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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1895
Page
7
Luce Bros at 4122 N Main Ave Scranton advertises a broad assortment including Feed Meal Corn Stowers Hams 25 lb sacks Buckwheat Buckwheat Buckwheat Finest Maple Syrup 1 dozen Finest Cold Packed Oats and Butter per pound at $1.00 plus branded smoked products.
The De Moss family of Chicago appeared at the First Welsh Baptist church with vocalists and instrumentalists. The program featured violin overture General Custer's Last Battle, banjo and xylophone numbers, and the World’s Fair piece Worthy is the Lamb. Upcoming West Side Ministers Association meeting discussed eternal punishment and funeral practices.
Mrs. Bridget Malla rebuilds her Market Street home destroyed last September. Joseph Deach leaves for New York to meet English visitors. H U Hambright of Utica visits. wife and daughter to join later. Clarence Steel opens own store in Henwood building after managing Gillespie shop. Primitive Methodist church plans chicken supper and Martha Washington entertainment on Feb 2. Walter Knight to Philadelphia for job at Wyth Sons laboratory. Rev P R Hawxhurst to lecture on China and Japan at Park Place Methodist Church. De Moss family concert tonight at North Main Avenue Baptist church. Funeral of John Kenny of Market Street attended. he was 47. He leaves a wife and two sons. pallbearers from St Joseph’s Beneficial Society listed. Local rheumatism ad and home remedies conclude.
A faded classified page lists services and shops along main streets including a hosier and fixery, groceries with Java coffee, second hand furniture dealers, wallpaper and paints supplier, plumbing with steam heat and gas fitting, and a oysters vendor at market house. It notes guaranteed satisfaction and emphasizes first class work.
An excellent programme at the Y M C A hall last evening failed to attract a large audience. The six numbers opened with Prof H M Kekman on planeforte performing Mendelssohn, followed by Miss Susterlock singing two songs and Mr Rohlf presenting selections from Mollere and The Merchant of Venice with expressive acting. Proceeds were to support the Young Women's Christian Association.
Fuhrman of Scranton, owner of Furhman firm, believes Mrs. Baldwin’s claim that his father in law W C Gearhart was murdered and robbed in Mexico City. He telegrams for details after a Western Union confirmation and vows to uncover the truth about Gearhart’s fate and his own connection to the case.
Yesterdays and evenings performances drew large crowds for the Kirmess dances with over 100 children aged 2 to 12 taking part in Afternoon shows including Japanese Carnival Roses and Hees Hornpipe and Checker dances. Audiences cheered classes and rival groups as Bauer's orchestra supplied music, and a voting contest promises new stage use growth.
Board of health enforces private burials for contagious disease cases. Since rule 118 was adopted three public funerals were blocked and police aid may be used to ensure compliance. Local vendors advertise bargains at Danister's February sale. Castoria advertising appears in the text for babies and children.
An advertisement extols Paine's celery compound as a premier nerve food and blood renewer for workers facing fatigue and nervousness. It claims physicians widely order it for exhaustion and debility, improves flesh tone and appetite, and aids recovery for mothers and invalids. The piece also notes a separate local civil matter where the Schock sisters received releases from a company after a dispute.
Unusually cold conditions drew widespread comment as patrolmen and motormen described frost and freezing runs. Thermometer readings ranged from three to nine degrees below zero at various locations, with nine to fifteen degrees below noted in Dunmore and surrounding areas as the night continued.
Abraham Hurwitz of this city marries Miss Sarah Fippetein daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Eppetein of Penn Avenue. Rabbi N Crook officiated at the Penn Avenue Synagogue. A reception followed at Excelsior hall Wyoming Avenue as relatives and guests from Philadelphia New York Wilkes-Barre and beyond offered congratulations.
Misaea Lulu and Flora Schock are no longer members of the Royal Vaudeville Company. Debuted as quick change character song and dance sketches at Davis' opening, they disappointed the manager and Mr. Davis, who will not keep such performers in a company playing at Wonderland this week.
Louis Saver of Crown Avenue was jailed for thirty days after threatening his father with a revolver and smashing household items. Officers subdued him as he fired, hid behind a door with a shovel, and menaced them. He pled penitent and drunken in court. The report also notes a Mountain Lake skating party and local social updates.
A directory listing physicians and surgeons with addresses on Spruce Street Beranton and Wyoming Ave Scranton, plus lawyers in Commonwealth and Burr buildings and related offices. Includes office hours and specializations in eye ear nose throat gynecology obstetrics and general practice.
Train timetable from Scranton lists departures to Philadelphia New York via D&H and connections to Wilkes-Barre Pittston Mahanoy Plane and other points. Includes departure times from Scranton Beranton and howe to White Haven Pottsville Tunkhannock Elmira Buffalo and Chicago routes with Pullman parlor and sleeping cars and notes on through service.
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