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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1895
Page
4
The Brooklyn trolley strike cost 95 000 000 and Chicago readies a Home Saloon inviting temperate drinks, meals, newspapers, and books. Proponents argue it offers hospitality without wrecking morals while homeless individuals may find shelter and purpose rather than crime, sparking public contention.
Rev Dr William E Johnson rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Redeemer operates a charity in a crowded New York City district. An ordinary flat hosts an industrial and art school with daily classes in sewing crocheting dressmaking embroidering painting music dancing cooking and stenography. Fees are modest and a children’s department provides English instruction to needy children unable to attend public schools.
Dr Johnson lauds a nurse home visiting system charging nominal fees from 10 cents an hour to 60 cents for day or night. Nurses are hospital graduates, capable and self sustaining, reducing stigma of charity. Dr Parkhurst urges civic duty and public accountability, stating representatives serve the people and voting expresses popular will.
A Rochester bishop's censure of a rival cleric sparks debate over church discipline and political neutrality. The piece argues Archbishop Ireland warned Catholics to vote on conscience, not sectarian lines, and notes McQuaid’s rebuke as a challenge to mixing faith and party politics. It cites editorial voices from Rochester and Pittsburgh papers.
A lengthy review accuses Thomas C. Platt of lacking leadership while praising rival Fossett and Parkhurst figures. It contrasts Indiana county judgeships amid corruption claims, questions trolley freight bills, and notes Victorian royal expenses and Armenian reporting bans by the sultan.
Measure adopted should provide school reasons and a truant officer for exclusive control by the educational department. It must include safeguards against evasion of the law and undue hardship by enforcement. Attention should address accommodations for more pupils the law will bring and nerve headaches noted in the Washington Star exchange about a novelist and a dancer.
Ungentle fighting chant urging players to injure opponents with brutal tackles and gouges. References to Alma Mater, bloodthirsty refrain, and the line Anything to win. The piece ends with a Kansas City Star attribution.
A Harrisburg letter reports on bills about typewriter leases exempt from distress executions, piano melodions and organs protected from seizure, and notice requirements for landlords. It also notes provisions to shield indigent insane patients from unsuitable doctors and discusses trade union labels and road building proposals.
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