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Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1896

Page

2

Clearance sale listing of fabrics garments and gloves

Readable sale catalog entry lists large quantities of garments and textiles with clearance prices. Items include ladies vests gloves cashmere mittens dress goods silks unbleached muslin towels damask and table linens with per yard or per dozen pricing and percent reductions.

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Surprising Gender Gap in Death by Own Action

Investigations show nearly five times as many men as women die by their own hand, with many women who do not take their life believed to be in sane or mentally irresponsible. The article suggests fear and poverty drive men more, while some physiologists claim women endure adversity better and resist despair more through moral power.

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Fireman Killed in New Haven Rail Collision

A New York New Haven and Hartford passenger train collided with a freight cut near Van Neat station after leaving New Rochelle. Fireman Charles C Gilbert was killed. the engineer survived with minor injuries. two passengers aboard were uninjured. Carelessness left freight cars too close to the main track, a projecting corner struck a rail.

New York

Wealthy Luzerne farmer commits suicide in ice house

George Blodgett, a Hanover township farmer and notable resident, hanged himself in an ice house on his Fulton farm in Wilkes-Barre on January 19. The 52 year old left a note lamenting the defeat in the supervisor nomination and directing his affairs and funeral.

Luzerne Wilkes-Barre George Blodgett Hanover Township Hie

New York Fire Destroys Park Avenue Building

A two story brick building at Park Avenue and Forty second street was destroyed by fire early this morning. Over a dozen tenants suffered losses totaling about 60000 with partial insurance. Building damage estimated at 15000.

New York Park Avenue Forty-second Street

Stock Market Sags Amid Davis Resolution Rumors

New York led a more active two hour session with up to 12,000,000 shares traded. The market showed a weak tone as railroad and industrials fell on rumors of the Monroe doctrine, Cuban recognition, and a British squadron’s destination, with St Paul and Sugar among active issues and Chicago firms pausing in price declines.

New York Senate Committee On Foreign Relations United States Baltimore Ohio Western Railway Chicago Moloney St. Paul Burlington and Quincey William Linn Allen & CO A. P. Campbell Spruce Street Ing Am. Tobatco Co Am. Sugar Keg Co To, & S. Edi Wits Canada Southern Wsws Nils del & Hudson General Louis, & Nash M. K Texas Ontario & West HMG Southern Klor Tenn, Coal Texas Pacifless Walmart Werler Union WWE Chicago Board OF Trade BRAY MAO Scranton Board of Trade Exchange Askod, Dime Eae Scranton Lace Curtain Co National Boring & Drilling Co Ciret National Battle Scranton Jar & Stopper Co Scranton Glass Co Cccacce Cee Co Spring Brook Water Co Elmburet Houlevard Co Scranton Axle Works Third National Bank Scranton Packing Co Scranton Savings Bank Scranton Traction O Bonita Phite Glasa Co Scranton Car Replacer Co Seranton Glas O Scranton Scranton Traction People's Street Railway Scranton & Pittston Trac. Co People’s Street Railway Pee Lacka. Valley Trac. Co Rat Mortgage Wie VM Cy Ee Dickson Manufacturing Co Lucka City of Borough of Winton Ccc

Toledo Grain Market Wrap for Wheat Corn and Seeds

Grain bulletin from Toledo O reports wheat receipts 13 002 bushels with shipments and quiet trading. No 2 red cash and futures shown for May and July. Corn receipts 008? 312 bushels, shipments 1 600 bushels with dull activity and No 2 mixed May price. Oats quiet. Cloverseed receipts 00? bushets, shipments 4 180 bushels with steady tone and prices for January and March listed plus prime timothy cash value.

New York Froduce Tle Wye Ft A B. Tate Stige Nise Chicago Mixet Western HigaBlue Continent South America State Pennsylvania Southern Dia Iestee House WalTiye Toledo Timothy Cash

Philadelphia Tallow and Oil Market Roundup

Philadelphia reports tallow quiet and unchanged with prices in hogsheads and barrels. Oil opens high at $1.42 bid, with Standard's price at $1.45. Location notes: City Pa. reporting date January 1st.

Philadelphia O City Standerd

Coal traffic and railway visit noted in regional report

The Central Railroad of New Jersey carried 2 659 860 tons of coal on the Lehigh and Susquehanna line in 189%. Assistant chief conductor C H Wilkins will visit Lackawanna division tomorrow. Reportedly the Ontario and Western Railroad contracted to deliver 1 000 000 tons of coal to Lake Ontario, raising expected activity from Scranton to Oswego.

Ontario and Western Road Ite Carbondale Herald Sibley Coal Company Sibley Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Lackawanna Bloomsburg Junction Mountain Jenkins Junction Wilkes-Harre Jermyn Lehigh Valley Pittston Gazette The Central Railroad of New Jersey Lehigh and Susquehanna Division C. H. Wilkins Order of Railway Conductors Lackawanna Division Eng- Heh Ontario and Western Railroad Company Nnts Lake Ontario Scranton Oswego Pippia Central Railroad Lehleb and Susquehanna Division Pittston Wilkes-Barre Atlanta City New York Newark Elizabeth Philadelphia Readin Terminal Zip. Mo Mauch Chunk Allentown Bethlehem Easton Liberty Street North River Reading Terminal Ina de Vaner Hot. Baldwin Puss J. H. Olmnaubsen

Anthracite Industry Plans and Freight Trends

The report notes a 6 000 000 ton coal coke tract near Shamokin secured by capitalists led by M. WwW Boyle with a 125 000 ton per month breaker planned and 60 new jobs. It covers railroads Wilbur Sloan Maxwell calling a meeting of coal road presidents in New York to discuss trade improvements, plus lines built in the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh division and a Pennsylvania trackage and freight performance summary with modest fluctuations in gross, expenses, and net per train mile.

Greenough Shamokin M. Www Boyle Tyizirne Wilbur Lehigh Valley Sloan Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Maxwell New Jersey Central Railroad Companies New York Roberts Joint Trafic Association Reading Company The Pennsylvania Pittsburg Nes Wort Pennsylvania Company Philadelphia

Traveling salesman ads seek men for commission route

Vy 48tED-10 GOOD MEN TO SELL tea and coffee on commission in and around Feranton. Will furnish each with a home and wagon and pay twenty per cent. Big inducements given with tea, coffee and taking powder. Small bond relared. For wartictlora address BB Tribune Publish ng Scranton Pa. Traveling salesmen with established route to take a de line for tablished house 3 to Flinday. El Fisher 425 Spruce St Scranton Pa.

Feranton BB Tribune Publishng Scranton Warteo Flinday EL Fisher Spruce St

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