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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1894
Page
4
Scranton Tribune announces daily publication from Scranton PA with a New York office in Tamuxe Building. Gray is identified as manager and the paper is entered at the Scranton post office as second-class mail matter.
The piece admonishes immediate bridge construction to ease unemployment and restore city commerce. It links delays to political entanglements with Democratic figures, warns of graft risk in tariff reform debates, and urges concrete public works as antidote to economic distress.
A sprawling report from Philadelphia Times outlines a heated Pennsylvania Democratic battle over nominations and potential withdrawals. It cites W. H. Hines, Kingston patronage, and McDonald, Van Bey names, plus Shenandoah and Wilkes-Barre figures, with Lyman and Lavon competing for key posts and many district delegates at stake.
The piece extols the Washington family as the progenitor of the flag and frames George Washington as the supreme symbol of democratic virtue. It honors Mary Washington for shaping his conscience and notes democracy honors the individual deeds of people over ancestral glory.
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