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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1896
Page
8
Advertisements from the North Main street newsdealers detail notices for Jute work and Home publication, with prompt attention promised from the office hours starting in the morning.
The Berean Baptist Sunday school held a reunion service with a full program of music, prayers, readings, and songs led by the Sunday school orchestra. Miss Augusta Curtis, principal of Circle Training School and Baptist Institute at Franklin, N Y, spoke at the evening service to six young people.
The McMynne family at Dun daff street awoke with gas pains after a fresh coal load was placed in a heat range whose cover was left partly off. The family slept in rooms adjoining the sitting room and were found ill by neighbors. Dr Dailey treated them as the house was vented. the father and two sons began recovering while the mother and three children remained very unwell.
In Alumni Park on Saturday Carbondale High defeated School of the Lechawanna of Scranton in a rough football contest. Key players such as Pendleton Viens Murrin Troll Olly Woy and Jerr Endwered standout moments amid a 20 minute halves format. The report notes multiple tackles and a final score leaning to Carbondale with a strong second-half push.
A meeting was held Friday evening in Puglione's hall to choose a leader. Several applications were received for the position and many recommended Professor Olin Gloviiininess as a strong candidate, though opinions varied on engagement.
A large crew has been deployed at Rink’s plant near Combetion to expand the carpenter shop and planing facilities. The upgrades will modernize the mill and bring the latest improvements to the operation.
Local social notes list Mroua Mis and Phenry Allen of South Wiles visiting friends this summer. Several residents plan trips to New York aboard the Teutonic and other highways, with many staying with relatives or visiting to attend events.
A late Saturday fire at the West Side residence owned by Squire John Reap destroyed his house and badly damaged Patrick Curley’s nearby home. Estimated losses reach 4000 with 2000 insured for Reap and 2000 for Murphy. fire plugs are urged for the area. Mrs. Thomas Kelley dies after typhoid illness at age about 60. funeral set for today.
Friday evening a reception was held for Herbert Hobart of New York at the Collier residence in Old Forge. Attendees included Misses Elsie Carey Sadie Richards Mary and Annie Scherer Addie Goodwin Gertrude Jones Cora Nyehart Mattie Joxie Flora Collier and Messrs Harry Winslow William Davis John Griffiths Fred Arthur Stone Joseph Goodwin Harry Sweet Charles Collier. The social for Richard Langon at Archbald was a Buccresk. A temperance lecture by Rev. Quincy Lee Morrow drew a good crowd. Delaware Lackawanna and Western collieries schedule transitions noted.
W OA McCarthy of Miners Mills visits Mansfield Normal. Lectures begin with Charles Piet Fite Bo OH Di on William Bradford. Wellsboro natives head the Populist tickets for governor and lieutenant governor. Bailey & McCausland sells shares to Hailey. John Davies class 96 lands gym instructor post near Léguard’s Bay. Rose Baker class 96 teaches on the St. Lawrence. Faculty patrol duty at dining hall. Recent storm damages include fifteen trees at Smythe park and harm to the Normal buildings.
The Robinson genuine colored specialty company appears tomorrow evening at the Father Mathew Opera House for a benefit lecture by Colonel WH Ripple titled Life in Andersonville Prison. Admission is 1h and 2h cents. Bernetta McHale of Delaware avenue is mentioned in the notices. Rev P J Murphy spent Thursday at Dunmore. Frank Parry, bedridden two weeks, is now able to go out.
A humorous exchange questions whether future newspapers will place marriage notices on the men's page. The judge comments, prompting a light aside about evolving social norms.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year dignity remedy for teething pain, gums, wind colic and diarrhoea. It sells for twenty five cents a bottle and is promoted as the best choice available worldwide.
Rev Henry Marian a Harrison county minister is jailed in Corydon on charges of horse stealing. The horse from Rev AL A Rowe’s stable was found disabled along a road miles from home. Marian admits taking the horse but denies intent to steal claiming he was too drunk to remember.
A boastful advertisement profiles an institution offering electrotherapy with a range of devices. It claims capabilities from galvanic and sinusoidal treatments to magnetic instruments, eye and ear electrodes, cautery tools, and methods claimed to treat rheumatism, tumors, nervous disorders, and paralysis. The piece highlights experienced practitioners and free consultations, inviting correspondence for those unable to visit.
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