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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1898
Page
3
The Tribune announces its Opportunity Bureau with low cost small ads for renting houses selling or exchanging real estate and other property or seeking jobs. Rates apply: one cent per word six insertions for five cents per word, with situations wanted free.
Classified rental and sale notices listing eight room house at 227 Webster Avenue with heating and water, five room and four room flats, additional rental properties on Clay Avenue and Madison Avenue, offices and stores, a barn on Mahon Court, and a boiler for sale. Also many job ads for salesmen, agents, and housekeeping help plus miscellaneous items for sale.
Established business seeks a partner with about 10:04. Will bear investigation. Large profits and a safe investment. For interview address P. O. Hox S74, Beranton, Pa.
The Scranton Gas and Water Co. and Hyde Park Gas Co announce a rate cut policy to reflect higher consumption. From April 1 the price will be 1.15 dollars per thousand cubic feet, with discounts of five cents for bills under twenty five dollars and ten cents for bills twenty five dollars and up, provided payment is made by the 2nd of the month. signed by G. I. Hand, Secretary.
Prepared Mush made by the New York Prepared Mush Co located at 412 Penn Avenue Scranton advises consumers to ask their grocer or butcher about the product.
A compiled listing shows architects Edward H. Davis Walter Lewis Hancock Jr Frederick O Brown T. J. Lacey & Son and firms located on Spruce Street Washington Avenue and Traders' National Bank area. Detectives Barring M'Swheene y Commonwealth and Interstate Secret Service Agency offices noted.
A dense public notice and professional directory list moves and contact details for doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, and job seekers in Scranton. It includes office addresses on Wyoming Avenue Mulberry Street Spruce Street and Adams Street, with hours, telephone lines, and names such as Dr Kay Dr Freas Dr Vanmoreaux Mary Shepherd and many attorneys. It also notes a stockholders meeting to authorize capital stock increase at the company's presidential offices in Boranion PA on March 2 at 1 00 p m.
M Hetael chiropodist offers painless treatment for corns bunions including ingrown nails. Visits available at 3 Lockawnonna Avenue or in clients' homes by request. Moderate charges and careful care emphasized.
Wilkes Barre timetable shows trains leaving at 7.30 a m for Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and for Pittsburgh and the West. 10.15 a m weekday service to Hazleton Pottsville Reading Norristown and Philadelphia and line to Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh and the West. 3.12 p m early for Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh and the West. 5.00 p m weekdays for Hazleton and Pottsville. J B Wood Gen Pass Agent J B Hutchinson General Manager.
Trains depart Scranton with multiple routes to New York Easton Philadelphia the South Binghamton Buffalo Utica Ithaca and more. Express services operate at various morning and afternoon times with connections at major hubs. Pullman cars available on all express trains. For detailed pocket timetables contact M L Smith Discr Passenger Agent at the depot ticket office.
Lehigh Valley announces service details for coal routes to Philadelphia New York and western points. It lists trains Black Diamond Express and others with times to Pittston Wilkes Barre White Haven Hazleton Pottsville and Bret Hope regions via D and HW routes and notes Pullman cars between Wilkes Barre and major cities. Scranton and Philadelphia offices are referenced.
Rail timetable shows Monday departures from Scranton to Carbondale Wilkes Barre and Wilkes Barre southward with connections to Albany Montreal Philadelphia and other destinations via Lehigh Valley and Black Diamond Express. Rates and exact times listed for major routes and transfers.
The piece notes that free government documents carried by mail total about 100 million pounds annually, costing taxpayers and outweighing letters. It cites Congress and Albany budget acts to curb copies, lists hefty print runs for many state reports, and asks who reads these free public documents while noting farmers’ pride in receiving them and the public’s demand.
Central Railroad of New Jersey timetable details trains from Scranton Wilkes-Barre and other points to New York Philadelphia and coastal resorts. It lists departure times from various terminals, connections with ferries elevated lines and long-distance routes, and notes through tickets and agents.
Rail timetable notes service effective September 16 with Erie line trains leaving Scranton for New York and intermediate points at 7 a.m. and 2:25 p.m. Arrival times from these points to Scranton are 12:20 a.m. 2:45 and 9:58 p.m.
In a disrupted schedule, trains operate with two gaits except Sunday. Signals fail along the line causing delays and reduced service while passengers await updates. Officials say crews work to restore normal operation and restore money transfers.
New York traders faced lingering doubt over Cuba, with reckless selling on prior weeks and a narrow session. Wheat and corn slipped while oats fell modestly, provisions weakened. cash quotes listed diverse grain and commodity prices with modest activity and limited receipts and shipments.
Wheat firm and higher for March and near contracts with steady corn and oats. Wheat and cheese largely unchanged. butter and milk variants steady to dull. Receipts show flour and grain totals. shipments include wheat and corn figures with bushels and barrels noted.
New York market report lists firm wheat prices with May and July futures, spot bids for No 2 red and No 2 northern Duluth, No 1 hard Manitoba, and No 1 hard Duluth. Corn and oats show steady to firm tones with near month activity. Butter, lard, and petroleum quotes are provided for various origins and grades.
Wheat prices in Chicuro from March to May surged early as shorts demanded, pushing to 107. Heavy sales by Leiter pressured values, with prices ending the session down about 2 cents.
The limited cattle supply sold at yesterday's prices in the pens. All grades of hogs moved largely at 3.85 to 5.05, best heavy 4.06, common to light. Sheep and lambs ranged with 503.00 for poor to 4.75 for good to prime flocks, yearlings 40 to 8, lambs 4.0 to 5.00, some New Mexican sheep at 4.90. Receipts: cattle 6, hogs 1,000, sheep 2,000.
Aberty Pennsylvania March 19 reports cattle trading with primes common and good grades at 3.60 to 4.10 for prime and choice middling. Hog prices show four to five classes with upper ranges around 4.15 and 4.50 for heavy hogs. Sheep and lambs priced steady to higher with veal calves noted at a steady level.
East Buffalo Newfoundland notes show steady hull market movement with cattle and sheep prices listed. Prices span from common to choice grades with sheep and lamb categories noted and totals around 8005.90 in local currency.
March 19 market notes show no sales for Freeves. Cilwes rents steady, Shien and Lambs more active and steady, farm animals side weaker. Lambs at 6.4 per hundredweight. no sheep sold. Here slower and lower at 1.10.
Credit bills certified first sale regular. Highest regular bid closed. Cash delivery option offered. Total sales include 200 shipments. Barrel volumes list 82319 barrels and 1 02 barrels.
A roster of Cuban figures tied to the delegation lists Thomas Estrada Palma born 1835 in Bayamoba who led in the Ten Years War and became president in 1876, plus Emilio Nunex, Dr. Joaquin Castillo, Jose Antonio Gonzalez Lanuga, and Benjamin J. Guerra, detailing roles as minister plenipotentiary, surgeon, secretary, and treasurer in New York and Havana.
Irwin proposes creating municipal states by grouping New York Chicago and Philadelphia with adjoining counties to form new states. He argues this would boost urban populations to about 4 000 000, 210 000, and 300 000 respectively and gain federal approval. He envisions dissolving the municipal states after admission.
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