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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1899
Page
4
The notice reports a Dewey home fund effort totaling about 24000 dollars. Public appeals urge contributions to complete the fund and prepare a home by October 1, with receipts to be issued by treasurer Ells T. Roberts in Washington DC.
A Georgia governor voice denounces universal suffrage as dangerous and argues for merit tests to limit voting rights. The piece criticizes white political domination, constitutional inequality, and the staged ignorance policy toward Black citizens, contrasting attitudes toward other immigrant groups and warning of permanent disqualification and racial injustice.
The fragment argues that denying normal development to Black citizens leads to mob law and immorality, warning the South about moral collapse. It notes the sale by receiver of the Ruskin cooperative colony in Tennessee, a Bellamy venture, illustrating the collapse of ideal schemes.
The article argues Roosevelt shaped naval and military leadership by promoting Dewey and Wood and hints at influence over Alger’s retirement. It praises Roosevelt as a decisive statesman and anticipates how Blibu Beer might join the pattern if he proves worthy, supporting a broad claim of presidential fitness.
The article notes a dispute between Mayor Farley of Cleveland and Adjutant General Axline about who should lead. It urges swift resolution to avoid mob pressure and stresses the need for clearly defined lines of authority.
Governor Pingree of Michigan argues that denying newspaper statements is useless and harmful. He warns that editors rarely admit error and that libel actions rarely correct misstatements. He predicts rising distrust of the press and new laws against fake interviews and abuse.
The column defends a press guild against broad demonization while condemning only extreme journals. It notes a 17 percent six year drop in Massachusetts passenger rail traffic and questions causes from trolley expansion to telephone use, trusts, and census trends, calling the phenomenon curious.
The Australian Federation appears assured as three of seven colonies vote for federation, led by New South Wales. Victoria and Tasmania also approve, with NSW backing the commonwealth bill by about 22,000. A governor general leads a two chamber parliament with equal Senate seats per state and proportional house seats.
A fragmentary summary of global trivia and statistics across immigration, crime counts, transport, education, industry, and colonial topics. It mentions South Italian immigrant numbers, county criminal dockets, a rail and camel route to Russia's edge, Kansas City substitutes institute, cigar box manufacturing, and a hospital funded by old coin sales in Manitow. It notes school enrollment gains, a Glasgow to New York steamship line, acetylene gas patent hopes, a black town in Alabama governed by black officials, Bible readership in India, Hammerstein Russia’s Nordkap newspaper, and a Columbian consul tale. it also surveys Nile irrigation, a large storage reservoir plan, and world shipping tonnage by Britain, America, Norway, Germany, and Sweden.
Reported figures show Russia and Italy with major tonnage while Japan and Denmark share substantial control. Americans hold about half of world merchant sail tonnage afloat as rail networks advance. Bulwayo is linked by steel rails and trains reach halfway to Uganda with Cairo to Khartoum railway nearing completion by September.
A collage of poems and riffs from Bonar to Conan Doyle and Scollard, echoing memory, motherly love, and national sentiment. It moves through reflections on truth learned in struggle, nostalgic ballads, ballads of sport and life, and a sharp critique of Jim Crow with a probing voice.
A collection of humorous Victorian tales about scientists and notable figures. An old sailor heals a broken leg with tar and oakum, a Pas teur anecdote on microbes in cherries, and Burrowes mistook a broken glassless wall mirror for a reflection, all told in a lettered social tone.
A fevered panorama of public figures and artists spans American politics and theater. Sarah Bernhardt plans a New York appearance, while the sultan experiments with cinematography in Anatolia. Jerome K Jerome and Frances Hodgson Burnett pursue farming and writing, and Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett plans a return to the United States in October. The piece also notes Washington and Denver seasons, with Mrs. Fiske hailed for a Vanity Fair dramatization, amid a chorus of famed ancestors and historic names guiding contemporary arts.
Star Automatic Paper Fastener promises fast binding and self feeding with ongoing improvements. Bold claim of prices lower than ever and ongoing sale of Planitary Pencil Sharpeners noted as the only sharpener that never breaks lead. Free 16 day trial in your office and a range of novelties plus blank books and typewriter supplies.
Plenty of items to beat the heat with, and prices kept low to beat higher charges for equal quality. This sale emphasizes cool comfort and affordability as summer wears on.
The final reduction of the season takes effect this morning with shirt waist prices today at about half what they were less than a month ago. The line remains well assorted and offers swift clearance.
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