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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1902
Page
10
The address lauds Cuba’s shift to a republic and outlines a future reciprocity policy. The president stresses peace in the Philippines, reduces army size, and urges honest administration to meet industrial-age challenges. He calls for prudent new laws and strong justice for all citizens.
Stage notes reveal Nixon Zimmer man plan Miss Bob White replacement with Margaret Syl via The Strollers. London hit The Three Little Maids may come to New York with Hon a May as lead. Katherine Beneteau to star in A Prince of Tatters next season. George Sydney to headline Busy Ingy in a new farce. Gertrude Coghlan to rise again with Alive of Old Vincennes and talks with Frohman. Klaw & Erlanger spend 150000 on The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast revival at Illinois theater. contracts bind Rogers brothers with Klaw & Erlanger for five years starting 1905-06 season.
Summary of multiple early baseball results from Philadelphia Boston Chicago Detroit and Detroit again with scores and battery details. Records show wins for Philadelphia Baltimore Cleveland and Chicago while Detroit and others suffer losses with varied batting totals and umpire assignments listed.
Baseball score notes list Battery pairings and umpires for games in St Louis Chicago and Pittsburgh. Names include Willis Kittridge Kling Cantillion Newton Ahearn Tannenhill Smith and Emslie with team tags and final counts.
Afternoon games show Pittsburg versus RALE and Cincinnati against Philadelphia. Batteries were Kiton and Fuller for Pittsburg. White and Doom for Cincinnati. Taylor and Bowerman for St. Louis versus New York. Eason and Kittridge for Chicago versus Boston with various umpires listed. Silent scoring lines indicate team innings and totals.
Worcester 9 Montreal 4 and Jersey City 4 Newark 0 appear among regional score recaps. Providence 7 Toronto 4, Buffalo 3 Rochester 2 showcase varied results across cities and leagues.
A terse listing shows multiple afternoon results with city and score pairs: Montreal 3 Worcester 2, Jersey City 9 Newark 4, Toronto 6 Providence 2, Buffalo 10 Rochester 6. No context or dates provided.
Pennsylvania Railroad offers reduced excursion tickets from all lines to Tacoma Portland Seattle Vancouver or Victoria from July 10 20 with return validity until September 15. Joint agent at destination must process payment of 60 cents for service. Inquiries through ticket agents.
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans two personally conducted tours in summer 1902 to Canada and Northern New York. Departures are July 19 and August 18, a fifteen day round trip at 126 dollars. Includes Niagara Falls Thousand Islands Rapids of the St Lawrence Quebec Saguenay Montreal Ausable Chasm Lakes Champlain George and Saratoga with a chaperon and meals, hotel entertainment, and transfers. For details contact ticket agents or Geo W Boyd assistant general passenger agent at Broad Street Station Philadelphia.
Southern Railway offers round trip tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles for the Knights of Pythias biennial meeting in San Francisco August 11 to 22. Philadelphia fares from 86.75 with low rates from other points, returnable by Sept 30 1902. Tourist cars run tri weekly Washington to San Francisco via Atlanta New Orleans El Paso and Los Angeles.
The Lackawanna Railroad offers special excursion tickets for the National Delegation Association meeting in Minneapolis July 7 to 11. Tickets $30.50 round trip valid July 4 to 6 and 6 to 6, with return options July 8 to July 14 or extensions to Sept 1 for a fee paid at deposit. Depart Scranton at 6:50 p m with one Chicago change, arriving Minneapolis 7:45 a m the next day.
Welsh Hill July 3 special report notes farmers still complain but not of drought. Miss Muriel Evans and Miss Jennie Evans of Scranton visit grandmother Mrs. Owen Morgana. Mary Thomas of East Market Street Scranton visits sister Miss Annie Thomas.
A gold watch lost at Nay Aug Park on July 4 is awaiting finder who may claim a reward by contact with Misa L. Broecker, Mil Cross Street, Scranton. Another plain gold open faced watch with Waltham movement lost at Lake Ariel offers a reward to Rexford, 107 Wyoming Avenue.
