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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1895
Page
8
A local ad touts Dr Reeves at 412 Spruce Street Scranton offering cures for impotence lost manhood varicocele gonorrhea syphilis blood poison and other ailments with confidential exams and free initial assessment. Office hours daily 9 to 9 and Sundays 10 to 4.
The World of Business notes a quiet but firm session at the New York Stock Exchange with about 4,000 shares traded. Susquehanna and Western favored for sale, other rail and industrial stocks mixed. sugar and cordage uneven. Nearby grain and livestock markets show varied movement with modest price shifts and steady to firm tones.
A retailer promotes a new Spring Goods collection featuring the latest designs and colorings. The store claims prices lower than any rival for goods of comparable quality, inviting shoppers to compare and save.
Receivers plan to sell all rights title and interest of the Delaware Valley Electric road on Saturday June 22 at 2 pm at the Analomink hotel East Stroudsburg. Red Men of East Stroudsburg prepare July 4 celebration with speaking sports fireworks and a feast. Ghost sighting in South Stroudsburg alarms residents as boarders increase and warm weather promises a busy summer in town.
Congressman John C. Tarsney of Missouri and a friend ducked into a Washington shooting gallery during a rainstorm. A playful contest with a bell ended with the proprietor charging five dollars and forty cents, as Tarsney joked about missing his own bell.
Buffalo market notes show cattle receipts about 3.5 head with varying prices for steers stockers cows and bulls calves and Texans. Hogs receipts around zero show a strong market with wide price ranges from 4.40 to 5.04 per hundredweight. Sheep receipts 2h head with dull to steady action and prices from 1.75 to 4.75. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh tallow and refinery quotes listed.
The Reading company reports last month coal tonnage at 1 062 471, up 181 042 from May 1804, with output near 22 percent of total. Lehigh Valley Coal plans half May and early June miner pay. Schuylkill region wages remain 10 percent below the 2 50 basis, while talks stall for uniform reductions. Reading faces bad returns on 150 million in securities, seeks relief of 20–25 million amid continued receivership for the third year. industry factions diverge on June output cuts and price terms.
In town for a June 27 Carbondale Cycle Club race at Anthracite Park, Purdy, Frank and Hardenberth promote the event with tickets at local stores. The national circuit meet draws top riders like Sanger and Bald, while local riders including Fred Dietrich enter class A events. In Honesdale, the high school graduation exercises feature essays and orations by top seniors with an address by Rev. N C Schaffer.
Blanche Campbell visits sister Mrs. Packard on Cherry street while L. H. Fowler from Mohawk NY spends Sunday with family. Immersion baptisms add three new members at Baptist church and three children baptized at Presbyterian services. Charles Cole returns from Princeton. Minn ie Bingham visits Hawley friends. Grace Smith and Miss Lewis visit Elm street home. Fire at John Duggan general store on Elm and Chestnut streets gutted building. Neptunes company first on scene. insurance partially covers loss. Various church notices, excursions planned, and community notices including health and illness updates. The piece ends with an anecdote on sermon length and an advertisement for Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children.
Irving Travis, a brakeman from 16 Clune Street, was injured after attempting to board a Delaware and Hudson coal train at Uniondale. He suffered severe injuries to both feet and may require amputation. Also reported: Pottsville and Carbondale baseball game at Anthracite park. Woods’ Carbondale Business College beat the high school 22 to 7. local social events and a large 800-person Church of the Good Shepherd gathering at Parview. YMCA and Children’s Day events. a list of local residents traveling to Bradford for four months.
Michael Murray and William Burns accompanied the Mozart band of Carbondale to Niagara Falls aboard the Erle on a popular excursion. Martin Crippen of Olyphant was in Mayfield Saturday night. H J DeChaw attended the Haver straw-Christopher wedding in South Scranton last Thursday. M Sharak was in Scranton Saturday. A Chestnut Street bridge meeting was postponed from Saturday night until tonight.
President Warfield spent the past week in Massachusetts on college business. In Franklin Literary Society the freshman oratorical contest awarded first prize to M. I. Jones from Manesfield and second to GF Greiner from Benonett. The sixtieth annual commencement is set for June 10 to 20 with various events listed.
An advertisement by Dr F H Smith and staff at 312 Wyoming Avenue touts a non surgical cure for womb related issues. It condemns routine cauterization and pessaries, claims excessive hot water use harms mucous lining, and urges women to seek Dr Smith’s treatment at this address with free consultations daily from morning until evening.
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