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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1895
Page
4
Page from The Scranton Tribune shows advertising text and staff names including Frank Kingsbury and G H Ripple while noting printing and mail details. The item references "Printers Ink" as a newspaper advertising medium serving Northeastern Pennsylvania.
In Scranton on May 16 1895 a Republican statement quotes a platform asserting Americans favor bimetallism and demand gold and silver as standard money under legislation to preserve value parity across silver gold and paper currencies.
The keynote speaker Benjamin R. Lewis praises the Ivorites for uniting diverse nationalities in American life. He notes Welsh heritage alongside English, German, and French contributions, urging pride in all who helped build the nation. The address frames patriotism and fraternal unity as core values guiding the annual lodge convention.
Syndicate editors weigh future papers stressing quality and accuracy over sensationalism. They foresee larger news role, more varied editorials, and lay readers forming opinions without writers, while politics and Tammany figures Croker and Smyth loom in commentary.
Colonel Foster Coates of the New York Commercial Advertiser notes uncertainty about a trend toward smaller papers. He suggests publishers print shawlstrap editions not for health, but only if demand and sales shift, and as yet public taste shows no change.
The piece argues against district or party driven resistance in Harrisburg to the Appellate court bill. It cites Senator Grady of Philadelphia and ex-Auditor General Nilen of Iowa as alleged leaders, but urges evaluating the proposal on public welfare merits. It advocates an intermediate state court of appeals to ease crowded dockets and ensure thorough review.
The remark notes Secretary Gresham’s health improving yet questions his foreign policy. It highlights Carnegie’s 10 percent wage raise for 43,000 workers as a striking positive fact amid broader dull economic context.
A fragmented editorial notes political misgivings from Harrisburg to Washington and Harrisburg, mocks the imperial agenda, and questions the Meade controversy and British relations. It references Gresham, Cuba dispatches, and public subscription urges amid a seasonal transition.
A Waterbury worker completes a intricate table of seventy three woods depicting Washington Lincoln and Grant plus icons like Ford's Theatre Libby Prison and the Constitution. The piece includes the Masonic temple and various residences, stones, and leaves. It blends natural wood colors to form a detailed historic panorama with no dye or paint.
The piece computes energy lost from rainfall if captured at 4000 feet and pumped back to height, noting coal use of two pounds per horsepower hour and a 20 ton coal requirement per inch of rain per square mile. It includes verse satire on monopolies and scattered quips about dancing, politics, and society from various periodicals.
Reading Times notes Colonel J. D. Laclar as head of Scranton Tribune Interests in Lugurne county with headquarters in Wilkes-Barre. The editor praises the paper as a leading state publication and confident in its Wilkes-Barre department under Laclar.
The Courier-Progress argues that lack of school facilities cannot justify opposing compulsory education. It states every child is entitled to an education and criticizes opponents for offering impractical pleas versus the rights of about 160,000 unenrolled children to obtain educational opportunities.
The speaker argues the constitution requires the legislature this session to reapportion the state. With the Republican party controlling the executive and legislative branches, the people expect the duty to be performed as mandated.
Astrolabe cast at 2.20 a. m. for Thursday May 16 1895. The note of the season appears in verse as birds, spring, and sky embody charm and renewal. The reader is guided by the Tribune astrologer through the day's hopeful outlook.
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