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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1901
Page
7
The notice promotes a shop offering the largest selection of pictures and frames in the city. It emphasizes comfort and improvement for the home during the winter season and invites customers to visit the store for quality items.
A muddled note mentions Jacobs and Fasold continuing an exchange, describing it as mildly stellar this week and noting it as absolutely free with a tainted reproduction phrase.
A bustling page lists diverse items from a late afternoon city calendar. Inquiries into inquests, bank openings, and municipal campaigns mix with church events, veterans meetings, a whist tournament, and Aldermanic candidacy announcements, reflecting a busy local scene.
Special excursion tickets to Washington DC will be sold good on any train December 12 and valid for return up to December 6. From Scranton the round trip rate is 7.75 dollars.
High Grade Teas and Coffees offered direct from importers at best quality and prices. Located at 422 Spruce Street the Imperial Tea and Coffee Co. advertises a business free of prizes or schemes.
A brief note on Schriever's artist's proof portraits in various sizes, praised as ideal heli day photographs. The item emphasizes their artistic novelty and presentation, capturing the photographer's unique style in collectible forms.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an examination for an Assistant in the Division of Entomology on January 2, 1912. The post carries a salary of 31,200 and requires competitive scoring in economics entomology, systematic botany, and related topics. Eligible U.S. citizens may apply to the Commission in Washington, D.C., with forms SP and SP-1 properly executed before closing business on January 1.
The Tribune invites readers to submit word lists and word-count coupons for a spelling contest. Participants may send multiple lists but only the first list will be counted. additional lists are allowed only if the entries are complete and unique. Eva Gates of Peckville explains she sent two lists due to reading rules.
The streetcar strike showed no new developments as the strikers’ committee held informal talks with Wy. D. Mahon of Detroit, the national president attending a federation convention. No plan for a conference with company officials was agreed, though some workers had returned to work.
The board of control quit likely to relocate within the Municipal building as plans show converting two rooms used by the board and creating space for the department of public safety. The director states bureau chiefs would gain desk space and the fourth floor may be partially improved for a meeting room if the board stays.
Our Holland Brand Coffee is sterilized in roasting and remains strictly pure unadulterated coffee. It is renowned for purity strength and flavor and will be maintained. Special 250 lb. 422 Spruce Street. Smoke the popular Punch cigar.
A city council approved a resolution forfeiting the Valley Passenger Railway franchise while granting new street railway rights to West Side North End and South Side lines. The measure authorizes construction across major avenues, with specific tracks planned along Linden, Linden Street, and surrounding streets, subject to department approval and paving standards.
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