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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1895
Page
7
Local notice lists delivery ready price per bushel and delivery area in the city. Multiple social and personal items mention visits, illnesses, meetings, and upcoming events at churches and clubs. The text notes marriages, funerals, and entertainment events with several named individuals and streets.
Unruly boy pupils disrupt the first winter session at No 13 school in the Fifteenth ward. Glass panes broken, chalk boxes stolen, and a tense scene unfolds amid a neighborhood still grieving a recent child’s death from scarlet fever in the Littles’ home.
Fragment resembles a local item mentioning B Reynolda and North Main with garbled text about Chautauqua and Mrs. unreadable. The readable bits suggest a society or event note but concrete facts are unclear.
Madisonville guest visits South Kinkely street. Mrs Whitney dies after illness on Taylor Avenue. David Barton funeral at 2 pm from Dudley Street home conducted by Rev J W Williams with a quartet. Floral tributes and pallbearers named. Sarah Hastie visits Avoca. Rete Barton returns from Washington. North league meeting lauds program and reports from Honesdale convention. David Williamson, 57, dies after pneumonia. funeral Thursday at 2 pm from Grove Street home. interment in Dunmore cemetery. brother of Moffatt & Williamson.
A distressed youth on the upper deck of a Staten Island ferry tries to leap overboard but is restrained by a ferry officer. He alternates between threats and admissions, joking that the crowd’s sympathy and coins tempt him to live, lamenting bad luck and missed chances.
A New York Sun article extols walking backward as a simple, free cure for nervous headache. Physicians note reflex action may relieve brain pain from nervousness. ten minutes suffices, best in a long narrow room, walking slowly with foot contact sequence.
Richard Walsh of Cherry Street was arrested on desertion and non support charges after his wife Maria Walsh obtained a warrant in the Eleventh ward court. The same issue was discussed alongside a Bicycle Club meeting at Germania hall where good roads and local street improvements were debated. officers and roles were announced and monthly meetings set.
The piece notes estimates for converting Chinese and Japanese to Christianity with figures like 240 dollars per Chinaman and 114 dollars per Jap, compares South American mission costs, and cites the London Missionary Society's first Chinese mission in 1807. It details self supporting churches in China, 62 churches total, 94 fully self supporting, and 522 Protestant churches overall.
The Edinburgh biography of John Stuart Blackie recounts his popularity as a lecturer. A New York Tribune tale recalls a student with a left hand, Blackie’s gentle reprimand, and the moment he embraced the boy, declaring he was glad to teach gentlemen, amid applause.
An aged smoker and cigar manufacturer offers simple rules for savoring cigars. Buy new cigars, avoid dry brittle ones, and keep ashes on the cigar to ensure straighter burn, longer life, and better taste. If the cigar goes out, blow through it to revive smoke and stave off stale flavor.
Statistics from the Interstate Commerce Commission report on June 30 1894 show 192 railways in receivership, 126 since the prior year, with 40 818.51 miles operated under receivership. Total capital of roads in receivers hands near 2 million dollars, about a quarter of national railway capitalization. The year end mileage rose 1.27 percent to 178 708.55 miles, tracks expanded mainly on existing property. locomotives rose to 214 039 with 74 more than last year, while total cars reached 1 174 078. Passenger and freight movements declined as employment dropped by 93 094, reflecting the depression effect on the industry under Democratic rule.
The Chicago Times-Herald cites tangled politics and rumored moves by leaders like Platt Olney Harmon Cleveland and Harrison. It lampoons divorce and gossip as it wades through unsettled alliances and potential policy delays amid a turbulent political landscape.
The page lists Scranton business quotations by par of 100 for banks, manufacturers, and utilities, plus bond listings and local stock prices. It also reports Chicago and Buffalo live stock receipts and prices for cattle, hogs, and sheep, with market conditions varying from steady to weak across categories.
Philadelphia market report shows tallow in a weak dull tone on November 6 with quoted prices for city and country consignments, and notes lighter demand for birds and cake products.
The Reading Coal and Iron company sold over 1,000,000 tons in October and used accumulated stocks to cover a deficit of about 250,000 tons. Shipments on the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad reached 60,726 tons, up 8,395 from a year ago, with year to date at 1,972,798 tons, up 244,367. All Lehigh region collieries resumed after drought idle periods, employing nearly 6,000 workers as rains increased water in mountain streams.
Advices from Salt Lake City report Rio Grande Western to resume construction and extend to Los Angeles. Baltimore Manufacturers' Record notes Southern Railway to operate Chesapeake Bay steamers to serve new tidewater terminals, with York River Line vessels increasing to four. Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia transfers to Central Railroad Company of Georgia, giving Southern Railway control. President Samuel Spencer travels South to supervise and plan further system tours.
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