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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1902
Page
7
Special to the Scranton Tribune from Susquehanna August 1 reports Brookdale farmer Billings operates the United States’ only crow farm. He incubates about 100 crow hens and a dozen cocks to supply head and feather decor for women's hats amid rising milliner demand.
Readers learn of a claimed universal cure for catarrh. The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional issue and is taken orally to affect the blood and mucous membranes, with testimonials and a nationwide sales claim.
In Pittston Aug 3 a United Mine Workers committee faced charges of trading relief craft for five percent from grocers. The committee denied dealings, a local member overheard the offer, and meetings ordered the return of the five percent taken. Others report renewed plant at Duryea and a lightning strike at Joseph Smiles’ Rock Street home.
Grove pupil of the Weat Pittston church attended by Rev. Santee as services continued on the West Side. Rev. Leishman of Scranton baptised five individuals in the river yesterday morning during Christian Alliance canvas events. Herbert Bray and Louis Bevan left for Trenton New Jersey to work with Turbine Machine Co. The annual Battery M reunion, Schooley's Battery, will be a basket picnic at Nay Aug Park on August 19.
Miss Mary Josephine and Nellie Boyce sail to Atlantic City for a ten day vacation from Tunkhannock. The Tunkhannock Whist club of sixteen ladies met at Lake Carey. Daniel Squier seeks the Republican nomination for Wyoming county commissioner. James E. Frear dies suddenly at home on Second Street. Tritons beat Kingston 7 to 3 in a local ball game. Mrs Stephen Carey of Easton visits Second Street cousins. Mrs Charles Packard of Mehoopany visits relatives in town.
West Sterling Methodist church youth plan an August 6 program with admission fifteen cents. Lemonade and cake free, ice cream for sale, tableau at close. East Sterling Sunday school picnic August 11 features Rev. D Evans Rev James Moore and Rev Dr Hughes as speakers. Dr Hughes preaches August 10 8 pm in Fast Sterling church. Rev T Hooper preaches August 10 in Simonstown morning and Union evening.
August updates from Dimock report ongoing haying and soon oat harvest. Garden concerns include potato damage from grasshoppers and weeds as tall as corn. Mrs. Dr Struppler and daughters Elsie Janet visit Montrose. Dimock camp meeting starts August 20 and lasts ten days.
Paris faces potential clashes as peasants guard schools amid fears of riots over Combes circular. Nationalist deputies representing Paris await developments as authorities prepare for possible unrest in the capital.
An advertisement claims Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cures kidney and bladder issues and other ailments. It cites a Greensburg pastor praising its benefit after a kidney attack and promotes sample and full bottles sold by druggists nationwide.
Premier Combes told deputies that authorization requests from closed religious schools cannot suspend the 1905 association law and schools may reopen only after the Council of State rules on applications. About 12,000 cases exist. Socialists plan an anti clerical rally at Place de la Matabert. clericals protest Combes circular at Rue Canton. Tampers feared in Latin Quarter as police brace for action. Peasants in Western Brittany guard nun led schools amid closure resolve.
Exclusive AP report from Chester notes two violent confrontations on August 3. John Harris fired a shotgun at Mayberry Haskett wounding him severely. James Fox and George Coates fought with razors and pistols. Fox sustained a critical abdominal wound.
The state department received a cablegram from Minister Bowen in Caracas dated the 2nd. It states the united revolutionary army is about 100 miles away and the president has not announced a plan to make or await an attack. Likely no decisive action within a week.
Weekly puzzle from The Tribune invites children to cut out pictures and mark hidden objects. Winners with correct first responses will have their names published. Last week’s solvers include Elsie Winker and W. Howard Fletcher among others with ages noted.
Multiple small ads show properties for sale including a first class hotel and elegant home sites in Lackawanna county. Also requests for copies of the Scranton Tribune, lost watches and bracelets, rewards, a widowed person seeking washing and ironing work, and assorted professional listings for accountants architects engineers dentists and insurance.
Sealed proposals will be opened in the City Recorder’s office by the Director of Public Works at I o'clock p m on Monday August 4 1902 for the construction of three G sewer basins in the Fourteenth ward according to plans on file in the Bureau of Engineering Proposals must be filed with the City Controller by 8 o'clock p m on the same date The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids John E Roche Director Department of Public Works
Sealed proposals for furnishing materials and constructing sewers in the Beyond Sewer District of Dunmore are due August 10. Plans are available from Borough Engineer James F. Horan. bids require a $500 certified check to Borough Treasurer August Wahlers. Bids will be opened at the Borough Council meeting. the borough may reject any or all bids.
Legal notice 18 hereby given of an intended application to the Governor of Pennsylvania on August 6 for a charter for a bank to be called The South Side Bank of Scranton Pa located in the southern part of Scranton The object is to exercise banking privileges under the act for Incorporation and regulation of banks of discount and deposit approved May 1 1874 Capital stock to be fifty thousand dollars Solicitors Welles & Torrey
In Chicago the RB and Philadelphia tied with uneven box text listing hitters Butterley-Waddell Schreckingoat Patterson Sullivan while umpire Sheridan and attendance figures appear garbled. Columbus game shows Cleveland Washington and messy line scores with Hatteries Bernhard Hean Bemis Carrick Clarke and unclear attendance. Detroit game features Williams Dingen Warner Mullin Blewer Buelow and umpire notes with garbled attendance.
In Effect June 1 102 P Trains depart Scranton for New York and Philadelphia with listed morning and afternoon times to Gouldstoro Suffalo Binghamton Oswego Syracuse Aten Montrose and Bloomsburg Division trains to Northumberland Plymouth and Sunday services. Evening departures from Scranton 10 10 pm and 6 10 pm.
June 15 service update lists D H R tracks from Scranton to New York via Parlor and Day Coach Carbondale routes with connections to Philadelphia and coal regions. Includes times for White Haven Hazleton Pottsville Bethlehem Tunkhannock Towanda Ithaca Geneva Rochester Buffalo Chicago and more via D & H R R and Lehigh Valley Parlor cars with Pullman service. Local ticket offices and reservations noted.
Trains from Scranton to New York and beyond run at 7 90 am 1 pm and 4 pm Sundays 2 10 pm. Quaker City Express to Philadelphia with one change to Baltimore and Washington. Services to Avoca Pittston Wilkes Barre Long Branch Ocean Grove Reading Lebanon Harrisburg Tamaqua Pottsville. Rates and tickets from station agent. W G Bessler GCM Burt G P A.
Schedule shows train departures from Serdenton and Wilkes Barre for Philadelphia and the West. Through Pullman buffet parlor car and coaches to Philadelphia via Pottsville with stops at principal stations. Weekday and Sunday departures list times and connections to Sunbury Harrisburg Baltimore Washington Pittsburg and the West. Hutchinson general manager and A Woop general passenger agent noted.
Scranton start times detailed forJune service to Carbondale Honesdale Wilkes Barre Albany and points north with weekday and Sunday trains listed. Schedule notes include morning and afternoon departures from Scranton and other hubs, with agent W L Pryor D P A providing the notice.
Effective July 20 1908 trains depart Scranton for Hawley and intermediate points at 7 20 and 8 45 am and 4 20 pm Sundays 7 00 am 1 35 pm for New York Newburgh and intermediate stations. Honesdale trains arrive near Scranton around 10 00 am and 2 15 pm Sundays. Ontario and Western timetable lists departures from Beranton Carbondale and surrounding towns with multiple daily runs and Sunday connections to New York and Norwich lines. schedule shows outbound and return times and connections through multiple hubs.
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