This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1895
Page
6
A concise notice blocks taxes mortgages and interest at Lorraine. The wording emphasizes zero taxes zero mortgages and zero interest at Lorraine, signaling a possible property or tax policy stance.
Lorraine, Scranton’s new suburb seven miles north at Clark’s Summit, opens Thursday May 30. It offers lots priced from 100 to 300 dollars with weekly payments and cash discounts, plus up to 2000 dollars in prize incentives for early house construction by 1890, to attract builders.
Lorraine sits twelve daily trains 15 minutes from Scranton with buildings valued at 150000. It lies seven miles from Court House Square and two miles from the city line in a rapidly expanding strip. The town boasts pure air water and drainage and claims free transportation life insurance and improvements with no taxes mortgages or notes.
The offer provides a one year commutation ticket to the head of each family building and residing at Lorraine by January 19 1896. It guarantees heirs the deed of the property if the owner dies before full payment, provided payments have not been more than two weeks in arrears.
The text pledges free improvements at the developer’s expense to grade streets build sidewalks and plant shade trees on all streets in Lorraine. Deeds will include restrictions to maintain desirable qualifications for a suburban home and prevent future neglect.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.