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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1899
Page
10
Mayor Moir paid George Suydam’s salary for the acting chief post from his own funds and seeks reimbursement. A $100 treasury voucher sits unused pending resolution between Hickey and ex-City Solicitor McGinley backed claims. The city controller delays payment until claims are settled or a suit is filed.
The studio of John Willard Raught at room 817 Connell building will host an exhibition all next week from 10 p m to 1 p m. The display features recent works including The Welled Fields and October Morning. Admission is free, and Raught departs Boranton at month’s end.
Local notices list Steam Heating and Plumbing with P. F. and M. T. Howley at 231 Wyoming Ave and Finest wines and cigars at 220 Spruce Street including a reference to Smoke the Hotel Jermyn Cigar 10. The fragment highlights businesses and a cigar brand amidst street addresses.
The Class of 09, largest in school history with eighty two graduates, staged the twenty third annual exercises. Salutatorian Miss Elfreida Sylvester and valedictorian Charles E. Daugherty led a full program of music and orations amid overflowing attendance.
A compressed price list enumerates beverages and related goods with case and dozen pricing. Apollinaris Water quarts nine dollars per case two twenty five per dozen. pints twelve fifty per case one seventy five per dozen. Lagertown Sarsaparilla quarts two eighty per case Ginger Ale round bottom twelve dozen nine dollars or one dollar per dozen. Root Beer extract ten cents per bottle. deviled meats large tins ten or one cent. regular prices twenty or ten cents. rolled ox tongue seven five cents. evaporated dried beef fifteen or twenty five cents. olives French sardines quarters ten cents halves nineteen cents. French pates one cent. value two cents.
A writer notes the heat weakens mankind and urges a harmless stimulant to rally nature against illness. The recommendation given is Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey to revive faded vitality and resist disease.
The program opened with a string quartet performing Vandervilt University March led by Miss Fraunfurter and Sommar with Morse and Moses. A scholarly analysis by Miss Gould on The Time of the Ancient Mariner followed the overture The Dawn of Love. Leon Levy spoke on Modern Chivalry praising firefighting, nurses, Salvation Army and soldiers, with a Verdi chorus and a valedictory by Charles E. Dougherty on Trusts. Diploma presentations by Superintendent Howell capped the event, noting the eighty two member class across Classical, Latin Scientific, English, Scientific, Commercial courses and naming graduates including Maury Dock Mitch cock and many others.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets from points on its line to Detroit for the Christian Endeavor convention July 5 to 10. Tickets on sale July 3 4 and 6 and return valid to July 15 with optional extension to August 15 by deposit and 50 cents. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway advertises very low Buffalo to Los Angeles rates with multiple direct routes and sale June 28 to July 7. Contact local agents or T. & Timpson for full details.
The notice markets light straw to chocolate color shoes at low prices. Shoes wear well and need no polishing, appealing to customers while clerks discuss strikes. Mahon's Shoe Store at 603 Lackawanna Avenue advertises Saturday open hours and travel details for a rail special.
An 1870s style notice details a July 4 excursion from St Brenden Council Y M C A to Binghamton by railroad with fare of 1.25 dollars. The page promotes Beechams Pills to dispel drowsiness and advertises Hotel Jermyn Cigar at ten cents. A refund guarantee asserts money back if Greene's Syrup of Tar fails to cure cough or cold, signed by J G Bone and others.
The county outlines steps to choose state delegates with First and Third districts initiating actions. Will Lewis named delegate for the First district under Crawford rules, Morris Morris as alternate. Delegates to meet at St David’s hall to certify selections and vote on Crawford county rules for future primaries.
The Lawrence orchestra will render a programme at the Union Market this evening marking the first Saturday of the season. Local residents are invited to attend as music will be supplied during the market hours.
John H Ludwig restarts business after a fire. He leases a five floor building at 422 Lackawanna Avenue, buys Millar and Peck stock, and offers bric a brac china and house furnishing goods at low prices while awaiting a larger, restored shop. The public is invited to visit and see the new store and values.
Local shop advertises reduced prices on flags in cotton wool and silk at deep discounts from last year. Stock includes poles flag brackets and related items. Victor bicycles nearly sold out with a new consignment expected at 28 dollars cash. Other lines limited.
At Lake Ariel and Starlight Lake near Preston Park two furnished cottages with boats will be sold at a bargain. The ad notes service by F. IL Hitchcock Bon and Mt Richards Wirth Lewis of the Commonwealth building at 526 Lackawanna avenue and Teal Estate.
James Murray Dewey publishes Stoddard lectures in a set of ten volumes bound half Morocco. The work is offered by subscription at a price of $25, with a published price of $0.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a fifty year old remedy used worldwide for diarrhea and teething pain. It claims universal effectiveness and urges purchase at twenty five cents per bottle, produced by Drugelets.
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