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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1896
Page
8
Advertisements orders for job work and publication items left at Shannon & Co new dealers North Amrie L will receive prompt attention with office hours 8 am to 10 pm.
North west colliery employees surprised Superintendent John W. Whyte at his home on his forty sixth birthday. Superintendent James G. Shephard of Scranton presented a gold watch and chain in a brief address. The evening featured social time, a musical program, speeches, and a sumptuous repast.
Peter F. Coyle, a long-time resident of the West Side, died at home aged forty-nine. A member of the Knights of Father Mathew and the Catholic Knights of America, he leaves a wife, six children, his mother, four sisters, and one brother. Requiem Mass will be held tomorrow at St. Rose Church with burial in St. Rose Cemetery.
Martin Whalen aged eighty five died Sunday after a long residence in the city. Four years earlier he suffered serious injuries while working on the Methodist church, leaving him greatly changed. He was known as a devout Christian and highly respected. A requiem mass will be celebrated this morning.
Charles Alexander, delegate from the Mitchell Hose company to the Firemen's State convention at Journstown, and representative of the city fire department, has returned home expressing gratitude for the hospitality shown to visiting firemen. The forthcoming report will detail the events of the coming month.
Miss Harriot Hutching leaves for Cletyysburg then Harrisburg to study the local high school program. Several residents visit friends in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Taylor, Dundaff, Jermyn, and Waymart. Travelers include Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Willehter Sach from Susquehanna and others visiting family in New York City and other towns.
In Wyalusing and Iona Michigan five hundred Scranton Silverites arrive on a special Delaware and Hudson train. Mr and Mrs George E West and Gon Ralph A T Vaughn and George Maynard of Providence were guests of Mrs J D Palmer Sunday. J J Neill salesman for J B Shannon returns from vacation. Leslie who prepared the Kirmess programme will stay in the city all week and join dances. Page of Waverly is visiting friends in the city.
A. C. Lindsay and family plan a New York visit. the Honesdale post office is set to move to the Independent building on Front street. Obituary notes Daniel Weston died in Paterson and was buried in Ellenville. Various local items include Colon el Cue Durland's business trip to Philadelphia and New York, Paul W. Gardner’s bicycle trip to the St Andrew convention in Pittsburg, a Demographic shift in Honesdale voters toward McKinley, a Scranton Truth transfer of William H. Malla to Scranton with brother-in-law Drum succeeding him, a turkey supper at the Baptist church, Odd Fellows Lodge officers installed, a large Wayne county chestnut crop, nineteen bushels sold near Leonardayville, and sheriff candidates using farmers to push support.
Flames were seen yesterday afternoon at William Boland’s home on First Street Blakely. No water plugs delayed the Ex celsior Hose company. The kitchen fire ruined the building. a piano and some small items were saved. The house was insured.
The Epworth League presents an evening program at the Opera House with piano solos by Vida Johnson vocal solos by Susie Black Garrigan and L. W. Shields duets by Black and Garrigan and quartets by the Young Men's Glee Club. Ladies Guild offers supper at the Presbyterian church Wednesday after 7. Ella Stark returns from Sheffield Philadelphia and Manefield.
Mrs. Charles Keller and son Earl visit in York state. Mrs. William Pyne of Dunmore spends Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. P. Snedicer. Emory Bronzie gravely ill. Quake game at Donnelly's hotel won by Thomas Middleton 62 to 4h. A theft at Mrs. Budd’s millinery on Main street. Miss Bessie Webster visits Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Peck visit relatives in Carbondale. Mrs. John Pritchard returns home with grandchildren Avis and John Pritchard. George Fields and Arthur Leyshon visit with Abbie and Nettie Edwards.
Willis, infant son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Stull Parsons, died Sunday night. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in Marcy Cemetery at one o'clock.
A Home Queen essay argues that women must study domestic science and personal health before marriage. It condemns ignorance of cooking, anatomy, and hygiene, warns against corsets and high heels, and urges open mother daughter dialogue on life, sex, and anti natal safeguards.
A collection of household tips on preserving sponges in salt water, skin care with honey olive oil and almond meal, corns remedies with tar sugar and saltpeter, curing nervous headaches by backward walking, cleaning leather with eggs and turpentine, and methods to filter water, remove carpet grease, join wood with Isinglass cement, and proper washing and storage of jars and preserves to prevent porosity and cracking.
The New York Journal recounts an exchange where Congressman Bailey of Texas corrects a Broadway conductor who calls out Houston as the street name. Bailey insists the street is Houston, ledgers and insults fly, revealing local pride in proper naming. The piece pivots to an ad about Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies, noting its long-standing use and price.
Grand sale featuring over six hundred Turkish and Persian rugs and carpets in all sizes. Some pieces hailed as luxurious, with patterns and colorings inspired by designs perfected in ancient times during Damascus Nineveh and Babylon’s eras.
A historical notice highlights Dr. Green as a medical electricity proponent at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia. It cites Bartholow and Galvanism, praising electricity as a king of medical treatment and inviting inquiries to R. E. Bostick or Seabury & Johnson for LaRhbeumatism results.
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