01 Jul 1896
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1896
Page
1
The author describes ripping up shirt prices to stop advertised but unrealized price cutting. They conducted a test to expose the market, noting the bottom has fallen out and spot cash Temptations affect selling. The experiment yielded clear results.
A local retailer previews fresh season goods with bold claims of top quality and big savings. Highlights include 30 dozen men shirts at 69c, 50 dozen colored laundried shirts at 40c, 100 dozen imported half hose at 25c per pair or a box of 6 for 1.19, and assorted styles with detachable collars.
News from Pittston reports rescue crews lowering into the slope toward the buried men as officials note little progress since the cave in. Despite calmer subsidence and improving air, experts warn hopes of survivors are slim and the main goal remains reaching the entombed workers before time runs out.
In Chicago headlines the silver wing of Democratic delegates convenes as Governors Stone and Altgeld discuss alliance signals. A bimetallic committee plans to press for a silver platform while faster action looms ahead of the national convention.
The letter from Moreton Frewen in London discusses the US gold standard debate, urging international bimetallism and predicting moves toward free coinage. Frewen cites Cleveland, Atkinson, and European powers, noting pressure from France Germany Austria and Russia to reopen silver minting if free coinage advances in the United States.
Prospects brighten as the 3 pm shift reports clearer conditions and the possibility of locating bodies and even recovering some men alive. Disturbances have ceased around the shaft foot and subsided throughout the area.
Fair conditions with easterly winds open the morning edition while rescue progress at Pittston is noted. The paper mentions Sarah Angell, Democratic planning, Luzerne nominations, and local items including weddings and high school education features.
A New York supreme court commission examined Rev Nathan Leighton and his blind daughter at Tunkhannock about a rumored 1853 marriage between Sarah Ann Angell and Jay Gould. The inquiry, conducted under seal, sought to verify if Leighton wed Angell to Gould or if Jason Gould was misidentified in an affiant. Witnesses, including Gould and Angell supporters, were heard at Leighton's Champlain New York home.
Pittsburg June 30. Annual suspension time begins as the 917 wage scale of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers takes effect at midnight. Mills plan temporary closures for repairs and tin mills may idle about 8000 workers. Glass factories shut down nationwide. most fires will be extinguished today. The shutdowns may last two months or more as wage settlements are sought.
Spanish civil guards abducted and killed three locals Serafin Llorena a 29 year old clerk and Emiliaano Paldo a 22 year old baker from Jarnice Havana province. Houses burned at the Stock farm of Francisco Maria Fernandes in Mietuneas. Fernandes an Asperican doctor formerly of Brooklyn. An unknown schooner was fired on near Copimana Havana at sunrise but landed further south under insurgent protection then vanished.
Reading Company announces that all machinists in the motive department will shift to a ten hour day, ten hours per day, effective tomorrow. The move expands from a five day week to ten hours daily, affecting about twelve hundred workers across the entire system.
New York reports ships arriving from Antwerp Paria and Southampton destined for Bremen Rotterdam and Hamburg. Vessels include Spree Trave Palatin and Persia passing Lizard Scilly and the Lizard again for Bremen Hamburg and New York.
Hartford reports Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe author of Cocke Tom's Cabin has died after a cerebral congestion and paralysis. Her condition worsened from last Friday and physicians fear she cannot live twenty four hours.
Clayton Delaware June concludes annual estimate by special agent Wille of the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore railroad shows the peach harvest for the peninsula totaling about 6,000,000 baskets the largest since 1875.
The advertisement lists various woolst fabrics and lawn goods with fixed low prices including Fancy Lawn Walsts at 48a, Fancy Percale Walsts at 69c, Better quality Percale Walsts, Fancy Stripe Lawn Walsts at 1.19, Fixtra Fine Walsts at 1.45 1.65 and 1.98, and the Celebrated King Walste in Percales Lawns and Dimities at 1.48 1.75 1.99 2.95. It also promises Plain White Walsts in Batiste and Dimity, Plain Black Himalaya Walsts, Silk Jacquard House Walets, plus a children’s Dimity and Lawn dresses line and Boys’ Kilt Suits in Pique and Pies Galatea Cloth at greatly reduced prices.
A local retailer touts a broad summer shoe selection with styles for every occasion. The ad highlights ample stock and welcoming service to ensure customers find footwear for all needs this season.
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