pittsburg, Chenango and Lake Erie Railroad plans rapid line construction through Pittsburg with many improvements to reduce grades and heavy-train hauling, budgeting about $400,000 for the year, plus new locomotives and traffic gains through Carnegie. First ore freight contracts for the season closed at Cleveland, with Vega and Vulcan steamers shipping ore from Lake Superior to Lake Erie at $1 per ton, a rate below expectations. An estimated 7 to 9 million bushels of wheat are prepared for shipment from Lake Superior as navigation opens.
A scanned page shows numerous classified ads seeking salesmen and agents for household goods, cleaning products, and wholesale lines. Listings include opportunities at B and B Co New York and Clifton Furnace Co Cincinnati with commissions and salaries, plus details on merchandise for sale such as a large stock of New Increte items, wagons, and vehicles. Additional notices offer real estate sales and a house and lot listing at the Meade and Burke streets corner.
A hodgepodge of old ads and notices includes clothing and mill goods sales, lumber and building materials, a stockholders meeting for Providence Gas and Water, an invitation for bids by Lehigh Valley Coal Company, a public works and receiver notices, and botanical and medical patents. Multiple firms and addresses appear, with dates and locations in Hazleton Wilkes-Barre Scranton and Philadelphia areas.
Trains leave Scranton for New York and intermediate points and for Honesdale and Hawley on local trains at 35 a.m. and 3 23 p.m. Arrivals to Scranton from the above points at 23 a.m. and 3 57 p.m.
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