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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1902
Page
4
The Scranton Tribune announces publication details and office locations and states letters must be signed with real names for acceptance, with all contributions subject to editorial revision. The notice notes second-class mail status and invites readers to submit opinions on current topics.
In Scranton on March 24, unions demand a new schedule after a strike data. The Civic Federation intervened and a conference was convened. It was agreed workers stay at current wages until a May conference to cool off and seek a lasting settlement.
A Washington correspondent asserts General Miles sought McKinley’s vice presidency before the Philadelphia convention and then proposed an anti McKinley ticket with Roosevelt as vice president. The claim, echoed by other papers, suggests Miles has long sought the presidency and opposed the current administration, with his actions drawing both praise and rebuke. The discussion centers on Miles’s conduct before the military affairs committee and debates over the army reorganization bill.
In a recent municipal election Bishop Poller notes extreme voter absence with only thirty eight residents at home along FIT avenue from Washington to Central Park. He remarks most residents were abroad or otherwise occupied as absentee ballots rise.
The piece reports Florence Burns’s release from the murder case of Walter Brooks amid weak evidence and notes James Wilcox’s conviction for Nellie Cropsey’s murder in Elizabeth City. It contrasts American and British retail clashes, cites Senator Platt on Roosevelt’s 1904 bid, and praises General Miles as a decisive wartime figure.
A garbled column lists disparate items including sandals for warm weather, a candidate named Corey seeking another term, and judging by a district vote. It references army casualties in a vague wartime context and hints at diplomacy and political intrigue surrounding officials and office seekers.
A garbled passage speaks of a Scranton Friktim style dispute over city aid for a factory or industry. It mentions objection by locals to exemptions and the broader impact on a town's manufacturing plans and infant welfare, with scattered references to leadership and public sentiment.
A brief note from New York announces the formation of a Society for the Study of Life. The item hints at aims to promote biological and philosophical inquiry within the city and invites local scholars to participate.
A Treasury Bureau of Statistics monograph tracks global sugar production from 1840 to 1900, noting a shift from cane to beet sugar and a surge in per capita consumption. It highlights rising world output, growing populations, and price declines driven by beet sugar expansion in temperate zones and sugar abolition of slavery shifts. It also cites major national outputs and exports from France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, and colonial sources like the Philippines, Cuba, Java, and Brazil.
A historical piece argues population decline will worsen as society fails to fulfill family duties. It asserts that male and female roles to raise sufficient children are essential to sustain post society and allied resources, with extinction looming for any group neglecting childrearing.
The passage evokes Irish song and deep emotion in flowing verse, praising windings, sobs, and the loom of memory. It references a rural landscape, winter rails, steeples, moonlit fields, and the call of shamrocks, voiced by John A. Footy of Georgetown College Journal.
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