Good Friday services and West Side church notes
West Side churches held Good Friday services with large attendances at German Presbyterian Chestnut street and St Johns German Catholic. Rev Paule and Rev Fricker led services. St Davids Episcopal and St Patricks also featured prominent sermons. Easter choir concerts and sunrise prayer at Simpson Methodist, plus local obituaries and community notes on residents and events.
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West Side
Chestnut Street
FP. A. Paule
J. B. Whelan
St. Patrick's Church
St. John’s
Father Fricker
St. David's Episcopal Church
Welsh ten virgins plan living portrayal Tuesday night
A local event features ten virgins represented by living characters on Tuesday evening with a collection at the door. Cora Yoos, 10, daughter of City Assessor Charles Yoos, died yesterday at his Washburn Street home. Interment will be in St John’s German cemetery after services led by Rev Fricker at St John’s German Catholic Church tomorrow afternoon. Reporter notes unrelated local incidents and ads for photos, groceries, and services around North Main and surrounding avenues.
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West Lack- Awandam Avenue
Frank Lewis
South Everett Avenue
Clyde Chase
R. R. Chase
North Sumner Avenue
M. G. Dimmick
North Sumner
North Main Avenue
Mears’ Hall
Willam St. Dewees
Tenth Streat
Davies Drug Store
Young People’s Literary and Debating Society
First Welsh Baptist Church
Morgan Lewis
Plymouth
Thomas V. Lewis
Eynon Street
Laura Jones
Edwardadale
Lottle Powell
Lincoln Avenue
William Delmeth
North Bumner Avenue
Misa Marie Lieber
North Bromley Avenue
Bladen
W. M. Thomas
Stanton Shart
Wilkes-Barre
Non Thomas
Lehigh University
Friends
West Side
James Hughes
Union
Simpson Methodial Episonpal Church
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
St. Paul's Pioneer Corps
J.C. Gallagher
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Co-operative
Marcy
Duryea
D. C. Hughes
Jackson Street
Cora
Charles Yoos
Washburn Street
Father Fricker
St. John's German Catholic Church
St.ohn's
William Decker
North Hyde Park Avenue
C. L. Beers
Marker
Trade slowly improving says Dunn weekly review
Dunn's Weekly Review notes progress toward better business is slow yet encouraging. It cites improvements in wholesale demand and money markets, but wages tensions cause strikes and layoffs. Retail trade rises with Easter, meats rise in price, and railroad earnings for early April up less than 1 percent.
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Dunn
New York
R. G. Thin & Co
Great Britain
London
United States
Canada
Man Driven by Mafia Fears Commits Self-Destruction
Scotdale Pa April 12 Sider o Arfing Italian laborer once stabbed a Mafia member in New Orleans and faced continual persecution as he moved from Italy to New York then coal regions of western Pennsylvania. After securing sewer work he told fellow workers he would not flee again, received a Mafia warning, and chose suicide by train in front of a freight locomotive.
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Scotdale
Ssidero Arfing
New Orleans
Mafia
Society of Assassine
Italy
New York
Pennsylvania
Orsino
Coke
Oil House Fire Destroys Wilkes Plant
A fire at the Atlantic Refining oil house in Wilkes Barre Pa today caused two large oil tanks to explode. Firefighters fought the blaze through the afternoon as walls collapsed and smoke blanketed the area. No injuries were reported and the structure is part of Standard Oil.
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Wilkes
Harre
Wilkes-Barre
Atlantic Refining Company
Standard Oil Company
George Bretz Dead Veteran Photographer and Inventor
George M. Brels, photographer, inventor and lecturer, died at his home in Pottaville Pa at 4 o clock this morning after an illness of about two months. He was 63 years old. A noted science photographer, he invented a camera that produced the largest negative ever made. His views of Niagara Falls and cities like Scranton and Wilkes-Barre were highly regarded. He was a prominent Mason and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Pottaville
Chorge M. Brels
Niagara Falle
Scranton
Wilkes-Barre
The
Grand Army of the Republic
Fire at Brown's stable on Ninth Street
Early morning fire damaged empty boxes at Brown's stable on Ninth Street. Fire alarm sounded from box 51 at 1.90 but fire companies arrived after extinguishing the blaze. No injuries reported.
