City Notes and Social Roster From Wilkes Barre
Local items report lodge smoker event at Bevin, Luzerne Lackawanna Dental Society supper at Hotel Starting, and an at home evening by Young Men's Christian Association. Funeral services set for Mrs Bryant and Jewhoy Gil Jr, plus mortality report noting 47 deaths and 11 diphtheria cases. Temperance union meeting, hospital linen drive, and company director elections listed. Also sports and cultural notices including a Lotus Glee Club performance with Miss Norton at the high school.
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LOTUS
Clive
Latim Glee Club
Bowton
Norton
Thin City
Tie Tilee Chub
Miss Norton
Man Suffers Severe Hand Injury at Scranton Factory
Horace Keene, a Scranton Wood Working Co. employee, had his left hand mutilated in an accident at the plant on Penn Avenue. Four fingers were amputated at Lackawanna Hospital before he was sent home to North Main Avenue.
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Horace Keene
Scranton Wood Working Company
Penn Avenue
Keene
Lackawanna Hospital
North Main Avenue
Disorderly Democratic Convention Nominates Roche for Mayor
In Scranton the Democratic convention nominated Hon. John E. Roche for mayor after a fevered session marked by contests and protests from T. J. Jennings supporters. The afternoon adjourned with Roche allies consolidating victory amid calls for orderly proceedings and disputes over contested seats.
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T. J. Jennings
John E. Roche
Belect
Seventh Ward
Edmund J. Robinson
South
Scranton
Esdras Howell
Weat Scranton
Campbell
James J. Padden
Thomas ©. Melvin
Fighth
James J. Murray
James Fahey
P. F. Gordon
Jennings
John J. Durkin
William Garrett
Durkin
Joseph Taylor
Scranton Post Office Seen As Top Class In State
Scranton shows a strong fiscal year with gross receipts up over twenty thousand dollars. Expenses drop from six to four one percent, marking efficient management of a first class post office. A comparative table places Scranton beside Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Bergnton
Quorum Shattered at Local School Board Meeting
A school board meeting adjourned abruptly after minutes were approved with only thirteen members present. The board had just approved the salaries for janitors and officers before the session ended.
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Bowl of Control
Dinner Ware Patterns Offer Delicate Roses and Gold Edges
The ad promotes open stock patterns in a famous make. One pattern features delicate pink roses with scattered sprays, heavy coin gold edge, and light gold tracing. Another shows large roses with green sprays on Berain shape. They are described as artistic and attractively toast-worthy.
Quorum Break Ties House Review of Budgets
Email attendance tied to action at the last meeting directing committees to report expenditures and balances under five year appropriations starting last June. Break in quorum blamed on absence of the vetting majority and reluctance to approve potentially unsatisfactory motions.
James J. O'Malley Rites Mark City Fire Service Family Stalwarts
James J. O'Malley of Third Street and Broadway, an assistant fire chief, died Friday night after sending in the taps from box 41. He was laid to rest in Cathedral cemetery with large turnout from the fire department and St. Paul’s Pioneer corps. The funeral at Holy Cross church featured a high Mass and a sermon by Rev. W. R. O'Donnell. Pallbearers included members of St. Paul’s Pioneer corps and the Eagle Hose Co. Funeral procession led by Nay Aug engine company drum corps. The service honored a charter member and longtime city firefighter.
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James
O'Malley
Third Street
Broadway
Cathedral
India
St. Paul's Pioneer Corps
Holy Cross Church
RP. O'Donnell
Father O'Donnell
M. J. Coleman
Peter F. McCoy
M. F. Culkin
T. J. McNamara
P. L. Lafferty
Robert E. McNicholas
Aug Engine Company
Eagle Hose Company
St. Brenden's Council
Hickey
A. L. Lewis
Michael McManus
Charles Wirth
Charles Raynor
Divorce Court Grants Saar Divorce After Rehearing
Judge Guner granted Hermann Saar a divorce from Helena Saar after new evidence showed infidelity. The couple wed June 15 1891 and separated the following March. she returned with a nine year old boy claiming he was her own. Other divorce actions and depositions were scheduled, including Conkling v Conkling and Dennison v Dennison, with various dates and attorneys listed.
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Guneter
Hermann Saar
Helena Saar
Saar
Mra. Saar
Chicago
Baar
Abellant Wee
Willow Street
Petersburg
Grace D. Conkling
Thomas E. Conkling
John M. Harris
Hand Appeal Sustained Over City Land Valuation
The appeal of Hon. Alfred Hand from the assessment on the land where the Commonwealth building stands was sustained by Judge Gunster. The city valuation was $20,000 and the judge reduced it to $10,000, ruling the original assessment disproportionate to neighboring properties of equal size.
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Washington Avenue
Spruce Strees
Alfred Hand
Oll
Commonwealth Building
Gunster
Miner Injured In Hallstead Mine Fall At Duryven
George Markha suffered a serious injury from a rock fall in the Hallstead mine at Duryven yesterday. He was taken to Moves Taylor hospital where surgeons fear a spinal fracture though the exact injury is not yet determined.
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Hallstead
Duryven
George Markha
Markha
Moves Taylor Hospital
Court House News Notes on Trials and Marriages
Reasons for a new trial were filed in Cranton Knitting Co. vs Joan J Howley. Attachments issued against James J Judge and Newark based insurers. No rule granted in the Kel ly Impeachment case. Several marriage licenses granted including O'Brien Hart and Walsh Beult, Trego Metz, Shaffer Artley, Hawran Konawiezs, McDonnell Brennan, Pravmysliskie Piedraewska, Rymavowez Stybohoska.
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Bcranton Knitting Company
Joan J. Howley
Charles Robinson
Fr. Robinson
James J
Philadelphia Underwriters’ Association
Merchants’ Insurance Comming
Newark
N. Dis
Kelly
I. F. Loughran
Peter W. O'Brien
New York City
Anna L. Hart
Jackson Street
Henry P
Walsh
New Haven, Conn
Cathryn Beult
Mayfield
Charles
Josie Stybohoska
Winton
Credit and currency critique from a New York World excerpt
The passage laments the credit system and per capita circulation while a quotation mocks the money flow. It shifts to an advertisement guaranteeing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with a money back offer and endorses its use for grippe colds and whooping cough through Matthews Brow as wholesale and retail agents.
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Jess
New York World
Matthews Brow
Dr Alexander’s Lung Healer Ad Claims Quick Cough Cure
An advertisement touts Dr Alexander’s Lung Healer as a cure for coughs colds throat and lung trouble. It promises pleasant taste quick relief and positive results with a money back guarantee and a 26 cent bottle price sold by all dealers.
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Dr. Alexander
Stationery bargains for every day needs and value
A local store advertises a wide range of stationery items from tablets and ledgers to memo books, envelopes, note paper and pencils. It touts large assortments, frequent reductions, and low prices, claiming they do not stand aside for anybody in this line.
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Ledger
Farvelipek
O.oo
Ceed Lok
Leiter
Puss
Vassenseesweatewest
Beces
Mnvelopi Co
Scicesese Essueveus
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