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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
4
The Scranton Tribune announces tabulated rates for each insertion and outlines letters to the editor rules requiring real names and signed publication. It notes the policy that contributions are subject to editorial revision and lists subscription and postal details for the period.
The piece argues that historic party caucuses are essential to maintain coherence in action and organization. It notes even opponents may rely on caucus mechanisms, formally or informally, to time forces for specific purposes. It affirms the majority's right to orderly procedures in naming candidates and shaping policy.
A Pittsburgh era pew of factional brawls within the Pennsylvania Republican Party threatens national and state races. Colonel Quay faces a tough joint ballot test for the Senate with William Connell backing a contingent candidacy, while advocates urge harmony and a victory on the first ballot.
The governor’s annual report extols Oklahoma’s rapid rise from a lawless frontier to a thriving territory. It notes growth from 60 000 population on April 22 1889 to about 400 000, with 90 percent American born and literacy well above many states. The piece contrasts geography with prospects for statehood.
Oklahoma reports strong growth in population, land value, and industry. It notes a $185 million claimed real wealth, 2,000 schools, 109 churches, 74 banks, 1,000 miles of railways, and expanding agriculture and mining amid a 1900 era push toward statehood.
A London correspondent recounts Sir John Lubbock, known as Lord Avebury, visiting Paris. He met Jules Claretie, praised Lubbock's Measures of Time, and learned Claretie admires English intellect. Lubbock, mistaken for Avebury, enjoyed the humorous confusion.
A white bearded man, aldermanic in girth, visits a tobacco shop on Pennsylvania Avenue near Sixth Street and is told he resembles ex-President Mayrison. Denham and AL Meed discuss the likeness as the man heads toward the Capitol in this Washington Post fragment.
A fragment shows a bargaining exchange between a vendor and a woman, partly in Turkish French and English. The vendor insists on selling items cheaply while the woman protests and asserts ownership phrases. A man asserts American identity amid the bargaining chatter.
A popular clearing house for renters buyers sellers and job seekers offers small ads at one cent per word with six insertions for five cents per word and free situations wanted notices for job seekers. The page details rates and how to place ads for property to rent or exchange and for employment opportunities.
Notice in pursuance of council resolution states special elections January Std MMI in Fifth Sixth and Fourteenth wards to fill unexpired terms of resignations for Rich ard Williams Edward James and Peter McCann. James Moir mayor. Scranton Pa. December 1000. Annual meeting of stockholders of Suburban Electric Light Co to elect directors at office room Connell building Scranton Pa Saturday 72 1001 at 4 pm. ER M Stack secretary.
Sale and employment notices and a quoted literary line. Listings include saleamen positions in wholesale grocery, a bookkeeper seeking work with entry experience, an ad for a junior bookkeeper, a bartender position, and laundress services. A quoted Lilian Bell line closes the page.
A compact reflection on events and conditions from a century ago as observed in a Louisville era column. This brief piece notes social life and common matters shaping daily life in that period.
The article surveys early telegraph ideas and experiments from Lomond’s single line and alphabet system to the spark and pith ball telegraphs. It notes Maree’s 1815 model instrument, Vaucanson’s automatons, and Caesar era stakes discoveries in Middlesex, alongside births of notable scientists and engineers.
A rough listing of Scranton area professionals and businesses includes architects Edward N. Davis and Frederick L. Brown with multiple offices, lawyers such as J. W. Browning and Willard Warren & Knapp, and a School of the Lackawanna. The fragment mentions efforts on a national military reserve, Beaufort rehabilitation funds, and the Jean Ribault oi fort site with Spanish builders’ role.
Railway timetable dated November 25 1900 lists trains from Scranton to New York and other cities with varied departure times including 6 20 am 8 09 am and 11 15 pm. Further lines cover connections to Wilkes Barre Albany Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington plus Sunday departures and through tickets offered by Central Railroad of New Jersey officials J W Bordick and W Cross.
The text cites rough figures on Vesela entering Chinese ports, global oxygen demand, paper money vs gold, Norwegian ice supply to London, Blanco flora counts, English port fab shipments, a hellfish, battleship wood use, splinter danger, and petroleum fumes claimed to cure whooping cough.
The notice lists LVRR train departures from Scranton to Philadelphia and New York via D&OU, with timings such as 159 Oe Wh and 11:40 p.m. Sundays, plus connections to Wilkes Barre and Buffalo routes. It mentions intermediate stations including Dupont, Nanticoke, and Towanda, Pullman parlor service on several routes, and offices for tickets and reservations at Lackawanna Avenue, Stanton, Pa.
Timea Vable in effect September 17 1909 schedules show trains from Hawley to New York via Erie Railroad with intermediate points. Depart Scranton at 7 06 a m and 2 25 p m arriving 10 30 p m and 9 10 p m.
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