Doctor Reeves Establishes Practice on Spruce Street
Dr Reeves announces permanent establishment at Spruce Street Scranton with a free service policy and a wide range of treatments for nervous disorders eye ear nose throat and chronic diseases plus a dedicated Female Department. A special catarrh cure offer of four months treatment for ten dollars is available for thirty days with trial treatment free and hours daily at a Christian's hat store elevator location.
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Reeves
Spruce Street
Scranton
Fablic
Cnelevator
Christian
Bad Drainage Causes Sickness and Remedy Mention
A brief note discusses poor drainage as a source of illness and references Durdook Bivol Bitters as a remedy. The tone imitates a late 19th or early 20th century medical advertisement.
Delicate Party Dishes and Oyster Recipes Mix
A compilation of kitchen ideas features cold tongue dishes baked in chafing dishes with tomato and herbs, curry toast with anchovies, browned oysters, cheese toast with cream sauce, and a pickle mix. It also covers roast pork tenderloin stuffing, baked ice cream novelty, a cream salad dressing, oyster cream sauce, and a luncheon menu with ham, oyster salad, jelly grapes, and coffee. Tolls and a guided public tour of Washington avenue are announced with weather contingency.
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Philadelphia
Mise Johnson
Opening the Boulevard Promises Public Inspection Tomorrow
The Elmhurst Boulevard opening is announced for tomorrow at 2 o clock. Officials and promoters showcase the project despite a bridge delay at Nay Aug Falls. Permission from Pennsylvania Coal Co allows use of the old gravity roadbed from Ash Street toward Roaring Brook near the falls. Ach Street runs from the school house on Petersburg Hill toward West.
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Nay Auge Boulevard
Washington Avenue
Court House
Elmhurat
Nay Aug Falls
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Ash Street
Roaring Brook
Falls
School House
Petersburg Hill
St Joseph's Foundling Home Appeals for Support
Directors of St Joseph's Society issue an appeal noting depleted funds after annual donation days Oct 4 and 25. They seek continued support to finish a permanent home near Green Ridge, due to rising rental costs and reliance on Scranton and Dunmore with little outside aid.
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St. Joseph's Society
St. Joseph's Foundling Home
St. Joeph’s
Scranton
Dunmore
Green Ridge
Foundling Home
Court Disposes with Hag gerty v St John at Peace Bond
The court under Judge Gunster settled the case of Dr. Haggerty against W A St John after a driving park dispute. Haggerty testified of threats to injure him and the defendant posted a $100 bond to keep the peace. Other actions included fines, bonds, and partial cost assignments in multiple cases before Judge Edwards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Haggerty
St. John
W. A. St. John
Gunster
Mr. St. John
Edwards
Michael Flaherty
Traction Company
Mingoka
Thomas Whitehouse
Mary A. Jones
Miss Jones
Lackawanna Township
Jermyn
Adam
Walter Snyder
Ernest Decker
Linm Farnham
Sopher
Valentine Hess
Peckville
Thomas Jones
Martin Murphy
Joseph Moyles
Thom 11Homas Miller
Mercy
Notable Anniversary Celebrations at Hallstead Homestead
A Saturday evening 20 Mifflin Avenue event marked the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Hallstead and the birthdays of Mrs. Hallstead and their son Frank N. Hallstead. The Hallstead family, longtime Scranton builders and wagon makers, hosted a large gathering with relatives from the city and abroad. Notables from Philadelphia New York Utica Archbald and Omaha attended. The piece notes the couple wed Oct 20 1844 in Clifford Susquehanna County and that the son works for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western. The article closes with an invitation to hear the next governor at the armory tonight.
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Hallstead
Mifflin Avenue
Nathaniel Hallstead
Frank N. Hallstead
Clifford
Susquehanna County
Charles Miller
Carbondale
Scranton
Penn Avenue Baptist Church
J. B. Downing
Philadelphia
P. Schoonmaker
New York
Walton Mitchell
Utica
Susan Rivenburg
Mise del Hallstead
Mra. van Doran
Archbald
Revenge Motive Tied to Beall Beheading in Booth Plot
A Raleigh date story in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat argues Booth sought Lincoln’s death to avenge Captain Beall’s execution at Fort Columbus. Dr. George Foote details Beall’s Confederate exploits, Beall Booth friendship, failed escape plans, and Booth’s vow to kill Lincoln and Seward after Beall’s hanging.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Raleigh, N. C
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Booth
Beall
George A. Foote
Warrenton
N. C
Fort Columbus
New York Harbor
Foote
New York
St. Alban’s
South
Grant
Army of the Potomac
Andrew
Masacchusetts
Heall
Dr. Foote
Bealls
New York City
General Dix
Washington
Seward
Brooklyn
Surgeon Foote
Johnson's Island
F Beunll
War Governor Curtin Reminiscence Shared by Harry Hall
Washington correspondent Harry Hall of the Pittsburg Times recalls a pleasant day with Governor Curtin at his Bellefonte home. He recounts Curtin’s October victory tour and a Boston appearance at Faneuil Hall, where the crowd reacted to his speech.
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Hastings Party
West Pittston
Harry Hall
Washington
Pittsburg
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Parker House
Hardened Nellie Connors Nets Again With Police
Nellie Connors a 21 year old white woman known to police was found on Scranton Street with three colored men. Patrolman Gurrell summoned a citizen to help place her in the West Side station. In cell she tore clothing to avoid court, later sobered and remanded. She smoked cigarettes and took medicine to stave off delirium tremens. Her prior arrest involved Hungarians.
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Nellie Connors
Scranton Street
Lackawanna
Bloomshoro
Gurrell
West Side
Death of Patrick Nalia
Patrick Nalia of Carbondale died yesterday morning at 2:30 due to a violent typhoid fever after a two week illness. The two year old was well known and respected in Carbondale and valley. Funeral from the residence on Wednesday at 9 o'clock.
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Patrick Nalia
Carbondale
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Ores Goois
Oxford
HE Hovesis
Goc
Gorman's Grand Depot
Spruce St
DR. Reeves
Sprace St., Scranton
J. Scott Inglis
Lackawanna Avenue
Wyoming
U. S
New York Evening Post
Way Booth
Benil
University of Virginia
Pennsylvania
Curtin
Billy’ Florence
Dock
Hood
Hood's
Lackawanna Ave
Tomae Davies & Griffin
Sathina
Innian
Es Molva Eheraa
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