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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1900
Page
2
The Scranton Tribune Educational Contest continues to attract entrants across Northeastern Pennsylvania. Names will soon be published as participation grows and rewards draw interest. The fair point system favors widespread effort, offering ten top rewards and notable scholarships in leading regional institutions.
A list of 10 prize items offering rewards including gold watches and a silver service watch. Each entrant may receive ten percent of all money earned or turned in. Items include scholarships at Wyoming Seminary and other institutions and a photo cycle prize.
Competition offers scholarships spanning academic music and business study. Aims to educate and advance learning for young men and women with additional rewards for special achievements beyond the scholar elite.
The Triangle offers prizes for the longest number of points earned by new subscribers. Subscriptions must be paid in advance and credited within the week. Subscriptions and forms are available at The Tribium office or by mail, with drawing at 8 oclock Saturday evening, September 2, 1610.
A Tribune notice invites young people of both sexes during summer vacation to join work opportunities linked to advancing study. Graduates from local high schools can pursue courses at Wyoming Academy or Keystone Seminary, with scholarship rewards emphasized to encourage effort toward higher education.
The Tribune offers scholarships to Beranion Business College for a commercial or shorthand education. Graduates often secure local and distant positions after training. Participants can earn 10 percent commissions on cash subscriptions, with earnings based on profits from their canvassing efforts.
Forest City reports the Northeastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company expects to link with the independent Carbondale firm to extend service toward Scranton. The locally known community in Vanillin will hold a public event in the grove this week. Harry Morgan and family relocate to Scranton to enter the milk business. Grand jurors and traverse jurors are named for Montrose and nearby, with a New York City visit noted for J. F. Pobren. An excursion by St Dominic’s Temperance Society to Lanceboro Park is planned for Saturday with no mine work that day to allow attendance.
An old advertisement warns against mercury products and touts Malls Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney Co. It claims the remedy is taken internally and prepared in Toledo Ohio with testimonials available. The piece emphasizes avoiding unsafe drugs and promotes the family pills as the best.
The New York stock market showed a dull, uneven movement with little vigor. U.S. bonds rose modestly while a few issues like United States Steel remained steady amid thin volume and mixed futures signals.
Corrected entries list dairy creamery and grain items with weights and prices. Items include De Rege select western, De Rege butter, potatoes, flour and related goods with unit costs such as 2.43 and 2.90 per unit and 4.9 percent figures.
The text catalogs agricultural goods and commodities with scattered items such as refined sugars cotton poultry flour and corn. It mentions shipments, weights, and prices in a chaotic ledger style typical of old market notices.
Fragmentary OCR from New York July text describes fluctuating figures and options with references to dates and locations. The readable items mention percentages, volumes, and disruptions but lack coherent subjects or events to identify. The piece appears to be a partial market or timetable fragment with scattered proper nouns.
Fragmentary OCR describes a mixed wrestling event with participants including a wrestler named Malte and others. Mentions weights or ages, a large white and colored audience context, and scattered references to teams or venues, though many details are unclear.
Market report shows wheat and corn values with declines and recoveries. Prices listed include No 2 yellow corn, No 2 white oats, No 1 spring wheat, and various seed and feed items with regions and unit quotes.
New York market notes show Tooves trading and Calvee-Steady steady for cattle and eel, with 1878 cattle and 5 020 quarters of eel. Wool prices and shipper activity include milking and leather goods, with marks on wool, seals, and per pound sheep and lamb prices.
July 7 market listing shows cattle steady to prime with heifers and calves priced. Entries include wethers and ewes, with steer and heifer values around 25,008 to 80. Prices reflect mixed lots and dairy cattle, with calves trading near six dollars.
Special to the Beranton Tritone reports July 7 events in Factoryville. Reuben Gardner from State College plans a wammer vacation, while Hosta Gutt of New York visits with his mother. Charles Walter departs for a week of pleasure travel including Albany Saratoga and Lake Champlain. A bolt struck near a pasture, killing five cows and a squirrel, causing damage. Apple orchards at La Plume are said to be wiped out and town damage noted.
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