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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
8
A Christmas sermon contemplates eternal life, divine love, and the incarnation, linking reverent thought to the season. It notes Friday night’s St Luke’s Sunday school service and an upcoming children’s Christmas festival, with daily holy communion and Christmas music to follow next Sunday.
Overworked nerves weaken digestion leading to indigestion and fatigue. Mrs. J L Johnson of Scranton testifies Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills restored stomach strength and reduced dizziness. Available at Mathews Bros and all dealers, with the physician’s portrait on every package.
St David's Episcopal Church held Christmas services with a strong music program. The processional Oh Come All Ye Faithful and recessional It Came Upon the Midnight Clear were sung, Mrs John Morgan performed offertory, and Rev Edward James McHenry preached a meaningful sermon on the master’s life and teachings before a large, attentive congregation.
A group of pneumatic tool firms including Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co and Chisholm Moore Manufacturing are merging under J. W. Duntley to form a new company. It will unite Chicago and New York operations with Detroit and Cleveland firms and its British representative New Take Heard Pneumatic Tool. The venture plans to produce all pneumatic appliances from compressors to lifts and cranes with a reported capitalization of 10 million dollars and possible German production facility.
Leicester Allen notes ongoing conflicts and uncertainties across hydraulic and gas engineering, materials science, tooling, and machine gear design. He highlights divergent formulas for pipe thickness, inconsistent iron pipe standards, unfinalized elastic limits, cement and paving material gaps, and debates on gear tooth proportions lubrication and gearing speeds.
The document lists the D L and W board make up for today with numerous names and times. It details train crews engine numbers, stations, and shift start times from 1.90 to 8 p m along with conductors and exam sessions at Young Men's Christian association rooms and M M C A rooms.
Fragment notes the late Flavius Josephus Cook as a person of faith but lacking sweetness generosity and sincerity in life. The text reflects a personal inability to balance devotion with human warmth amid sorrow.
The piece recalls a preacher with magnetic stage craft who commands audiences yet faces scholarly critique. It traces his decade long rise on the Monday Lecture platform, his orthodox stance, and a vivid campus memory where a blade of grass becomes a miracle in a moment of dialogue.
The Sunset Limited and Washington and Southwestern Limited resume in 1901 02 with service from New York to San Francisco via Philadelphia and New Orleans. Trains operate starting November 30 and then Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays from Philadelphia Broad Street at 655 pm. Pullman dining sleeping observation and library cars featured plus a connecting annex car for the Sunset Limited between New Orleans and San Francisco. Charles L Hopkins Southern Railway Philadelphia office offers information.
Semi weekly Atlantic Pacific tourist trains by Nickel Plate provide Pullman like sleeping accommodations with same mattress and bed clothing as regular cars. Cars depart Boston on Mondays and Wednesdays and San Francisco on Tuesdays and Fridays. Berths priced reduced with heating, tea or coffee facilities. For details, contact ticket agents or F. J. Moore Buffalo NY.
Directive Nov 24 announces extra passenger service from Washington via Richmond to Florida. Train No 9 departs Washington at 10 50 am and arrives Jacksonville at 12 15 am with first class coaches Pullman drawing room sleeper dining car service.Copies of schedule details furnished by Chas L Hopkins Southern Railway Philadelphia.
Those considering such a trip should contact the local Lackawanna railroad ticket agent. He will arrange all details from berths and reservations to baggage checks, provide rates and literature, and route travelers via sleepers and day coaches to Chicago with a single car change to California.
timetable lists train departures from Wilkes Barre to Philadelphia and beyond via Pottaville with through Pullman cars and parlors. It notes stops at Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia and other major stations and includes weekday and Sunday schedules. Hutchinson and Wood are listed as the general managers.
Scranton schedule lists departures to New York Buffalo Binghamton Oswego Syracuse Utica and local stops. Weekday and Sunday trains shown with multiple morning, afternoon, and evening options. Bloomsburg Division notes Northumberland Plymouth and local branches with combined daily and Sunday runs.
In Effect November 4 trains from Scranton to Carbondale depart at 6 20 and 7 00 with listed times, plus Honesdale and Wilkes-Barre connections. Sunday trains show Carbondale 6 4, 9 a.m. and evening runs, with Wilkes-Barre times and Albany North routes. Author: Pryor PD, Scranton, Pa.
Train times effective November 4 1901 show routes to Philadelphia New York via D and H RR with Black Diamond Express service. Details list connections to White Haven Hagestown Rotem Bethlehem Towanda Elmira Geneva Rochester Buffalo Chicago and western points, with Pullman sleeping service and city ticket offices in Wilkes-Barre and New York.
Train schedule fragment notes line connections from Scranton to Carbondale Cadosta and Cadonda with arrivals and departures. It mentions Sundays service, and connections to New York City Middletown Walton Norwich Oneida Owego and nearby points. Contact ticket agents for cluster information.
Trains for New York Newburgh and intermediate points depart from Geranton at 7 20 a m and 2 25 p m with Arcivale at 10 35 p m from Middletown ihtones dale Hawley and intermediate points. From New York Newburgh and intermediate points trains run at 7 20 p m ih20 p m. No Sunday trains.
Railroad time table lists New Jersey Central routes with trains to New York Philadelphia Easton Allentown Mauch Chunk Wilkes Barre and Jersey shore points. Services include through vestibule Pullman cars to Philadelphia and connections to Long Branch Ocean Grove Weatherly Lebanon and Morrisburg with listed departure times and agents details for ticketing.
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