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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1899
Page
7
The Junior Society of Christian Endeavor at the First Presbyterian church plans a musical and literary program tomorrow evening in the lecture room. The schedule features Beethoven works, piano solos, violin, recitations, duets, and a string of student performers, with a thematic finale involving an orchestra purchase discussion.
Several hundred pedestrians on Church street and Strom avenue witnessed three runaway sleighs slide through traffic without injuries. A Bow ers grocery delivery turnout and a Willam Roberts horse caused the near-miss as the cutters and runners dashed along Salem avenue, Church street, and Lett's restaurant with bystanders watching anxiously.
Saturday afternoon a sleigh crash on Salem avenue injured Harry Isgar of Wyoming street with a broken nose and bruises, John Evans of Belmont street with a broken arm, and Charles Tyler of Forest City who had a fractured arm treated by Dr Niles. A mule pulling a Delaware and Hudson cart also broke and had to be shot after the incident.
The article notes the first diphtheria case in months involving a child of Clinton Moron on Brooklyn Street. It mentions funerals for Orlande H. Jodwin in Scranton and Mary Catlins with Hugh Murphy to attend a St. Route church service, along with local hospital and burial details and social visits among Scranton residents.
Jermyn and Mayfield poised to become a summer resort as landowners plan improvements around Lake Chapman. P. J. Lee opened a covered dancing pavilion drawing crowds, while Dr. D. Davis and J Nelson Graves, joint owners of fifty acres, plan a temperance hotel for transient guests with a second floor dance area.
Dr Schnee reports large diabetes cases treated with Carlsbad Sprudel Water show high cure rates. Dr F S Quackenbush of Hartford endorses the salt and water and notes personal improvement after use. He warns against imitations and identifies Eisner Mendelson Co as sole agents in New York.
Arrangements are complete for a parish entertainment at Wet ore rink on Thursday evening February 4. The Ladies Aid report nearly 150 tickets sold and present a varied program featuring Miss Annie Burns Alex Law Richard Kirkwood Masters John Colligan Miss Mary Moore and other local performers amid community celebrations and related notices across Taylor town.
A severe sleet storm makes streets dangerously slick with many accidents reported. Snow coats roads delaying streetcars and yard work. Archie Chivers, ex Scranton Volunteer Engineer, plans to move to Fort Worth to pursue railroading. Mr and Mrs H B Driggs visit Capt Briegs at his home in Carbondale. Street lamps faced delays due to custom orders.
Thomas Jones died Saturday afternoon at the Bather residence in Moosic after a monthlong typhoid illness. He was 26, a former bartender at Allemos Hotel, with time spent at Mutler's Hotel. Funeral is tomorrow. interment at Marcy Cemetery. Also noted are illnesses of Miss Milton Rutledee, a severe injury to Joseph Lakopes, and various local employment and social updates including church events and accidents.
An advertisement claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy prevents pneumonia when La Grippe is treated with care. It asserts thousands used it and none developed pneumonia, promising faster relief than other treatments. Sold by Matthews Brow as wholesale and retail agents.
Archbal d Jd 4d Dougher earns prizes as a top Prudential agent with $19 while assistant superintendent Charles F. Canon gets $16. A caller, Miss Annie Probst, arrives in Scranton. J J Kearney returns from Beranton after eye treatment. Kate Jordan visits Pine Street. Carbondale visitors John Brogan Thomas Clarke and P I McAndrew. An injury accident injures Mrs John Gildea a fracture. Keogh a boy injured at White Oak breaker. Albert Kiopfer and Mrs Martin McLaughlin visit Scranton. Charlie McDonnell and the Myers sisters visit Carbondale.
In Beranton the Gaiety presents A Grip of Steel a melodrama featuring a daring robber chief who loves a blind wife. Also showing O Hooligan's Wedding a three act comedy headlined by Harry West with special vaudeville acts and scenery. The piece stars Lew Dockstader George Primrose and others in a top minstrels program. Henry Miller appears at the Lyceum in Heartsease with Frohman and a strong New York company.
The Ivy Leaf will be the Academy attraction for the latter half of the week. It is filled with life and action, offering pretty ballads and choruses, enjoyable dancing, and strong appeal to American sentiment.
James Leonard, a farmer on the Madison county line, is twelve years old and has never had a tooth. His wife, who married twenty years ago, has a fine set of teeth, and they reared four children all inheriting the same condition. The family is described as one of the most remarkable.
A humorous tale from the New Orleans Times-Democrat features a self-styled statistician and bluffing professor who riffs on numbers to impress listeners. He wildy calculates distances, weights, and capacities, claiming charts show absurd equivalences and declaring a decimal system would earn him a college chair.
A famous photographer told the writer that in the era of photographic fakes he faced more trouble concealing facial defects than ever, as techniques promise to render subjects more attractive in pictures.
A humorous vignette describes fashioning solutions for protruding ears by photographers and actresses using wire bands and silk threads. The piece also notes patent remedies, including Agnew’s pills and other liver treatments, advertised with medical claims and local distributors.
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