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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1896
Page
2
After stock taking, a sale offers fall and winter merchandise at reduced Leader's Price rates. Items include corsets, gowns, hosiery, shirts, neckwear, skirts, castile soap, vests, blankets, and various fabrics with percent reductions and low per yard prices.
A Scranton business page lists quotations for lace curtain stocks and drilling issues. Bid and asked prices are shown for Scranton Lace Curtain and National Boring and Drilling with figures including par 100 and dime deposits.
New York Produce Market reports dull wheat and corn with some firm options at close. Livestock and dairy show steady fats with butter and cheese values holding while pork remains quiet and lard eases.
Toledo Ohio February grain market report lists wheat receipts 210 bushels with shipments 3000 bushels and cash prices for No 2 red futures May and June. corn receipts 14081 bushels with shipments 1900 bushels, No 2 mixed cash and May futures. oats and cloverseed care listed with prime alsike cash at $1.15.
Cattle receipts at Chicago yard show weak demand with mixed to low prices. calves and hogs varied, goats and sheep steady to stronger in New York, Buffalo and Cleveland markets. Cattle receipts about 1,000 head. hogs 4,000. sheep 500. prices range from four to five dollars for various classes, with rough packing and shipping lots at lower end.
OCR fragment from Philadelphia mentions dull tallow and prime country in vague phrases. The lines reference barrels grease and unrecognizable terms, offering little coherent context or identifiable events.
The article traces early American iron and steel industry figures tied to the Washington lineage, noting Mordecai Lincoln of Scituate and others who worked at Accokeek Furnace in Virginia. It highlights the rise of steel and wire rope production, armor plate, and innovations like the Frankin stove, with shifts from iron to steel nails and the emergence of steel wire nails in 1880.
An old advertising rhyme traces Castoria as a remedy from infancy through adulthood. It notes Castoria relieving a feverish child and comforting a mother’s fears, suggesting continued use for subsequent generations and family care.
A purse containing money was lost between Jackson Street and Bromley Avenue near Lafayette. A reward will be paid upon return to Morgan Thomas' Store on Jackson Street.
Classified notice style items list agents selling cigars hair care devices and clothing, real estate rentals near Scranton, and a patent medicine claim. Many names and locations appear, including New York and Scranton addresses, with rental offers for multiple houses and buildings, sales pitches for goods, and job notices. The mix reflects a mid century urban classifieds page with diverse merchants and housing notices.
Auction style notice describes rent for upper assembly halls in a modern building at Lackawanna and Penn Aves. The space is 50 feet by nearly 100 feet with steam heat and a passenger elevator. Entrance may be altered to Lackawanna avenue. Suitable for school office gallery or light business. The Samters. Clairvoyant Ada? ant in thy mouintain pane e at present and future. 311 Mulberry sire.
Schedule of trains from Scranton to Pittston Wilkes-Barre and connections on the Lehigh and Dumb? division with express and local departures to New York Newark Elizabeth and Philadelphia. Through tickets to all points at lowest rates available at the station ticket office.
Train times listed for Scranton to New York Easton Trenton Philadelphia Washington Oswego Buffalo and more. Includes Express and accommodation trains with multiple departure times and connections at Buffalo Northumberland Nanticoke Plymouth Ithaca Cortland Syracuse and Elmira. Pocket timetables and ticket offices noted.
Trains depart Scranton for New York and intermediate points on the Erie line at 7 00 p m and 3 20 p m Also for Oneida dale Shawley and local points at 7 00 6 404 a m and 2 29 p m All the above are through trains to and from Honesdale Trains leave for Wilkes Barre at 6 39 a m and 2 19 p m
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