Remarkable Sacrifice Retiring Sale
A retailer apologizes for delays during a busy closing sale and promises more staff next time to prevent long waits for hundreds of customers.
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1895
Page
8
A retailer apologizes for delays during a busy closing sale and promises more staff next time to prevent long waits for hundreds of customers.
The sale will continue Monday at 9 o'clock until all stock is sold. No goods are held in reserve and shoppers will find many new bargains on display this week.
Dr Reeves at 412 Spruce Street Scranton advertises discreet treatment for impotence, lost manhood, gonorrhea, syphilis, and nervous disorders. Claims new methods restore vitality and memory, purify blood, and cure effects of self abuse, with confidential examinations and no cost to start. Office hours daily 9 to 9 Sundays 10 to 4.
Sunday visits by local residents in Afton and nearby towns. announcements include engagements and weddings planned for June and July, a funeral in Scranton, a child’s death in Carbondale, a new barber shop appointment, and a charity entertainment at Berean Baptist tabernacle headlined by Eva Acton. Also notes on high school commencement, summer vacation, and a patent remedy ad for Mea Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.
The New York Stock Exchange shows a quiet session with trades limited to small fractions while Industrials rise. Distillers slip near close. Wheat and corn markets in Toledo and Chicago show dull to quiet activity with moderate gains for some staples. cattle, hogs, and sheep markets in Chicago and Buffalo mixed to weak. Local oil trades in Pittsburg and New York produce unsteady to flat results, with prices for flour and butter steady to weak.
The report notes William Jones of Plymouth, serving as fire boss at Lance colliery, will depart Saturday for a several months’ stay in Wales. It covers record hoisting at Jersey No. 2 Bon, 450 feet, the largest in the colliery’s history, and discusses coal stocks and shipments across multiple mines and rail lines, including Reading Coal and Iron, Lykens Valley shipments, and Lehigh Valley versus Jersey Central rail disputes.
The Reading company produced about 1,100,000 tons in May, over 21 percent of the month’s total and approaching one third if May output meets the 3,700,000 ton target. For the five year to date, Reading anthracite tonnage reaches 106,024,041 tons, up 786,451 from last year.
The New Milford Dramatic society presented Hickory Farm at Jackson on Memorial evening to a crowded house. Attendees praised the company especially Lew McCollum for his singing. A pleasant dance followed. Street lamps are arriving and will be placed soon. The Hallstead Cornet band will join in the Glorious celebration. Miss Belle McCollum and Miss May Butterfield visit Detroit. Mrs P F Jay of Elmira visits the Jay house. Mrs L A Smith of Kingston visits. Mrs Charles Doolittle dies at her mother’s home in this place on May 27. Interment is at Fair Hill, this county.
E W Mason and H J DeGraw visited Farview and Waymart on Thursday. John Mumford spent Thursday at Monticello and nearby. Several locals observed Decoration Day at Farview. Margaret Mulholland, a postal clerk, was in Honesdale. Dennis Hickey praises The Tribune. Mayfield schools closed for the season. J B Woyt returned from Coventry after a short family visit.
Mrs Culver and Mrs W A Dean visit the area with Miss Cora Bevan from Scranton. Leah Heath of Bevanton gave a well received lecture at the Methodist church last Tuesday. Mrs Hand of Buffalo returned home after a visit here. P J Davenport of Pasnic N J visits. Mr Fairchild moves to Scranton and Mr Charles occupies the Dalton hotel.
Miss Mary J. Loughney attended a relative's funeral in White Haven on Saturday. Nell Moran visited Minooka friends yesterday. John P. Gaulligher’s Main street residence nears completion. Greenwood Nog collieries to resume old schedule with three idle days. School board meets this afternoon. Counterfeit silver dollars circulating locally. From the Wayne Independent. Montrose papers protest a misattribution of John Smith Miller’s residence to Montrose. He was the printer who disappeared after Washburn's circus. Squire Smith docketed Montrose as his residence, a likely guess he hoped would avoid detection.
Typhoid recovery led to a bladder stricture causing extreme pain and inability to urinate for years. After failed attempts, Charles Dana sought Dr F B Smith who used magnetic treatment and an aspirator to relieve him. Eight hours later a sound was passed and 18 cells from a marble battery aided curing. Dana claims permanent relief and credits Smith at 312 Wyoming Avenue Scranton with offering free consultations 9 am to 6 pm.
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