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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1894
Page
2
A garbled early classifieds page lists wants for work and help and various sale notices. Items include help wanted for a good team, a young lady as stenographer, industrious men, and multiple sale offers for furniture typewriters freight elevator and real estate with assorted contact hints. The fragmentary text also mentions rental and purchase requests and local business addresses.
Notice of annual meeting of the First National Bank Scranton for election of directors on Tuesday with hours and location at the bank building. Also notices for Western Mill Co annual meeting to adopt bylaws elect officers and for debts from the estate of William Matthews. Also various local advertisements and notices including a hospital, a publisher, and a legal notice from Korutiion, Pa.
Market data from New York Produce shows steady to firmer tones across grains and oils with multiple futures quotes. Notable rates include No 2 red January to May options and various white and mixed grain prices alongside meat and beer figures.
An advertisement touts free trials of Dr Kinga Now Discovery with a 4 bottle offer. It invites readers to send name and address to H. K. Backlow & Co in Chicago to receive samples of Dr King’s New Life Pills, a health guide, and related remedies.
In Philadelphia, lawyers for roup holders seek a 30 day postponement of Reading Company annual officer elections to allow time to secure proxies for Isaac S. Rice. Judge Thayer’s decision left the petition unresolved as Scranton coal totals and plans for an Anthracite Coal Operators' meeting in New York are noted. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron reports show losses for 1893 with detailed earnings and deficits and a discussion of bankruptcy causes and receivership efforts.
The article reports on financial figures from July to November for a receivership at Mixon Industrial Norus, a coal strike incident in Allentown, comments by Governor McCorkle on the free coal clause, a rich coal vein near Arcola in Montgomery county, and railroad and company staffing moves including Hillside Coal and Iron and related agents in New York and Chicago.
A scanned list shows varied prices for evaporated apples currants dried fruits and nuts. boxes and bags of Valencia almonds and seed goods. pork and lard products. and flour rye and oats. Prices include per pound per bushel per barrel with numerous misspellings and garbled vendor names.
Pruibapechia January 6 tallow quiet and steady with prime city heads sold at 3 cents and various forms of tallow in barrels and cakes priced accordingly. Henry Schoenhals, foreman at Henry Krag Packing in Saint Joseph Missouri, advertises Thames Eclectria oil for sprains and chapped hands. Tribune readers may secure coal coupons offering savings on purchases.
The phrase appears as a fragmented historic note mentioning Count Houat Squann and a laundry work claim asserting guarantee on a beast. No clear events or verifiable entities beyond names.
A local sale advertises price cuts on food items like sugar syrup and canned vegetables plus brooms, cedar tubs, pails, feather dusters, and fruit products. Fixtures including counters and scales are offered for sale as the store closes out.
A fragmented OCR list names merchants selling Superlative and Gold Medal Brand products. It includes locations across Scranton Wilkes Barre Carbondale and surrounding towns, with multiple brand variants and distributors such as Hiram Dalton and Bein & Son.
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