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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1900
Page
7
An advert claims Mason's Health Defenders provide relief in about 15 minutes and a speedy cure. It emphasizes rapid action and target remedies for general ailments. The listing highlights home treatment and preventive health benefits with brisk results.
Extraordinary tablets formed from formulas used by four renowned doctors. Years in making and claimed to be safe for all ages. Free distribution offered as proof of trust in the cure. Promoted as unique, drug free and highly effective for dyspepsia.
The Wilton Fire company fair opens this evening at the firemen's hall with five booths managed by the ladies of the fire laddies. Bonn's band will entertain, promising a grand nightly program for the fair in Peceville. Local residents Mr and Mrs George Roberts are in New York City this week. Mrs J D Broad visits Wellbridge, N Y, as others recover from illness and attend funerals.
Physicians tout Hood's Sarsuparilia as removing dangerous impurities from blood. claims blood purification aids headache relief and overall health. The advertisement portrays Opportunity as a call to use the medicine for prompt benefits.
In Carbondale the board eyed a proposed Greenfield palace for the poor, plans cost $700 and the treasurer was instructed to draw a warrant in favor of Architect Morris of Scranton, though opposition and the election looming halted the project.
Robert Doyle of Fairview Street is confined to Emergency Hospital after his left arm was severed above the elbow by a train in the Delaware and Hudson yard. A Spanish War veteran, Doyle received an honorable discharge last fall and had contemplated re-enlisting this week.
Six candidates including William H Staples John M Ball Scott Whipple Jeremiah Clune Edwin F E Baker and Harry F Kerins compete to operate the poor farm. The board deadlocked over Clune and Kerins and no decision is reached on who will farm the city next summer.
Miss Hettie Wilcox returns home for Easter from Millersville State Normal. Mrs. Peter Grady hosts her daughter and granddaughter Katherine Anns bury and Genevieve. Charlies W. Rogers from Bellevue nursing school in New York is home recovering from grip. James Gallagher visits Pittston friends. Clarence Wright secures work at contractor T C Robinson. Maud Harnden visits New York City. High School Glee club plans an auditorium entertainment. John B. Shannon confined at home with grip.
The town held a single public Saint Patrick's Day event a grand musical by the Carbondale Symphony Club to aid the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Weber's Nink. Miss Annie Mackin won the gold watch, with total prize funds of 986.45 dollars. A reception honored Mr John Conabs on Washington street marking his birth anniversary. Teachers and locals joined a sleigh ride to Pittston. Several residents are noted visiting relatives or traveling for work, including Pyne colliery repairs and miner injuries at Moses Taylor hospital.
Mrs F E Watson of Aiken Alabama testifies that chronic diarrhoea plagued her mother for months until two physicians deemed it hopeless. One-cent bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her with five doses. Sold by druggists and Matthews Bros. wholesale and retail.
A discussion on miner First Aid societies highlights practical training to reduce injuries. Dr. Shields offers to teach the required skills to the Delaware and Hudson miners, aiming for a twenty member group across four gallery sections. Funeral service for Willie Lester, thirteen, at St James Episcopal Church with Rev. Fessenden presiding. Remains interred in borough cemetery. Pallbearers named.
In Sport Hill Dunmore, the old fire house at Spencer's mine collapsed triggering rumors. Some say a squeeze in the mine caused it while others credit heavy snow on the roof. The bottom vein is active with Nos 1 2 and 3 exhausted, and multiple squeezes have formed deep fissures causing ground sinks near the new plane, alarm for residents above.
George Oswald hosted a festive gathering at his Dudley street residence on Friday night. A sustained stream of guests, including Misses Jessie Wert Anna Powell Anna Henwood Eva Fleas Florence Dony Elate Powell Mae Simpson Anna Dony Eva Montgomery Blanche Harper Genevieve Blesecker Mae Hughes Emma Ludwig Lois Simpson Phoebe Engler Mia Arthur Close and Mrs Sadler Hopkins, Mersie, Harry Harper, Samuel Mae Cracken, William Alegler Alex Thompson William Young Thomas Hughes Hiurry Stevens Turvey Breese John Wert Richard Webber Stuart Bishop Walter Jones and James Hopkins, arrived to share games and party diversions.
A new gun club formed by several young borough men, with officers chosen as President George Dewald and Secretary James R. Dainty. The group plans a club house soon and hopes local support to grow membership.
Rev. W. F. Gibbons attracted two large congregations at the Presbyterian Church with sermons on Overcoming Hindrances and A Divided Heart. At the Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. A. J. Van Cleft spoke on Zeal in Offering and Christian Steadfastness and Earnest Work. Rev. J. L. Kreamer of First Baptist Dudley Street preached The Happy People in the morning and The New Birth in the evening.
The funeral of the child of Mr. and Mrs. John McHale of Clay is announced. Burial will be in the family plot with services conducted by the local church.
