Gorman's Grand Depot Linens Offer Superior Value
The store promotes a carefully selected linen stock with high value and quality as the key to customer appreciation.
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1895
Page
4
The store promotes a carefully selected linen stock with high value and quality as the key to customer appreciation.
Our notes urge early selection of ribbons from our fine stock as summer events approach. Ribbons tie into the popular summer girl theme and will be essential for lawn parties picnics and mountain gatherings this season.
The ad touts imported ginghams in clan plaids stripes and checks with fast colors and many new figures. It urges customers to come early for the best colors and emphasizes value for the money despite prices that may not cover production costs.
Glimpse the beautiful proportions and exquisite make of tailor made ladies suits in blacks blues and tans. Prices range from nine fifty to twenty one fifty a suit.
The publication highlights fashion and dress materials with feature stories and latest fabrics. Available at the store for customers who request the free issue.
Doctor Reeves at 412 Spruce Street Scranton advertises treatments for nerve, heart, lung, liver and stomach diseases with eye ear and throat care. A three month offer claims a cure for catarrh with five dollar trial and home treatment. Office hours daily 9 am to 9 pm Sunday 10 to 4.
Illegible OCR fragment notes an Oll Market opening and closing dates with numbers like 170, 1764, and 170% but lacks clear persons places or events. The piece is too fragmentary to identify a concrete headline or full summary.
Market report shows flour steady wheat weaker and varied grain futures with options for May June July and September. Regional cattle and hog receipts in New York and Buffalo described with price ranges for steers calves and sheep. lambs and hides noted with mixed activity and market steadiness.
Philadelphia on May 10 reports tallow prices steady with demand. Quotes show city prime in half hundredweight at 44 1/4 cents, country prime in barrels at 44 cents, dark in barrels at 44 1/4 cents, cakes at 43 3/4 cents, grease at 37 1/2 cents.
Miss Effie Baker visits relatives in Wilkes-Barre. a Wanted Ad seeks a scavenger for Blakely Borough and directs applications to the secretary at Peckville Post Office Box 158. Miss Effie Lee accepts a clerk position in W F Ketchum's new store. E E Griener & Son install a 1 HP double cylinder engine to power ice cream freezers, claim ten gallons per twenty minutes.
Riverside Ironworks in Benwood West Virginia increases wages by 10 percent for 800 tube workers. In Pennsylvania Oliver's sheet iron mill resumes after two years, with a large force. Within 24 hours western Pennsylvania reports 10 to 24 percent pay hikes affecting about 10,000 men. A Reading company official notes stock control may pass to New York and London interests. A syndicate linked with rail and coal firms rumored to seek Reading control. Coal shipments for May 4 total 921,086 tons, up 196,814 from last year as three-day work weeks begin. A new Lehigh Valley railroad line from Honeoye Falls to Hemlock Lake progresses, linking to Rochester subdivisions and attracting Rochester-area traffic.
For three nights beginning Monday evening Robinsons Comic Opera company presents Chimes of Normandy Pinafore and La Mascot at the Father Mathew Opera House with a matinee on Wednesday afternoon. The Lackawanna Coal company will pay their employes today. Dr Quick of Pittston opens dental rooms in the Ready Pay store block. Miss Alice Kelley hosted friends on Dunmore Street with games and music.
Miss Marlon Green of Malin street traveled to Paris England on Wednesday to visit friends and relatives. Mrs James Hand of Malin street returned from Warren Pa after visiting. John Dymond of Clark's Summit was in town yesterday. The Ladies Aid society and Haworth league hosted a reception for Rev BE Santee at the Methodist Episcopal church last evening with Rev J C Tenant giving the address. Cake and ice cream served.
James H. McAlpine shows steady improvement after his illness. Mrs. Sam Whalen remains in precarious condition following a stroke. Mrs. Nelson N. Dean and her granddaughter Annie May Dean return from a Florida winter. Attendees at the Lynch-Mutchrone wedding in Providence include John Loftus Mary T K Gillen and Mary Gillmore. Reverend F H Parson will lead 10:30 am service at the Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow. Ice cream at Martin Bolds Little Delmonico. Charlie Bliss of Factoryville visited relatives Wednesday. Reverend A Reynolds, in Bethel Baptist church work at Pittston, four will be baptized tomorrow night. George Fell Post No 907 of the Grand Army of the Republic plans Memorial Day, with A J Colborn Jr and C Comegys ESQ addressing old veterans. Reverend John Wintch of the Free Methodist Episcopal church will hold Sunday services tomorrow. Last Thursday a wagon incident near the lumber yard left Robert Lee bruised but safe. Robert Bold was thrown, but no bones broken. George E Stevenson and Harry Warner aided. Dr H C Mackey pronounced the injury not serious. Dr Reeves of Scranton notes local cures. M Douglas Smith holds a new justice of the peace commission and office at Main and Academy. An entertainment at the rink featured local pri and intermediate groups.
Oliver Simpson suffered a foot injury Thursday at the Pancoast mine when his foot was caught between car bumpers. Dr Reeves at 412 Spruce Street Scranton offers medical consultation. Sunday services planned at Baptist and Methodist churches with morning prayer, Sunday school, and evening preaching.
A sensational ad touts Complete Manhood from a medical company, claiming it cures nervousness and loss of self control, boosts vigor and power, and enables a “complete manhood” through a water cure and other methods. It features testimonials and guarantees free treatment until results are achieved, urging men to secure this patently sensational remedy.
A newspaper notice promotes Dr. Smith at 312 Wyoming Avenue Scranton offering magnetic or hypnotic cures. It claims Mrs. Almond C Day recovered after ten years bedridden from cerebrospinal meningitis and invites men to free illustrated lectures and daily public healings next week with admission free.
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