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Brown's
Ninth Street
Blacksmiths Push for National Union of Horseshoe Masters
Scranton blacksmiths in Raub's hall discussed joining the Master Horseshoers National Association to standardize prices and raise standards. James F. McAnulty of Philadelphia led a lecture on anatomy and education, while W. A. St. John chaired the meeting. Initiation set at $5. goals include uniform pricing, debtor discipline, and a stronger professional bond across 62 cities and five state associations.
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Scranton
National Association of the United States
Raub's Hall
James F. McAnulty
Philadelphia
National Association
W. A. St. John
McAnulty
Nathanial Association
Morseshoers
Cleveland
Michigan
New York
Nl Hois
Minnesota
Missouri
Japan Will Take Silver Instead of Gold Indemnity
Washington reports indicate official opinion favors payment of the Japanese indemnity in silver rather than gold. The concession is tied to broader China settlements and reflects views on acceptable terms. The text notes Japan’s standard is the gold yen, valued at about 1999.7 cents per U.S. dollar.
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Washington
Clina
Japan
United States
Brookyln Oil Boom Examines Nervous Prospector Force
Montrose April 1 A Tribune correspondent reports that most members of the New York and Pennsylvania Oil company appeared exhausted after leaving the Tarbell house yesterday evening. Only Monte Christo Nash seemed unmoved, while others showed signs of fatigue and nerves.
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Montrose
Brooklyn
New York and Pennsylvania
Tarbell House
Tribune
Startling insurance claim on kidney health prompts caution
A vintage medical advertisement claims 16 percent of life insurance applicants were rejected for kidney disease and touts Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as the cure. It cites Dr Laumbert of Equitable Life and a patient letter from Oscar Lambert, Jerico Missouri, asserting rapid relief and cure after using the remedy.
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Laumbert
General Medical
Equitable Life Insurance Company
New York
David Kennedy
Oscar Lambert
Jerico
Lambert
Pai
There Is No Monopoly Beef Shortage Editorial
The National Provisioner argues that capitalism cannot corner beef or cattle markets. It asserts shortages are due to natural causes, not monopolistic control, and that producers respond to supply and demand, with markets governed by price signals.
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New York
National Provisioner
America
Minerva town shaken by attempted murder of citizen
In Alliance Ohio April 12 the Minerva baking company chief’s son John Yengling argued with his wife then beat his fifth daughter. Thomas E Booth tried to intervene on the public square rescuing the girl, Yengling fired twice striking Booth in the head. Booth is in critical condition. Yengling was subdued and jailed as the town braces for a tense trial.
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John Yengling
Alliance
Ohio
Minerva
Here
G. F. Yengling
Minerva Baking Company
Yengling
Thomas E. Booth
Hite
Our Foreign Cousins and Global Notes
Various foreign and domestic items reported include France funding further excavations at Delph through the French School of Athens, Portugal planning a Delagoa Bay expedition in April, Athens appointing a crown prince chaired Olympian games commission, and a Sicily bandit gang captured without bloodshed. Glasgow streetcar profitability, British anti slavery contract withdrawal in Brazil, and Bismarck’s honorary citizenship vote. Turkey bans interior travel permits, anti-crop regimens in Kingland, Prince of Wales condemns bowdlerization, and hospital disease rates in Britain. Cotton policy shifts in Russia, Chinese roole supply, and rising German Austrian beer exports.
