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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
4
A fragment from The Tribune discusses submission rules for letters to the editor, requiring real-name alignment and editorial revision. It also lists the flat rate for advertising per inch for various ad categories and mentions charges for cards of thanks and resolutions of condolence as advertising.
The document lists state and county officials including PENNYPACKER as Governor and BROWN as Lieutenant Governor with others in the executive and legislative posts. It also quotes President Fowler of the Ontario and Western arguing that resuming mining is difficult and should be met by either active effort or surrender.
The Republican state campaign will start with a mass meeting at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia featuring Judge Pennypacker and Charles Emory Smith with James Beck and other prominent speakers. Campaign plans include a statewide tour and strong emphasis on majorities in legislative and congressional districts.
The speaker warns that the eastern region of Cuba faces severe hardship as 14,000 workers in Santiago Province alone are unemployed and worsening. With business frozen and trade stagnant, idle labor threatens hunger, riots, brigandage, and possible unrest before summer. The elite singles out inactivity and empty days in clubs as a symbol of the downturn.
Major George M. Barbour reports Sanitary work in Santiago shows empty shops and collapsed plantation operations due to sugar prices and tariffs. The piece argues for liberal reciprocal trade with Cuba and supports President Roosevelt. It warns a Schuylkill strike risks violence and insists mining property rights be upheld by the state.
A proposed program from a major employer urges thorough union organization with leaders, initiation fees, a $100,000 capital stock charter, member dues, and a bank guaranteed bond. The plan includes sick benefits, education, aging and orphan support, employment bureaus, and a fixed wage scale tied to contracts enforceable over years. It aims to reduce strikes and promote peaceful, lawful behavior.
A Brooklyn Eagle reader story blends a tale of Samuel Richter who buys chickens to save on eggs, builds a henhouse, and learns the birds only scratch and roost. A naming debate among relatives showcases playful family banter over baby names like Geraldine Esmeralda Fanchon Estessa. Senator Mason and William J. Bryan exchange newsroom jokes about newspaper fortunes and mortgages.
McCrea Pickering in Smart Sat. depicts a weary speaker seeking rest and relief in the beloved. The narrator contrasts daytime toil with nighttime solace, finding quiet, healing arms, and comforting voice in love as a refuge from a hard day.
The fragment recounts a Civil War episode at Wilson's Creek where a German unit, Schwartz's battery, reportedly lost guns but reclaimed them amid confusion. It then shifts to a tale about Elizabeth G. Jordan and an assistant Milas Q, detailing a luncheon theft and the eventual discovery of a banquet spread, ending with the waiter absent.
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