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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1897
Page
2
The Hazleton treasury building contract is awarded at a cost of 200000 dollars. Other items include a planned paving project on Wyoming avenue and a new telephone line from Hazleton to Allentown, with franchises to expand to nearby towns. The region reports assorted arrests, court actions, and social events including graduations and a wedding in nearby towns.
The text suggests a child may grow slowly due to general bodily weakness rather than rapid growth. It notes no pain, good appetite, but loss of flesh. It claims Scott's Emulsion supplies easily absorbed fat and best blood-making nutrition to improve health.
The borough council met Tuesday approving Demmermuth Brothers bill and studying a utilities ordinance charging telegraph and telephone firms for poles wires and lines. They delayed action on a health appropriation and plan to seek river relocation and road work commitments from officials. Rev J Jones is reappointed pastor and local residents receive job and residence updates.
An evening at the Wealhaday opera house featured pupils from Miss Anna Thomas and Miss Flley rooms with operettas Vocal Skill of the Frogs Easy Bees The Birds and The Flowers. The finale A Consus of the Competent drew applause from young performers aged six to twelve.
An article touts Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe simple cure for stomach catarrh long deemed nearly incurable. It explains symptoms such as bloating sour stomach and poor digestion and claims the tablets aid digestion after meals using Dias tase aseptic pepsin and other ingredients. A Chicago reader testimonial supports improved appetite flesh and rest after one box.
Miss Stella Davies recited The Pilots Story, Miss Dunning staged The Gypsies Festival, and The Sweet Family drama closed the program. Pupils Stella Stephens Martha Griffithhe Margaret Jevans Lizzle Harting Pearl Guard Mamie Hullah Josie Marth Abbie Thomas led the performances before about 1 000 attendees in Thorpe's room.
A burst dam at the Pennsylvania Coal Company waterworks in Yatesville floods the area. The ten foot breach worsened as water surged through, damaging properties along the creek from No 4 shaft to the river, sweeping away an ice house and inundating Oregon and the old canal wharf.
The drowned man identified at Doran's morgue is Michael Clinton of Hazle Street near Moyal Lane. A 62 year old switch tender at South Wilkes-Barre, he owned two Fingle Street properties and was recently inactive. Relatives doubt suicide, noting his sleepwalking habit and lack of motive.
Albert Cooper a 17 year old youth from a prominent family in Nanticoke was dared by boys to grab a hanging electric wire. He touched it and was instantly shocked collapsing unconscious. He died within minutes as a crowd gathered. An inquest is planned and his sister fainted from distress.
Wall Street opened May with no effective rallying point as prices drifted. Intermittent short covering offered brief support in a few stocks while London buyers and American securities appeared less prominent. Total market volume reached about 151,000 shares, per William Linn, Allen & Co. brokers at Mears Building.
Fragmentary OCR lists mortgage notes and property ties related to Scranton area firms and streets. Mentions include People Street Railway, Dickson Manufacturing Co, Lackawanna Township School, Vernon Coal Company, and Scranton Axle Works with scattered figures and abbreviations.
Market notes show Chicago and New York price movement with firmer wheat spot and near month gains. Dairy items including butter and cheese remain steady with varied regional quotes and packaged product details.
Philadelphia market notes show wheat firmer with higher contracts and steady corn while butter, cheese, and refined sugar stay quiet to firm. Chicago and New York futures quote mixed prices for wheat corn oats and pork with cash goods showing firm flour and steady hog markets.
Reelota consignments show only ordinary trading as investors wait. Dull hours with lower bids for hogs and cattle. sheep and lamb offerings weak with limited demand. Prices range for hogs and cattle from rough to good, sheep from common to prime with bids near four dollars per unit.
Cattle at 140 a5 choosing top fat cattle active with bids by H. Madio and Winks. Calves and heifers show activity. common heavy to prime light, bids around 4. Gh. Sheep active at 2.8 per head with lambs at 5.0 for poorer grades.
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