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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1895
Page
8
The article proclaims proof of price leadership during the season with emphasis on wide variety and up to date goods. It notes money savers in aisles and asserts unprecedented quantities and choices at the season's start.
A long catalog lists washable dress fabrics including ginghams prints organdies Swisses lateens and lawns plus perales challies and laces. Also offered are towels damask linens toweling and bath textiles with imported options and a promise of favorable prices.
Retailers advertise diverse spring lines including Lisle thread stockings, silk finish hosiery, English walking gloves in reds tans and browns, white goods, embroideries from Campbrie to Nainsook, and large stocks of corset covers skirts and chemises. Prices touted as favorable.
Dr Reeves at 412 Spruce Street Scranton operates as a specialist in nerves and heart diseases with assistants to treat eyes nose ears and throat. The advertisement lists a wide range of ailments including rheumatism nervous debility female weakness irregularities nightly losses and youth errors. It promises quick cures for young men.
Ernest T Browne returns from New York College of Dentistry after completing studies Edwin I Torrey Jr passes away at home Rods reels nets and hooks on display by merchants Warmer weather needed for April fishing in Wayne woods Reverend E J Barnley of Carbondale to preach at Grace church this evening
In Port Jervis New York funds were raised to aid a proposed car factory project. The Hindsid Coal and Iron company will survey the site without stock, and existing firms plan to use the new cars in their operations. Local meetings protest Pennsylvania finance laws affecting foreign loan associations. A choir event and elections at the Forest City Car and Manufacturing company are announced, with a Daughters of America lodge forming in Higgins hall.
A compact set of town tidbits mentions social events at the Central hotel, Easter Monday flights, and upcoming entertainments. Local residents Samuel Nevche and Miss Hattie Evans are noted visitors, with Thomas Tanner nursing a sprained hand after an accident with a hose cart.
Remains of Ira Tonkin one month old, child of Mr and Mrs W H Tonkin, died at Wilkes-Barre and will be brought to Carbondale for interment in Maplewood cemetery. Also notes a new pitcher John Leach signed by Carbondale Rise Ball Club after 29 games last season with two losses. Invitations issued for wedding of Miss Gertrude Haulman and E S Hinker to be held at Chambersburg Methodist church on April 11. Miss Bridget McGee recovering at home after severe injury in Carbondale steam laundry. Libbie Lastly visiting Honesdale relatives. Advertisement for Doan's Ointment ends.
James Allan moved with his family to Dickson where he works as mine foreman in the Richmond shaft. Mrs. Edward Doran mourns the loss of her husband, a loving father and amiable man aged about 47, born in Ireland. The funeral is set for Saturday with a high mass at St. Marys church and interment in West Avoca cemetery. Distressing kidney and bladder ailments relieved in six hours by a cure advertised as the Now Great South American Kidney Cure. Sold by Parr, Druggist, 25 Penn Avenue, Sevanton, ra.
The Tribune can be ordered by calling at the house of agent C. Tt. Fratasoni for prompt attention. The Thunder coupling plant has shut down indefinitely and shipping of minnows and oil orders is slack. A child of William Bartelson is sick with diphtheria at home. Presbyterian Ladies Home and Prison Missionary Society will meet Friday afternoon at Mrs. Thomas Hall stone’s house on Mein Street. A surprise party honored Miss Monele Lewli at her parents’ home on Main Street with dancing and music. attendees included Misses Maul Grace Eden Edith Stith Bexsie Miumle Muatthe Tiida Jimite Wier Chinche Tregalia Blea and Ales.
A list of residents from Pittston and Duryea attends a gathering with refreshments served. George Tregalias reports his daughter Ethel is housebound by a maid. Edsall, ex butcher for KE C and Herith, travels to New York seeking work. Mrs. Alfred Tenant to lead a Bible lesson Saturday at 7 4 p m with Epworth League at the Methodist church. John Dymond plans to rebuild and survey the property opposite the Methodist Episcopal church for new construction.
A gaudy recruitment notice promises seven base ritual pictures and cash prizes for finding three hidden faces. It claims top rewards include a $300 piano and cash sums, urging readers to mail entries to National Seed Bureau, Washington DC, PO Box 114.
The text shows a disjointed list of clothing items with prices including suit, hat, shirt, cuffs, and tie along with stray numbers and symbols, making interpretation difficult. No coherent event, entities, or outcomes are present to summarize beyond noting an inconsistent inventory-like record.
A letter from Pennsylvania reports a boy passing a five foot tapeworm after using Dr Campbell’s Magic Worm Sugar and Tin. The author claims the product cured tapsworms after other remedies failed and invites observers to view the specimen at the store. The note endorses Campbell’s worm remedy as the greatest in existence.
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