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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1897
Page
8
The notice touts top quality wigs for ladies and gents for street wear. It promotes tonics bleaches rouges and powders as well as the Ideal Halo Brush with genuine Biberian bristle air cushioned. Children's hair cutting receives special attention.
Public schools opened with good attendance and a competent faculty. The Walleville fair begins at Stain and Driving park, running Sept 9 and 10 with large pumpkins, potatoes, and races expected to please. Street work crews upgrade Old Depot hill as residents recover from recent illnesses.
Public schools open today. The Delaware and Hudson office sold 325 tickets yesterday for the Mozart Band picnic. The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor Society plans a peach festival next Thursday evening in the Chapel. The old Presbyterian parsonage near the Armory will be moved to a vacant lot and converted into a double tenement. The Arian Glee Club of Wilkes Barre gave an excellent concert at the Baptist church Saturday night. The choir impressed with fine voices and many encored numbers. D J Williams offered masterly recitations and solos. The audience was large and representative. the church and glee club celebrate artistic and financial success.
Tunkhannock note: the next Five County Fireman's Convention will be held at Wellsboro. Judge Sittser and family return from Lake Owasco near Auburn New York. Marcy D Miller spent a few days in town with friends. On Friday evening of this week the reading continues.
Washington Chemical advertises cures for nervous ailments using Animal Extranets and offers a free book. The notice cites Washington and Matthews Hrow as the seller or promoter.
Ladies of the Presbyterian church plan a festival in the church parlors. Roberta visited her parents in West Pittston on Sunday. John M. Garman, Democratic State Chairman, of Wilkes-Barre, spent Sunday in town. Union Tanning Company plans to boost production as more workers are hired than in eighteen months. Mrs. C. V. Childs visited friends in Elmira. Seminary students returned to Kingston yesterday. Miss Branch Frederici of Brooklyn, NY, is in town for several weeks.
Mrs Ed Pentecost of Prompton visited her parents Mr and Mrs William Jennings. Mrs KE A Bloxham and children visited her mother Mrs Potter in Thompson. John Graves of Jermyn and Forest City friends spent Sunday in town. Theta Andrews and Gertrude Davis of Scranton stayed with Mrs J L West-Bate. Frank Belcher, once in Klondike, rumored to be wealthy, returned home. J A Bloxham and T J Maxey made regional visits. Forest City sent loyal attendees to Anthracite Park races in Carbonale. Labor Day closed mines and businesses.
Fr L Crane of Scranton registers at Tarbell house. A T Raynesford and Mrs Raynesford with son Jack visit J R Rayneford on Maple street and plan a fortnight at Elklake. On Sept 13 Judge Searle will hear a request for a new trial for John Waltz with attorney John M Kelly likely to appear. The Grand Army of the Republic in Susquehanna county toured Buffalo and the post renamed itself Susquehanna county Veterans. The Sons of Veterans flag was used after the vote could not be held.
G H Hinkley of West Nicholson reports an exceptionally large crop with an expected harvest of eight hundred to one thousand bushels. The note also records several local movements and visits including Mrs Waterbury returning from Nova Scotia, Miss Emma Harding from Asbury Park, D C Graham visiting in Tunkhannock, and Judge M A Eastman in town on business. The marriage of Miss Genevieve Bacon and Frank Baker is announced for Wednesday at 4 pm.
In a tense exchange the man with the protruding jaw declares a need to revise his challenge terms, while the striped shirt man objects and insists the fight be allowed anywhere except Nevada. The Nevada habitus is described as the only place to fight currently.
Von Wither and Von Miner discuss Par venen's new house with real hardwood floors. Miner recounts falling on one of the floors last night, confirming the floor installation.
Scranton stock and bond quotations show various local firms and utilities. Listings include Scranton Traction, First National Bank, Scranton Savings, Lackawanna Iron and Steel, Dime Deposit & Savings Bank, and Scranton & Pittston Traction. Bond issues cover first mortgages and general mortgages on local transit and coal concerns.
New York Live Stock reports two day receipts at New York on Sept 6 showing 416 head on sale across 60 cars. Rawe steers steady while other classes move 0c lower.
Fragmentary readout shows cattle and calf sales with notes on native steers and bulls, beef prices per pound, veal and calf receipts, sheep and lamb entries, and car counts. Mentions export pauses and mixed results across two days with unsold stock noted.
Chicago market bulletin shows cattle and stockers active with prices around 4.21 for feeders and 3.27 to 9.00 for sheep. Hogs count about 32 000 heads and cattle 2 000. lamb and ewe quotes fluctuate with noted values. Receipts include hogs, cattle, and sheep, reflecting substantial livestock movement.
An Inquiring Tourist asks if placards urge Everts to refrain from bed with spurs on at the Buggard Roost Hotel. Alkall Ike replies the landlord is accommodating and allows spurs in bed, offering either a fight or payment for chewed bed clothes as the guest’s choice.
Reported in Truth, a cinematograph artist is described as a mental wreck after attempting to photograph the way hired girls leave suburban homes. The exchange reveals confusion over his actions and the upset it caused.
A playful zoo anecdote features a zebra quipping that beauty is skin deep while a rhinoceros suggests a practical role, adding humor to a gloomy menagerie scene.
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