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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1894
Page
5
A jagged OCR page shows mixed employment classifieds and wanted notices. Entries include a secretary or office helper required by a local firm, a dressmaker needed daily, a young man for various tasks, and a dry goods or business role. Several notices seek helpers, sales staff, and general labor with brief contact hints.
Numerous rental notices for Green Ridge and Lackawanna county areas. Listings describe tents, store rooms, rooms, and house spaces for rent with April move in, terms by A L Buril and others, plus a farm sale of 20k acres with orchard and stock. Also grocer stock sale by J Warps at 44 Wyomiting Avenue. Potential buyers urged to contact agents and executors for details.
Fragmentary OCR text references a loan and farm with amounts around 3000 dollars. No clear persons, dates, or organizations are identifiable to form a proper summary.
A partial notice announces the annual meeting of a local society and a premeeting ticket sale. It mentions dates, locations, and a call for ballots while noting a public sale at a city office. The text lists St Charles State Scranton and Strauts Pespaytvania as places and March 7 as a key date.
Very rough ad for a single house sale at 6 Quincy Avenue near Madison and Delaware. Mentions Reynolds, Willamke & Erapp, and Harry Lers as contact for terms and purchase, plus a second lot at corner Maaloonsvete and Delaware Street with similar terms.
Notice invites proposals for foundation wall construction and material handling for a Methodist project in Wallding area. Bid deadline March 4. CHAPMAN, secretary, coordinates the bids from qualified firms including address in Peekyily, PA.
Sealed proposals from contractors are invited by the Scranton Board of Health and the Commissioner forGarbage collection sewer work and city building projects. Bids require certified checks and outline responsibilities, timings, and liquidated damages for delays.
Washington dispatch outlines Senator Brive’s strong stand for a 60 cent coal duty with a caveat that free coal would force wage cuts across American mines. The piece notes Pennsylvania coal gains over Ohio and shifts in markets to Ontario, with broader implications for wages and regional trade. It also reports on Carbondale and Forest City Street Railway construction and Crystal Lake plans, plus assorted mining and railroad industry updates.
The report shows mixed tones in New York Tradges Market with varied forward contracts and options for No. 2 red and white oats, mixed western products, and creamery goods. Philadelphia Tallow Market notes demand steady with prime city and country prices listed by weight and quality.
The advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming relief for throat chest and lung issues with trial bottles free at Mathews Brow drug store. Large bottles available and money back guarantee for unfulfilled claims. Also touts cures for dyspepsia indigestion debility and lost appetite with tonic benefits and claims of blood purification and vitality.
Nonsensical OCR fragment mentions paving, camera requests, a person named Daby and a place Chadorka. Lacks clear event, date, or organization. No coherent actions or outcomes to report.
Rail schedule fragment lists departures from Scranton to Pittston Wilkes Barre Antrim and New York Newark with express options and Sunday service. Mentions connections to Macon Annewtown Aston and Philadelphia routes and a note on fares and timings.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a train collision involving Delaware and Hudson lines with names like G Young and J Wcrdick and references to divisions and states. The readable bits indicate an incident on a railroad network and potential officials or observers.
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