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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1895
Page
7
A local retailer listing from Scranton and Taylor markets presents a range of goods with prices. Best patent flour per barrel at 3.65, 24 pounds of granulated sugar at 1.00, feed meats and corn, 25 pound sacks buckwheat, a gallon of pure maple syrup, 6 pound extra choice teas, best butter, and a smoked meats line including a "Strawberry Brand."
The funeral for Thomas W Johns started at his Chestnut street home and proceeded to Marsh’s cemetery in Duryea after a service by Rev D C Hughes of the Jackson Street Baptist church. Knights of Pythias and American Protestant Association members attended, with pallbearers named and a ritual read at the grave by Chaplain Henry D Davies. Interment followed with floral pillow inscribed Rest.
The notice advertises reduced prices on White Loaf Flour 7-lbs Good Rice 8-lbs Coarse Oatmeal 80-1 Pail Jelly 80-lb Pail Jam Medium Clothes Basket Best Paper Pails Wash Boards and related items including Boo Shoes and Rubbers at less than a.
The funeral was held yesterday for Alice Toban daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Toban of Jackson Street Interment occurred at Hyde Park Catholic Cemetery A West Side Business Directory lists local trades including photography horseshoeing groceries furniture wall coverings plumbing oysters and more with prices and shop notes
A professor notices a woman slipping on icy pavement and dryly remarks on her being a “very good woman.” The piece also critiques the “New Man” type in London society, compares it to Bunthorne, and includes brief notes on Vermont engagement ring law, Austrian queen's visit plans, and college parlor upgrades.
A Bayonne tale recounts relief from rheumatism after using Munyon's Rheumatism Cure. The claimant states rapid improvement with two bottles and no recurrence, praising the remedy's guaranteed claims. The Munyon company advertises homeopathic treatments for various diseases and offers free diagnosis from Professor Munyon at Arch Street Philadelphia.
Water rushes down Genet Street and floods the Lackawanna river area causing deeper gulley damage. Streets like Genet and Pittston are impassable. cost to repair estimated at about $100, while residents push for sewers to curb disease pools and future flood risk.
A. H. Call reports grip illness while Miss Mary Bevans leaves Market Street for New York on business. Calvinistic Methodist church serves tea on April 10. Lithurian Catholic church walls near completion at Main and Theodore. William J. Lewis returns from trips to Florida and Cuba for health. Mr and Mrs Sutliff and Minnie Goddard visit Wayne Avenue hosts. Toninluka No 72 Red Men festival supports William Marshall family with an entertainment. Home Missionary society plans parlor entertainment on Oak Street with silver offering at the door. James Burns is arrested after an alleged insult to Mrs Morgans. pays $2 fine.
A family recalls using Castors for illness in childhood, Castoria for infancy and Mim later, and Usstoria for children as generations evolve. The adic style notes branding across ages, highlighting changing names of pediatric remedies.
A dispute between Mary Stephenson and Bessie Park in Alderman Wrights office led to a brief quarrel over an arrest for salt and pepper being thrown down the neck. The alderman intervened with a fatherly talk and the pair reached a peaceful apology in front of a cheering crowd of supporters.
Engineer George Chase suffers grip as lectures resume on Air brakes with an exam looming. Delaware and Hudson orders new locomotives and cars from Dickson, Schenectady, and Peninsular works. Forty engines built at Lehigh Valley shops. coal trade outlook dark. Rev W J Ford addresses machine shop meeting. New organ admired. Conductor Masters praised for cutting cost to aid the committee.
DIED. HAGGERTY. In Scranton March 13 Roger Haggerty at his residence. Funeral Friday morning with a solemn requiem mass at St Patrick's church. Interment Hyde Park Catholic cemetery. RAUB. In Beranton March 13 John W. Hinb aged years at the Misses Snower residence 28 North Ninth Street. Funeral arrangements to follow. WHITE. March 12 Michael White at 6 Franklin Avenue. Funeral at 2 PM, interment Hyde Park Catholic cemetery.
Historical ad touts Carlsbad Sprudel Salt as a universal remedy curing various diseases. Warns against imitators selling artificial versions and urges buying only genuine imported product sealed by the city of Carlsbad and Elsner & Mendelson Co. in New York.
In BouTa Senanxtor Pennsylvania on November 10 1804 a boy’s parent reports a tapeworm found in a child named Freddie age years at a local store. The owner claims Campbell’s Magic Works Sugar and Te cures worm infestations though other remedies failed. The note promotes Campbell Lancasteria Pennsylvania as successor to Dr Jon Campbell.
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