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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1894
Page
8
Comprehensive display of autumn and winter dress fabrics in medium price range. Emphasis on greater value and choicer styles with 36-inch all wool changeable mixtures at 29c and 40-inch silk and wool mixtures at 49c. Some lower priced weaves rival higher priced quality from prior seasons.
First showing of new dress patterns on exhibition daily. The stock features newcomers that attract inspection with strong character and distinct individuality. One pattern of a kind. Make your choice without obligation to buy, all at prices to suit the times.
Prominent physician announces permanent Scranton office at 111 Spruce Street offering free consultations and exams. He claims vast hospital experience in Philadelphia and New York and promises expert treatment for nervous system, eye, ear, throat, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, and many other ailments for men women and children. Office hours daily 9am to 9pm Sundays 6 to 12 and 2 to 4. avivator in Christian's Hat Store or Statra. Remember the name and number.
Local sports note records the Hustlers of Hyde Park losing to Brown of this place on a Saturday afternoon as rain ends play after four innings. Other items mention visits by residents from Archbald Providence Scranton and Hyde Park along with injuries and recoveries.
Moses Shields entertained friends Saturday evening. Mrs. F M Williams returned from a two month visit at her old home in Cochranton New York. Newton fell from his store wagon and broke his wrist last week. A L Tita fell and broke his hip. Mrs N N Wasleker nee Jessie Harrie has returned from Texas after six months away. Liewellen Shields conducts a musical drill and will give a concert around September 20. Rev Mr Waterbury and family are taking a short vacation.
An archaic advertisement promotes Bucklon Arnica Salve as the best cure for rheum fever chapped hands chilblains skin eruptions piles and cramps. The text swears no pay unless satisfaction is guaranteed and mentions generic medicinal claims without verifiable proof.
Jermyn and Scranton visitors mingle with church suppers and town projects. Reports note new residents H. Davin and J. Gill, a Niagara excursion, and school language lessons offered free by Mr Howells. Voters select delegates, lines disrupt streetcar service, and a Laurel Bridge Street petition gains broad support.
The first annual piente of Electric Star lodge No 490 Independent Order of Odd Fellows was a total failure due to rain and is indefinitely postponed. Ten candidates joined the Methodist Episcopal church this Sunday and baptism by immersion is planned at Gravel Lake next Sabbath.
Burgess Burke had not approved the ordinance granting the right of way over Laurel Bridge and Church streets to the Lackawanna Valley Rapid Transit company by eight o'clock last evening. Yesterday marked the final day for approval or disapproval, determining the fate of the measure. Dr. William Van Doren, recently ill, returns to practice, and John A. Foote departs today.
An advertisement touts Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a tonic for women suffering weakness and nervous exhaustion. It claims to restore flesh and plumpness, boost digestion, enrich blood, and aid ladies and mothers, with Matthews' Bros. in Scranton selling the product.
Mrs G W B Allena ill at home at 412 Sproce Street in Scranton. Eva Frear of Kingston visits Millie Anunie. J N Crosby and Danmore relatives weekend gathering. Florence Fowler and Lydia Farrar host lawn social on Cherry Street. Howard Bone heads to Bellefonte for chemistry course. Mrs Connelly Hyde Park visits son L Tyler Conneily. Loyal Legion to stage Ruined by Drink Sept 19. Rev J C Leacock and Mrs L leave for two week trip. Public schools reopen with improvements under Superintendent Williams. Mrs A D Blackinton Libbie Galpin Brandhi Blows return from Albany. Dentist O J Marcy to move to Providence. Finch and family visit relatives at Ozone Park. L Floyd Schoonover vacation at Lake Ariel. Mrs Merwin Correll visiting relatives at Lake Ariel.
The Avoca conclave and Heptasophs held their regular meeting last night. Rev. ALF Crane attended services at St Johns church in Pittston yesterday. William Graham plans a short trip to New York on Saturday. Numerous Avoca residents attended services at the gospel tent in Pittston including James Allan Jr. and Miss Sarah Grew. Thomas Buros, a respected resident, died Saturday morning after a brief illness leaving a wife and seven children. Funeral mass at St Marys church and interment at Market Street cemetery Pittston. Mrs John Kearney and children visited Mrs Healy in Pittston Friday. Frank Coburn of Papar News Vaz visits his aunt Mrs Nowlin.
Misa Whefred Munhedy returns home after two months visiting N anti coke. William Troll elected Democratic delegate on Saturday night. Rollers bakery wagon ran away causing wheel damage and spilled contents. Greenwood forms independent political club with leaders Wer rick Cotter Gallagher Kimlen Duffy. Yue Mayflowers Base Ball club of Minooka defeated Danmore’s Morning Glories 6 to 4 after ten innings. Joseph Kelly leaves for St Michael's College Toronto after two months vacation with parents.
Hallstead hosts a teachers meeting Friday evening at Mrs G W Capwell home on Church Street. A cottage meeting Friday evening takes place at William Hoover residence on Williams Street. Mrs Rose Jordan of Scranton visits with Mrs Frank Gratton. Mrs M J Colligan of Scranton visits her parents in Great Bend. Mr and Mrs Nelson Coon returned from New York City. John Acker of Scranton registered at the Mitchell Hones today. Henry Corry of Pittston, former YMCA secretary, is visiting town.
Honesdale resident Charles Penwarden of New York has returned home from summering in Howesdale. Albany socialite Mira Anna Atkinson visits Mise du Barnws and travels with Isaac Ham Robert Menoner of Flonesdale and Frederick Murtio of Syracuse who also returned from Howesdale to Bate rollena Fostoria.
Forest City highlights include social visits from Scranton guests and a convention of the Jeffsrocn Branch Young Peoples Society at Bikdale on Sept 10. Reports cover a board of trade meeting, a Stillwater Er ie wreck after a cow obstruction, funeral plans for Felix Devanney’s son, and upcoming oyster supper at the Presbyterian church on Sept 18.
In Peckville last Sunday morning the Methodist Episcopal church welcomed fourteen individuals into full membership led by Rev P P Doty. Local health notes highlight cures and remedies while residents travel, fix homes, and host community events including a dime supper at the parsonage on Wednesday from 6 to 9. Specimen cure stories describe recoveries from rheumatism and lingering leg sores credited to Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s products.
G A Jones of Wilkes Barre visited Dr and Mrs C S Hoya and J Frank Smith at Triangular Lake yesterday while Mrs Charles Barber and her daughter Della were at Pittston. Mr and Mrs J P Shoemaker plan a Pittsburg visit this week. B O Dodson the jeweler moves from the post office building on Eighth Street to a new building on Wromley Avenue. Mr and Mrs Joseph McRilly and daughter returned from Lily Lake yesterday.
Thoma Mc Donald aged about 18, resident of the South Side, suddenly complained of chest pain while en route to church Sunday morning. He collapsed on the sidewalk, died before a physician arrived at the home of Anthony Cannon. Funeral services to be held this afternoon at 3, with Pioneer Father Matthew in charge.
Adele Halstead Tripp died from injuries received while lighting a lamp in Newark New Jersey on August 21. She was 64 and long served as regent of Roseville seminary for twenty five years. Her brother in law was Colonel Ira Tripp of Cranton Pa and she was related to D B Halstead of the New York National Bank.
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