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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1898
Page
3
The night meetings cover city committee actions, election hints, and club notices. The Central Women’s Christian Temperance union meets today at 8 o’clock. invitations extended to all interested. The Electric City castle hosts a social at Linden Street with a wine drawing. Post office hours and stamp deliveries noted. money order and registered mail services listed. Griffiths rearrest and local legal notes appear among varied items.
The Tribune will display tonight's election results on a large screen via stereoptic bulletins. Everyone is invited to attend the presentation and see the returns.
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Lillian Hamilton, proprietress of a resort on Center Street, drank a half ounce of laudanum in a failed suicide attempt after discovering her rent money missing. Police and Dr. Pennypacker treated her. she survived. Investigators suspected a gang member stole the funds.
Arguments postponed for the contempt hearing in the election contest one case against John Gibbens. The session adjourned due to the absence of a full bench and will resume next Monday morning. The conduct of Burns and Duggan, alleged to influence the defendant, was noted for discussion. The related matters, including the case of the poor board, were carried over.
The article lauds Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gondoliers and their other works as shaping the modern English operatic scene. It praises their lyric wit and harmony, noting enduring pieces like Velum by Jury and The Mikado, and mentions a Candrollers production in the city as their latest grand opera endeavor.
The Elm Park church hosts an evening organ recital by Mr J Alfred Pennington with soprano Joseph O'Brien and Miss Katherine Timberman among the performers. Florence Richmond will play piano accompaniments. The program includes Fantasie in Ty Minor, O Bleat Redeemer, Composto in Minor, Ay Thibwton Wave, and Qu y ost Home. Admission is a silver offering. doors open at 7:30 for an 8:00 concert.
Ex Judge W J Lewis resigns as general manager of the New York Susquehanna and Western. Captain W A May of Hillside Coal and Iron will take his place as the Erie railroad consolidates five offices. The move signals one-man direction of the coal business for both roads, though May maintains ties to Hillside.
No. 2 school opened Wednesday with about thirty pupils in exchoof the inte roors. People in the vicinity feel eased from epidemic fear and confidence returns. Miss Cimee Hicks will act principal this week. Professor Mirdick, once a diphtheria guardian, has recovered and will wait for a letter. Superintendent Hanwell Wakpoten attended the evening session.
The court holds a transfer ticket holder remains a passenger while moving between cars. Mrs. Susan Keator, injured crossing Lackawanna and Penn avenues, won a verdict of 4760 for damages. Judge McPherson ruled extraordinary care applies to transfer holders as a passenger. Also noted are equity case questions on witness eligibility of spouses and a front-page note on the grand jury proceeding in Dawson County.
A rash of legal actions includes sequestration in Ava Carper estate, Nen tue Fire Company charter petition, and over seizings. Officials appointed overseers and auditors, guardians named for minor Elizabeth Davenport, and divorce cases against Mary Wirth and Charlotte Wilkens proceed. Local arrests for drunkenness and disturbances appear, with penalties ranging from twenty to thirty days in jail.
James Buller of Moosic, once Lackawanna town-ship tax collector, failed to produce receipts or a usable ledger after losing the keys and a mounted account book. Witnesses testified they paid taxes, but the missing records limited rebuttal, and additional examinations were held in Lackawanna township and Olyphent areas.
Diphtheria reports totaled thirty one cases last week with six in Green Ridge. North Ward reported twelve cases Bellevue and Hyde Park ten cases Routh Side four Central city one case. Typhoid fever deaths totaled twenty three citywide. A large screen bulletin board displayed the bulletin updates.
A garbled report describes Cornelius Smith and four men held at county jail after a police arrest. One prisoner appeared to be in vain, while a woman and another man were processed. A young male, Prank Mahoney, reportedly intoxicated at the Rescue Mission, fell asleep. He will serve twenty days after being held for questioning.
West Scranton's Mysterious Eleven led by Harris Jones and Webb fought a bitter game on Green Ride grounds where Green Ride outweighed them by ten pounds. The score ended 0 0 in a spirited display as Harris, Lewis and Webb impressed.
An advertisement praises Hood’s Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine and Hood’s Pills as a popular family laxative. It extols relief from indigestion and debunks impurities in blood while promising gentle, effective digestion support and regular bowel movement. The copy references testimonial endorsements and generic wellness tips in a period voice.
A catalog lists handsome seal garments with prices ranging from 110 to 225 dollars. Electric seal jackets are offered at 835 dollars and Baltic seal items at 25 dollars.
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