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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1902
Page
8
In a grand London ballroom, Beryl Heathcote navigates a tangle of suitors and secrets. Captain Lumsden, wounded and hobbling, is the unlikely center as gossip, romance, and a risky proposal swirl around a night of memory and choice.
Majel Blue, three months old, of Richland Oregon, suffered cholera infantum. Drained hope yielded to Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After a dose given by Mr Westley Saunders with parental consent, the infant slept and woke well. The case, dated almost three years ago, ends with gratitude to the remedy's makers.
A woman declares to Austin Drysdale that love trumps status and fortune as she vows to give up a titled life and seventy thousand a year to wed a poor, limping man. The New York Mail and Express notes Lim’s luck, though he deserved better.
Chicago Record Herald excerpt notes European cities deliver mail the same day while New York and other American cities lag. It cites long delays from Washington to New York, Oyster Bay, Manhattan Beach, Atlantic City and Waldorf Astoria, with examples of late afternoon mail and slow deliveries.
Edward Brennan state inspector for the Seventh anthracite district says all fifty collieries in the district will be ready to operate after the strike ends. Flooded upper levels can be worked and eventually all levels reopen. About seven percent of miners may find work immediately, with the rest by next month or two. Total strike damage is estimated between 50,000 and 200,000 dollars.
King Edward the seventh’s coronation procession concludes amid crowd enthusiasm at the Abbey. Notable figures include Lord Kitchener and Admiral Seymour, with the Indian contingent richly dressed. An accident injures grooms near York Steps as the procession moves toward Westminster. The Osborne house is donated to the nation for a convalescent home and national uses.
In St Johns Newfoundland on August 10 coronation services took place in all local churches marking a statewide liturgical observance. The events gathered congregations and clergy in a united day of prayer and reflection.
The Scranton Board of Trade quotes several financial instruments and local securities with par values and mortgage notes. Debt items include Scranton Packing Co bonds and various street railway and tramway mortgages. Agricultural prices show fresh creamery output, eggs, beans, peas, onions, and potatoes with per bushel and per unit ranges.
Philadelphia market report shows weekly live stock receipts with cattle figures totaling 7811, sheep 6453, hogs 2158. Steers mostly priced around 7.30 to 7.10, cows to 8.00, and thin cows about 4.50 to 5.50. Hogs and dressed stock prices vary by grade with regional notes on Western hogs and veal calves.
King Oscar aided in a rescue when his yacht structure collapsed near the Marstrand bridge feeding a crowd of women and children. He stripped to his shirt and helped save twenty three people who were pulled aboard the vessel.
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