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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1898
Page
3
The Tribune advertises its Opportunity Bureau as a popular clearing house for renters landlords and sellers and for those seeking jobs or help. Classifieds cost one cent per word with six insertions for five cents per word and free insertions for situations wanted.
A dense classified page lists numerous rental ads for rooms houses flats and stores across Scranton and nearby avenues including Lackawanna Avenue Adams Avenue North Main Avenue Penn Avenue and Wyoming Avenue. It also advertises for sale items such as a range a typewriter furniture and a perseverance letter case plus job notices for salespeople apprentices and clerical help.
Classified ads offer sales agents for various products including novelties, soaps, telephones, storm doors, publications, and medical services. Listings specify commissions, exclusive territories, outfit offers, and addresses in Philadelphia Boston Rochester Chicago and other cities. Some items promote Klondike books and citizenship materials with prepaid outfits and weekly pay.
A garbled sale of prepared mush products and numerous “Situation Wanted” notices depict job seeks from a cook to a stenographer. Classified lines include addresses and names like Tribune office, Garteld avenue, and Dunmore Pa, with public notices on gas rates and dissolutions.
A long list of professionals in Scranton is detailed, including Edward H. Davis and E. L. Walter architects, James H. Torrey and Jessup & Jessup attorneys, and doctors, veterinarians, and merchants. The Commonwealth, Republican, and Traders National Bank buildings are referenced along with several street addresses and offices.
Reading Room association meeting cancelled with notice to follow. Primitive Methodist Ladies Missionary Society to meet at Mrs James Campbell home Tuesday afternoon. Several local residents and workers listed with moves and appointments across Avoca and nearby towns. Reverend Jones resigns. replacement candidates named for vacancy awaiting selection and new pastor expected to begin soon.
Mentioned as a planned ten round bout between Joe Chambers of Forest City and Jack Stavin of Jermyn to be held at White Prides between Carbondale and Mayfield around early April. They recently fought here in a draw.
A Washington Times item lists early jobs of famous figures. Vanderbilt began as a salesroom clerk, Stewart as a schoolteacher, Carnegie in a Pittsburgh telegraph office, Gould sold maps, and Barnum tended bar in New York. The reminiscence surveys humble beginnings shaping later fortunes.
A Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune writer recalls poker superstitions and gambling behavior observed in social games. Players avoid new clothing, shift seats to align with table grain, and perform quirky rituals. The piece notes slang like bluff and standing put, plus women’s cheating risks and prize structures in home and public games.
The Springfield water department table shows 1874 to 1890 trends in home bathtubs. By 1890 over one fourth had tubs, and in recent years the share hovered near one half of families served. The city census suggests about one tub per nine people.
The Cuban dispute between the United States and Spain dampened stock markets worldwide with weakness in Spanish tours fueling declines in Paris London and Berlin. A local bull group attempted price gains amid short-covering hopes, leaving net changes small and volume at 298000 shares. Other quotes cover commodities and provisions in Philadelphia and futures readings for wheat corn oats and butter with varied firmness and dull to firm tones.
Wheat and corn futures edge lower amid weak spot markets and late liquidation. May and July contracts drift while exports and late cables offer little support, with prices for No 3 red wheat and No 1 northern Duluth wheat under pressure and oats also weakening.
Chicago markets closed with wheat slipping amid severe weather and bullish foreign news. Corn and provisions fell. cash quotes showed weakness across grains with mixed results in oats and rye. Shipments included flour and grain exports, while overall commodities faced broad declines.
Fragmentary East Buffalo market notes list cattle sheep pigs and wool terms with unclear values. The garbled OCR shows mixed terms like choler common sheep and various nonsensical strings. No coherent prices or consistent entities are identifiable.
A scrambled snippet from a New York market report lists prices for cattle and sheep. Weeves and Bready show per hundredweight values, bulls around 1.00 to 4.00, dry cows at 1.50 to 2.70, veal calves and heifers with various rates, sheep and lambs noted as Active, hogs firm around 4.20 to 4.40 per hundred pounds.
In Mast Liberty Pennsylvania on March t cattle steadiness noted for prime and common beef, with prices around 4.10 to 5.05. Bulls and cows steady, hogs unchanged, sheep steady with lambs and calves quoted. remarks indicate general price stability across categories.
The report notes Poa Mareh 2l-Credit bale Wee and Tet CFFlificiios opened Be with bidy first sale. Turrels remain, sale closes with total sales tallied. Seventeen runs and barrels of elipiments recorded, noting 21 barrels and 17 Barnes in total.
A Hartford Courant letter describes Cuba under Spain with heavy duties on imports and everyday goods. It notes high internal revenue, official paper fees, matches and light costs, taxed signage, and park chair rents, accusing many officials of milking the public purse while Cuba remains unprofitable for Spain.
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