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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1897
Page
6
A store offered a free candy box to every customer spending at least 50 cents each day until Christmas. The promotion drew hundreds and thousands of shoppers, with crowds in large groups. The retailer promises one box per customer regardless of purchase size, believing the gesture will boost future patronage.
A brief fashion item discusses house coats and smoking jackets, noting styles, fabrics, and intended lounging use. It highlights comfort, warmth, and the practical appeal for home wear.
Twenty five years ago John Smith courted Mary Jones who vowed to care for her insane mother rather than marry. The couple planned a life together but Mary chose duty over marriage, tending her afflicted mother single mindedly while John visits weekly. The engagement remains unbroken.
Workers from the old Penn Avenue boiler shop of Dickson Manufacturing transfered to CHP Works. The Sloan shaft will be deepened and Central shaft raised to access the Dunmore vein. Shut downs planned for Blair and Central mills from Friday, with reallocation and wages paid for holiday period. Pyne colliery resumed, two patent slate picks installed and new pony rolls in place.
Penn avenue shops manufacture twelve large printing presses for Campbell Press of New York. The Columbia Lamp company of Woeet Beranton, owned by Hughes Brothers, supplied brass balustrades for the McCann store on North Main avenue. The Delawaare Lackawanne Western company noted for fuel resuming vast production.
Theatrical notices report Shall We Forgive Her a new play produced in New York to favorable reception. Marie Wainwright leads the cast at Lyceum, with Oliver Byron appearing at Academy of Music. A long list of actors, dates, and tour details follows, along with ship arrivals and business news, including the suicide of St Louis businessman George J. Fritch amid financial troubles.
Newark Newark July 21 A Brose discount clerk at Gate Hawking company has been arrested on charges of embezzling 570. The son of the late Alderman Lirose is named in the case and may plead to the charge.
New York on December 31 reports a Troint conference resulted in an accord among Ollewalt Coal Fain leaders and officials to set prices and transport rules. The deal aims to standardize costs and methods across the industry.
Train times from Wilkes-Barre list 7:30 a m weekday departures to Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh West 10:16 a m weekday to Hazleton Pottsville Reading Norristown Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh 3:15 p m weekday to Sunbury Washington Pittsburgh West 3:16 p m Sundays only to Sunbury Pittsburgh West 6:00 p m weekday to Hazleton and Pottsville. LB Wood General Passenger Agent
Fragmented OCR reads like a financial rail and coal snippet with figures and times mentioning Central Railroad of New Jersey and Atlantic City. It references Leviathan dividends and anthracite coal in a Port/terminal context with scattered dates and prices.
The notice lists multiple express and accommodation trains serving Easton Trenton Philadelphia and the South with times for connections to Buffalo Binghamton Wilkes Barre Plymouth and other intermediates. It mentions sleeping coaches and instructed travelers to consult pocket timetables and the depot ticket office for details.
Partial timetable shows trains from Scranton to New York via Erie line with departures around 7 1s a.m. and 10 2 a.m. and intermediate stops at Wyoming Valley and Chat and idwal, effective March 19, 1897.
The bulletin lists through trains and connections from Wilkes Barre to New York and Philadelphia via the Diamond Express and intermediate stops. It notes schedules to Pittston Hazleton and Wilkes Barre with multiple daily departures and parlor cars on the route.
Fragmentary rail notice reports December timetable changes on the N. O. W. R. R. with trains bound for Carbondale and Boranton. It notes connections between lines and a departure from Carbondale toward Boranton in the afternoon.
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