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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1894
Page
9
In a tense country house scene Philip Blount and Mr Ardell fear Gwen Dashwood is entangled with Everard. A misread telegram and a rushed Paddington journey trigger accusations and suspense before Gwen reveals a misunderstood note and reconciles with Everard in Paris.
A lighthearted note on studying grammar this term features a girl and a boy exchanging playful lines about mistakes. The dialogue highlights a humorous classroom moment and the idea that learning language can be a source of amusement.
A playful historical ad riff invites readers to trade anything from houses to livestock and goods. It lists items like real estate lumber yards horses or stock and prompts readers to make an ad to trade or sell valuables.
A Christmas ball offers a thoughtful present for an absent friend. The ball conceals a small gift and a quotation tied into silk floss, unwinding reveals verses that honor the giver and recipient, creating lasting joy beyond Christmas Day.
French writer Paul Bourget, visiting America, observes a Harvard versus Pennsylvania football game in Cambridge. He portrays the crowd, ritual cries, and the brutal onfield struggles as scholar athletes collide in a intense, almost gladiatorial contest with fans packed into wooden stands and players sustaining injuries before continuing the frenzied match.
An Indianapolis Journal reader report captures a heated exchange at a ratification gathering where a young speaker proclaims meeting an adversary, and a skeptical attendee retorts that the enemy was not at the polls.
Poem fragment attributed to James Whitcomb Riley. It speaks of a loved one who is not dead but away in an unknown land, lingering and dear to the living. The speaker urges readers to imagine a hopeful return and to keep the departed in love.
A reader notes mothers and aunts seek new Christmas ideas to replace evergreen trees and flames. The New York World suggests a snow field corner with a cotton snow sheet, a sleigh, gifts, and a Santa role. Other ideas include a hollow log yule log and wooden shoe stockings, all arranged as a snowdrift pile for playful gift discovery.
A dense list of Scranton area lawyers and offices appears, naming J Jessups Horace Hand Willard Warren Knapp Patterson Wilcox and many others with addresses in Commonwealth and Library buildings, Spruce Street, Lackawanna Avenue, and Washington Avenue. The advertisement promotes legal services and a school, with specific offices and room numbers for multiple practitioners.
Miscellaneous items list entertainment and reception services with musicians and printing supplies. Mentions J Bauer conductor at Wyoming avenue Hulbert music store and Megargeh Brothers printers supplying envelopes and paper at Washington and Scranton locations.
A garbled 1804 notice from Boupn S nan tow Pennsylvania appears to instruct readers to obtain Dr Campbell's remedy. The text claims all boxes are guaranteed to cause no harm and invites observers to visit a local store for the product and child related anecdotes.
The city’s water supply rests on Oak Run and Meadow Brook reservoirs with Dunnings, Meadow Brook, and Williams bridges supplying multiple independent lines. The system, built by the Scranton Gas and Water Co, includes reservoirs with capacities up to 1.3 billion gallons and reserves enough to serve Scranton for a year, with plans for a new storage site to reach 1.4 billion gallons.
The Scranton gas system highlights excellent service and favorable rates with consumers paying $1.23 per 1,000 cubic feet and large users $1.17. The plant has been rebuilt and enlarged to produce up to 1,000,000 cubic feet in twenty four hours.
The Electric Light and Heat Company operates from the Lackawanna banks below the gas works as the state’s largest plant outside Philadelphia and Pittsburg. It runs fourteen Brush arc light machines with sixty arc lights each totaling 840 lights, powered by four 800 horse power Corliss engines. The firm supplies city street lighting and most illumination, owning 115 miles of poles and wires across the city.
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