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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1895
Page
7
Fragmentary notice indicates a manager position entry at a Tribune Building area in Scranton PA. No clear date or company names beyond generic references.
The passage questions why compulsory education exists if children under 13 are forbidden from working, noting praise for the law that helped pass it and criticizing the added rhetoric around education rules. It reflects a debate on childhood labor and state mandates.
The measure to guarantee workers the right to join unions passed committee favorably. It would make discharge for union membership a misdemeanor and aims to curb private contract rights. Critics call it political theater with little serious purpose. Governor Hastings is said to decide independently.
A New Hampshire senator criticizes adding a business high school through a District of Columbia appropriation. He argues against expanding the common school to include specialized and industrial schools, asserting the value of a nation’s universal common education. The Washington Post echoes his caution on widening the system.
A defense of broad top level policy with a rigid foundation in public schools. The piece argues education should expand upward while maintaining a solid base, warning against depriving children of equal educational opportunities and condemning obstructive fathers. It criticizes the Scranton Truth for sympathy toward such a father.
Senator Lodge introduces a congressional bill to make the American consular service permanent with better tenure, merit based promotions, and removal of political turnover. The plan aims to recruit qualified, language fluent officers, supported by the National Board of Trade, and opposed by critics who cite local option and enforcement concerns.
Pittsburg Times reports a Cooper Union meeting showing strong public support for Rev. Dr. Parkhurst amid Lexow tensions. It notes pledges from the recent campaign and hints at party influence concerns in New York politics. It also cites large public bequests reported by the Philadelphia Ledger and Chicago Tribune records of charitable gifts nationwide.
A critic derides an unnamed author as unworthy of consideration in Cleveland, claiming the writer lacks moonlike courage and refuses to attach his name to the statement, asserting confidence in winning the bet.
The Minneapolis Commercial Club adopted strong resolutions opposing any entangling alliance with the Nicaragua Canal Company and the government guaranteeing 70 million dollars of the company’s bonds. The club favors building, owning, and operating the canal by the government with no side partners.
Scranton residents seek to determine if the Baldwins who staged manifestations last week are genuine mind readers or impostors. Meanwhile the Hallwing have left town, taking a substantial cash roll, though the money part of the affair seems real as Beranton papers continue free advertising.
The New York Advertiser reports Liliuokalani would abdicate if Captain Scott agrees to stop pursuing hunger for conquest. The item notes this is not the first time such terms have been offered in this conflict.
The advertisement promotes strictly pure white lead as a permanent base for repainting that resists scalia cracking and remains smooth. It lists brand options Beymer Bauman Davis Chambers Armstrong McKelvy Atlantic Jewett Palinestock and offers National Lead Co pure white lead tinting colors one pound cans with a color card book for free.
The Harrisburg appropriation committee faces requests totaling over 19 million dollars, close to the state’s projected revenue for two years, with only 19.5 million available and a 3 million idle surplus. A one third cut in requested funds seems likely as lawmakers pledge restraint and prudence amid a rapid early session.
In recalling extreme cold in Dakota during 1873, St Nicholas host T L Maloney describes Marco town as lively despite few inhabitants. Mercury froze in thermometers and whisky froze in saloons leading to novel sales by the pound and exposed overcoats where people shared chews of whisky.
The piece recalls a remark by Tom Teed at a Rhode Island clambake and notes James Clarke on the Chicago Herald about a post March Washington scene with a Democratic president, a Republican house, and a mixed senate.
A Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer asks which Scranton Democrat uses a Harriaburey Patriot column to denounce Harrity. The writer invites the public to judge the Democrat’s character and suggests the News-Dealer backs a Democratic plant against a big turnip.
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