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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
2
A fragment from a Victorian-sounding page mentions Lord Palmerston and a wife seeking advice on gifts. The text references osteopathy, Dr. O'Brien, a miners’ bank building, and a shopkeeper humorously suggesting a box of sugars as a Christmas gift. The garbled excerpt includes mentions of Isle of Wight and a lace parasol.
The article notes how Christmas joy travels with U S Navy ships worldwide. It quotes sailors as deeply sentimental about the holiday, with imagery of warships, Santa Claus maps, and sailors shedding fur and reindeer for a team of porpoises as they sail to distant harbors.
American and foreign fleets celebrate Christmas aboard ships with bamboo trees and festive meals. sailors enjoy devotion, sports, concerts, and letters from home while on duty abroad. The era notes large Christmas pie, radium gifts in London, and naval routines easing for the holiday.
A fragmentary account recalls festive aboard ship scenes with comestible committees, holiday meals featuring oyster soup and turkey, a pastry contest, and discipline demerits. It mentions Foley’s Honey and Tar as a remedy and warns against substitutes amid wartime shortages.
An old advertisement touts Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a soothing curative for wounds burns swelling and inflammation. It claims rapid pain relief and blood poisoning prevention and includes Mrs Jessie Farris of Elizabeth Kentucky endorsing its effectiveness on her burned child. Price listed as 50c and 1.00.
Public notice of the Standard Railroad timetable in effect November 26 1903. Details routes Wilkesbarre Hazleton Pottstown Reading Philadelphia and others with through vestibule trains Pullman cars and coach service. Provides departure times from Wilkesbarre and connections to Sunbury Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Appoints B Barnum ticket agent at 44 Public Square Wilkes Barre and GEO W Boyd general passenger agent.
In effect November 22, 1905 train depart from Wilkesbarre toward Hazleton thereafter. A. F. Harger supervises transportation duties.
Detailed timetable lists trains from Pittston to Scranton and Wilkesbarre with frequencies every twenty minutes, morning and weekday variations, and limited hourly departures. Also notes ten minute weekday services, baggage trains, and connections to Nay Aug Park and Petersburg.
Timetables show through vestibuled trains and parlor cars from Liberty Street to White Haven Mauch Chunk Allentown Bethlehem Philadelphia and further south or west with limited car changes. Pitator to Scranton connections and diverse routes to Wilkesbarre Reading Lebanon Harrisburg Long Branch Ocean Grove and more with Sunday schedules noted.
Timetables list eastward and westward trains from Chicago Buffalo New York and Philadelphia. Notable express and local departures include connections via Wilkes Barre Lackawanna Junction and L B Junction with daily services at dawn and late evening.
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