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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1894
Page
8
A local dry goods shop touts a wide range of items including lace curtains silk fabrics bed ticking bed linen counterpanes napkins muslins scrim doilies and more. The policy promises the lowest prices on the goods most in demand this week.
The notice promotes curtain scrim at 5c, 8c, and 10c per yard and silk alines at 12c per yard. Nottingham lace curtains are 98c per pair. Honey comb bed spreads range 85c to 1.25, with 6 4 chenille table covers at 1.19.
Our millinery displays a choice assortment of distinguished foreigners alongside equally pretty but cheaper natives. Discover how much beauty a hat bonnet can hold, and inspect all the new trimmings now available.
Fashion periodical showcases leading fashions and dress materials with illustrations and informative notes for home readers. Features anecdotal items and elevated reading for those seeking style and textiles in the era.
Mrs Richard Burnett dies after a week of illness at 45 leaving eight children and a Friday funeral at St Rose church with interment there. Rev Gilbert Reid to speak at Presbyterian church Friday evening. Trout season opens Northeastern district on the lath. Peter Sheridan funeral held at Gordon avenue with services at St Rose church. Monthly literary entertainment at Methodist chapel features music and a thorpe address. Sarah A Bateridge and Lawrence E Henry wed at Belmont Street home. Odd Fellows plans April 26 celebration in W Watt building. Thomas Morgan adds to Seventh avenue home. I F Hant family returns to North Main Street after western tour.
The ladiva of the Women's Christian Temperance onion plans a cobweb social at Mrs. John LaBar’s home in Moos on Thursday evening April 12. Supper will be served for 10 cents. Local residents and visitors are noted in this brief society snippet from Scranton Tribune pages.
The note urges readers to choose from multichrome options and redeem a single coupon plus one dime for the purchase. It presents a promotional tone typical of store circulars.
Out of town correspondents advised to sign full names for feed Heweletter not for publication to guard Slainnt deception. Text appears as damaged notes from Pte Ten OnNe.
Monroa county gauger Samuel B. Storm named by Internal Revenue as gauger for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. Various visits, meetings, and appointments include Rev N Turner in Philadelphia, McKelvey of railroads in town, and Ralph M Jacoby as special agent for National Live Stock Insurance. Elderly Hannah Deal dies. Miss Gertrude Elmont new history literature teacher. multiple church and local society events. Prothonotary Datet ill. pension board organized. Stroudsburg Telephones to switchboard central. attempted robbery near Iron Bridge. Monroe County jail now empty. new delivery wagon for Stroudsburg Stowm laundry. social at Presbyterian manse. Professor Kemp and Brasefield preaching engagements. Burns oil advertised.
Local notes show Miss Tyler and Miss Allen seeking buyers for the Tur Thipuxe Encyclopedia Britannica with about twenty orders taken. Frank Horocen undergoes hospital care in Carbondale for a long standing dental issue. Carbondale hospital praised for treatment of injuries from nearby towns.
Remedy claims to permanently cure headaches and relieve habitual sick headaches. It also cures habitual constipation by toning the bowels. The ad urges a trial with large bottles selling for fifty cents at Matthews Bros. drug store.
Archbal d and Scranton area items report James O Rourke appointed postmaster after T P Cosgrove retirement. Also note a funeral for Mrs John Shovlin, a requiem Mass at St Thomas church, and marriage plans for John Lorenz and Mary Craft. Mining output at No 5 mine hits record daily average near 1000 tons.
On the parallel tracks of the Erie railroad at their pockets below town an engine pulled a train of cars on special tracks and con-
A man named Fred Hempfling was injured when a pole he was leaning on broke, severing a finger and crushing his hand. Alma Voigt hosted a reception and dance for her cousin Mrs D Gelbert of Scranton at her Manin Street home. Catharine and Charlotte Dorflinger of White Mills plan a visit to Europa with their father on the 24th. Grace Church vestry discussed calling Rev. Mr. Lewis of St. George’s New York for rectorship, after his sermon pleased listeners. HH. Risnell and D. E. Menner were elected senior and junior wardens respectively.
Scranton area notes report C L Ball won the bid at 5800 dollars to erect a new school building with ground breaking planned for Arbor Day. Arbor Day tree planting on campus. Local council hopes to address sewer questions and debates public versus private drainage. Other items include visits, business in Carbondale, stores planned at Main and H Streets, bank stockholders meeting, and a note on Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup advertised for coughs.
Moscow Pa April 5 The home of Mr and Mrs J N Bennet was invaded by friends for Mrs Bennets birthday. Names include Mr and Mrs Simpkins Gardiner W B Miller Poaten Brown Bartholomew Lane Pyb Mollie Noads Sophia Simpkins and others. Miss Kate Shelthorn surprised at home with Mrs Frank Pelton by friends Wednesday. A farewell social was held by the Indies of the Women’s Christian temperance union at Mrs George Gillilands home before her move to Gouldeboro. George Travia of Baltimore Medical college is home for the summer. Several new measles cases reported and M J Martin returned to Cornell University Wednesday.
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