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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
2
Today we offer pure silk Dresden and Persia ribbons four cents a yard and taffeta ribbons at low prices. Our store displays the largest ribbon selection ever seen in the city with every color, bloom, and leaf of summer. Prices lower than other stores.
From Quinton's Magazine London this notes the leadership in housing poor families. It highlights Dr Booth's figures showing crowded one room homes with thousands living eight or more per room and argues for model tenements to improve moral and sanitary conditions in Christendom's chief city.
Four glass blowers went out in a skiff on April 14 and four bodies were eventually recovered. Herbert Chaffee was found near his Rochester home, 28 miles below Pittsburg. Dan McAfee was found near Wood's Run city limits while Harry Brown remained missing.
A boastful quote describes using passes to move a man anywhere in the city and to send a “mean alent” from a railroad magnate’s location to San Francisco. The fragmentary dialogue suggests sensational claims of mental influence and travel.
Reported assaults and killings unfold across Shamokin Pittsburg and Stroudsburg with John Kosick John Standall and others named. A silk mill plan at Danville with 10000 capacity stalls amid local crime losses and a Stroudsburg child dies in a clothing fire. County finances in Schuylkill strain as $6000 borrowed to cover current demands.
A Harrisburg caucus backed Senator Quay for the presidency as delegates at large and alternates were chosen for the national convention. The meeting set the stage for a strong Quay platform while naming key officials and committee members, with Beacom noted as having withdrawn from the at large contest and Grow or Davenport eyed as possible congressmen at large candidates.
The Republican state committee convened in Harrisburg with Senator Quay presiding. A contested roll from the Eighth Allegheny district was referred to a subcommittee. Reform bills were adopted as a convention recommendation. A long civil service bill was outlined enabling gubernatorial appointment power under the act.
Harrisburg April 22 The platform drafted in the Gilbert office names Senator Quay for the presidency and adds a tariff plank. It backs reciprocity, shipbuilding protection, sound money and gold standard, Liberal pensions, restricted immigration, and endorses Governor Hastings. Reeder to chair resolutions. Sobel to nominate Davenport for congress. Palmer to place Grow for another seat.
The market for union tanned sole leather shows improvement as shoe manufacturers and sole cutters raise orders. Hemlock remains steady. belting butts in fair demand. Dry hides trade active at the low end. Wheat prospects in Europe and seaboard scarcity favor purchases at declines. Merchandise exports reach $7.63 million for the week. mortgage suit over $500,000 to foreclose. Lehigh Valley reports brisk passenger growth despite trolley competition. Canadian Pacific seeks a $4 million loan for a Lethbridge to McLeod rail link.
Advertisement claims Swayne's Ointment halts intense itching and bleeding, heals ulcers, and supposedly removes tumors. It offers AI druggists or mail order for 6 cents, by Dr. Swayne & Son of Philadelphia.
A garbled mix of legal notices and public advertisements. Includes warnings about a wife Elizabeth Moon, a plan for The Melville Coal Company charter, Providence Gas stockholders meeting in Scranton, and various notices from 1806 related to corporate incorporation and vessel or publication promotions.
Numerous classified items appear from W Lackawanna to Jefferson avenues. Listings include employment requests for cooks and maids, warehouse and general labor, large house rentals or sales, multiple vacant rooms, and real estate offerings in Dunmore Elmhurst and surrounding streets.
Train times from Wilkes-Barre list 7.25 a.m. for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and for Pittsburgh and the West. 10.6 a.m. for Hazleton Pottsville Reading Norristown Philadelphia Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh and the West. 3.17 p.m. for Sunbury Washington Pittsburgh and the West. 4.40 p.m. Sundays for Sun Baltimore Washington and the West. 6.00 p.m. weekdays for Hazleton and Pottsville. J R Wood Gen Pass Agent A M Prev General Manager.
Train timetable from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre and destinations including New York Newark Elizabeth and Philadelphia. Notes list express options, parlor car service, and connections to Allentown Mauch Chunk and Atlantic coast points with various departure times and rates.
Del Lack and Western shows daily train times from Scranton to New York Rast Maston Trenton Philadelphia and the South with multiple morning and afternoon departures. Services include Washington way stations Hinghamton Oswego Kilmer Corning Bath Dansville Mount Morris Buffalo Cortland Syracuse Ithaca and more with connections to Northumberland Williamsport Harrisburg Baltimore and the South. Pullman cars and sleeping coaches available. for details contact M J Smith at the Lackawanna Avenue office.
Trailing leave Scranton for New York and intermediate points on the Erie railroad also for Hontsdale Hawley and local points at 0.35 a m and 0.28 p m and arrive at Scranton from above points at 11 23 a m and 3 57 p m.
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