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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
4
The speaker ponders whether England will accept the Hay Pauncefote treaty as amended. In calmer times chances would be slim, but given present circumstances the guess is she will.
Secretary of the interior briefs on the Dole administration from July 7, 1898, to April 1900 covering population shifts from 1896 and 1900 censuses, land area, land value, and ad valorem taxes. It notes agricultural expansion, sugar growth spurred by annexation, coffee and fruit exports, cattle raising, forestry needs, burgeoning industries, and rail and tram developments.
The House committee on census favors a 7 to 6 report on the Hopkins bill which would fix the total House membership at 357 for ten years, alter state representations, and complicate redistricting across multiple states while keeping total seats capped at the current size.
The piece notes resistance to enlarging Ita’s membership and describes changes by the senate military committee to the army bill, including artillery increases, native troop use in Porto Rico and the Philippines, sale of beer at post canteens, and a flexible staff system. It also mentions Wilkes-Barre Times holiday issue and Cuba’s constitution mimicry of France.
Frederic Carroll Brewster, a Philadelphia lawyer, sought signatures from bar members for a petition. Horace Binney verified the act date and title before signing, then Mr. Sergeant also checked the citation. Judge Brewster credited these events with teaching him to be kind to beginners and to verify facts himself.
Whites Representative TTT announces for the Minois United States senate seat. Representative Cannon, also in the semitorial race, declines to back Hirt, saying he admires him but must support the best man. A Macoupin county anecdote shows rival Bum Johnson and Jim Tobias debating voting duties.
A New York correspondent recalls the enduring Pinafore craze and the phrase What never hardly ever that disrupted courts legislatures and pulpits. A dead editor forbade its use in his paper and a photographer retorts with double extra strong lenses as a seventeen year old jokes about her face breaking the camera.
A fragmentary poetic plea seeks a brief renewed union of love kept safe from the world. The speaker asks God for a little while to reveal sincere devotion and to withhold social masks as life and fate press on. The archaic diction evokes longing and spiritual protection in a private moment.
The article recounts historical notes from a century ago, including Rajput infant sacrifice practices to avoid dowry burdens, Napoleon and Suez canal ideas, Piccini versus Gluck in opera, Guiana governance under Victor Hugoet, royalist exiles in Cuiuna, and the Washington monument bill’s early congressional path.
A scattered compilation notes Eskimo leather goods, railways steel use, New York debt, pyramid stone, U S mineral production, postal reading habits, United States and China areas, Cronje driver hymn book sale, Benedictine monastery in Rome, school rooms, observatories, population growth, railway horse prices and care, St Joseph license changes, artificial sponges, water freezing, two old snuff boxes in senate, Norse myth in Christian customs, Yule log, shirt waists rising in fashion, Harvard to receive Semitic papyri collection including Homer's writings and Sapho poems.
A list of professionals and firms in Scranton Pennsylvania including doctors lawyers and merchants with addresses on Wyoming Avenue Mulberry Street and surrounding blocks. Notable entries include Dr I O Lyman and Dr Lachau 115 Wyoming Avenue the firm of Willard Warren and Knapp attorneys and the School of the Lackawanna led by Principal Thomas.
Rail timetable list shows trains from Scranton to Carbonvale Honesdale Wilkes Barre and points north with various departure times on November 25 1900. It names schedules for Lehigh Valley and D & H rail lines, with limited Sunday services and connections to New York Philadelphia Baltimore Reading Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. Officials include W Burdick J Al Olmausen and H B. Cross with route notes across multiple states.
North bound trains depart Scranton Carbondale and other stations with listed times. South bound departures and arrivals include Cadosia Carbondale and Scranton. Sunday service shows morning and evening slots, with connections to Utica Oneida Walton Norwich Rome and more. Anderson General Passenger Agent and Welsh Traveling Passenger RR Service announce timetable details.
Schedule lists trains connecting Hawley with Erie rail for New York and intermediate points. Trains depart Gortonson at 7.05 am and 2.25 pm with arrivals at Cranion at 10.00 am and 4.00 pm.
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