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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1896
Page
7
The journal Printers Ink rates Tuk ScuanTon as the top advertising medium in the Northeastern region, signaling strong market confidence in its reach and influence for advertisers.
The Tribune notes the $26 prize for a best short story in the Robert Morris lodge edsteddfod. Miss Sarah A. Jones of 1123 Hampton street, a local public school teacher, wrote the winning piece praised for readability. The piece is critiqued for not fully meeting all ideal short story criteria yet shows Northeastern Pennsylvania literary promise. The column also welcomes Pittsburg's Daily News and discusses Carlisle's potential Democratic nomination and tariff stance in national politics.
A reader derides political maneuvering around McKinley and Quay, mocks postmaster boycotts, and lampoons street safety rulings. He rails against overstrained schooling, endorses street cleaning via washing, and commends moderation in education reforms while critiquing reformers.
A national board of trade committee working to press for one cent letter postage disperses literature nationwide. It argues current rates yield large profits to monopolistic carriers and cites postmaster general figures from 1890 showing $30 million in profits and projecting $11 million under a one cent rate. It notes cheaper rates historically increased correspondence and cites Major McKinley backing good money and ample supply.
In Carbondale a leader urges McKinley support over Quay for state delegates, debating implications for Harrisburg and St. Louis at large. The piece then notes a Rail Review take on the Brown Interstate Commerce case, praising a shift in railroad sentiment toward honesty and compliance to protect earnings.
The Rochester Post-Express argues that excessive aversion to war, if carried to national degeneration, weakens virility and public resolve. It links polemophobia to nervous debility, artificial nerves in American children, and a drift from principle to comfort threatening national policy and liberty.
The passage argues that remedy lies not in war but in universal voluntary effort and sacrifice to uphold the heroic element. It stresses embracing realities beyond personal sensation, fostering patriotism, duty, and adherence to ancestral principles to deter decline and preserve national destiny.
The piece surveys Pennsylvania politics with mentions of Congressman Jack pursuing a senatorial bid, Deputy Attorney John Ikin linked to Tundiara County, and reactions in Allegheny about Quay Magee and Gouvernor Hastings. It notes Watres’s Wilkes-Barre water deal, potential impacts on a senatorial test, and Luzerne district restructures favoring Ale Miner per Quay, with newspapers doubtful of some assertions.
W E Curtis in Chicago Record notes a bureau of statistics report showing a steep fall in American vessels carrying U S foreign trade. Exports and imports now mostly move in foreign ships. only fractions reach North American and some regional regions. The piece contrasts current figures with wartime levels and later years.
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