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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
4
The notice urges dependents be cared for through Equitable Life Assurance Society policies. It promotes ease, reliability, and planning for future comfort. Contact Armstrong & Gander, agents, for an application today.
B. G. Carpenter offers to provide figures on any heating or plumbing project.
Fragmented OCR lists fire alarm box locations in West Pittston and surrounding areas, with directions to operate alarms and names of streets. The text includes advertisements for tonics and remedies, rental and sale notices, and promotional blurbs. Names of companies and individuals appear inconsistently amid the garbled layout.
Reports from White Haven and surrounding towns recount deaths from illness and accident, a new wagon bridge crossing Lehigh, and progress on railway tunnels. Other items note a Plymouth widow’s death, a local couple marrying, a singing miners tour, and regional business notices.
A bustling list of yesterday's arrivals and visits includes Miss Cora Watson in Wyomi and Mrs. Healey with Plains and Scranton connections, plus funeral attendance in Olyphant. Borough officials report property valuation and tax adjustments while social events span Jeromie’s reception and numerous out of town guests from Scranton and beyond. In travel deals, Nickel Plate railroad offers scenic rates to Denver and St Paul, with Scranton Business College promoting its fall term for aspiring bookkeepers and stenographers. Burdock Blood Bitters and Perry Davis Painkiller are advertised remedies.
Obituary notes state Mrs Asher Tinker of Tunkhannock died yesterday. A new bank is planned in Dunmore with capital of 60000. The Clark reunion will be held at Nichol’s Grove Summit on Aug 29. A gunman defended a bridge flag protest near Bristol. Scranton reports light fire at Ontario and Western creamery, and Pittsburg records 33 policemen before safety directors. News items include a telegraph pole fight, a smallpox alert in Bloom, and notes on Beloved William Hly’s passing in Beverly New Jersey. Brain-Food Nonsense item discusses a fad debunking and a Kodol testimonial from Geo W Fry in Viola Iowa.
The centennial festival in Bloomsburg will span two days August 28 29 with elaborate hospitality and a firemen’s tournament featuring the Pittston Tele hose company. A D I W rail line offers round trip tickets Pittston to Bloomsburg for 1 44 valid to August 30, and a special Scranton Bloomsburg train runs August 29 with a return late August 29. Shatters All Records Twice in hospital F A Gulledge Dena Ala cures piles with Arnica Salve advertised locally.
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