Ladies' 35c Muff Sale Offer
Advertises ladies muff sale at 35 cents with emphasis on rapid clearance. Promotes remaining stock of fine furs and urges buyers to act quickly to secure items before stock is exhausted.
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1894
Page
7
Advertises ladies muff sale at 35 cents with emphasis on rapid clearance. Promotes remaining stock of fine furs and urges buyers to act quickly to secure items before stock is exhausted.
A fragment notes deep price cuts to close out children’s underwear stock described as very good quality. It mentions jackets and black cheviot umbrella back garments and references fine garments and derwear with colors white, scarlet, and gray offered at cost or below.
In times of many households gathering art, the article explains a simple framing method from the New York Times. It describes mounting a picture on Bristol board with a window pane over it and securing with ribbon and a hanging tie for an inexpensive protective frame.
The article advises keeping apples and potatoes in separate cellar areas to avoid spoilage. If separation is unavoidable, place potatoes in the warmest part and apples in a barrel near windows. When outside temps are near freezing, fans of cold air can help both, while potato storage stays above 40 degrees.
The text lists traditional wedding anniversary milestones from cotton to diamond, including cotton, paper, feather, book, wooden, garnet, woolen, bric a brac, topaz, tin, sill and linen, crystal, ching, silver, pearl, sapphire, ruby, golden, diamond with various year markers such as twentieth and thirtieth.
A rustic method cooks oatmeal with four hours of standing to swell then folds in four peeled sliced apples and two spoonfuls of sugar and two of fruit. Baked in a battered dish the dish turns out as a wholesome pie.
Old Roger Loomis contemplates his heirs and a hidden motive as Egbert pleads for Frances amid family tensions. The scene shifts to Loomis’s sickroom and gardens where memory, duty, and fear of loss collide with love and power.
Egbert Loomis inherits his grandfather Roger Loomis's vast estate after a late will names the Aberdeen Benevolent Fraternity. Frances Phibbs, Egbert's fiancée, faces poverty yet clings to love as legal challenges arise over the will's validity and the date of execution. The surrogate court weighs whether the instrument, dated days before death, can stand against the natural heir.
An advertisement urges workingmen to buy a complete encyclopedia library via The Tribune plan. It touts the Encyclopaedia Britannica ninth edition, with 25 paperbound volumes and gold lettering, offered for ten cents a day. Readers may inspect a volume at The Tribune offices, 437 Spruce Street.
The passage quotes Dr. W. Allen Hubbard and Dr. J. H. Hanaford among others from Boston praising Paine's Celery Compound as a superior tonic. They claim it strengthens nerves, purifies blood, improves appetite and sleep, aids those run down by grip and blood-poisoning, and is a leading patent medicine endorsed by many physicians.
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