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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1897
Page
2
Advertisement touts guaranteed sutefection for ladies and gents street wear. Promotes leading tonics bleaches rouges and powders as top products.
Northeastern Pennsylvania social column records many families visiting relatives and attending events. Etald Myers and Rae spend a week with her grandparents in Danville New York while Abram Rinker Jr and family prepare to attend the G A T encampment in Buffalo. Jennie Evans of Dunmore visits Mrs William Greer. Thomas Gregg of Hyde Park travels with brother William. Laycock and Gay attend a Sunbury picnic. A C Smith’s visitors return home from Danville. H A Laycock’s remains interred at Forty Fort cemetery. Nellie Robbins of Lagerne visits Annie Thomas. Mary Sheyd calls at Wilkes-Barre. Mrs Mary McArthur ill with grip. Facie Thomas visits cousins Beatrice and Mildred Thos in Linkerne. Laura Lerrish ill with hay fever.
Clin Atark and sister remain with Mrs O B Williams in Piladelphia while Caroline Cooper visits relatives in the area. The community hosts visitors including Hert Wilkins and wife from Scranton and Kuna and Rex Titus from Binghamton. Susanna Williams returns from Harford, Dr K Webb and wife come from Jersey City, and the band performs for campers at Lake Nicholson.
Those wishing to accompany the Knights of Pather Mathew to Scranton should note a special train departs Carbondale on the Delaware and Madison road at 6 14 am and reaches here about 6:00 pm Tickets are valid on all trains that evening.
A veteran Detroit Free Press reporter recalls chasing a rich institution’s rumored embezzlement after overhearing a careless remark. He meets the president, witnesses a party, and finally writes a sensational beat that leads to stockholders gathering and the enterprise’s ruin.
A survey of unusual wills from history describes humorous and sharp bequests by diverse figures. Wills reveal testators’ wit and biases, with examples from a dewy Easter to monarchs, clergy, and nations, including regionally flavored prescriptions and final messages.
A Scranton retailer advertises a wide carpet selection in all grades and prices. They also feature draperies window shades upholstery chairs willow and rattan at about half the prices others charge and offer cheap stands and tables. Wall paper stock is closing out at less than half price.
A column describes wills written as verse, noting frequent rhymes and the legal force of the exchanges. One 1808 will contests that set aside the store to sisters after death. Another Philadelphia attorney’s verse bequeaths all worldly goods to his wife with executrix designation.
The Cornwall express of the Great Western Railway runs nonstop from Paddington in London to Exeter, a distance of 104 miles, in 3 hours 36 minutes at an average 63.8 mph. The six coach through train uses a massive engine and tender, water fetched from trackside trenches, and arrives at St David's Exeter on schedule with no delays accounted.
Wall Street around New York reports record activity in the wheat market with prices rising 4 to 6 cents and total sales reaching about 10,915,000 bushels. The day featured broad excitement with wide price fluctuations and a cautious, fencing-like trading stance amid no strong bullish demand.
Wheat strong and 4 cents higher for August contracts with active spreads through November. Corn and oats steady to firm with No 2 yellow and oats holding gains. Butter eggs and cheese all firm with slight increases. sugars unchanged. cotton steady. tallow quiet at former rates in city and country markets.
New York market notes show Reeves Market with active cattle trading including steers and oxen priced around 6.00, cows at 2000 dollars in dry condition, and a fair to firm calves and veals section with prices varying by type and dairy byproducts.
A fragment describes live poultry and flour shipments with prices and quantities. It lists fowls and broilers with fair demand, and flour, wheat, corn, and oats shipment figures such as 24 000 sacks of wheat or 91 000 bushels of corn. It notes shipments of oats and other grains with various price points.
Aug 18 market notes show flour firm with varied patent and straight grades, wheat futures volatile with sharp advances then mixed closes, corn and oats firmer on spot demand, beef and pork steady while butter and cheese hold gains. Energy markets quiet as petroleum reports no clear price direction.
Wheat and corn futures show varied positions for September and December contracts. The report lists commodity bids and notable figures for oats rye and barley, along with flour product prices and current receipts and shipments across multiple grains.
Chicago at market for cattle hogs and sheep with varied prices. Native beef steers $4.00 to $5.14, stockers $4.45, calves active, milkers $40 per head, western range cows and steers $2.59 to $2.80. Hogs sold largely $8.35 to $9.10. Sheep active $2.10 to $4.26, lambs $4.00 to $5.40. Receipts: cattle 15,000. hogs 30,000. sheep 14,000.
Bast Buffalo Aug 18 cattle market steady overall with mixed notes. Yorkers fair to good, range prices 4.25 to 4.27 per unit. choicer goods around 4.40. sheep and lambs steady to good with lambs and wethers priced around 3.50 to 4.40. Cattle include good to choice cuts at 3.75 to 4.00.
A terse Ol City report lists credit balances and shipment figures for August. It shows 71 certificates to hide shipments totaling 95 187 barrels and runs amounting to 99 601 barrels.
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