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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1896
Page
2
Describes a stock clearance sale at Leader's on Wyoming Avenue with fall and winter merchandise. Offers include ladies' garments like muslin corset covers and cambric corset covers, skirts and vests, men's wool shirts and drawers, neckwear, blankets, comforts, towels, silks, damask, prints, twill toweling, Canton flannel, and teasers of discount pricing labeled Leader's Price.
The Stock Exchange saw minimal turnover with a wide spread of gains and losses. Strong showings came from Lake Shore Tobacco Louisville and Nashville Jersey Central Sugar Chicago, while Manhattan and Leather Preferred fluctuated amid dividend expectations and short covering. The Morgan syndicate filed a claim for defaulted allotments and pledged gold to cover all defaults, signaling steady money market conditions.
A dated report notes laws mandating grab irons and uniform drawbars on freight cars, with compliance by all city carriers. Automatic couplers are being installed, affecting safety and efficiency, while a 1898 enforcement date exists for brakemen handling cars. The piece mentions shop efforts and locomotive trials, plus a Transcontinental Passenger association meeting in Chicago and a Washington hearing on rail berth regulation.
Cleveland officials declare Canton Wrought Iron Bridge Company criminally responsible for the Tinker’s Creek bridge collapse on the Akron Bedford and Cleveland Electric Railway line. The fall sent an electric car seventy five feet into the creek, killing two men and injuring another.
Advertising copy touts Swayne's Ointment as a universal skin cure for tetter eczema itch and eruptions on face hands and nose claiming it leaves skin clear white and healthy and urges readers to ask their druggist for the remedy.
New York and Minnesota markets report steady to dull tones for flour and wheat with occasional up and down shifts. Prices for rye, patent and patent-like flours hold near previous levels while dairy products show firm to moderate demand across state and western markets with varied case and product pricing.
Buffalo market notes show cattle trading slow with heavy steers around 5.25 to 5.50 and mixed butchers steady. hogs barely steady to lower with Yorkers 4.50 to 4.90. sheep and lambs lower with prime lambs around 4.75 and mixed sheep 1.10 to 3.50, dull overall.
Cattle receipts reach 15 000 head with market firm for common to extra. Texans at 4.10 delivered. Hog receipts 40 000 head. market weak and lower for heavy packing lots, prices 2.90 to 4.10. Sheep receipts 19 000 head. market steady to weak and lower.
Mixed commodity prices and receipts across markets in Toledo Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Wheat receipts and shipments noted with cash prices for No 2 red and futures. Oil prices opened high then declined with a mid day rally and closing near 1.29. Tallow markets steady with small price differentials between city and country grades.
In Centerville Indiana on February 17 a two year old boy, Jess Jones, visited the home of W J Martin. He shot Miss Len Martin after a dispute and then killed himself in the street. Mrs Martin was wounded and in grave condition.
Minneapols Feb 17 Gertrude Charlotta Planka was clawed and seriously hurt during a museum act by Nero an aged ferocious beast that has killed three trainers. Pandemonium erupted in the auditorium as assistants rescued Planka preventing a fourth victim. She faces possible recovery unless blood poisoning develops.
Mrs. William Moore attacked her husband with a razor in Rural township. Four deep neck wounds and a head injury left him in precarious condition. she attempted suicide with the same blade but failed. She has been sent to an insane asylum. Mr Moore, 45, and his wife, about 40 years in the county, have five children.
New York reports Bettina Girard once a social darling and stage favorite now lies in a West Forty-third Street sanitarium. Doctors battle to save her life as the former multimillionaire daughter and divorced wit fades to a shadow and may die or be left a wreck.
Capron Alabama February 17 The town reels as Rev Best pastor of the Christian church sues two for damages and slander in Boone county circuit court The actions involve Rev W H Tuttle pastor of the Methodist church and Mrs Flora Young a Methodist member with 5000 dollar claim and another for a fire damages amount.
Pittston district reports progress on a long idle Exeter borough shaft 1040 feet from the Exeter colliery. W D Owens leads efforts to drain water and descend 100 feet lower to reach the Red Ash vein, with concrete cribbing and new pumps, to feed market-ready coal via the Exeter breaker now expanded to handle 2500 tons daily, boosting output beyond 9000 tons a week to over double.
A terse note raises questions about Cripple Creek Investments and Woods Investment Go. regarding liabilities and liable information. The fragment references five items and possible legal or financial concerns surrounding the entities.
Classified line items show multiple recruitment notices and sales pitches from printers, manufacturers, and agents. Entries seek drivers, salespeople, housekeepers, and factory workers with various commissions, wages, and locations in Scranton and nearby areas.
The upper assembly halls in a modern building at Lackawanna and Penn Avenues, 60 feet front by 160 feet deep, with steam heat and a passenger elevator, are for lease. Entrance to Lackawanna Avenue will be altered, floors adaptable for school office gallery or light business use.
Classified notices list a furnished hall for lodge meetings on Spruce Street near the boulevard with rental terms and contact details. Also advertised are Civil War relics, bound magazines, and a lost and found bundle covering clothing and personal items offered for return upon proof of ownership.
Central Railroad of New Jersey timetable lists departure and arrival times for the Lehigh and Susquehanna Division. Trains bound for Scranton Fittston Wilkes-Barre Atlantic City New York Newark Elizabeth Mauch Chunk Allentown Bethlehem Philadelphia Reading Lebanon Harrisburg Portaville Ocean Grove and other points. Includes express and parlor car services with multiple daily departures and Sunday schedules.
Trains leave Scranton for New York and intermediate points on the Erie line at 7 00 p m and 3 29 p m Also for Honesdale Hawley and local points at 7 0 9 40 a m and 3 29 p m All the above are through trains to and from Honesdale Trains leave for Wilkes Barre at 6 30 m and 2 19 p m
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