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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1900
Page
3
The city notes outline a City Notes Board of Trade meeting at 5 tonight. Reports include a spate of minor accidents with sprains and falls, hospital visits, a questionable dentist correspondence, a large capitalized capital fund, and routine weekly clearings figures.
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The funeral for the late Mrs. George Gd. Winans was held from the family home on North Main Avenue yesterday afternoon. Rev. EE. A. Bol of the Plymouth Congregational church led services at 2:30. Interment followed at Forest Hill cemetery. Pallbearers included Thoms Barrowman, Prof. George Howell, Alexander Barrowman, David D. Evans, Miss Susan Black, and Eliza J. Garagan. Choral hymns were sung with Doorsam as accompanist. Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Trambower of Pittston and Henry T. Howell and family of New York attended.
Saturday saw multiple defendants sentenced by Judges Tk W Areibald John Kelly and David Cameron for liquor sale without license and other offenses. Several defendants had sentences suspended earlier, then penalties were imposed after continued misconduct, with fines and jail time ordered and cases postponed for further action.
A checker match between Avelitect i Ch Wor den and B A Colby of Onwee Need was played by telegraph. Worden played at Florey Brooks on Washington avenue, games from 2 pm to 1 am, sixteen moves by each side. Colby, famed as New Jersey champion, sent telegram acknowledging defeat and wishing Mr. Worden a Merry Christmas. Reynolds Bro.
The Lackawanna Telephone Company now places telephones at subscribers stations. All employees are issued numbered badges and citizens are cautioned not to admit anyone claiming to be company employees without visible badges. Wayland, General Manager. Mounted Pocketbooks Reynolds bros. A twenty acre farm for rent at Staten Island New York City with new house easy access to ferry and markets. Address 8 Island Tribune office. Newest Calendars Reynolds Brow.
Two large congregations joined Rev. Dr. J. H. Smith of Baltimore in a seven year anniversary at Adams Avenue Elm Park church. Smith, former Adams Avenue pastor, preached morning and evening on faith, citing Hebrews 11:1 and praising faith as the motive of heroic deeds and the practical power that sustains hope through suffering.
Rev. Courtney Fenn of West Pittston, survivor of Pekin’s siege, spoke at Second and Green Ridge Presbyterian churches. He described aid work, Boxer exposure, and empress dowager led persecutions, praising allied relief and the faith of native converts amid destruction.
The passage speaks of science and religion shaping human life. Faith is described as a philosophy that turns sorrow into gold and elevates small lives toward enduring glory. It asserts that sober truth surpasses fiction and reflects on dreams becoming reality through faith.
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