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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1895
Page
2
The notice states sweeping reductions across the entire store with significant discounts on multiple departments. Details on dates and exact item categories are unclear in the fragment but indicate broad sale coverage and introductory offers.
Store advertises holiday goods from 35 to 50 percent off and urges prompt service after hiring extra help to handle customers efficiently.
A jury in Quincy circuit court found the will leaving $65,000 and real estate to Charles Orchardson invalid. Eliza Solomon and Amelia Cofield, heirs, argued undue influence by Orchardson with medium William Boyer guiding the motion. They claim the spirit of her dead husband commanded the marriage and will.
The Austrian government bought the salee mansion on Connecticut avenue opposite the British embassy for 80000 dollars to serve as its legation and home for minister Ladislaus Hengelmuller von Hengervar. This marks the fourth foreign government property purchase in Washington, following Germany and Mexico.
Thomas Martindale and his wife, an elderly pair near Uniontown, were bound and robbed by five masked attackers who demanded $600 and then took $95 after threatening to burn the wife. The couple's savings had previously been deposited in a bank.
Ruby Bennett nineteen, famed for beauty and worth an estimated 100000, elopes with married artist Frank Kately in Bridgeport Connecticut on December 29. Bennett’s father died about three years ago and she reportedly met Kately months ago while his wife resides in Philadelphia.
In Wilkes-Barre Judge Woodward found eight year old William Keegan trespassing when he climbed a Market Street fence post and was hurt by an ornamental urn. The county was not liable for damages or medical care, reversing a referee and entering judgment for Luzerne County. The report pairs other local items including a Kingston knife assault, a funeral, a Memorial Day speaker, and a church cantata.
The program at St Marys includes a 6 mass with Cuoonod's In C and Adeste Fidelis offered by a quartet, soloists J P Burnes and others, and Rev Father Splinter will preach. At St Nicholas a 6 mass features the Holy Family mass by Cramer sung by children, with Welgand Credo and Stehle Domine Deus during offertory, plus vesper hymns and Tantum Ergo.
The Republican county committee fixed a schedule for electing two national convention delegates. Primary on Saturday January 18, district conventions on Monday January 20, and the congressional convention on Tuesday January 21. District locations include Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Plymouth, and Plains with venues Hooper's hall and others.
Sorrowing friends gathered yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to Mrs. Rachael Caspar. The funeral from 1 West River Street was one of the largest seen in some time with floral offerings nearly covering the casket. Services were led by Rabbi Fleilicht of Scranton and Rabbi Cap lon of the Welles Street synagogue, pallbearers Moves Wolf B L Godfried Harry Salsburg David Salsburg Lewis Lewich Simon Stakol sky. Interment was in the Darling Street Jewish cemetery.
Mike Polo was yesterday arrested and remanded to jail by Squire Carle of Breaknote, following a formal accusation and jail order.
Elmira citizen Mr. Wm. Thornton, 127 West Market, describes relief from a decade-long kidney problem after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He says pain from urination and the need for a belt to support the kidneys vanished, and he now endorses the remedy. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y. is listed as the manufacturer.
Miss Annie Rawson of Greenwood spends holidays with her parents while visitors from Sharpsville Avoca Olyphant Shenandoah and Forest City arrive. A new Lackawanna river washer by Bonn Atherton Co. begins operation. A turkey shooting and a cock fighting event are planned for Christmas Day, alongside the Independent Social Club annual gathering at Taylor Hall.
Priceburg reports the Delaware and Hudson Canal company building an engine house in Miles grove near Olyphant to power an underground plane and use the ten inch bore as a cable passage. Visitors include Thomas J Swift of Archbald and others at Peckville and Scranton social events.
The senior law class at the University of Missouri decided not to invite Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll to speak at next commencement. The change followed influence from Judge Martin, dean of the law department, and Judge Yantis, a law faculty member, whose personal appeals swayed several students.
Andrew Berge, a toll taker and private policeman at Jones and Laughlin’s Frankstone bridge over the Monongahela, is shot dead by one of two men who tried to cross without paying the three cent toll. The assailants escaped under cover of darkness. Also includes unrelated ads for Swayne's Ointment and investment notices.
Public notices show a merger collapse and property/boarding ad items. Dissolution of partnership Kerr Siebecker & Co transfers business to Kerr, Siebecker & Co at 8 Lackawanna Ave. Real estate and boarding stables ads reference Washington Ave and Gibeon St intersections, Erie depot area with streetcar lines and multi floor flats, six stores, sensible pricing.
A varied classified page lists several situations wanted and employment ads including a nurse, young men seeking store and office work, a coachman and janitor with long experience, a dressmaker available for daily engagements, and an experienced clerk or manager. Other items promote relics and office services, with a long directory of local professionals and firms in Scranton including surgeons dentists lawyers and architects along with hotel and business advertisements.
List offers includes 60 dozen Japanese Silk Hemstitched Initials all letters 23 cents each. 50 dozen extra large gentlemen size 45 cents each or 2.50 per half dozen. Ladies Lawn Hemstitched Initials in fancy boxes half dozen 75 cents per box. Extraordinary value.
Train schedules listed for November 17 1995 show departures from Scranton to Pittston WilkesBarre and other destinations at 8 20 9 15 11 90 a m with express services to New York Newark and Elizabeth and connections to Easton Philadelphia and Reading. Returning trains from New York depart Liberty Street Fulham River and terminal points with multiple daily options including Sunday services. Tickets available to all points via through routing and special parlor car services.
Trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate Erie points at 7.00 am and 2.00 pm. Also for Honesdale Hawley and local points at 7.00, 9.40 am and 1.29 pm. All are through trains to and from Honesdale. Wilkes-Barre trains leave at 6:39 am and 11:19 pm.
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