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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1902
Page
4
The Tribune welcomes short letters from readers on current topics, to be signed with the writer’s real name. Acceptance requires editorial revision as needed. The Tribune also lists advertising rates including 5 cent per line charges for classy messages and notices.
The 1903 Scranton Republican slate lists Governor S W Pennypacker and other state and local officers including W M Brown Isaac B Brown William Connell A A Vobburg John Courier Morris John Penman Lewelyn M Evans David I Williams Joseph Olivet Jol en Scibuta Edward James P A Philbin. The piece notes Election Day is November 4 and cites Nicholls in Indianapolis denying personal support for a proposed general strike linked to the anthracite strike.
Announcement notes John Willis Baer will retire as general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor to join the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions as an assistant secretary. Resolutions laud his leadership from 1890 to today, citing growth from 11 018 societies and 660 000 members to over 62 000 societies and 3 000 000 members, with global reach and expanded programs.
The excerpt notes the president preparing to offer Congress advice, praising Mr. Littlefield as a beneficiary. It also mentions friars in the Philippines not being removed but urged to seek other fields, as recommended by church superiors, ending on a hopeful note.
An assortment of opinions and items: Morosini’s $100,000 gift to Venice’s Campanile fund aimed at inspiring Italian immigrants to America. Nicaragua’s upheaval with invaders beaten and four killed. Captain Strong’s desertion amid scandal. William Jennings Bryan’s stubborn fight against the past. General Wood on Pennsylvania guardsmen. call for civil service reform at Havana. comment on a rising trust and a burning shame.
Special Correspondence reports the 1902 field season of the bureau of forestry expanding to twenty states with 165 field staff. The effort includes data collection for working plans, study of commercial trees, farm woodlots, and treeless areas for forest extension, plus ongoing studies in Maine to California and the Adirondacks. Funding rose to 1 400,000 for the year while private support funds key projects in New York, North Carolina, and elsewhere.
The bureau studies white pine heat conditions for seed germination and analyzes planting to reclaim arid dunes along the Atlantic coast. Work spans Cape Cod Massachusetts New Jersey and drifting sand near The Dalles Oregon. It surveys forest distribution resources by county and timber supplies while compiling data on wood yields imports exports and by products like gums resins turpentine and tar.
A wealthy man with limited means gives surplus ale to a crew of workmen as a benevolent gesture. Later he seeks thanks, asking how they enjoyed it. The foreman replies bluntly that if the ale had been better they wouldn’t have it, if worse they wouldn’t have been able to drink it.
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