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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1895
Page
10
Luce Bros cash stores advertise best patent flour with a per barrel price of 3.65. The ad lists granulated sugar feed meat and corn, tomatoes, buckwheat, maple syrup, extra choice teas, Clark and Snower tobacco, butter, and smoked meats under a Strawberry Brand label.
Welsh Fifteenth ward politicians held a St David's Day banquet at W J Stevens hotel on South Main Avenue with about fifty attendees. T E Davies chaired and Lewis Jones toasted. a music program and multiple toasts followed. Mrs Mary Shields of Scranton Street died at 45 after a long illness. funeral planned for Tuesday at St Patrick's Church Hyde Park Cemetery. Additional notices include a church debate on capital punishment by Jackson Street Baptist and various local community items and ads.
Complete line of wallpaper paint and window shades now open with new stock. Griffiths in North Main avenue offers flat-class plumbing steam heat and gas fitting with satisfaction guaranteed. Oysters served at market house by R F B Davis next to the company’s on 310 North Main avenue.
Ill residents seek care at various homes including E M Beyea at No 6 and Mrs A W Packard on Cherry Street. Multiple visits reported, with Miss Jennie Randall from Oxford visiting William Gilmore and Miss Minnie Anthony visiting Miss Minnie Sanders. Martin McLane takes over Scranton Times agency duties as Wo L Purcell resigns. Evening services and memorials noted at Presbyterian and Baptist churches ahead of Dr A J Gordon’s memorial.
Daniel Kelliher filed a $16000 action against Joseph Meyers of Mt Cobb alleging a high spirited horse driven after liquor on Sept 1 crashed along Washington and Phelps streets injuring Kelliher on his porch. Meyers was injured and taken to Lackawanna hospital. case represented by M A McGinley.
A Brooklyn jurist testifies that Munyon's Rheumatism Cure relieved him after nine years of struggle and enabled him to walk without crutches. The inventor claims rapid cures for acute, chronic, and various pains, with home remedies sold by druggists at 2 cents a bottle and free expert diagnosis from Professor Munyon at 1505 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
A vivid downtown vignette follows a hungry street seller girl who buys a dime with a nickel for a child, then returns home to a craftsman father and a mother in the kitchen. A dapper, stylish man in a Prince Albert coat attracts comments as he slips on a curb and splashes into muddy water, then moves on with the carriage girl. City Solicitor Torrey is praised as a storyteller who stays true to his yarn, delivering a dryly humorous anecdote about a backwoods goat assessment that ends with a comic legal flourish.
Grim South Side strain as influenza grips the population with rising sickness and high death claims. Patrick Neill of Minooka badly injured in Greenwood shaft accident. Kranyiks body unclaimed after fatal D&H railroad incident. Nearby residents in poor health, with church and civic notices filling the day’s schedule.
Mrs. L Chapman hosts on Adams Avenue while Mrs. Fish remains ill on Main Avenue. Williams of William Street is seriously ill with the grip. Gillespie plans to open a general store on Market Street. Reynolds of Sanderson Avenue visited friends in Dalton. Gillespie of Oak Street visits his brother Thomas in Vermont. Miss Hell from Binghamton visits Miss Jessie Filler on Market Street. Mr and Mrs G T Bugden confined by the grip on Capourre Avenue. Mrs Wilson returns from Northumberland BC. Barnes of Meridian, Conn, visiting Prof Merriman returns home. Mrs Conower long associated with North End observers.
A booster pitch extols Paine's celery compound as the greatest spring remedy curing nervous debility exhaustion and kidney troubles. It claims Prof Edward Phelps of Dartmouth endorses the product and cites vast demand in major cities as proof of its superior healing power.
A list of community church events and family notices from Green Ridge and nearby areas. Items include sermons at Puritan and Green Ridge Primitive Methodist churches, a special musical and literary program, Holy Communion, and pastor preaching schedules. Obituary notes mention Peter W Widner of Providence Road aged 67, with funeral arrangements pending. Also a moved contractor office building affecting North Main Avenue traffic and a health note about M M Winton’s return from Hot Springs.
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