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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1898
Page
2
Mayfield opens as teachers and directors face expanded duties. The Board of School Controllers promotes high grade teachers, modern textbooks, and careful budgeting. The district boasts a modern heating and ventilation system, dustless doors, and health measures, with focus on pupil welfare and parental inspection.
All children not successfully vaccinated must receive the vaccine and a physician’s certificate proving completion must be shown before the student may be admitted to the school.
Flannhan and O'Hara of Scranton won the sewer contract at Saturday's council meeting for 1.7 dollars per foot including house connections. The vote favored the award with six to four and the borough attorney was asked to draft the agreement.
Peckville residents and nearby families report a weekend of visits and trips. Frank W. Day and Mrs Day, Wilkes-Barre, visited Day family in Wilkes-Barre. Edward Barber and the Barneses returned from New York state after a lengthy trip. Many others, including Henry Lloyd Kingston and Miss Katherine East Orange, visited relatives in New Milford Stillwater and New Jersey. Willie Rodgers plans a New York New Jersey vacation.
Hoyt's new comedy A Day and a Night opens at the Lyceum for the season with a strong company led by Otis Harlan William Devereaux Carrie Jane Cooper and Mae Lowery. The Academy of Music begins its season with The Girl I Left Behind Me a dramatic romance featuring brisk action and notable scenery.
Georges DD Melville, the celebrated clown, is commissioned by Charles Mr. Yale to stage a new act for the Forever Devil Auction at the Lyceum. Melville has drafted funny tricks and a fresh setup to replace the older Vaulia of Benwdie scene, promising a hit with new scenery and effects Wednesday night.
The gallery theater on Lindow Street will open with donor support and a burlesque and comedy program. Rose Sydell leads a cast including Karina we Tits pewple Champtell Hart Linteh Miex Teddy Ponquelina Seymore ail Shots Brown Harrison and Brown in operatic and comic acts. Two new original pieces Willow Winns Reception and Behind the Scenes feature full company.
A finely staged romantic drama titled Darkest Russia will be seen at the Academy on Thursday Friday and Saturday. The production features clever acting and runs through major cities including New York Philadelphia Boston and Chicago. It boasts elaborate tableaux and striking costumes that interweave color and style, presenting a polished, working performance.
New York traders showed mixed action as bears pressed prices at the open yet buying demand largely absorbed declines. Union Pacific led a broad rally while Sugar and People's Gas lagged, with Grangers and Northern Pacific ample supply delaying advances. Closing activity remained irregular amid renewed buying in some issues and profit taking in others.
Philadelphia notes dull wheat and mixed grain futures with August and September contracts showing varied tones. Butter and cheese demand steady to firm, cotton steady, lard and pork stable, live poultry weak with some firmness in crossbred and fancy birds, large flour and grain receipts listed.
New York aug seventeenth. Wheat futures show mixed movements with spot steady and options opening higher before unloading slows trade. Corn futures hold firm as buyers stay absent, price levels steady amid cautious activity.
Classified list shows multiple rental offerings including rooms stores and dwellings on Washington avenue Lackawanna avenue Madison avenue and Wyoming avenue. Also notices for sale items such as a fine upright piano boiler and various job seeking ads and professional notices from attorneys and doctors.
Fragmentary text lists dairy terms and prices with mentions of September, December, No 1 and No 2 creamery products, western creameries, states and firms, and crude to refined price notes. lacks coherent narrative or dates.
August 27 Chicago market notes show September wheat rose on short covering while December edged higher. Corn largely unchanged, oats steady, pork and lard advance. cash quotes list diverse grain and meat prices across flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and pork products.
Local notices advertise hotels and restaurants including Cafe 12 and l Franklin Avenue Bates Feasonabis, Scranton House near D L W depot, European plan operated by Victor Koch, plus midwives Mrs Gable and a graduate midwife. Seedmen Clark Co promote stores on Washington Ave and Main Ave. Lackawanna School offers preparatory courses for college law medicine or business opening Sept 12 with catalog. Rev Thomas M Cann and Walter H Buell listed.
Latest from Philippine is lands and rumors of a grand naval clash. Items for sale include ladies shoes at discounted prices, oxford styles, and men’s $2.00 boots offered near $1.49. Bauer's Orchestra-Mublic provides music for events. Megargee Brothers supply printers' goods at 139 Washington avenue, Scranton.
East Liberty Pennsylvania August 27 cattle market shows steady to firm tone with varied quotations across cattle types. Reports list prime beef, common to good Yorkers, grassers, and heavy hogs with prices in fluctuating ranges and entries for sheep and veal calves reflecting typical market movement.
Chicago reports uneven demand and prices for cattle and hogs with some fall in steer values and firming in choley offerings. Calves and western range cattle show mixed to steady bids while sheep and lamb totals remain light amid quiet trading and receipts for cattle hogs and sheep listed.
An advertisement from Jos Kurttel, manufacturer of Wire Screens, located at 511 Lacka Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
New York terminal at Liberty street and North River offers connections to elevated trains Broadway cars and ferries to Brooklyn and Staten Island. Services to Wilkes-Barre Scranton Allentown Bethlehem and Easton run with through fares to Reading Harrisburg and Pottsville. tickets available at the station for lowest rates.
In Philadelphia on August 27 the market shows varied beef and veal demand. Cattle and dairy items display mixed activity with fat cows steady, milch cows at about 20000, veal calved active, and dressed beef markets remaining uncertain across grades and brands.
Buffalo live stock market reports show receipts steady overall with mixed demand. Hog and sheep entries are described as fair to good, with strong opening bids for better slaughter hogs and lambs fetching higher prices, amid overall market steadiness.
Aug 8 Oi City reports include certified balances shipments totaling 6 020 barrels with runs not reported. Oil sales and cash figures referenced at prevailing rate by SG coph.
In Factoryville No 246 Independent Order of Odd Fellows held its last regular meeting night in August with officer nominations for the new term. The Montrose fair is set for October 6 with Harford fate on September 25. The Gardner family held their annual reunion near the tunnel and many attended. Sixty of the eighty seventh Pennsylvania volunteers remain alive and plan a reunion at Anthony Cobb Rept’s home. The clam bake and picnic for the Odd Fellows is scheduled for September 1. A Skinners Eddy sheriff's deputy was robbed of 129 cash, a mileage book and about 7000 in securities after a Grange picnic and train ride. losses spread to others. Rebekah lodge will not meet until September 4. A wrecking train was sent Thursday to remove an engine with a broken journal. Mrs W W Bard will teach at Glen school this winter.
Fragmentary timetable notes from Erie and Wyoming Valley list June schedules and departures from Scranton to Lake Ariel. Mentions trains leaving at 4.16 and 7.9 PM with unclear ferry or car connections and references Lake Ariel as a destination linked to an artiste.
Train schedule effective Monday June 2 1808 listing departures to New York Philadelphia Buffalo Utica Ithaca and other points with express and accommodation stops at Tobyhanna Wilkes Barre Northumberland and Plymouth among others including connections for Williamsport Harrisburg Baltimore and Washington.
Train times listed for Sunday departures from Beranton to Carbondale Montreal New York Wilkes Barre and other points via Delaware and Hudson lines. Includes routes via Pennsylvanian and Black Diamond Express with arrival times at Scranton and connections to western points. Burdick and Crooks announce low rates for travel to United States and Canada.
Lehigh Valley Railroad announces coal region service with trains to Philadelphia New York via D and MO W routes. Timings include Black Diamond Express trains to Scranton Wilkes Barre Bethlehem Easton Reading and other points. Names Nollis H Wilbur Chas Tbe division agents South Bethlehem and New York listed.
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