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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1899
Page
3
The page records a jumble of local happenings including a alumni banquet invitation, arbitration accounts, a riot adjournment, forestry lecture details, fire department meeting notices, poetry society exchanges, and changes in local organizational listings. Names, places, dates, and affiliations appear in scattered form throughout.
Archdeaconry women hold a meeting in Carbondale at Spruce Street venue next week. Delegates from Scranton prepare for travel and possible overnight stay with meals arranged by committee secretary Sarah Prat and Omminiging.
Multiple obituaries and notices from Scranton and neighborhoods list deaths and interment details. Entries include ages, residence streets such as North Main Avenue and South Myke Park, and cemeteries like Washburn Street and Wavesbury. Recurrent names include Burgess, Doyle, Feeney, Jones, Mores, and Morris with varied dates in January and February.
Rev. Dr. Giffin urges Scranton readers to seek a capable manager rather than new policies. He argues the city needs a leading, backbone figure who can enforce reforms, with a moral portrait of the ideal citizen leader and a critique of current political culture.
The article records various church events and sermons across multiple congregations. It lists pastors and ensuring speakers, including Rev. A. Homer Wh. and Rev. W. Watkins, preaching on missions and Christian themes. Parishioners attended services at St Marks Lamberin, North Main Avenue, and other venues with noted offerings for missions and Sunday school collections.
Martha Sulz of 8 Shor avenue charges her father, a 62 year old carpenter, with an unnatural crime. She told Constable Nyule he assaulted her after locking her in a room. He was arrested on a warrant by Alderman Nowe, brought to central police, and held for a court hearing with a jail sentence possible. The family previously lived on the South Side and Ninth Way.
Florence Tomkinsen notes the Pittsburg YWCA convention opening in the Second Presbyterian Church with Miss E Peace of the Pittsburg Association greeting delegates. Mrs. L A Watres responds. a luncheon at the cooking school signals active participation by local leaders and committees act to organize the event.
A flower show hosted at the home of Cul onl and Mrs WH M Piles on Batursday afternoon showcased ornate displays. Readers praised the orchid exhibit and the mummy rirw pihotite of Vorie species while admiring the large collection of gellus Whhele thiamine Linomenan.
Advertising touts best wares and latest novelties at low prices while clearing stock of odds and ends. Shop at 134 Wyoming Avenue with tables of cut prices on odd tumblers cups saucers plates platters vegetable dishes and lamps. Walk in and look around for bargains.
The event showcased fine views of the cote arvaitorios hive enjoyed by visitors from humble walks. Ladies in charge, led by Mrs Henry Helin, managed the reception as visitors circulated. Hospital board members and Evelyn Gilmore War attended, while a Young Women Christian Association member visited through Mrs Thomas Dlekson's home.
An unidentified mine laborer died Saturday evening on the way from the Lackawanna mine to the Lackawanna hospital after a back injury from a fall. The body lies in the hospital awaiting identification. The man, about 40 years old, 180 pounds, with a sandy moustache, was last seen at a boarding house in Priceburg and had worked only a few days.
A weeklong criminal court session in Monro-Carribon District proceeds before Judges Arechbaled Guneter and Allin Craig. The docket includes 309 cases with Wallace McMullen of Carbondale charged for exposing a lacivious photograph of Livate May Tappan. B. Hosmer faces trial for allegedly defrauding physicians as medical examiners for an Insurance Company, with Dr F D Brewster as prosecutor. Tomorrow’s list includes a novel case in which John Bhook faces W J Shiffer.
The article reports Tucker and Mises facing larceny by false pretenses and conspiracy to defraud. It notes stock overextension at their store and a failed cavea, with Scranton businessmen prosecuted for selling stolen goods. Multiple cases await trial next Thursday in a forthcoming session.
An outbreak of shouting fire at the Academy of Music Saturday led to a theater scramble as crowd members fled. Branloy Davis, son of Daniel Davie, was arrested after being identified by Mrs. Coke and Tommy Ryan. Davis posted $800 bail and faces a hearing today as management thanks staff for halting a possible tragedy.
Scranton resident D. Lown, a clerk in the Serighs department, says he has been taking Huad's Sarsmarilia and that it has given him a better appetite. He notes the medicine's positive effect during January in this city.
The advertisement lists 100 leaves Peri Tablet and other paper products, ink tablets, memorandum books, note paper, photo albums, envelopes, pens, rulers, and assorted desk items. It touts value and variety, claiming to be unmatched in this line.
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