City Notes Highlight Local Meetings And Incidents
City notes report a board of control regular meeting and a joint auditing committee discussion. Washington speaker Trev Ti Stafford will lecture in December. Local arrests include Michael O Hara and Patrick Allenlion for traffic offenses and John Creck fined for wine theft, with minor court actions. A funeral for Mrs. Susan Newell is announced, and a high requiem mass will be held with interment at Hyem Park cemetery. The Lackawanna County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union holds its eleventh convention at the Dalton Methodist church with closing business Thursday. St Peters Society hosts a large Bellevue picnic at Laurel Hill. prizes go to Duthigeg, Nealon, and Dyle. Police escort leads a girl home after a street incident. Florence Singleton, age unknown, identifies herself and asks to attend Sunday school.
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Stafford
Washington, D. C
Willdliver
John Maortes
Alterman Howe
Delaware
Lackawanna
Western
Republica
Michael O'Hare
Patrick Allenlion
Fiat
Kent
Bailey Patuniay
John Creck
Davie’ Theater
Susan Newell
Green's
Toowelork
Intermynt
Hye Mark Catholic Cemetery
Thore
Frank Dyle
Richard Edwards
Terial
Agand
Dyer
Ersing
Lispeld
Florence Singleton
Lee Court
Brudders
Florence
The Use of Aluminum and Its Rising Demand
The article notes aluminum prices dropping from about 10 to 82 cents per pound and its growing use across industries. It highlights aluminum as cheaper and lighter than copper or brass for many applications, with early adopters in cooking utensils laboratories medical tools and bicycle parts. It predicts Europe uses to reduce military gear weight and cites projected output of 2 000 tons in 1898 and 10 000 tons in 1900. A railroad travel notice for Lehigh Valley line to New York follows.
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Europe
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills advertised cure claim
An advertising blurb asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla builds lasting health by curing symptoms and Hood's Pills relieve nausea headache indigestion and biliousness with a prompt drugstore availability.
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Hood
Christ the Workingman's Friend Sermon on Labor Rights
Dr. Dixon argues labor dignity and freedom within Christian ethics at Penn Avenue Baptist Church. He says a man may quit work but cannot command others or force capital, urges capital to heed the golden rule, and condemns labor unrest and violence on the mountain sides.
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Joseph K. Dixon
D. D
Penn Avenue Baptist Church
Christ the
Mount of Olives
Ord
Fox
Christ
Eirth
Nazareth
Garden of Eden
Judas
Doling
Powarbie
Bhimund Burke
Inter- Pera
William Hargreavesays
Jay Gould
Hamlet
Gould
WHAT POSED HIM The Mythological Centaur and the Proper Medicine Man
A man with a valise and umbrella buys fiction then studies a mythological illustration. He asks what a centaur is and wonders who would treat a centaur if he fell ill. The clerk explains centaurs and the man muses about parallels to his patent medicine work.
Remodelled Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Opens
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates the formal reopening of its enlarged Madison avenue chapel after a year of worship in the old building. Rev Foster Gilt and Rev John Davy head the services with the congregation praising new decor, electric lights, and a larger worship space.
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Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
G. W. Sanborn
John Davy
Thomas Barker
Foster A. Gilt
Friends
Madison Avenue
Mulberry Street
Edith Benson
Oo Prano
Misa Jordan
T. Finns Jones
M. Landt
Edith Smith
Ater
Anther
Foster Z. Gift
Sermon by Rev. Father Kernan at St. Peter's Cathedral
At St. Peter's cathedral yesterday high mass resumed after the summer vacation. Pauer's orchestra accompanied the choir during the mass. The sermon by Rev. Father Kernan, a Dominican priest, drew careful attention as part of a two week mission at Providence. Sunday School also resumed at the cathedral yesterday.
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St. Peter's Cathedral
Pauer
Father Kernan
Providence
Steel Freight Cars to Lead Next Steel Revolution
A Railroad Gazette writer argues that complete steel freight cars will revolutionize rail transport. Steel cars cut dead weight and repairs, reduce fire risk, and could triple utilization, with potential savings of tens of thousands yearly per thousand cars and millions for total fleets.
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Railroad Gazette
FEMICURE LIVER PILLS PROMISE FEMALE HEALTH
The ad claims FEMICURE LIVER PILLS directly improve the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels while regulating female functions. It lists relief from Constipation Headache Dizziness Indigestion Torpid Liver Biliousness Faintness Irregularities Backache and complexion issues. One pill dose costs 2i cents and the product is sold by Carl Lorens, druggist, 418 Lackawanna Ave Beranton.
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Carl Lorens
Lackawanna Ave
Beranton
Chapel for Congregation Opens After Farewell to YMCA Rooms
On June 14, 1906 the congregation held the first service in their own chapel after leaving the YMCA rooms. The building seats about 109 with an annex for 25 more for infants. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society began work here on June 1, 1896 making this a female led mission, the only eastern point under their care at present.
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A. N. Warner
Northumberland
Susquehanna Synod
Grettyshire
Board of Home Missions
Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor
Madison Avenue
Mulberry Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society
General Synod
Poker Traveler and the Royal Flush Deception Tale
A narrator recalls a Buenos Aires to New York voyage story where a beautiful Spanish woman wins a $5,000 royal flush after a cold deck swindle by a local invalid. The woman refunds the money and asks the teller to stay silent about the incident, while noting the others’ puzzled reactions.
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South America
New York
Buenos Ayres
Colombia
Washington
White
Price of Electric Light Reduced in City Limits
The Suburban Electric Light Company announces a rate cut for incandescent lamp hours starting Sept 1. The new price is five eighths of a cent per lamp hour, with a 10 to 20 percent discount based on current use if the bill is paid by the 20th of the issuing month. Also mention of tailor made fall suits and overcoats by John Ross at 307 Spruce Street.
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Suburban Electric Light Company
Have You Seen Them New Toilet Sets
Advertisement featuring a window display of new toilet sets with the latest shapes and decorations. It promises rock bottom prices and urges readers to view them in the store window.
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