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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Apr 11, 1902

Page

4

Public Works Report Highlights City Improvements and Needs

Hon. John E. Roche presents the first annual Public Works report to Recorder W. L. Connell, detailing staffing, funding, and broad projects. He urges flexible appropriations for lights, streets, sewers, bridges, and parks, cites aging infrastructure, and calls for systemwide basins, better drainage, and improved city hall facilities.

John E. Roche Department of Public Works W. L. Connell Roche Ren. W. J. Connell City Recorder Siri Audmit Duilea Thia John FB. Roche

Worthy of Consideration by the Sun editor

David R. Forbes of Quarryville Pennsylvania says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is synonymous with goodness and that he uses it frequently with the best results. The note reads as an endorsement in an editor's opinion column.

David R. Forbes the Sun Quarryville Chamberlain Gale

Austrian Jockey Club Members Fined in Gambling Case

Nine titled members of the Vienna Jockey club were fined a thousand crowns each for gambling in contravention of Austrian law. The trial stemmed from December 21 gambling when Count Joseph Potocki, a Russian nobleman, lost 500000, with Potocki and two other foreigners also fined and banished from Austria.

Baxelvalve Associated Press Vienna Vienna Jockey Club Jockey Club Joseph Potocki Potocki Austria

Lyceum Show Highlights and Upcoming Acts

The Lyceum stage featured Mason & Mason in Rudolph and Adolph with lively acrobatics by the Laurence sisters and Lottie Williommdalter performing soulrette acts. Beatrice McKenzie and News comic duo Beatrice McKenzie earned an encore, while Way Down East comes to the Lyceum for tonight and Saturday. Henry Jay Barnabee, famed operatic comedian, headlined the season with Maid Marian set for next Tuesday night.

Rudolph Adolph Mason & Mason Rudolph and Lyceum Germa Laurence Sisters Lottie Williommdalter Beatrice McKenzie Tamois Jan Amity Ito William A. Brady Henry Jay Barnabee Bentomins Come Opera Barnabee Duke of Santa Cruz Sheriff of Nottingham Robin Wood Barnabeee Maid Marian

Jolly Thirry Jenkins to Open Week at the Academy

Jolly Thirry Jenkins, a renowned comedian, leads a company of twenty with vaudeville acts as they begin a week's engagement at the Academy on Monday April 14. The opening bill is The Parialan Prince, a five act sensational drama with interludes by the McCann family and others. Matinees are daily starting Tuesday with prices 10 20 and 30 cents. matinees 10 and 20 cents.

Greas Wth Ward Ney Aug Pak Scranton Railway Company Jolly Thirry Jenkins Academy Parialan Princeas Vaneville McCann Will F. Burke Frank E. Lynch Warry Jenkins

Shifts in Broadway Season Highlight Comedic Returns

Stuart Robson to revive Comedy of Errors next season. Pauline Hall postpones starring tour until next season. St Therese by M Catullo Mendes slated for Julia Marlowe and May Irwin engagement for next season. Adele Farrington joins music hall role in A Modern Magdalen. The Golden Mine recent Walte Comedy at Academy. Slaves of Gold billed this afternoon. Edna Wallace Hopper and Nat Goodwin linked for a new Mr and Mrs pairing on counter attractions. Rudyard Kipling tale The Light That Failed to be staged next season with Goodwin and Maxine Elliott. Malsh to be toned to kinder, stronger lines.

Stuart Robson Pauline Hall Walte Academy of Music Ridl Papera Edna Wallace Hopper Lady Holyrood Floradora de Wolf Mopper Rudyar Kipling Nat Goodwin Maxine Elliott Mr. Goodwin Malsh

Obituaries and Arts Notes From Ridge and Olyphant

John Jenkins aged 93 dies at home on the Ridge after a lingering asthma illness. Funeral today at 2 from the family home. Mrs. Mary Fanner dies at 61 on Bell Street. funeral 2:30 with interment at St Patrick's cemetery. Jolly Harry Jenkins Company performs Berkshire Hills at the opera house. encore requests noted. Unclaimed letters listing names remain at the Olyphant post office. several addressees awaiting delivery.

John Jenkins Ridge Jolly Harry Jenkins Company Opera House Berkshire Hills Harry Jenkins Frank &, Lynch McCann Family Will IF. Burke London Olyphant F. H. Crandell John Cortney A. J. Driscoll George H. Evans James Evans James Fagen Mary Lawry Bella Williams John A. Davis Marry Foy Healey Sarah Miller Charles Miller Peter McDonnell Blakely

Primary Elections Declared in Three Districts for Republican Nominees

Notices in the First Second and Third Legislative districts call Republican voters to primaries on April 26 and April 5 with four to seven pm voting windows. Delegates to the Harrisburg State Convention are chosen, and candidates must register with district chairmen twenty days before the election. Some districts announce nominees and confirm committee personnel for the state gathering.

First Legislative District Harrisburg Munt Geo. W. Jenkins W. W. Simpson Central Republican Club Scranton Riles Frederic W. Fleitz Atiest Walter E. Davis Third Legislative District Republican Committee Republican Party Aard District F Thurston Parker Jd. E. Watkins

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