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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1898
Page
6
A Sun letter argues Washington, lacking home rule, suffers dirty streets, bad sidewalks, foul water, and poor policing. It contrasts with New York style governance, notes high death rates, and calls for local self government amid racial and municipal issues.
A collage of humorous snippets and quotes from Toni Bits Yonkers Times Chicago papers, including witty banter about debts inkstands parrot sales death of Hamlet actors and domestic jokes. The items span jokes about theatre, marriage, clocks, and newsroom banter with disparate characters and settings.
A Massachusetts man recalls Horace Ingersoll telling Hawthorne and Longfellow the Evangeline tale in Cambridge. Hawthorne began a novel but abandoned it, deeming the subject too grand. Ingersoll later allowed Longfellow to shape the epic, which became a landmark work.
A lookkeeper laments choosing a safe schematic career over astronomy. He muses about the vast scales of astronomy and the need for ambitious measurements, noting he values his current position but fears errors. The Washington Star quotation reflects humor about dreams vs. duties.
Beautiful silks offered at bargain prices. Black brocaded silks in several grades, Latin rhadame guaranteed silk, Raspi es chic glove silk, and silk Velours in new effects. Regular prices up to 1.50, now marked down to 89 cents and 39 cents for extra quality wash silks.
A storefront list highlights daily bargains on textiles and linens including ginghams, cotton crash, shirting prints, flannels, seersuckers, indigo prints, cambrics, pillowcases, crochet spreads, linens, muslin, damask, sheets, napkins, nainsook, and Turkish towels with deep discounts and special prices.
A local store promotes deep discounts on blankets as it clears a large stock. It highlights cotton double blankets bought recently at low cash prices and announces substantial reductions on all wool blankets originally priced at six and seven dollars.
Upholstery department offers 36 inch wide materials at 15 cents with a 10 cent cretonne line in new colors. Tapestry in 50 inch wide new effects at 59 cents. High Art Ticking and Axminster Mockuet Rugs listed with selective white and grey options and prices around $1.98 to $2.75.
Several Cambric Embroideries lots offered with different grades and prices. The main lot features 500 yards at least eight percent above base value and special selections. Additional lots include extra quality Roc grade embroideries and 12 4c grade pieces, all labeled as special.
A newspaper item lists large stock of ladies handkerchiefs including 100 dozen white hemstitched at 6c grade and 150 dozen Swiss embroidered at 8c grade, plus 100 dozen Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs at 18c grade, all described as special.
The railroads of the United States spend vast sums yearly, surpassing government expenditures by over £100,100,000 and paying hundreds of millions in interest and dividends. They handle nearly a billion dollars in cash annually, with major costs in maintenance, equipment, bridges, signaling, and advertising. Taxes and legal expenses also weigh heavily, while daily payroll across all railroads reaches about $4 million.
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