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Athens
Delph
Portugal
Delagoa Bay
Girgentl
Sicily
Glangow
Braall
Agriimmt
Prince Bismarck
Boden
Mannheim
Stortehow
Treyrout
Ceanee
Kingland
Bulldog Club
Prince of Wales
Dows
Colcutin
George White
Huntish
When Baby Was Sick She Used Castoria Chorus
When a baby grew ill the story notes Camoria and Castoria as supposed remedies. The jingle recalls a child’s ailments and parental choices in a period ad tone. It frames Castoria as a constant for various ages and stages.
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Alck
Camoria
Castoria
Miss
Sbe
Thor Castor
Triennial Assessment of Lackawanna County 1895 1896
Lackawanna County commissioners certify the triennial assessment as returned by township borough and ward assessors for 1896. An April 15 final determination is set at the county commissioners office in Scranton with appeal time to be announced after board revision. Gileb Roberts John Demuth W Roberts County Commissioners. Charles Fo Waener Clerk, Scranton, Pa. April, 1896.
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Lackawanna County
pMoe
Steranton
Gileb Roberts
John Demuth
W. Roberts
Charles Fo Waener
Eaeeey
Berantan
Peti
Archbald Boro
Archbal Boro
Blukely TO
Ri Rat Wa
Third Ward
BA Ata O
Norio Lownbhip
Covington Township
Arbondale
Carbondale
Owee
Wee Seeneen Carndile
Dunmore Boro
Wiltu Crane
Dunmore
Dunmore Bore
ATG
Jermyn
Effernon
Lehleh Township
Lackauwaonna
Madison
Mayfield
North Abington
Newton Township
Ita
Old Forge
Olyphant Boro
Cavener
Eestle Ewenne
Olyphant Bore
Ritiwom Township
Roaring Brook
Seveauns
Bouth Abneton Township
Sekenes Spring Rook
Beott Township
Taylor Boro
Wasa Weheey
Winton Borough
Beranton
Essen
Scranton
Mitth
Busee
Bixth
Seventh Ward
Heranton
Eighth Ward
Ninth Ward
En Shanderts
Tenth Ward
Oly Senseen
Blelteenth
Wit Scranton
al Ty Scranton
Aecesetus
Health Hints and Rules of Hygiene in Households
Washington agricultural researchers near completing a ten chapter volume on food adulteration since 1887. Prof Wiley notes most adulterants are harmless but useless for food. examples include olive oil counterfeit with cottonseed oil and coffee labeled beans containing chicory or scorched flour. He warns ready ground coffee often lacks real coffee and that fillers in spices mimic color. Practical tips include starch on hands for skin relief, charcoal uses for odor absorption and wound care, hair washing cautions, and simple remedies for catarrh and memory. Turtle shell hair ping at Davidow Bros
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Wiley
Profeswor Wiley
Hoffs Molt Extract Plant In Berlin Syndicate To US
The Hoff firm of Berlin and Elsner Mendelson of New York formed a syndicate in 192 to erect a U S plant for Jo hann Hoff s Molt Extract The factory will boast top equipment and an annual output near 10 000 000 bottles The product claims superior quality to imports and promotes Swayne s Oiniment for skin cures with appeals to druggists and suppliers in New York and surrounding areas
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Johann Hoff
Berlin
Agenta
Elsner-Mendelson Company
New York
United States
Old Country
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Baptist
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South Main Avenue
J.C. King
Fred Reynolds
William D. Griffiths
Tite Mafia
Orfino
George Bretz
Blacksmiths of the
City Perman Organization
Mae
Fred Weyandt
Thomas McLean
R. T. Gould
M. Jordan
Simon Dorfmann
H Edward Altemose
Joseph Mauer
Fred Snell
Nash
Monte Christo Nash
National
Board of Revision
Davidow Bros
Home Industry
Swayne
W. G. Doud & Co
Lacka Ave
DR. Hacker
W.H. Hacker
Spruce Street
New Hotel
Welsbach Light Apted For
Walt Coe
Rales Eee
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M. W. Collins
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