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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1893
Page
1
Letters from neighboring towns report local news and social notes. Readers learn of illness recovery at Villa Nova, a dog incident, ball plans at Freeland, crime and accidents, and community improvements as residents describe autumn scenes and ongoing town life.
Rev J P Buxton visits the World’s Fair this week as collieries report full-time work outlook good for fall and winter. Neil Boyle moves his family to Silver Brook with a farewell gathering. Mrs Kellar visits from Virginia to see her mother Mrs Kessel. William Brogan returns from western states to visit family. Rumor links William Iles to mine foreman job at No 2 slope after trip. Harry Jones resigns as hostler and goes to Wyoming. Peter Carr becomes locse engineer. Oberrender and wife and Sam Salmon and wife set for Chicago. E J Sweeney called to Allentown to assist mother ill. Evan Reese moves to Plymouth. Lizzie Edmunds ill at home. Patrick Boyle receives gold temperance badge from Fearnots before move to Silver Brook. Bridget McGeehan recovers from illness. A large Wilkes-Barre parade delegation departs tomorrow. Two new cabooses arrive for D B & 8. Ellie O’Donnell of Wilkes-Barre visiting parents. James Ferry injures ankle at No 2 warehouse when ladder slips.
Washington dispatch notes three of thirteen applicants in the twelfth district for two vacant internal revenue collectorships, with Grant Herring backed by the state machine facing T M Conniff and George W Esser opposed by anti-state administration forces. Rounding out the item are ads and snippets on Hall's Catarrh Cure and local trades, plus brief notes on London theater history, early lighting, and urban waste revenue curiosities.
Sanasare has received thirty two watches, several as violins, while Mrs Annie Moore of Mount Pleasant Texas leads the only U S national bank presidency held by a woman. Mr Grapstone impressed Commons with gumption, Mrs Saran 2 Cooper funded early San Francisco kindergartens into a network of sixty five schools, Prov PeLar of Paris Sorbonne devised a train collision alert using iodine impregnated paper and a platinum stylus to mark a moving chart reporting each train’s position.
Ely Leader, a mail carrier for M J Coggin, is jailed on criminal negligence charges after a mail pouch from Montrose went missing between Scranton and the Delaware Lackawanna Western depot. A passenger later found the pouch in a depot water closet, suggesting theft during the search lull. A separate Hazleton to New Boston Junction crash killed brakeman Frank Keene, while others survived.
Local column shares a slice of daily life with ads for Bonny flour at 1.75 per bag and Berner's as the carpet and furniture hub. Notices include an insanity case, railroad accident, theater plans, a charity club, and a party about to open with The Two Orphans. Minor officials face audit orders and a lodge forms with 47 members.
The genial M. H. Tunsicker and brother Tom of Freeland attended the funeral of C. H. Bower in town. Candy Murry of Scranton is visiting friends. Tough Jennings of the Baltimore club visits Catcher Simmons at Jeanenville. Chas O'Donnell of Towanda, Pa, spends a few days in town.
The Lansford Record marks its fifteenth year this Saturday, continuing a bright, well-edited journalism tradition. The Morning Sun of Nanticoke launches a new daily edition alongside The Tribune of Plymouth, while Lansford remains vigorous and full of life.
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