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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
7
The Tribune invites short letters on current topics printed when space allows. Contributors must sign their names and accept editorial revision under the paper’s conditions. Submissions are usualty labeled and processed at the Scranton post office for second class mail.
A Scranton dated December 19, 1900 item notes the commonwealth’s lengthy formal process to certify its presidential electors in legal form, remarking on the burden of red tape surrounding the election certification activity.
Report outlines alleged insurgent plot to derail United States Senate election in Pennsylvania with forged charges and heavy spending. It asserts M. B. Quay holds a pledged majority and will win at the appointed time despite maneuvers. Also notes growing Nicaragua canal excitement and local street railway fracas.
The piece endorses Griggs in arguing the Constitution does not automatically extend all provisions over newly acquired lands. It notes opponents like Harrison and stresses sovereignty requires flexible, paternalistic policy rather than rigid full citizenship for large new populations. General Kitchener is also mentioned with Christmas imagery.
The National Civil Service Reform league argues the current civil service act is full of loopholes and easily dodged by federal officials. It urges tighter rules, noting four years of administration have seen extensive evasion to gain public approval and administrative results.
Opinion arguing for practical tests over written exams to select public servants. The author defends the current administration and warns against wholesale law revisions while praising experiential judgment, promoting trial and removal over standardized testing as the reliable path to competent governance.
In a thirty-two page edition focused on home manufacture and local prosperity the Truth last evening celebrated expansion. The holidays annuals of this enterprising journal are always first class and this one is the best of all.
The piece reviews a proposed bill by Representative Naphen of Massachusetts that would allocate 6,000,000 acres of public lands for homeland development. It envisions irrigation powered farms, housing, industry, and education run by the poor and homeless, funded by treasury surplus or taxation, with strict conditions on employment and eventual self-sufficiency. It also notes a Philippine insurrection context tied to U S racial actions and misrule narratives.
The text notes that guerrilla resistance tests the effectiveness of an occupying army. It discusses the challenge such forces face in stamping out native resistance and references the United States as facing this problem.
The Times published a 32 page holiday issue with a four page Pittston supplement, praised for its layout and local business ads. Reports note a lynching of a third Black man in Rockport Indiana and commentary on political figures and labor tensions alongside baseball industry talk.
A Chicago preacher extols a girl’s beauty as more than looks. He urges temperance in dress and appetite, learning, and housework, aiming for physical, intellectual, and spiritual harmony. He warns against slang and promotes piety, kindness to parents, and seeking the kingdom of God.
Forenan CLEATING HOUSE offers help for those with houses to rent or property to sell or exchange. Small ads charge per word for real estate, jobs, or help wanted. Situations wanted are inserted free, other ads cost six insertions for five cents per word.
Classified notices offer work for male carpenters and stenographers in Scranton, a nurse removed, housing asks, and a lost artificial hand. Anecdotes include a ship voyage remark about a deaf boy and a brewery discharge for inefficiency. Confusing fragments intertwine with local notices and stray anecdotes.
A dense slate of Scranton business notices includes rubber tired cabs and carriages with prompt service by phone phone numbers 2072 and 635 Joseph Melle 14 Linden PA lists several attorneys including J R James Oakford Edward W Thayer L A Watres B P Pitcher at Board of Trade building Scranton Pa and The School of the Lackawanna offers preparatory courses to college law medicine and business inviting inquiries.
An American troupe led by RK Yoshinate visited the White House where a child acrobat named Master Yarkleth asked to meet George Washington. The president guided him to the Washington statue and explained Washington’s death as the boy declared his name as William McKinley.
A summary of century old events mentions Ireland and England politics with Pitt and the Irish parliament, hospital building milestones in New York and Philadelphia, Fort Philip discovery near Victoria, and a list of notable deaths and figures from arts, science, and military across several nations.
Scranton timetable lists trains to New York Newark Philadelphia Easton Bethlehem Allentown by express and local services with connections to Wilkes-Barre and White Haven. mentions Bethlehem Easton Reading and Harrisburg routes. Includes Pullman cars and sleeping cars on several routes. Officials named Burdick, I W Coss, AL Scranton Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The Chicago Chronicle recounts Bryan Stevenson narrating a capital tale aboard a Ohio River steamboat. He meets a well dressed passenger, warms to him, and tells a strong yarn as the boat voyage continues with the man listening intently.
Finley announces Christmas week specials on ladies fine neckwear featuring exclusive designs for the season.
North Bound trains depart Scranton and Carbondale with arrivals at Cadonia and Ogwego, showing times from 10 40 a m to 8 30 p m. South bound and daily services listed with departures from Scranton to Cadonia and Carbondale. Trains connect to New York, Cornwall, Siddletown, Walton, Sidney, Norwich, Rome, Utica, Oneida and Ogwego. For details consult ticket agents.
Incomplete timetable mentions Erie and Wyoming Valley lines. It notes a Tinws Table in Eileet Bept, a Hawley connection to the Erie railroad for New York, and departures including a Scranton stop at 10.30 a.m. and 0.10 p.m. Details are fragmentary and spellings unclear.
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