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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
6
Nathaniel Quimby, new owner of a seafront Neck, encounters a wrecked lumber derelick and hires Moses Tarkin to salvage the vessel. The lumber schooner yields a potential thousand-dollar return, setting up a salvage venture as the storm abates.
The report notes Hunt Ingen and Broad Top rail lines moved 10.00 tons, up 2,690 tons from a year ago, with year to date shipments at 168,525 tons, up 10,008. Reading Coal and Iron restricted output. 22 of 62 collieries idle this week, 20 running limited hours. Fagle Hill near Pottsville is on fire, a long pipe line fighting the blaze with limited success. Eagle Hill tonnage and Lehigh region mining plans are described, along with Cambria Iron year results and Buck Mountain tunnel completion by Co F King Co. for Coxe Bros. & Co. A Philadelphia Inquirer note critiques coal allocations under a new arrangement, highlighting shifts among Pennsylvania Railroad and Lehigh Valley among others.
A New York letter outlines efforts led by Pierpont Morgan and allies to regulate coal traffic and form a syndicate to buy and control the entire output of anthracite railroads. It notes plans to fix prices, prevent overproduction, and secure a profitable market, with Morgan linked to Reading a potential restructuring amid Vanderbilt and Rockefeller interests. The piece argues law and competition from bituminous coal remain obstacles.
Dr. R V Pierce of the World’s Dispensary Medical Association asserts a cure for indigestion liver complaints and dyspepsia through his Golden Medical Discovery. He invites the public to obtain a medical treatise by mail for six cents, offering names and addresses of thousands who have used the remedy and including photos and testimony of digestive patients.
An elderly Buffalo woman, Mrs Captain Henesy, describes a dramatic recovery after years of intermittent illness. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with immediate relief from severe head and back pain, dizziness, and abdominal distress, prompting her to rely on the remedy and its Buffalo agents Foster Milburn Co. for purchase.
More than half the victims of consumption do not know they have it. The passage lists symptoms including cough, short breath after exertion, chest tremor, quick evening pulse, evening chill, slight fever, morning pallor, and loss of vitality. It promotes Dr Acker's English Remedy for Consumption from the Acker Medicine Co. of New York as an effective early treatment.
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