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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1896
Page
5
A dense old ad promises free hat trimming and bold discounts on fashionable hats, bonnets, and straw shapes. It touts English turbans, Parisian laces, and imported models priced from 3.98 to 10 dollars, with mourning millinery and children’s trims, plus ribbons, flowers, and ornaments at cut rates.
Republicans of the Second and Third Legislative Districts of Lackawanna county hold conventions in Scranton to elect delegates to the state convention in Harrisburg. Primaries are set for April 14–15 1896 with multiple wards and townships listed for representation and polling times in the disputed districts.
Washington April 7 report on a long Senate session approving postoffice funding and rural delivery experiments while restricting consolidation of fourth class offices. House debates two bills including a national free library plan funding and a metric system adoption for government use with a conference expected.
President Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber quarantined at the White House after two and a half year old Esther Cleveland shows measles. Mrs Cleveland and children sent to Woodley, Thurber family to their home on T street. Cabinet meeting postponed as nurses and staff move to safe locations. Esther’s illness described as mild. family planned to stay at Woodley before moving to Gray Gables for the summer.
San Francisco reports detective George Gerd claims a conspiracy to hold up the Vanderbilt special and abduct Cornelius Vanderbilt. Officials of the Pacific acted on tips, tightened security, and ran the train by day to thwart the plan in the San Joaquin valley. Gard hints the informant was frightened by the scope and revealed details.
The Tonawanda murder trials collapse as Captain Jesse Gravey and co defendants plead guilty to first degree manslaughter. Hyde and others face verdicts with additional indictments pending. Sentencing for four will occur tomorrow afternoon. Sixteen men arrested in connection with the case.
The Tonewanda boatmens riot left Captain Phil lips and hragon Charles dead. James Dixon reportedly suicide in jail on Oct 4. Hyde Graves Quirk and Colling faced first degree murder charges while eleven others were indicted for riot. Archibald Lough fled after bail and remains at large.
An explosion at a new tunnel near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, instantly killed Frank A. Granell, 25, and fatally injured Ormhal of Miairsville and Jot Parker. The cause remains unknown as investigators assess the wreckage near the tunnel entrance.
Government troops clash with Maceo forces at La Palma in Pinar del Rio on March 2. Rebels retreat with over ninety killed or wounded. Spanish losses include one lieutenant and four soldiers killed, twenty wounded. Other reports claim rebel camps at El Jobo and BanTa Noan were destroyed with significant insurgent resistance.
An aged West Virginia man, Anderson Reed, reports his 25 year old daughter Misa Nannie, a noted somnambulist, had both feet amputated after a two mile midnight march in freezing weather. She wandered two miles along a highway near Kellorg crossing when a freight train startled her. She returned home in bare feet, suffering severe frostbite, and doctors later amputated both feet to save her life. Uniformed porters assist Nekel Mate Road passengers.
Wyoming residents visit relatives in Wilkes Barre Luzerne and Carverton while families share Sunday gatherings. The Wyoming Base Ball club forms for 1905 with players listed. John Caney and Frank Sweeney managing. a trip to Richmond Va is noted. Mention of Nickel Plate Road dining car service and travel appeal ends the snippet.
The World of Business reports a day of active trading with tobacco stock attention and mixed movements in shares. Prices rose in early trades with notable gains in Union Pacific Chicago Gas and General Electric while some issues fell under foreign demand and Cuban developments influenced sentiment.
The article argues most heart trouble is functional, driven by poor digestion rather than organic disease. It explains how stomach distention and fermentation affect the heart and lungs, worsened blood quality, and suggests Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe remedy available at drug stores or by mail from Stuart Company, Marshall, Michigan.
Scranton market notes report quotations based on a 100 basis with mixed demand. Prices for No 2 red and white oats and flour futures appear largely unchanged while butter and cheese show variable results amid steady to firmer wheat trading.
A garbled early 20th century page advertises various job schemes, fake “permanent” home work, and sales pitches. It includes addresses in Lockport Pennsylvania Lawrence Michigan New York and Delaware with offers of high pay, Vending 2 cent stamps, and opportunities for agents and sales.
Fragmented ad clipping shows sellers and agents listing cigars hair curlers table cloths and other goods with prices and commissions. Mentions Michigan New York Baltimore and various addresses. No clear single event or coherent sale, but multiple items advertised with commissions and sample offers.
Whitadelphia market eyes regular activity as Western market conditions ease. Prices quoted include beef, linet hame per barrel, and various cured and pork products with mixed notes on storage and processing. figures show flexible barrels and new rates across several items.
Stock yards report for April 7 shows cattle receipts about 500 head with market quiet and steady. Includes steers cows calves and feeders with prices listed in pounds and dollars, plus hogs and sheep receipts and market tones ranging from firm to lower for certain classes.
Lehigh and Susquehanna Division timetable lists trains from Scranton to Pittston and New York, with express and all-stops services, daily departures on Sundays, and returning services via Liberty Street. It notes connections to Reading, Lebanon, Pottsville, and Mauch Chunk, with terminal at Philadelphia. Official supervision by J. H. Olhausen, General Superintendent.
April 2 report from Toledo notes shipments and prices for multiple grains. Data includes wheat and corn futures, with varying bids and receipts listed for May and July contracts, and recorded prices around 4.20 per unit.
An ad fragment promotes two volumes with 240 pictures of Frank Leslie's famous war images. It offers delivery by monthly payment and prepaid charges, listing Moody at Adams Ave as contact and noting rebound options and affordable pricing.
Effective March 14 trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate points via Erle. The Erle line lists Honeysdale Ilawley and Joan points at 38 dollars per month with 3.28 p m departures and arrive Scranton from above points at 8.23 a m and 3.07 p m.
The ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year trusted teething remedy used by millions. It claims to calm the child ease gums soothe pain and cure wind colic and diarrhoea and urges buyers to ask for Mira Winslow's Soothing Syrup at twenty five cents a bottle. It also mentions Nickel Plate Road dining car service as an unrelated note.
Buffalo New York cattle market quiet with mixed butchers stock at 45 to 3.75 per cwt bulls 4 to 9.25, hogs 5 to 6, good mediums 4.50 to 4.10. Sheep and lambs steady with wool lambs 4.90 to 5.00, fair to good 4.10 to 4.40, heavy lambs 4.75 to 5.00, culls 2.60 to 3.00. No clipped sheep reported.
In Ol City Pennsylvania on April 71 the only quotation at 1.20 dollars. The Standard Oil Company cut Pennsylvania crude from 1.% to 1.07 dollars. Independent Pipe Lines report PIs with minor movements as traders note limited activity and a late option opening.
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