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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1896
Page
4
Advertisements orders for job work and items for prediction left at Hannon & Co News Dealers North Main Street receive prompt attention. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Miners in Jermyn and Mayfield believe George Van Horn the murderer of Mrs. Westcott is hiding in an old Erie shaft in Scranton. An employee named Ruddy heard a noise and saw a man slipping through a roof. Barbour, the mine foreman, found a bed cooking utensils and food remains, with papers, suggesting recent occupation. A steady watch is kept to capture him if he reappears.
Thursday afternoon a horse strayed on the West Side and fell between ties while crossing a bridge. City Assessor James Pidgeon witnessed the incident and flagged an approaching passenger train. The engineer stopped the train, and rescuers freed the horse in about half an hour while the train waited. Minor injuries were avoided due to timely intervention.
Mr and Mrs John Gilroy of Bar View Street held a birthday gathering for their son James on Thursday evening. Guests included Loretta Parrett Mamie Murray Mamie McDonough Lizzie Poley Annie Jennie Maggie Clune Flaine Gilroy Gertrude Geary ArN Gsune Helen Gallagher Francia Gilroy Dave Lynch Tholtde Quinn and others.
Magnolia quartet members Parry Irwin Elbrecht and Terry performed at Enterprise hall in Jermyn. Mayfield’s William Walker Hose company opened their fair with a local attendee, Mrs. FON Claire from New York City, attending funeral events for her sister Mrs. Bradley. Various visits, parties, and gatherings appear across Scranton and surrounding towns, with travel notes, school class starts, and social invitations noted.
The advertisement promotes carpets from a 20c. per inch grain to Wilton and ostentatious cloths, linoleums, window shades, curtains, and novelties. It offers plush, tapestry and broc atelle upholstery and cobbler seats with the lowest prices cited.
Brunner recovers from diphtheria in Forest City as The New York Press recalls Teddy Sees the Parade with a laboring men theme. The report includes a funeral for John Thompson in Christ’s Episcopal church and note of James Farrell Jr's death by well accident. Nearby stories mention Hillside workers paid, visitors from Scranton, and a Davis Opera House concert with local musicians.
Miss Arlette Bronson and Miss Midlch Purritt visit Jersey City with friends. Methodist organizers plan Thanksgiving entertainment. Mrs. Darrow recovers after three weeks under care. Erie cuts water. two wells dug but rock impedes progress at one site. Two workers drill one foot daily with dynamite. Austin Smith sells Tromtne bonds wander BL 1. Finn canvassing in Dusten. Tiane Curtis and family return from the Western part of the state. Dr. Stevens leaves Uniondale without a physician. Word Kilner moves into Tenae Curtis' Church Street tenement. Ira Rider confined at home for a week. Miss Mina Norton manages the post office store. Concert by Mendelssohn Glee Club in Forest City attracts attendees. Prof. George M. Evins and Prof. Richard Williams, World's Fair prizewinners, expected among evening artists. Columbia the new national song, last number on the program from Princeton University celebration.
The Universalists fair held on Wednesday and Thursday drew hearty laughter and amusement with pretty booths and wax figure entertainment. Receipts neared 250 dollars before burglars struck Williams & Son on Main Street, stealing about 75 dollars via a rear window. Local residents and visitors, including Miss Mae Cortright and Mr. Tiffany, enjoyed the week, as a light snow squall covered the hills.
Mrs 8 E Wells celebrated her birth anniversary entertaining relatives from Scranton and Taylor. The Methodist church received a fresh coat of paint in warm grey with white and green trim. Mr James resides at Mrs J J Austins. A retired clergyman. Mr and Mrs KE Chapman will attend the Musical Alliance at Factoryville next Tuesday. Miss Emma Coon returned to Wyoming Seminary for studies in thermography. Mr and Mrs Freeman Leach of Chinchilla visited William H Swallow. Mrs BE Chapman visited Dalton.
Tillie Chapman year old daughter of Mr and Mrs David Chapman died Thursday morning from heart paralysis. Funeral set for tomorrow at 2 0 am with burial at Priceburg cemetery. Mrs D L Owens of North Main Street, Ja on the sick st.
