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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1896
Page
5
Readable list of dress goods silks and trims with deep Leader's Price cuts. Includes trimmed and untrimmed millinery, ladies cloaks and suits, shirt waists, children's dresses, underwear, and parasols. Highlights many fabrics, silks, prints, and accessories offered at substantially reduced prices.
London contralto Miss Mary Thomas headlines a Monday night concert at the Young Men’s Christian Association hall with support from Gwilym Thomas Theodore Hemberger and Alfred Pennington. The program includes arias, songs, and duets highlighting Thomas’s rising career and includes notes on her Welsh upbringing and London studies.
On a Cleveland rail trestle May 1 Mary Mykazik of Teren faced certain death as a fast Nickel Plate Express neared. A patrolman and two bridge tenders seized her as guards closed in, wrestling on the slick steel as the locomotive roared by, all three men risking a fall seventy five feet.
In New York early today Almer Holloway a 22 year old former waiter from Michigan was killed by bartender James McQuillan after a quarrel sparked when a bottle of whisky was passed to Holloway by Carrie Simon. Holloway died instantly from a heavy jaw blow near Sixth Avenue while royston witnessed the scene. The incident followed a dispute over the bottle and involved George Rogers who had provided the whisky.
The house passed a bill to erect a monument to Samuel Hahnemann with 47000 in foundation funds and barred placement on federal grounds. Separately lawmakers approved a measure to give themselves year round clerks, voting 120 to 18, amid lengthy debate over treasury costs and committee chair protections. The session also advanced titles for land purchases, life saving stations, and Indian removal cases, with private pension bills on the docket before adjournment.
The article notes graduates from advanced and elementary courses receiving diplomas, naming Miss Ian Benjamin, Sophia Mahoney, Maud Miller, Sadie Mahoney, Emma Feehley, Jessie Mae Polhemus, and Charles S Hall with Ira A Roberta. Scholars present Professor WC Hanyon with a gold headed cane as a class gift after exercises. The piece closes with a mention of toe cream at Martin Bold's Little Delmonoo.
Two men died after a shooting on a crowded street car near Louisville. Private policeman Charles Sales and Charles Groyxe exchanged fire with a suspect, injuring several others including Mogee and Sales. James Cams and his wife, aboard Cramb Opera House manager, were unhurt except for minor wounds. The assailant and others were pursued toward the central station.
An old advertisement claims Swayne's Ointment stops melting and bleeding skin, heals ulceration, and removes itching. It offers 3 bottles by mail for 20 cents from De Swayne & Son in Philadelphia.
The fragment list shows numerous local classifieds offering jobs, real estate, livestock, and household items. Entries mention a rapid dish washer device, farm and cottage properties near Lake Winola, building lots, horses, buggies, bicycles, and several buyers seeking houses in Scranton and nearby areas.
The Dun and Company weekly trade review notes exports of 5 450 000 in gold this week without disturbing monetary conditions, signaling financial soundness and confidence in better times. Iron and steel show demand weakness as new combinations test production, while textile mills face active demand but rising cotton costs and speculative activity lifts spot prices. Failures tally 228 in the U S and 34 in Canada year over year.
Mick Grace Camp of Montrose sues in court while new Justice J O Feehley takes office. Madison academy graduates perform a detailed program at the Baptist church as Miss Anna Mahoney and others deliver essays and recitations amid town life notes and council actions on street work and gutters.
Several rental notices describe furnished rooms and houses for rent in Scranton, Dunmore, and surrounding streets. Advertisements include a double house on Pins and Blakely, a ten room house with modern improvements, and a fenced yard. Public notices announce sealed proposals for Hillside Home Chapel construction and an electric lighting plant installation at Fallsile Home.
Trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate points plus Honesdale and Hawley at 8 95 a m and 2 24 p m. Returns to Scranton from those points at 8 23 a m and 3 67 p m.
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