City Notes and Local Advices
City notes report School No 19 inspection by the building committee at 2 pm. Letters of administration granted to Joseph Sanborn in Scranton for Mary A Sanborn. A photogram of high school pupils at city hall. Hotel Elkhurst to open Monday May 4. sixth season. Commencement music rehearsed by high school pupils under Professor Derman. Various license grants listed for several towns. A stranger named Bergen, Elmira, lodged at the station home. ill with fever may be typhoid. New contributions to the Roundling Home fund listed with multiple donors. total now $2,433.
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Board of Control
Joseph Sanborn
Mary A. Sanborn
Scranton
M. Nash
Elkhurst
Professor Derman
Mark
Walcech Kudkuk
Annie
Moosie
Bergen
Elmira
Fulton
Butter Milk Soap Sale At Seven Cents A Box
Store announces all day and evening sale of butter milk soap at seven cents per box to satisfy high demand. Orders up to twelve boxes can be filled. Address provided at Mears & Hagen 415 and 417 Lackawanna Avenue.
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Mears & Hagen
Lackawanna Avenue
Attorney Smith's Case Before Judges Archbald and Edwards
The hearing centers on a rule to show cause why attorney Cornelia Smith should not be disbarred over letters impugning Judge Gunster. Judge Gunster will vacate, leaving Archbald and Edwards to decide. Prosecution is by Price Newcomb City Solicitor Torrey, with Smith and James Mahon as defense. Argument starts 10 o'clock Monday.
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Archbald
Edwards
Corneliia Smith
Mr. Smith
Gunster
Smith
Iunater
Archbald and
I. Price
E. C. Newcomb
J. H. Torrey
James Mahon
Fourth of July festivities planned by local group
A meeting is held at Hotel Jermyn for residents to organize a traditional July 4 celebration. Attendees aim to form a permanent committee and set details for the event. An unrelated advertisement for William Blume & Son carriage makers promotes wholesale prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Blume & Son
Spruce Street
Society's Country Club Proposed by City Elites
Wealthy social figures push to establish a country club beyond North Washington Avenue near Lackawanna Valley. Negotiations with Pennsylvania Coal Co. seek land for a multi-acre site and a two story clubhouse with banquet hall, tennis, billiards, and winter facilities. A bicycle club forms to support outdoor recreation as talks progress toward a summer general meeting and potential charter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Washington Avenue
Lackawanna Valley
Elmhurst Boulevard
Tdea
Scranton Lawn Club
Board of Health Targets Clergymen for Missing Marriage Returns
The board of health renews effort to enforce marriage return laws in Scranton. Clergymen and aldermen largely ignore required notices, prompting prosecutions after failures to appear and explain. Returns rose 200 percent in October then fell in November and December amid renewed crackdowns.
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Board of Health
Scranton
Prosecutions Planned Over Health Regulation Violations
Secretary Briggs was instructed to gather evidence and a clerk was hired to copy and compare marriage returns with health office records. Those failing to observe board of health rules will be identified and must explain their violations to an alderman. Prosecutions follow the board’s next meeting on the second Friday of May.
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Briggs
Rot of Health
Board of Health
Three People Injured In Bicycling And Emery Wheel Incident
Three injured as a bicyclist collision and emery wheel burst cause harm. Frank Fuhken, a machinist at Delaware Lackawanna and Western shops, suffers a severe scalp wound and is moved to Moses Taylor hospital. Marshall Jones, 11, escapes serious injury after a bicycle crash at home in Blakely. A Tay lor girl is cut on the arm after being struck by a cyclist who fled the scene.
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Frank Fuhken
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Moses Taylor Hospital
Marshall Jones
John R. Jones
Blakely
Taylor
Scranton House
Valley House
Everhart
McGarrah & Thomas
Unnatural father jailed for letting children beg
John R Kelly of Hemlock Street was arrested after repeatedly sending his children Maggie 10 Eddie 1 and a 17-year-old boy to beg despite warnings from the Associated Charities. Bond set at 500 dollars, he could not pay and was committed. Children placed with St Patrick's and hospital care arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Kelly
Hemlock Street
Associated Charities
T. J. Kelly
Child Saving Committee
Alderman Fuller
Kelly
Mra. Duggan
Maggie
Eddie
Station House
Lewis Reilly Davies marks seventh anniversary in Scranton
The shoe firm Lewis Reilly Davies celebrated seven years of partnership as demand grew in the Electric city. From a single Wyoming Avenue store the business doubled its space to two large shops housing a wide stock of fine shoes for ladies gentlemen and children. The double storefront is described as among the handsomest shoe emporiums in Scranton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis, Reilly & Davies
Wyoming Avenue
Scranton
Christian Endeavor to Meet Dr Clark Arrangements Tonight
The reception committee of Christian Endeavorers plans final arrangements this evening at the Young Men's Christian Association building for Rev. Dr. F. B. Clark who lectures next Thursday at Frothingham theater. Clark is due on the 2.65 p m Jersey Central train and will be escorted to Hotel Jermyn to tour the city in the afternoon. A public reception follows the lecture at the association building. The large choir will assemble Monday evening for the lecture night. The diagram opens Tuesday.
