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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1900
Page
10
Fine Wall Papers clears stock after annual inventory with remnants and small quantities available for one or two rooms each. Limited amounts remain, offered at half the usual prices while they last. Large variety of patterns and colors, store seeks to move stock before spring trade begins.
Base A Success. Jonas Long's Sons' Store is packed from open to close as Leader stock goes on sale. Shoppers leave with bundles bearing the red trade mark while aisles and lockers are crowded and clerks rush to serve. The sale prices are described as ridiculously low drawing large crowds.
G R Clark & Company advertises men and dress shoes with a $1.66 sale price and $3.00 original price. Morris Brothers promotes a great dissolution sale on boot and shoe stock due to a change in film, inviting buyers to Morris Brothers 390 and 130 Lackawanna avenues to inspect “up-to-date” stock.
Hardware of all kinds and the celebrated Irving Ranges offer substantial savings now. Furnaces can be bought with no upfront cost while plumbing stock remains low. Many items at first cost or below cost and purchases should not be delayed.
Last night the Elk club defeated the Bicycle club on Elk alleys by 172 pins in a splendid showing. New members Riel and Mitchell stood out with 174 and 173, while Charlea Moore led Bicycle with 187 and Edmund Bartl topped Elk with 170. George Phillins held the season’s high average at 104 1-5, with Charles Weichel close behind at 163 1-5. The next league game features Scranton Bicycle club against Backus on Backus’s alleys.
A Moscow man F. W. Randall discovered his wife Ellen Caeldler had married Jeremiah M. Walker while he was away. Records show licenses dated 1890 and 1899, with the couple living as married in Scranton. Randall moved to press charges. arrests likely today.
The Scranton Correspondence School, chartered with a capital of 150000 dollars, announces new officers led by A. L. Francois as president and George C. Yocum as first vice president. Directors include H. W. Cross and Solomon Goldsmith among others. Principal will be W Tate, formerly with International Correspondence Schools, with curriculum shifting to texts by standard authorities instead of faculty authors.
William Williams a 15 year old from Bellevue was struck by an engine on the Bloom division of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western line while riding a horse on a car and jumped off into the path of another engine. He suffered injuries to the head and back and was taken to Lackawanna Hospital by ambulance.
Br. T. Black, a well known banker and prominent Scranton citizen since 1868, is dangerously ill at his home at the corner of Franklin avenue and Rpruce street after a fortnight of illness. Doctors Wehlau and Fisher have attended him, and he is 75 years old.
The Lackawanna hospital gratefully acknowledges a donation of 117.42 dollars by Dickson Manufacturing Company via Robert Bi Sykes. The money came from multiple departments including Pennal Machine, Foundry, Blacksmith Shop, and Locomotive Department offices. Also noted are a dissolution sale of ladies' dine shoes and a hint to visit Morris Brothers on Lackawanna Avenue for spring hats.
The Lackawanna county Women’s Christian Temperance Union held its mid year convention in the Methodist Episcopal church at Dunmore with over 200 delegates. Reports praised attendance and speakers including Mrs J M Howell Mrs Maria W Vaughn and B D Nichols of Wilkes Barre. A resolutions vote urged total abstinence and prohibition while warning against army canteens and saloon influence. The day concluded with an address by E D Nichols on Gospel Law and Prohibition.
Special offers include Coffee at 16c per lb and Fine Formosa Oolong tea at 50c per lb. Customers may buy coffee and tea separately or together with a 1 lb limit per person. Coffee guaranteed to match any 50c quality and tea to match Tea Store 75c Oolong.
A 35 year claim states Vin Mariani is a mild stimulant with no unpleasant reaction or harmful effects. The note is directed to druggists and urges to refuse substitutes.
A dilapidated ash wagon and an inebriated commercial traveler stage a farcical chase on Spruce and Penn avenues. Ben Johnson rents out his wagon for 4.60, the drummer auctions the horse and wagon, Ben regains control after threats, and the scene ends with both actors retreating to a saloon.
The common council adjourned after final reading on the ten year electric light contract with Scranton Electric Light and Moat company awaiting Mayor Moir signature. The speak easy ordinance faced delay as Mr Grier moved to indefinitely postpone, with objections from Keller and Nagell and a tie vote on one amendment. Several other ordinances passed on third reading including sidewalk work and a sewer plan, while Pine street grading concerns prompted further debate.
A council meeting adjourned suddenly after enough members left to fail to reach a quorum. Chair Keller announced the suspension as several attendees lamented the missed vote on appropriation ordinances and other business.
A signed notice guarantees refund of money for Greene’s Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure coughs. It lists multiple endorsers including M. J. Vetter and Lorenz, with a claim of a money-back offer and a vendor at Lane’s with wines and cigars on 920 Bpruce Street.
Arthur Nikisch, famed conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic, with recent tenure at the Boston Symphony, writes about music and performance duties, highlighting his views as a world renowned musician and pianist.
An advertisement extols Mason Hamlin Pianofortes praising their rank and value. Arthur Nikisch signs a note expressing gratitude for the instruments enabling the artist to express profound and fanciful feelings. The piece invites readers to view the pianos for appreciation of artistic quality.
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