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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
8
The advertisement promotes linen stock at Gormans Grand Depot, highlighting careful selection and strong value. It emphasizes superior quality linens and the benefits of knowing linens to appreciate the offered goods.
Summer is coming and ribbons play a key role in parties and picnics. Be early to choose from our fine stock of ribbons for lawn parties, mountain gatherings, and the popular summer girl look.
An advertisement touts imported ginghams in plaids stripes and checks with fast colors and many new figures. It claims prices often do not cover making costs and urges customers to come early for the best colors.
A display of tailor made ladies suits highlights exquisite proportions and colors in blacks blues and tans. Prices range from 9.50 to 21.40 per suit.
The article describes the latest dress materials and fashion fabrics on offer with a lead story on trends. It notes materials available through a call to visit the store to receive promotional fabrics and fashion stories.
The New York Stock Exchange marked a banner day with over 422,000 shares traded and bonds totaling 4.743 million. Traders turned bullish after Congress adjourned, converting paper profits to cash and boosting demand for foreign and domestic issues, led by Texas Pacific bonds bought for London.
Improvement project at Beranton Glen 1000 Til includes expansion by Heat and Power Co. Proposed works cover infrastructure upgrades, permitting steps, and anticipated completion timeline. Community impact cited with potential grid reliability and service improvements.
The market for silver in New York shows a firmer tone with higher prices. London bars rise to god per ounce, plus domestic bars at 6i, Mexican dollars up to ic, and Indian rupees advanced in London. Gold movements note imports and exports totals, while other commodities and livestock markets display mixed activity and firming in various sectors.
Notices posted in Berk shire mills set to grant wage increases on May 20. Central Traffic Association approves one cent per mile for Grand Army encampment in Louisville. Readings show coal shipments up and mill orders hardening amid wage pressures and no immediate profits.
Mrs A FE Taylor of Buffalo recounts severe Bright's disease with swollen limbs and facial puffiness. After three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills she regained ability to walk, color returned, and she calls the pills a surprising discovery. Mailed by Foaster Milburn Co Buffalo sole agents for the U S 5 cents.
Montrose prepares for commencement at the armory while visitors from Great Bend Scranton and Brooklyn mingle with town affairs. health board assesses water supply visits Jones lake as train enters town after a period of bad water. graduates listed several names with typhoid fever noted for Miss Pope. a lawn social in early May is planned by the Presbyterian church youth group.
The town notes the elegant display at Blues' drug store as a major attraction. The Women's Christian Temperance Union convenes this afternoon at Mrs. J. B. Sickler’s home on Main Street. Dr. Reeves, at 412 Spruce Street in Scranton, is noted as a specialist on fits and epilepsy. Friends extend condolences to the family of former pastor Rey T. Doty.
Last evening in the W. W. Watt building on Church street the Cross Country club held its second annual banquet. Decorations were elaborate with violet flower adorned CCC letters. Music came from Professor Firth as Munn & Avery served thirty couples.
Mrs G W Twitmeyer left for a two week visit with relatives in Clearfield and Centre counties. Dr Reeves of Scranton reports wonderful cures in the area. Co BE Hadsell returned to Honesdale after trout fishing near his Herrick Center home. H M Coston and F C Wettling of Scranton registered at the Allen House. Joseph Atkinson and Joseph Solliday of Hawley in town yesterday.
An advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a universal cure for all skin ailments including blotches eczema itch and facial eruptions with claims of complete healing and whitening effects. It urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
Miss Lina McCray of Marion Pennsylvania aged 27 after eleven years of nervous exhaustion and string of ailments is described as cured by Dr Smith at 312 Wyoming Avenue Scranton Following seven magnetic treatments and public lectures in Music Hall the doctor promises free healing sessions next week and a permanent local practice with a high cure rate
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