Educational Contest Offers Great Opportunity for Youths
The article outlines a nationwide educational contest with prizes including a gold watch, scholarships, and other valuable awards. It notes contestants face strike-related obstacles in securing subscriptions, but emphasizes equal impact on all participants and the potential for readers to choose cheaper long term subscriptions. It also reports current standings, advances by Maxwell Shepherd and J A Hovenstrite, and suggests new contestants can climb with a few subscriptions, with full contest details on page four.
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Tribune
Maxwell Shepherd
Herbert Thompson
J. A. Hovenstrite
Moscow
Standing of Contestants Pointa
Scranton and nearby towns provide a long list of contestants with scores. Notable names include A J Kellerman Scranton 98 and Charles Burns Wandling 68. Other participants include Wm Rodriguez Scranton 58 and Herbert Thompson Carbondale 63 with many more ties and partial scores listed.
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Scranton
Charles Burns
Wandling
Rodriguez
Herbert Thompson
Carbondale
Maxwell
Shepherd
Albert Freedman
Belle- Vue
Svave Tissu Sieceen OM
Harry Madden
Grant M. Decker
Hallstead
Cece
Wm. Sherwood
Harford
Homer Kresge
Hyde Park
William Cooper
Priceburg
Danvers
Provisaieile Cielencieere
Sme
Louis McCusker
Park Place
J. Havenstrite
Moscow
Walter Hallstead
J. Clark
Peckville
John Dempsey
Olyphant
Beatrice Harpur
Thompson
Hugh Johnson
Forest City
Wssceeeee
Lee Culver
Springville
Chas, O’boyle
Edna Coleman
Sesevse
Nellie Avery
Tribune Educational Contest Opens with 33 Scholarships
The Tribune announces 33 scholarships valued from 45 to 1700 with five unclaimed. Top scorers after 23 weeks can choose any school on the list, with some awards covering three to five years and including board and room. All contestants may earn cash rewards for work, and May’s top point earner will receive a gold watch.
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the Tribune
The
Tribune
Pennsylvania
Te Frame Tribune
Dunmore Council Delays Bond Award and Votes on Lighting Contract
Dunmore council met in special session with only Mr. Brogan absent. The bond issue award was deferred to May 28 at Dennison Pryor and Co.’s request. A contract for lighting borough streets with Dunmore Electric Light Heat and Power Co was introduced for five or ten years and to be ratified next meeting. Main street owners offered to grade the street if borough teams could be used, to be available next Tuesday. A ten mill tax levy for borough uses for 1902 was set. An outside business tax proposal failed. The council plans fiscal year appropriations on May 28. An old order for 41.35 from seventeen years ago was presented.
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Brogan
Dennison, Pryor & Co
MaAllister
Dunmore Electric Light, Heat and Power Company
Electric Light Committee
Main Street
Conmy
Health Board Reorganization Yields New Officers
Byron Byrndy elected president and Patrick Cooney secretary for next year at last evening’s board of health meeting. Incumbent T. J. Fadden and P. F. O’Hara ran. O’Hara won 3 to 2. New members T. J. Hughes and J. J. Filasimmons were sworn in and will meet monthly on the second Monday to review all matters.
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Board of Health
Byron Byrndy
Patrick Cooney
T. J. Fadden
P. F. O'Hara
O'Hara
T. J. Hughes
J. J. Filasimmons
Isabella Bryder Suffers Arm Injury From Porch Fall
Isabella Bryder daughter of Mr and Mrs James Y Bryder of Fourth street fractured her arm in a porch fall and is resting comfortably with no serious harm expected. Borough Treasurer Waliers to pay school orders at the borough building this afternoon from 2 to 6. Junior Order of American Mechanics to meet at Odd Fellows hall this evening. Miss Mable Bath and Mrs Ellis visit William Morris in Dudley street. Mrs Charles Schlager of Hawley visits Mrs Wilson Decker on Cherry street. Erie company has taken all the
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James Y. Bryder
Fourth Street
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Order of American Mechanics
Odd Fellows Hall
Mable Bath
Ellis
Pittston
William Morris
Dudley Street
Charles Schlager
Hawley
Wilson Decker
Cherry Street
Erie Company
Local news brief from Pittston area society and church notices
Miss Jennie Davis of Blakely street visits grandparents in Pittston. Mr and Mrs Owen Carney welcome a son. Mr and Mrs Charles Eisenhart announce a daughter. Tripp Avenue Christian Church holds morning and evening services with sermons by J D Dabney and a separate Dudley Street Baptist church visit. First Methodist Episcopal Church outlines services and league events led by Rev Charles Newby with Sunday school and class meetings. Midweek prayer meeting and Epworth League activities scheduled.
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Blakely Street
Pittston
L. Edgerton
Elmira
J. B. Bronson
Elm Street
Owen Carney
Fifth Street
Charles Eisenhart
Swartz Street
Tripp Avenue Christian Chorced
J. D. Dabney
David Spencer
D. D
Dudley Street Baptist Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Henry Newby
Paistor
Servier
Mpnorth League
Epworth League
Daniel Powell
M. Leigh
Bowling tournament at Hampe alleys shows Hopkins leading in city event
The Hampe alleys bowling tournament runs day and night with Biy Hopkins leading the individual standings after 24 of 30 games and a 187 average. McAloon follows at 185.14, while Hopkins and Moore cap a 80 team average for 20 games and the Barkus five man team leads at 829. The South Side team eyes a top finish as weather cools interest in summer play. A Wednesday night 433 score nearly set a high mark.
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Biy Hopkins
MccAloon
Hopkins
Moore
Howard
Graves
Barkus
Frampe
Ariingtons
Becker
Franklin
In Love With Convicts and Courtroom Hearts
The author notes a strange trend where notorious criminals attract marriage offers from sympathetic admirers. Examples include famous poisoner Neill Cream and Australia’s Fauntleroy, with stories of lovers near prisons and courts. A wealthy suitor helped a woman acquitted of murder find a home abroad.
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Fald
Neill Cream
Misnuis Ex-Congressman Seeks Education Aid
A misnuis financier and former congressman tells of his young daughter in France receiving education. He recalls a moment when a nun asked about adopting a younger brother and the father debated wealth versus family, illustrating a moral tale about generosity and desire.
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Congremman Cable
France
Chicago Journal
Canal and Railroad Orders Reported From Harrisburg
Exclusive dispatch from The Ampdifted Press in Harrisburg notes orders directing completion of canal filling by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The report places Harrisburg as the key site and mentions the end goal of work in the yards and surrounding sections.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Canal
Ponheylvania Railroad
Trek
Tragic Find After Accident in Tonkhonoek Creek
In Tonkhonoek on Friday there were accidents. Willie Hoss found a dead boy in the bottom of the steam near the Yickhapnaes creek mouth while working at a boat in the fineroom. Rescue attempts followed.
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Miss Ploietiow Ditka
Wilkes Hare
Fie Ginest
Eliabeth Spoubling
Pulown Sipert
Siphon Nobinwo
Ami Wother
Maregaret Leiphunt
Matowl Lill
Wilkow
Thunalay
Tonkhonoek
Willie Hoss
Malin
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