A Popular Clearing House for housing rentals sales exchanges and employment notices. Ads cost one cent per word with six insertions for five cents per word. Situations wanted are inserted free.
Multiple rental notices list addresses in Dunmore and surrounding area. Entries include six room house with furnace and barn, furnished two to three room options, ten room residence, hotel terms to a party, furnished house with all improvements, and April 1 starting rents with local contacts such as Mrs Burns Geo Davidson and J H Gunster.
Local business listings including rubber tired carriages, motels, cafes, attorneys, physicians, and schools. Directory provides names and addresses such as Joseph Kelley 14 Linden, H F Reynolds P D Dr, Elk Cafe Franklin Ave, Scranton House near D L & W depot, Victor Koch, Richard Bourke, J W Browning, M J Donahoe, Frank Boyle, Willard Warren Knapp, Dr W K Allen, School of the Lackawanna, Clark & Co, Jos Kuettel, and train schedules from Delaware and Madison lines with destination notes. Includes multiple attorney offices and a list of train times to Carbondale, Wilkes-Barre, New York, and other points.
Wanted two nicely furnished rooms with board centrally located. Address W Tribune office. Wanted furnished room suitable for gentleman water central located. Address X Y C Tribune. Wanted to buy second hand wheel at P O Box 198. Wanted to buy for cash second hand watches jewelry old gold and silver Gardner Spruce Street. For sale double home 818 Monroe will sell at bargain if sold before April 1.
nue died Friday morning and was buried at Mt. Carmel cemetery after services at the home. A Paris dancing class held a social at the Odd Fellows hall Saturday night. An Institute of local teachers will convene at the central building Saturday at 9 o clock.
Prof. M. J. Cummings of Olyphant visited acquaintances in the borough on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Niemeyer have moved to West Drinker street from Dudley street with their household effects.
Sealed proposals endorsed for grading and walks walls and shel ters super structures muse pavilion and retiring house plans. Bids due March 24 1900 at noon at Reynolds Bedford Scranton Pa with 250 dollar bid bond. Park Commissioners reserve right to reject all bids.
The final entertainment of the Brockway course occurs Monday evening at the Lyceum featuring harpist Mr. Van Venchten Rogers and entertainer Charles T. Grilley. Praises from Heston Herald and Evansville Tribune highlight Rogers strong tone and Grilley’s rare talent as a comedian and reader.
Notices detail schedules for the First and Second Legislative Districts with primaries on March 2 and March 20, 1900, at Co operative Hall and courthouse respectively. The Third District plans its convention for April 2, 1900, to nominate a candidate and select delegates to Harrisburg, with party rules and filing deadlines outlined.
The Academy brings back the Maude Hillman company with the same acting troupe as eight weeks ago. New specialties join, making one of the strongest vaudeville bills for the repertoire company. Miss Hillman's orchestra remains a feature. Shaft No 2 with its elaborate scenery and effects opens the show tonight.
Manchester's Cracker Jacks begin a three day engagement at the Gaiety this afternoon. The program features The Sousa Girls, the McDonnell brothers Irish comedy team, Mins Belle Wilton, Bud Snyder, and a Dixon McGovern fight rerun plus Boer War references.
A Milk White Flag a popular satirical comedy comes to the Lyceum for tomorrow night. The cast is described as strong both artistically and numerically with witty dialogue and brisk, entertaining action for two and a half hours. The burlesque lampoons club life of fashionable military companies and features Herbert Kelcy in the Lyceum show.
Bauer's Orchestra offers music for balls picnics parties and concerts with conductor Bauer based at Wyoming avenue over Huberts music attire. Megargeer Brothers printers supply envelopes paper bags twine at 19 Washington avenue Scranton PA.
Efe Shannon and Herbert Kelly bring their famed play The Moth and the Flame to Clyde Fitche's stage with the original company. The production, famed in New York for 125 nights at the Lyceum, has toured major cities nationwide for two years and will draw heightened interest here.
The notice outlines NJ Central Railroad service from New York via Liberty Street with steamers to New York Newark Elizabeth Philadelphia Easton Allentown Mauch Chunk and White Haven. It lists train times to Pittston Wilkes-Barre Baltimore Washington Bethlehem and other points with express and Sunday schedules and mentions anthracite coal as standard fare.
Rail timetable notice listing trains from Scranton to Philadelphia New York via D and H routes with various departure times. It covers connections to Bethlehem Hazleton Reading Harrisburg and other coal region points plus westbound routes to Geneva Rochester Buffalo Chicago. Includes Pullman car info and ticket offices Scranton Cortlandt Street Lucknow Avenue.
Train schedule lists No 2 accommodation at 6 a m and No 4 express at 12 01 p m from Scranton to Hawley and intermediate points with Erie Railroad connections to New York Newburgh Honesdale and other points.
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