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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1895
Page
6
A narrator describes watching Mother Videaux in a hut hide a stash of nine diamonds inside a loaf. She later frees a venomous asp from a basket and taunts a servant, playing with danger as night falls and the scene ends with the observer retreating from the wall crack.
Andrews keeps a wary distance from Howard Forsythe as the Benita theft case tightens. Forsythe demands a full report while Andrews plans departure aboard the next steamer. A nighttime intruder in the office raises new fears as a native basket appears in a moonlit room.
New York reports speculative activity with stock sales up and several issues showing gains across rail, industrials, and utilities. Morgan plan for reorganization praised. Erie and Northern Pacific notable movers amid a broad rise in several major issues. Prices for commodities and local Scranton trade items also listed.
One man confronts Howard Forsythe in a tense moment described with implied threat and danger. The speaker questions Forsythe about his presence and intent, suggesting a danger of violence in a contested encounter.
A 106 year old Wesel resident, famed for a lifelong pipe habit, asks King Frederick William IV for one daily smoke on the ramparts. The monarch grants the request, and the old man enjoys his pipe for many more years, despite the sentry’s reminders.
Market notes show flowr dull and unchanged while wheat and corn move with small changes. Prices for lard dairy and cheese remain firm or quiet with mixed Western and state offerings and varied crate and per unit quotes across No 2 red No 2 white No 1 etc.
Toledo August 27 market dull for wheat with 19 000 bushels receipts and prices for No 2 red cash and contract months. corn receipts 14 000 bushels with market easy for No 2 mixed cash and futures. oats receipts 7 000 bushels with dull market for No 2 mixed September. clover seed receipts 100 bags with dull market. oil market in Pittsburg and Ol City closed at 1 1 2 percent quotation.
An obscured romantic verse fragment contemplates sleep and mortality with archaic diction and inconsistent spelling. The speaker hints at trust and ascent toward a tranquil afterlife while addressing an unnamed reader.
A fragment notes a dameel at Asbury Park who went to bathe, then left early after an unsettling incident. details are sparse and unclear in the readable text.
Reported payroll at Pennsylvania L amounts to 105205 dollars on a Saturday, far exceeding past payments. Ivania Railroad officials deny passenger fare cuts and challenge a nine dollar New York to Chicago rate. Aluminum soldering breakthrough suggested with copper plating and potash cleaning. Electricity reduces city horse labor and previews electric farm power for pumping, threshing, and plowing as electric plows test in Germany. Central stations or wind mills may supply power, prompting rural population shift. Platinum drawn into ultra fine smooth wire indistinguishable to the naked eye.
An advertisement touts Narcoti-Cure as a 100 percent vegetable remedy that tones the system without requiring multiple bottles for a guarantee. It claims no complete tobacco cessation mandate and offers a Book of Particulars free or a $6 bottle by mail, urging druggists to provide full specifics.
In Detroit a curious man stalks a soda fountain, asks to test if soda water can explode, and jokes about paying a nickel to “investigate.” The clerk questions the man’s intent as the exchange veers toward mock danger and a banter-filled exit.
A middle aged woman at Piedmont bathhouse watches her 12 year old son Simon Peter Bates as he struggles in deep water. After a series of near drownings the mother threats to skin him alive if he drowns, and bystanders pull the boy from the tank. The boy survives, the danger of the heat and crowd highlighted.
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