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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
2
A London pawnshop owner buys a valuable diamond from a sailor and is menaced by murderers including a Burmese partner. After strange apparitions and a deadly confrontation, the pawnbroker barricades himself as he confronts a deadly threat. He finally shoots himself amid a fog bound night.
Anthracite coal powered trains advertised with fixed routes to Philadelphia New York via D&H R R and to White Haven Hazleton Pottsville and other coal regions. Multiple daily departures announced with Black Diamond Expresss stops and Pullman parlor sleeping cars between Wilkes Barre and New York Philadelphia Buffalo and Streaton Ridge. Officials named include Rollin H Wilbur AB Lee and A W Nonnemacher Scranton office listed.
Timetables for the Central Railroad of New Jersey show trains serving Scranton Pittston Philadelphia Reading Air, New York, and Atlantic coast points. Key departures include 8.20, 9.15, 11.00 a.m., and 1.45 p.m. with Sunday variations, and through routes to Allentown, Bethlehem, and Pottstown.
The timetable lists multiple daily trains from Scranton to New York Easton Trenton Philadelphia and the South to Washington to Tobyhanna and Buffalo with various departures including express and accommodation services. It notes connections at Buffalo for western regions and specifies Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches on all express trains. Pocket time tables and ticket offices are noted at Lackawanna Avenue and the depot.
Effective Nov. 2 trains depart Scranton for New York Newburgh and intermediate points, Hawley and local stops, mornings and 2:28 p.m. The schedule lists arrival times at 10:03 a.m., 3:18 p.m., and other listed offsets.
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