A jumble of rental listings farm sales and business ads in Scranton Lackawanna County including a heart Lafle cottage for rent furnished rooms 637 Adams Avenue and 216 Vine Street nine room house a stable of pigeons ferrets typewriter wanted secondhand and loan offers from N W Walker and J A Marvina. Also sales listings 120 acre farm Maple Lake and Green Ridge sites with stock wheat traders market letters from Hibbard Co. Found Jersey cow at 16 Woodlawn Park with damages paid.
The Model Laundry in Dunmore offers shirt laundering at c each and collar and cuff cleaning at 1c each. The notice presents a compact local service price list for shirt care and garment detailing.
The City of Scranton School District invites sealed proposals for sale of two hundred fifty thousand dollars in bonds known as the 1802 Loan. Bonds are 1000 each, dated August 1, 1902, maturing in 1910 1911 1920 1922 1925 and 1940 with interest at 3 percent payable semi annually. Proposals must include price for the 10000 maturing August 1 1902 and for the remaining 20000 separately, with accrued interest to delivery. Certified check equal to 2 percent of par value required with each bid. bids due by 7:40 PM July 14 1902 at City Hall Scranton. The district pledges sinking fund levy and prior payments. Also notices Lackawanna County to bid on steel girder concrete covered bridge work in Blakely borough with plans at the County Commissioners office.
Fragmentary classified items include a bird care offer from Fox in Philadelphia a demand for agents to sell magic gas igniters from Magic Gas Igniter Co Indianapolis MD a help wanted ad for a small manufacturing town near Allca NY wind and harrison rivah co Clark Mills Oneida County and a lady seeking office work with dentist office experience from C Tribune.
Directory-like listing shows real estate firms and attorneys in Scranton with addresses on Spruce Street Wyoming Avenue and Connell Building. It also notes hotels, printers Megarger Bros, and distribution points for The Wilkes-Barre Record at local newsstands in Scranton area.
In effect June 16 1902 trains for Carbondale leave Scranton at 644 am 730 am 830 am 1013 am and later times. Sunday trains include 1132 am 211 pm 886 pm 552 pm and 1147 pm. Additional runs connect Wilkes Barre Albany Flowesdale and Pennsylvania Railroad points with morning and afternoon options. W L Pryor D P A Scranton Pa.
Scranton trains depart 638 a m weekdays via Wilkes Barre through vestibule car to Philadelphia with Pottsville stops. Pullman buffet parlor car and coaches to Philadelphia via Pottsville. connects for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburg and the West at 147 p m includes Sunday 2 30 p m. 195 p m weekdays for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburg and the West. 210 p m weekdays Sunday 430 p m for Hazleton Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Pittsburg and the West.
Lehigh Valley Railroad timetable effective June 16 1002 lists trains to Philadelphia New York via D and H with parlor and day cars Carbondale to New York 647 a m LL V Ceoaeh Carbondale to Philadelphia ubre Sb 495 Ebhiuely Divan Express and 17 p m Sune abe H KR R bos 8 17 p m For White Haven and coal region points via D H KR H TU 18 and 436 p m For Pottsville TAL mi For Bethlehem Easton Reading Harrisburg and intermediate stations via D TH 41 9 47 a m SB Las Black Diamond express 14d p m Sundays D and IL RR OR 628 a m 138 0 17 p m For Tunkhannock Towanda Elmira Ithden Geneva and other stations via D L W BR 65 a m 1 55 p m For Geneva Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls Chicago and west via D H RR Ll pb me a8 Black Diamond Express 1 1149 p m Sundays PD HOM FP 12 08 8 7 p m Pullman parlor and sleeping cars on all trains Wilkes Barre and New York city Cortland street New York address CHARLES LIE Gan ress A W ION EMACHER South Bethlehem Pa tickets at city office Pa Square Wilkes Barre Pa
A timetable fragment shows New York and Ohio Western lines with trains to Scranton Carbondale and nearby towns. It lists arrival and departure times around 4 00 p m and 9 10 p m plus connections to Norw ich Walton Norwich and other points west and south. The note directs consulting the ticket office for exact details and states service to Pennsylvan ia destinations.
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