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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1895
Page
2
Dick Wheeler harbors unrequited love for Mary Hayes while she quietly remains loyal to Don Hayes. After a summer of waiting and illness, Don returns alive, shocking Wheeler and awakening Mary’s resolve to marry Don, not him.
A compendium of historical and literary figures whose tones are described in distinctive ways. Forrest Bowen Bunyon Jeremy Taylor Bacon Henry VIII Garrick Marlborough Wilhelm Kaleer Wilhelm Edwards Adama Cowper Wendell Phillips Brignolt Bismarck Frederick the Great Goldsmith Coleridge.
A collection of historical trivia noting Lincoln ancestors as Quakers. statements on bread pricing laws in Pennsylvania, May 15 1789 tariff adoption, adoption inheritance, passport issuance, sea distance SF to Liverpool, wage laws under $1090, French family size, 1631 Massachusetts legal tender, Russian conscription, Philadelphia mint coin initials, Anton Dvorak origins, steamship routes to Africa, 1889 tobacco sale ban, 1835 telegraph line, Queen Victoria dates, and world navies ranking.
The article notes a shift from bamboo to paper filaments in Edison type incandescent lamps. After 15 years of testing many materials, Edison pared down to bamboo then to paper, with new cheaper lamps expected from foreign competition and a surge of German lamps entering New York markets.
Special correspondence from Montrose describes creameries and milk stations where farmers bring milk, which is cooled to about 38 degrees, separated into cream and skim milk, and tested with the Babcock method. It notes butter production, Italian skim milk cheeses, and the lively morning activity of milk cars and delivery men.
A reflective verse describing comfort and escape from troubles by a rainy night fire. Memory and imagination warm the speaker as memories of lovelier days mingle with the crackle of flames. The scene centers on a quiet hearth and the solace found in solitary contemplation.
Rabbi J Feuerlicht delivers a Linden Street temple lecture arguing hope fuels progress and that the Messianic ideal is a universal age of righteousness. He credits Jewish tradition for Christian and Muslim roots, critiques Pauline Christianity, and envisions a future where all peoples share in a shared moral messianic destiny under one God.
A Washington Star snippet portrays a convivial friend explaining his late return and his wife’s witty retort about originality. The brief dialogue highlights domestic humor and social banter in a single compact exchange.
Through trains to New York Atlantic City and Philadelphia listed with departure times from Newark Central and other stations. Express and local options shown with morning and afternoon runs including Sundays, with note on through tickets at lowest rates on application. End of notice signed H. Olhausen General Bu st.
A fragmented timetable lists trains from Scranton to New York and points east and west with multiple departure times. It names connections at Buffalo and Williamsport area stations and references accommodations and parlor cars on various express and mail trains. Details include stations such as Binghamton Elmira Cortland Syracuse Oswego Richfield Springs and Northumberland Harrisburg Baltimore Washington and the South. For exact times consult pocket timetables or City Ticket Office.
Timetables list trains from Scranton to Philadelphia via D and H lines and to Wilkes-Barre, Bethlehem, Rochester, Elmira, and western destinations. Services note various departures, connections, and arm chair car availability, with agents named for Philadelphia and Bethlehem offices.
Trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate Erie points at 6:35 a.m. and 3:24 p.m. Local runs to Poconos and Hawley leave at 6:38 a.m. and 2:22 a.m. All trains run through to and from Honesdale with one Wilkes-Barre service at 6:40 a.m. and 3:41 p.m.
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