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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1897
Page
8
A local ad highlights leading tonics bleaches rouges and powders for hair care. It promotes a satin air cushioned hair brush with genuine Siberian bristle. Special attention is given to children's hair cutting.
Frank Beamish seeks delegate seat at Democratic county convention. Visitors from Brooklyn return home. Augustus Hook becomes Brookside colliery foreman. John O Mikel returns from Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Local movers enjoy vacation at Lake Cayuga. station agent McPherson vacations in Albany. A Quien relocates green grocery to Brehony building. Mrs Harkins and daughter visit Pittsfeld. Cranston brothers plan months in Scotland. Ward re enters race for jury commissioner. friends wish him success. Sullivan departs Williamsport for Schlager tailors. Ham Hiton Square guests of the Smythes. Lawn festival offers $10 gold piece at St Mary’s behind church. Moosic band to provide music. Handball match at Valley hotel draws crowd. Curley and Ryder win 21 to 17 over Gilroy and Coleman. St Aloysius to host fundraiser for John Loughrey who lost an eye coal mining incident.
Horace Terry of Manchester N Y accompanied by his wife visits his brother Charles E Terry attorney. Major H W Bardwell has been home for the past week. Grangers picnic crowd soaked by rain. John St Hungerford in charge of Wyom ing camp boarding house. Democratic county convention at courthouse Monday afternoon. Stanley Little and family of Towanda occupy cottage at Lake Carey. Harvey Bickler block store rooms nearing completion. LB Pips to move bazaar into one room around September 1. Mrs John Sheridan moves with three children from Nicholson to Tunkhannock.
A humorous exchange unfolds between a thin man and a fat man in which a boy’s remark about the fat man’s ears sparks a playful but tense moment. The fat man vows to defend his dignity if mocked, while the thin man offers quick retorts about sensitivity and mistaken insults.
Practical hints from the New York Tribune advise using copperas to disinfect exterior drains and closets, with boiling water and careful handling. It covers weekly drain cleaning, sink care, and garbage disposal via outdoor pits mixed with lime and washing soda for fertilizer. Also mentions composting waste for farm use and notes on labor hour trends in Anglo American contexts.
A Sun calculation ranks European nations by wages and hours worked with England and France having the least hours and highest wages, while Italy and Russia show the opposite. Latin American holidays reduce working days, with Louisiana and other U S states showing many festival days. United States excluding Gulf states records 205 working days.
A local retailer offers a wide selection of carpets in all grades and prices along with draperies and window shades. The store also features upholstery chairs, willow and rattan furniture, stands and tables, and a closing out sale on wall paper at less than half price.
Practical household hints cover cleaning methods for matting and towels, plus kitchen ideas. Advice includes dusting with a damp newspaper, drying towels before hamper, crafting rug substitutes from carpet remnants, and fringe finishing tips. Cooking notes describe macaroni with brown gravy and a celery milk dish with butter flour thickening.
The American Architect compares lighting costs in a Cologne study using coal gas ninety one cents per thousand cubic feet alcohol thirty cents per gallon coal oil fifteen cents per gallon and electricity one and three quarter cents per kilowatt hour Mantles last four hundred hours at fifty cents each Normal incandescent electric lamps cost ten cents per hour for the same illumination while ordinary gas burners and Argand bulbs are less costly by comparison Hecht and coal oil lamps offer cheaper alternatives and modern mantle gas lights prove the most economical with electric arc lamps about ten percent cheaper than incandescent power overall the cheapest light source is electric arc lamps.
The Pennsylvania, the largest freight steamer built besides the Great Eastern, nears New York after its maiden voyage. Owned by Hamburg American Line and built at Harland & Wolff Belfast, she measures 548 feet by 62 feet and displaces 20 000 tons with 7000 HP. She carries 200 cabin and 1500 steerage passengers and sails at about fifteen knots.
Chicago live stock prices show cattle largely nominal due to light supply, hogs advancing with strong demand, and sheep and lambs sliding amid heavy receipts. Receipts: cattle 000 head, hogs 15,000, sheep 3,000. Markets varied with lots of range sheep at 3.03 and best natives around 1.7a4.
Cattle market steady with quoted ranges for extra prime common and bulls. Hog market steady with prime pigs medium weights and grassers. heavy hogs and roughs listed with prices. Sheep market steady showing choice and fair lambs and veal calves prices.
The New York market moved fractionally up with a smaller trading volume as professionals dominated activity. Leath er, sugar, and tobacco issues showed strength while several rail and utility shares posted gains amid mixed speculation and Sunday-covering activity.
Chicago markets report futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with September December and May terms. Cash prices for flour, rye, lard and pork shown along with cents per bushel or barrel figures and receipts and shipments across multiple grains and products.
Buffalo New York on August 21 reports receipts of two cars of wale cattle with a steady market. Hog arrivals reach 17 cars with fairly active trade. hogs bring 4.30 for Yorkers, higher for good to choice and lower for roughs. Sheep and lambs receipts number three cars with lambs selling from 5.50 to 5.45 for good to extra choice. wethers 4.00 to 4.50 while culls and common go 2.75 to 3.76.
Ol City Pennsylvania August 21 credit balances show 71 certificates with no bid. Shipments total 89 210 barrels, runs 0 400 barrels.
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