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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1901
Page
4
The Scranton Tribune announces advertising terms including display and reading positions with per insertion rates. It notes acceptance of letters from friends, announce pricing, and lists rules for classified advertising and cards of thanks or condolence notices.
The article notes Fran WM Edwards becoming president judge as Judge Arch transfers to a higher bench. It frames the move as largely ceremonial, while public respect is shown for Judge Edwards and his judicial service, praising his legal learning and dignified tenure.
City officials weigh restructuring to align with a new second class charter. Arguments focus on executive responsibility, proper placement of delinquent tax collection, and potential impact on oversight. Critics urge careful reform to avoid illogical divisions and ensure efficient administration.
Influential Philadelphia educators debate discontinuing term and annual pupil exams in elementary grades. They favor daily monitoring of proficiency and a joint teacher principal judgment as a better measure of readiness, arguing exams induce harm and encourage cramming.
A fragmentary report notes ongoing concerns at Scronten public school including exams, pupil progress, and nutrition measures. It mentions Chittenden ordinance funding park improvements and public confusion over schedules, with questions about how funds are allocated and who benefits.
The article discusses shifts in wheat and sugar consumption from the 19th to 20th centuries and cites Professor Hart on ideal eating. It argues against wasteful food practices, stresses whole wheat, fruits, vegetables, milk, and outdoor exercise, and calls for hygienic living and balanced diets to improve public health.
A new movement to convene a congress in Washington in March aims to organize a national body of enlightened young black men and women. Bishop Gaines of Atlanta will preside with Rev W D Isance of Nashville as vice president and L Garland Penn and W E Arnett as secretaries. The executive committee includes Bishops Williams Augusta and Shaeffer Topeka and Rev N Vase Raleigh among others. The document outlines conditions among the Negro race in the South and Southwest and seeks practical steps toward spreading the Christian message.
A fragmented article fragment urges a vigorous call to a convention of the young for missionary work and race uplift. It notes the South’s water and fire safety concerns, debates a first class fire engine purchase, and quips on political competition and Saudi Turkish policy.
The horoscope notes a day of upheaval with April 1 as moving day. It hints at cautious voting in local offices and recalls the origin of April Fools style tributes. It mentions government reform and tax collection as potential themes for the period ahead.
Special Correspondence reports U S manufactures exports in the fiscal year show a likely decline from the previous year. Causes include Hawaiian and Porto Rican disruptions, China trade cuts, and WWII style wartime effects on raw materials. Total exports for eight months rise, but key sectors drop.
A garbled summary outlines Kansas prohibitory legislation affecting saloons and liquor sales. It notes medical and mechanical exemptions for intoxicating liquors, specifies allowed sales by locally permitted druggists, and mentions enforcement challenges and public nuisance concerns tied to the law.
A 1920s style classified note seeks a waitress or butler with references. High wages offered for a trained servant. Apply Miss Sidney Williams at 28 Madison Avenue.
Several short help wanted notices list positions. a young lady seeks a bookkeeping role and references, another colored woman offers cooking and general housework, ironing at home. others call for ironing cleaning and general housework. One note requests a clerical position for a competent young man. a final brief mentions public officers and collusion in a different context.
The article surveys growing southern immigration, grain and fuel crops in China and the southern black belt’s push toward land ownership. It notes asphalt comparisons in Chinese markets, the rise of hot water stands, and the economy’s fuel-saving shifts. It also mentions agricultural weeds with feeding value and a Columbus inquest remark on clothing hygiene.
The yearly meeting of the glove association is held in Scranton with listings for officers such as president Richard Barron and secretary Johns G Miller. The fragmentary text also notes numerous local professionals and businesses including doctors dentists attorneys and traders in Scranton and surrounding streets.
Fragmented entries show business names and address fragments on Washington and Main avenues with mentions of Briggs proprietor and other vendors. The garbled text includes partial street names, a possible Lackawanna reference, and scattered place names suggesting a local notice page of vendors or services.
A fragmented poem laments spring weather and poetic cliches, with scorn for trivial “baling spring” verses. The speaker mocks overblown phrasing, vows to hide spring poems on the shelf, and quips about the Times-Herald publication context.
The notice outlines timetable details and routes for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. It references connections through Wilkes Barre Philadelphia New York and Chicago with stations and travel times noted in scattered fragments. The document lists several lines and depots including Geneva Scranton Wilkes Barre and Newark with various branch references.
Edward Sherwood Medde argues that the movement toward industrial combination has spread monopoly power, concentrating production and limiting competition. He contends this shift, while boosting some gains, reduces the capacity for economic protection and distribution, leaving former rivals absorbed and permanently subdued.
Finley’s launches the season’s second sale of French and domestic fine Nainsook Cambric and Muslin undergarments. The ad promises exclusive styles with faultless cut and superior workmanship, featuring lace trims, Valenciennes edgings, and handmade embroidery. Sale opens this morning and runs through the week.
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