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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1901
Page
4
A March World’s Work piece argues that praise for action beats criticising others. It cites Pennsylvania politics, industry trust periods, and the street car strike to warn that denunciation harms reform and breeds mob sentiment, disrupting business and public order.
The article reflects anxious prophecies about China regaining influence, foreign powers, and potential upheavals including Boer and Franco tensions. It critiques sensational speculation, calls for practical reform, and notes political shifts in New Jersey and Tammany politics amid a wary public mood.
A long, tangled OCR fragment covers conversations about a theater or church figure, references to Mark Twain and a bishop, political remarks, and scattered notices. It also includes brief notices about employment, rental listings, and loans, with varied locales and names. tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper column mixing anecdotes, quotes, and classified-like lines.
A garbled 19th century sale listing advertises multiple properties in Scranton area including farms of 60 acres with improvements, 8 acres near Factoryville, and country homes north of town. It lists addresses and terms from W. Mackett and various avenues such as Lackawanna, Providence, Linden, Madison, and Wyoming, noting proximity to factories, stations, and utilities with prices and sale offers.
A perilous scene unfolds as a captain pressures a passenger crew about party size aboard a vessel. The fat passenger, smiling, claims party strength of sixty to seventy, sparking tension as the captain orders the boat to move and questions the discrepancy.
Classified notice style ad brief offering real estate listings and employment help. Includes phrases about honey for rent and exchange, Wanted items, offices for rent, houses for rent, barns for rent, and landlords seeking tenants, credited to T. Mackett and others.
Job posting seeks a male manager at Peranto M10 Cary with sabbatary voter requirement. Commercial inquiry furnishes in permanent. Address Poarofting Nox Lt Mhidadelynas Tm.
The advertisement promotes a sale at Always Busy offering women and misses footwear at deep discounts. It claims better prices than rivals, stressing sturdy leather shoes, prices as low as 33 cents and 40 and 40 cent kinds, with claims of paying 100 percent on the dollar and multiple locations in the region.
The annual meeting for the election of officers and for such other business as may properly come before the meeting will be held at the Company in the City of Pennsylvania on February 21th, 1901, at seven o clock for one hour.
Notice is given that executors have been granted authority over the estate of Westar Heenww Naling deceased of Revanton Pennsylvania. Creditors must present claims and debtors must pay promptly. The heirs are Wey Reynolds and attorney for the estate, with court proceedings in Lackawanna County.
Scranton and nearby stations list multiple daily trains to New York Philadelphia Newark and points west with times to 10 p.m. Additional connections include Philadelphia Bethlehem Reading and Wilkes Barre routes. Includes Sunday service and special express options on Lackawanna and Delaware Hudson lines with succession of intermediate stops and parlor car notes.
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