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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1896
Page
2
An advertisement touts trimmed hats offered at no charge and low prices. It highlights Easter hats, French and Gerson hats, turbans, and a full assortment including mourning millinery and children’s trims with prices from 98c to 10 dollars.
Crowded selling space shows low prices on many hats. Shop windows feature fancy straw hats for misses and children, ladies, and Misses. Various braids and shapes from satin and silk to Japanese and Italian straws, with new Milan and Tuscan styles. Hats trimmed free of charge.
No stock of flowers in the city and prices never so low. Three bunches of roses and assorted foliage listed at fractions of a dollar. Lily of the valley forget-me-nots poppies clover and field flowers offered at tiny prices. Dresden ribbons laces veils hats trimmed free of charge and related millinery items advertised with dramatic discounts.
Easter Sunday observances filled St Marys Presbyterian and Primitive Methodist churches with special music and donated flowers. Local events included a birthday party for Mrs Alexander, a forthcoming marriage for Miss Kate Walsh and Joseph Grady, and updates on residents and a diphtheria death.
The annual temperance event in the conference opened with prayer by Rev. George A. Cure of Athens. Will Hiller of Parsons spoke on moral reform, denouncing rum traffic and urging Christian action. Easter and conference events filled the day with worship at Centenary church and various societies holding services and ordinations.
Dun and Co report steel billets up about two dollars a ton in Pittsburg with Bessemer pig and finished products prices rising slightly. Anthracite coal sold at 3.65 per ton fob New York harbor. March production around 2.8 million tons and April limit 2.0 million. Railroad gross earnings up 8.9 percent for Q1, while wheat crop prospects appear favorable with world supply and demand metrics noted.
Market rules quiet and softer in some grades with western market hints. Beef and pork items show varied quotations per barrel and per hundredweight with smoked, pickled, and cured hams listed. tallow dull. city refined lard and meats priced with standard city and country distinctions.
On April 4 in Chy, Pa and Pittsburgh, petroleum credit balances stood at 125 with the option closing at 128. The highest quote reached 135 and the lowest 120, reflecting a limited market snapshot.
The New York stock market showed activity despite the Lonsdom exchange remaining closed. Gains in St Paul rail traffic and Tennessee Coal and Iron lifted sentiment while Metropolitan Traction dipped on potential strikes. Alton and Terre Haute rose after Illinois Central leased the line, and coal and iron stocks led gains amid a cautious but hopeful tone.
Toledo market notes show wheat receipts 2341 bushels and shipments 700 bushels with May at 72 cents and July 68.5 August 60 while corn receipts 4757 bushels and shipments 7890 bushels with dull activity. Cattle prospects for butchers good, veal slow, hogs lower with varied grades and prices across weight ranges. sheep and lamb values mixed from prime to common, export lambs and wethers priced, overall weak to steady signals.
Chicago report shows cattle receipts around 000 head with market quiet to steady and prices scattered from 3,164.10 to 3,800.95 for varying grades. Hog receipts near 0,000 head described as easy with prices about 200.10 to 3, etc. Boxed figures indicate mixed shipments and unsettled trends across packing and shipping lots.
Various rental ads list stores, rooms, houses, a barn, and a warehouse in Scranton area. Properties include a Green Ridge church manse, a double house on Pine and Birch Streets, a modern six room house near Taylor Hospital, and a warehouse near the Dunmore line. Also ads seek sales agents, salesmen, and sewing/household items for sale.
The notice outlines coal train schedules and routes from Beranton toward Philadelphia and New York, detailing departure times such as 8.20 am and 12.45 pm and connections to Mauch Chunk Allentown Reading Lebanon Harrisburg, with through tickets and parlor car service. It is signed by J. H. Olhausen, General Superintendent.
Trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate points on the Erie line at 8 46 a m and 2 29 p m with arrivals to Scranton from those points at 6 23 a m and 3 67 p m effective March 16 19%.
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