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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
2
Local readers note lack of a garbage system in Pittston though nearby towns have public collection. Citizens urge municipal action to prevent odor, health risks, and decay from waste. Several residents and officials are cited in ongoing discussions about establishing a city service.
Local notices report meetings of various groups, church services, and community happenings. Updates include a factory site renovation at Newton and changes at Hub and Tunkhannock stores, a ballplayer joining a team, a baby’s death, a tailor’s return, and upcoming primaries for the Fifth District in September 1908.
A Gazette representative toured Wyoming avenue and Breese street to view the town hall, a $1,200 plot brick structure with annex, electricity, hot air heating, and a 20 by 36 feet council chamber.built for borough governance cost about $5,625 in construction with lot and furnishings around $8,000. Borough officials include Secretary Breese and Attorney Pockner. contractor Herbert S. Jones and architect Mr. Old supervised the project dedicated last July.
A report details that coal miners at several sites around the city mined and sold coal directly to markets, earning profits with minimal costs. Police, led by Superintendent Jopling, raided operations resulting in arrests and the dispersal of workers, while many miners abandoned sites for nearby transfers. The scene shows a lucrative, informal network supplying energy to residents amid rising theft concerns.
The text outlines decorative serving techniques using chopped salmon shapes, a dish of cheese browned in oven, and artistic potato cuts. It suggests arranging items around a platter, with cucumbers cut to resemble flower petals, tomatoes in cucumber borders, olives and radishes on cracked ice, and cabbage greens enhanced by sliced beets. It also mentions a mayonnaise dressed chicory salad and ends with an unrelated pastry recipe.
A garbled excerpt details measuring teaspoonfuls of baking powder and mixing with fat water and sugar. The text mentions kneading dough, spreading it, baking, buttering the bottom, and assembling with crushed blackberries and sugar, but many words are incomplete or misspelled.
A cluttered misc text cites ET Catera seeking at home sewing work, requests for domestic help, and various minor matters including ads for a Boston supplier, household posts, chair making, and a photographer in Baton. It also includes assorted colonial era notes, medical testimonials for bitters, and unrelated historical snippets on earthquakes, Constantinople, and giraffe birth.
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