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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1895
Page
7
Luce Bros advertise Best Patent Flour per barrel at 3.65 and list a range of staples including 24 pounds granulated sugar LW Feed meal and corn at 1.00 per unit, 1 dozen cold packed tomatoes, 25 pound sack buckwheat, 1 gallon pure maple syrup, 6 pound extra choice teas at 1.00, Clark and Snower tobacco, butter, and a Strawberry Brand smoked meats offer.
West Side Ministers met at Rev. David Jones residence for a regular session. Rev. Thomas A. Bell spoke on Heredity and received critique from several pastors. Funeral of Mrs. Kate Shields, wife of Mathew Shields, at St. Patrick's Church with high mass and interment at Hyde Park cemetery. Embezzlement arrest of Charles Wisk in Shamokin case. West Side Republican club undergoing substantial improvements. Local drill by Company F in St. David's hall. Continuous small notices from Scranton community life.
Community items list residents and candidates including David Pritchard for select council ward Fifteenth and Joseph D. Lloyd mentioned for city treasurer. Social events include a Bridget Quinnan funeral, a surprise party for Davil Richards, and Minnie Rinker’s small music focused reception. Local services advertise cabinet photos and shoes repairs along North Main and nearby streets.
Dunmore residents report illnesses at home including Mrs Victor Burcher and Mrs Matthew Gettings while William Purcell Miss Diora Capwell and others are mentioned. The Independent Hose company plans an officers election and Pequest Tribe Red Men prepare for an Indian village opening. Burgess Dunn addresses council and a council reorganization follows.
An advertisement claims Myntic Cure rapidly cures rheumatism and neuralgia in 1 to 3 days. It asserts the remedy removes the cause and the disease disappears, with initial benefits noted. Sold by Carl Lorens, druggist, Scranton.
The South Scranton Building and Loan Association reports $2,500 in new loan applications as a sign of a booming building season. Lackawanna township officers Patrick Coyne and Michael Gibbons are sworn in with bonds. G. Kerr will lecture on Ireland at Cedar Avenue Church on April 28, followed by a church entertainment. Scranton Axle works face reduced hours due to weak orders amid broader industrial slowdowns. Local figures M. P. Judge travels to North Carolina on business. residents Mrs. L. W. Tisdale and Mrs. William Tobin face illness. funerals for Nathan Dphyia and related obituaries noted.
Local notices cover extended hours at locomotive shops in Carbondale and new crew deployments on the DL&W lines. A death assessment in Great Bend triggers a $1,000 claim due by April 17. Lectures by Dr. Johnson in Carbondale draw small audiences despite strong railroad topics and UK revenue contrasts.
The text contrasts road fatalities and passenger figures between England and America. It notes English roads carry more passengers with lower per passenger death rates, cites 16.5 American deaths per English death, and compares speeds and locomotive performance. It also mentions Ringland's baggage system as inferior to the American system.
A Scranton meeting at the Third National Bank building appointed committees to direct upcoming military entertainments for the Thirteenth regiment at the Frothingham house the week starting April 23. Plans call for varied nightly programs with strong military features and broad participation by regiment members. The next gathering is set for Friday at 8 PM in the Central Republican club rooms.
Two executions issued yesterday from the prothonotary office. Alvah KH White, in the fee business on William street, North End, owes Rachel V Clarke $1188. sheriff levied on wagons and stock. A. St. Gould & Sons foreclosed against Theodore Pittack of Petersburg for $900 268, with attach ment against Pittack money held by Edmund Hark and Louis Wolf.
Community notes from North End report visits and illnesses including J W Williams leaving for Philadelphia and Mrs Frederick Lehr gravely ill. Local editors, societies and entertainment plans are listed with dates and venues across Sanderson and Capouse avenues. A church social and temperance union events are noted along with a drunken disturbance at Dickson avenue and a charity birthday gathering.
The fragment traces a child named Naby receiving Camorta, crying for Castoria, then Miss era clinging to Castoria, and finally gifting Castorts to Chikiran as Abe lind. The text reads as a nonspecific, literary sequence of care across stages.
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