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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
6
A local retailer touts a week of stock clearance for thousands of dollars in dry goods, cloaks, and millinery bought at close to manufacture cost. The notice lists deep discounts on fabrics, dresses, silks, and jackets, plus seasonal wares and household items. It also includes scientific notes on solar physics and instrumentation, contrasting retail sales with academic content.
A Drexel Institute lecture by Professor Charles A. Young of Princeton covers sun energy sources and properties. It explains wind and water power, muscular energy from food, steam from ancient sunshine, and sun earth relations including distance, size, gravity, and temperature estimates with figures and comparisons.
A playful nineteenth century verse recounts Maud Muller riding carefree until a wheel mishap leads to a loaned pump from a Judge. He muses on status, wedlock, and the bloomers that tempt fate, ending with moral reflections on leaving pants for men and hopeful in the afterlife.
A reader finds a dusty secondhand volume titled Love Poeme among scattered books. The faded cover hints at old fashioned verses about love, mothers, skies, and flowers, with no author or notes, just dog-eared pages and a tear-stained flyleaf.
New York traders saw a calm market with 383,277 shares changing hands as stocks largely closed below prior levels. Rumors on Indiana and Kentucky electoral votes and a Cuban policy report pressure markets, with Sugar dipping then recovering to 116% 117%, Tobacco jumping on dividend news, and Manhattan bucking trend by rising to near 97.5. Bond issues and Philadelphia and Chicago markets are also noted with varied results.
Stock yards report shows cattle market firm with varied grades from common to extra steers and lambs at 30.46 to 4.65 per hundredweight. Hogs and pigs move at 1.75 to 4.50, cows and bulls around 1.00 to 0.50, calves and sheep noted with mixed ranges. Market tone steady to easy with packing and shipping rates cited.
Buffalo markets report varied movement with cattle steady to strong and sheep and lambs uneven. Hogs and veal show active bidding, lamb quality influencing prices, and Canada lambs softer. An unquoted optional item and consumer ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla appear amid the market data.
By virtue of multiple writs of Fieri Facias issued from Lackawanna County court, the property of Mrs. S. W. Edgar in Scranton will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash. The parcel described includes a two-story frame dwelling on a bordered lot with street details and boundaries. Sale set for Saturday November 4 at 10 o clock in the forenoon at the county courthouse in Scranton.
Multiple court-ordered property sales detailing Henry Doyle Daniel Mitchell Grace Franey Michael Franey and others. Descriptions cover numerous lots in Old Forge Scranton Dunmore and Taylor with coal and mineral reservations, improvements, and debts. Sheriff notice lists sale for cash by Frank H. Clemons with dates and judgments.
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