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Christian Endeavor Committee
Christian Endeavorers
F. B. Clark
Frothingham Theater
Young Men's Christian Association
Clark
Jersey Central
Jermyn
Evangelistic services at Young Women's Christian Association
Evangelistic services conducted by Mise Carson attract interest with a half hour session at 12.30 today and a 7.30 gospel meeting this evening. A series at Central association rooms closes with Bun Shy unions, plus a Sunday Gospel meeting at 4.45. A mass meeting for women and girls occurs at 7 p.m. at Second Presbyterian with Mrs Pennington at the organ.
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Mise Carson
Christianssociation
Central Association Rooms
Jayne
Second Presbyterian Church
Chance
Pennington
Miss Black
Miss Krigan
Bullet in Head Finally Extracted After Twelve Years
James Mangan was shot in the head by Thomas Riel at Hyde Park Catholic Cemetery in 1883. A Flobert bullet lodged near his ear and skull, causing years of pain, deafness, and partial paralysis before a fragment was finally removed last Sunday. The incident, once thought incurable, sparked a court case in which Riel was acquitted after a witness explained the "scream" heard was an Indian song.
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Sexton
Thomas Bell
Hyde Park Catholic
Plobert
James Mangan
Flobert
Tribune
Mr. Mangan
Hyde Park Catholic Cemetery
Thomas Riel
Sexton Riewan
Mangan
Tragic Fire Involving Corpse Prep Noted In Parker Street
Mary Smith of Parker Street dies at home. Undertaker Jones prepared the body. A candle in a bottle on a canopy table ignited the tablecloth and shroud causing a small scorch but no damage to the body. Rumors of a near incineration were unfounded.
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Mary Smith
Pollah
Parker Street
Jones
Undertaker Jones
Preacher Loses Clothes While Baptizing Converts
Rushville Indiana April 4 Elder Sellers visiting Arlington to baptize six converts in the Little Blue river left his fine clothes at Houston's barn. A thief stole his garments along with a gold watch and money from a fence post while he was in the water. Sellers jokes a portable wardrobe with a lock would help evangelists here.
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Rushville
Ind
Arlington
Sellers
Blue River
Houston
Quebec Flood Devastation Drowns St Barthelmi Village
In St Barthelmi and surrounding five miles, the town is described as under water with complete devastation. Farmers lose livestock and seed. dead animals float as residents climb trees or wreckage to escape. Boats patrol the expanding lake day and night seeking to rescue lives.
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Quebec
St. Barthelmi
New Goods and Prices From Aint Walute Detailer
A brief notice notes products and bargains from Mears and Hagen. Detachains oullarer chee r cheap with emphasis on value and sale items.
Narrow Escape as Manzelora Threatens Consta ble
Constable Patrick Roach of the Seventh Ward served a warrant for assault and battery on Louis Johnson at 316 Raymond Court Thuradig. Marlon Manzelora produced a self cocking 28 caliber revolver, was arrested after Roach drew his badge. Bail set at 200 for assault and battery and 300 for attempted shooting. Manzelora jailed for failure to post.
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Manzelora
Patrick Roach
Marlon
Rose Manzilora
Raymond Court Thuradig
Louis Johnson
Manzilora
Manazilora
Alderman de Lacy
Monzuera
Walker Whiteside in Hamlet at the Frothingham
Walker Whiteside, a young west coast actor, staged Hamlet at the Frothingham last evening. Critics note his earnest performance and strong stage presence but caution on enunciation and support from the cast including Lella Wol ton as Ophelia.
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Walker Whiteside
Frothingham
Edwin Booth
UiMeult
Atr. Whiteside
Hardihood
Prince
Mr. Whitesite
West
Whiteside
Edwin Boo
Hamlet
Lella Wolyton
Ophelia
Country Needs Saving Lyceum Debate At Scranton
At Scranton Business College lyceum a program featured piano selections recitations and solos by Cora Halde man May Kearney Mae Brown and Liarate Harlow. The debate on that motion was won by the affirmative led by John Brogan J F McDonough and May Kearney with G Edwin Mitteer Isaac Pierce and P A Discon opposing. The society will host an entertainment and social next Friday evening instead of regular exercises.
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Scranton Business College Lyceum
Cora M. Haldeman
May Kearney
Mae Brown
G. Edwin Mitteer
Misa Liarate Harlow
John Brogan
J. F. McDonough
Brutal murder shocks La Plata merchant family
In La Plata Maryland on April 24 a well known local merchant and his family were killed in a late night attack. Mrs Cocking and Miss Daisy Miller are dead while Mr Cocking was gagged and found unconscious in the cellar. An inquest jury labels the deed the work of an unknown party amid anger and talk of possible lynching.
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la Plata
Hil Top
millinery ad promises honest goods and good prices
A merchant defends selling millinery on steady trade lines not advertising tricks. He claims lasting quality styles and low prices rival any in the state and offers refunds if buyers are not satisfied.
Royal Clarence vases and jardinieres exhibit
A display features a fine line of Royal Clarence vases and jardinieres. Acknowledged by art lovers as the best ever made, the exhibitor invites the public to call and examine the pieces.
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Royal Clarence
Jardinieres
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