Miss Sarah Jane Owens daughter of Mr and Mrs James Owens of Hill Street died Thursday evening after a lingering illness of consumption at age 21. Funeral tomorrow at 3 o clock with Rev Peter Hoberts officiating, interment in Union Cemetery. The First Ward hotel on Dunmore Street was burglarized with whiskey and cigars taken. offenders arrested last evening. An explosion of coal gas in the Fourth Ward school caused alarm but no damage. Redemptorists Fathers of Pittsburgh to hold a mission at St Patrick's church during Advent starting December 6. Throop line trains to Peckville with transfers at Delaware and Hudson crossings. Regular Episcopal services and Sunday school in Edwards hall Clarkely tomorrow. Powell the magician appears at Father Mathew Opera House next Tuesday and Wednesday. The Standard will hold no social in 05s hall Thanksgiving evening. Miss Jennie McAndrew hosted about forty friends on Lackawanna Street with dancing and a later supper.
A crowded local column lists events and visits from residents including Ida Miller and J J Morahan. It notes train service changes on the Leash Valley Railroad and upcoming Daughters of St George event at Malley’s hall. Miss Annie Rourke’s funeral was held and interred at St Mars cemetery.
The Wilkes-Barre Centennial Club reorganized with forty members and plans its seventh canal ball in Conradtonia on December 16 under directors Luft Antbrant Litt Welmeyer. In St Nicholas church Rev Charles Von Welden married Misehe and Misehe attended by Korn Rossner and Anthony Misehe. A reception followed at the Misehe home on South Street with many guests. Charles A Brown and Tracie M Oberst wed at Mrs Hoerger’s Orchard Street home with Rev Dr Tribert officiating. the groom is an Lehigh Valley Coal engineer, son of BE Brown of Binghamton, and the bride is a noted Wilkes-Barre woman.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church invites all to a Thanksgiving supper in the church yard on Thursday evening November 24. Supper costs 25 cents and an apron sale is planned as part of the event. In Grassy Island shaft a tenement owned by the Delaware and Hudson Canal company was partly destroyed by fire last Thursday night.
At 10 30 a m and 7 p m the pastor Rev H C Simpkins will preach The Saltless Salt and A Soul led to Christ by a Brother Sunday school at 2 30 Epworth League at 6 Invitation to all Rev H B Johnson will lecture at the Methodist Episcopal church lecture room on Nov 20 under Epworth League auspices Subject Sights and Scenes in Japan
The Kickapoo Indians will depart Monday night after a week of free performances. Miss Townsend of California daughter of Alva Townsend returns home after nineteen years away. Theron Billings is away on a week's hunting trip. Alva Daily has moved upstairs in Mrs. E Reynolds' house. Mrs. Fred Stone has recovered from illness. Rev. F W Young will deliver a sermon to the old folks tomorrow.
The Buffalo Times reviews how microphotography and microscopy aid crime detection, citing cases where hair analysis, blood spectrometry, and handwriting analysis helped prove innocence, identify culprits, and distinguish animal from human traces, signaling a new evidentiary era for justice.
A case revealed how a 316,000 check was altered after writing, with two inks blending on a three line document. An earlier check for 31,000 was forged by replacing the space for figures and substituting a new one, a trick visible only under a microscope.
A peculiar compilation traces the etymologies of many English words and phrases. It links papers to reed plants, a dandelion to the lion’s tooth, and gin to Geneva, among other origins, with notes on shifts in meaning over time.
Tailors advertise very low prices for suits in Scranton. They claim weekly sales growth, emphasize in house cutting and fitting, and assert they are the only local makers producing garments at these prices with complete in house production.
The notice lists prices for garments with pants starting from 3.00 and items marked down from 814.00 to 40.00, signaling a substantial clearance event.
Dr Green, a JMC Philadelphia professor, promotes electricity over drugs for many ailments. Since 1790 galvanism has grown as a cure, with machines and X‑ray equipment offered. He claims painless, effective electric therapy for rheumatism, paralysis, eczema, indigestion, poor circulation, and nervous disorders.
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