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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1902
Page
8
Advertised as cheap baking powders, alum-based products are noted as excessively harmful to health. Their astringent and cauterizing qualities can pose dangerous effects when used in cooking and food preparation.
Twenty weeks into cooperative housekeeping at Parkside in Morningside Sioux City residents prove a family of four can save about 178.48 yearly by pooling meals and labor. Fifteen Marion Indiana families adopt a similar model while a new dining cooperative forms in Reinhardt flats.
James Etter, 83, longtime government watchman at the Cox building tied to the treasury, recounts figures from his career. He recalls an 1863 Sunday when President Lincoln briefly watched for the surgeon general, General Barnes, after asking Etter to tell the general he wished to see him.
Treasury Bureau of Statistics reports April shows manufacturers materials half of month imports and 34.51 percent of exports for April, with ten month totals rising. Cotton goods exports surge, cotton cloths to China double since 1900, while overall manufactured exports near last year’s level.
Scranton Board of Trade exchange listings show flour at 4.40 per unit, butter 4 cents, eggs 18 cents, 7he, marrow beans 2.40 per bushel, Bermuda onions 2.00 per crate, green peas 2.25 per bushel, and potatoes 60 cents per bushel. Corrected by H. G. Dale of Lackawanna Avenue.
Train services from Scranton depart early and throughout the day toward Philadelphia New York via D and FR R Santa lines and toward White Haven Hazleton and other points. The schedule lists multiple departures with express services Black Diamond Express and Lehigh Valley Parlor cars on all routes. Connections extend to Bethlehem Easton Reading Harrisburg and Chicago among others with Pullman reservations available at Wilkes Barre and South Bethlehem offices.
Train times from Scranton to New York Philadelphia Bethlehem Allentown and other points. Evening departures at 7 90 p m 2 p a and 4 p m Sundays 2 10 p m Quaker City Express to Philadelphia with one car change for Baltimore and Washington. Additional runs to Avoca Pittston Wilkes-Barre Tamaqua Pottsville Reading Lebanon Harrisburg and Ocean Grove with various daily slots. AGASSER and BURT listed as officials.
Schedule lists weekday trains from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh with Pullman cars, parlor car, and vestibule service. Notable departures include 3 pm and 8:28 pm week days with connections to Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia and midwest destinations. Generals Hutchinson and Wood sign as officials.
Fragmentary OCR shows train times and routes for Carbondale and nearby towns. Mentions leaving trains and connections to New Elmten, Dorwich, Oneida, and other points with varying departure times and daily patterns.
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