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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1897
Page
5
A Dunmore publication called the Pioneer announces it plans to reprint Tribune editorials from two years ago. The move would improve the Pioneer’s usual content.
The piece warns that Yukon mining shares flood New York Sunday papers with high capital promises and low real value. It cautions investors about risky Klondike schemes and urges scrutiny of where money is placed, noting local skepticism and the uncertain dividends.
The Rochester Herald replies to Dr Lyman Abbott arguing that broad morals instruction would require costly, highly educated teachers and strong boards of education. It condemns nepotism and political influence in primary schools while praising university professors and questioning the public school system’s governance.
The report describes Rev. William Hinshaw and his wife wounded and killed amid a feud, with rival convict accounts and questions about circumstantial evidence. It notes Hinshaw's second-degree murder conviction and a rival tale from Noah Baney, Whitney, and Van Tassel, plus a separate Indian execution anecdote and a correction about Buffalo Bill era cavalry service.
A Toronto World piece argues protective tariffs would prompt Britain to impose a ten percent duty on American wheat and corn benefiting Canada and the Empire. Ex-Governor Flower is praised as a stock oracle predicting a continued wheat bull market. Telegraphy tests from New York to Southampton fail economically, leaving Americans to jokes about talking through their hats.
The article notes Altgeld’s claim that farmers should receive two dollars and fifty cents per bushel in an era of a large country and a wheat boom. It mentions 60,000 empty railroad cars ordered to move 1597 wheat crop, with a car famine feared. It also critiques the Cuban affair and cites the New York Evening Post calling Americans barbaric.
The piece surveys the enduring code of honor and the duel across Germany France and England. It notes German officers duel on the spot under militarism while French society treats duels as fashion and vanity. It contrasts Anglo Saxon practicality with continental sentiment and cites Richelieu and historical duel figures. It mentions kinetoscope ideas and the appeal of duels in literature.
The piece surveys historic dueling, recounting episodes from a 19th century editor’s career ending in murder after twenty seven challenges, a Jamaica duel outcome halted by a Creole challenger’s swoon, and Colonel William Fitzhugh’s tea pot duel with soup and squirt cans which ended the affair.
A long letter from Miles McAndrew requests plain explanations of baseball phrases heard in papers. He asks about Bassett, Dixon, Oddie, Coogan, McMahon, Lyons, and the reporter’s epitaph, seeking plain, non-technical meaning of vivid but obscure lines.
The Madrid government reports Spain's total debt at 1,765,000,000 with 7,000,000 annual interest and 10,000,000 accrued interest from the Cuban War. Revenue of 150,000,000 barely covers interest and Cuba costs, threatening ordinary government operations and suggesting pressures to abandon Cuba. The piece questions domestic support and cites the Boston Courier.
A Denver Poem by Peat laments kerosene ages and mocks electric lighting. The speaker vows to criminalize turning on incandescent light, imagining Helena Arkansas as a return to kerosene life and social ease. The verse satirizes modern electricity and romanticizes past glow.
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