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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1902
Page
2
Pittston readers urge patrolmen to stop nightly loitering and doorway loafers in South Main street shops. Loafers have broken windows and disturb passersby, violating city ordinances and harming store owners. Citizens call for enforcement to restore order and safety.
County Superintendent Hopper and others moved through the city while visitors from Scranton and New York conducted business. A miner, Joseph Romans, was killed in an early evening explosion at Spring Brook colliery Avoca, with Romanski injured. funeral held at St Durward Catholic church. Schools in Pittston township reopened after a strike over back salary, with teachers continuing the term. A mix of local business ads and notices follow, including a jewelers line, poultry prices, and health ads for nervous exhaustion products.
A roundup of city happenings notes United Mine Workers Local 1,302 meeting plans at Citford hall, tasters on pension grants, and a Catholic Women’s Benevolent Legion charter closing May 17. Also reported are dance postponements, church notices, an Avoca yardmaster promotion, property theft at Luzerne, and prep work on Broad street sewers to avert flood damage.
Obituary notes the death of Patrick E Laughlin, 21 or 22, son of Mrs A Laughlin, grandson of Michael Hoolihan, connected to the Bartenders Union. He died after a week of failing health with internal hemorrhages. Funeral set for Saturday at 11 from the family home on Tompkins Street, Oregon, with services at St John’s RC and burial at Market Street Cemetery.
Travelers learn that age specific tickets on Reading and Central Mile roads are interchangeable effective yesterday, signaling consolidation of passenger departments under Reading control. Advertising blocks promote goods, repairs, and groceries from local stores and services.
Reports from Scranton indicate operators refuse arbitration and back a strike. Committees in session, messages from rail and mine leaders relay opposition to mediation. Federal and local figures weigh legal action while Father Curran's open letter urges calm amid rising tensions.
An OCR fragment reports H R Phelps of Plymouth Oklahoma noting threshers can work without loss of time while mentioning sales and a remedy. It also advertises a Grand Union baking powder offer and display of hammocks, urging purchase on Saturday May 10 and referencing the National Bank Building.
Local theater preview notes Sis Hopkins as Rose Melville in a charming comed ydrama Sir Hopkine at A Muste Hall tonight. The piece promises a lively character turn. Also appears are short ads for tools and hardware and medicinal tonics with typical small town pricing and guarantees.
May 12 1902 at 10 15 A M sale of furniture carpeted ware and mirrors at Wyoming Valein Hotel prop J B Boyle. Persons may examine for private sale from now until date of sale. no reasonable offer refused. items include pot 98 and shellfish offerings.
A vintage instructional piece on fancy breads and desserts. It describes playful kitchen tips, mixing methods, and step by step measures for sugar, butter, lard, milk, and flour blends. The text promotes a homemaking viewpoint with illustrative recipes and baking guidance.
A noisy collage of ads and notices including watch reward names and addresses for rents and sales. References to Exeter coal Wyoming Valley lumber Broad St office rent and various trades. lost money sums, carpenters wanted, farm for sale, wreaths and prayer books at Walsh’s, and numerous small ads for goods and services in a local town paper.
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