Scranton Investor Promises 6 Percent Returns
An investor in Scranton invites readers to a meeting at the Connell Building to discuss profitable opportunities offering about six percent returns.
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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
8
An investor in Scranton invites readers to a meeting at the Connell Building to discuss profitable opportunities offering about six percent returns.
A local ad lists mortgages for sale at 6 percent on various homes near Prescott Pine Harrison and Prescott Avenue with prices and values. Also avail stock in Title Guaranty and Trust Co United States Lumber Co and International Text Book Co with 10 shares. The contact is NICHARD ERNEST COMEGYS at 709 Connell Building, phone 100.
Mrs. B Moses of Scranton and Mrs 8 Bieger of Carbondale visit New York. Merc M Driggs of Suyre Pa visits her sister Mrs AJ Derry of Harrison Avenue 02. Nelson Atherton resumes studies at the University of Pennsylvania after a short visit with his parents Mr and Mrs D B Atherton of Providence road.
Delegations from Abington area churches and other denominations gathered at Venn Avenue Baptist Church for a missionary fly and listen session. Rev. W. S. Dobbins, Rev. W. Be Upcraft, and Rev. Charles W. Briggs spoke on American Baptist Missionary Union work in China and the Philippines, highlighting baptism feats, Western frontier life, and the need for more missionaries, schools, and hospitals to advance Christ’s cause.
Rev. Btkuanih Mulley presided as Dr. Dobbins spoke of a strong missionary campaign in Pittsburgh area and the Philippines. He described hardships faced by missionaries, including beatings and cholera, and noted cooperation with Catholics for civilization advancement amid opposition and belief in the gospel’s power.
Henry Amos of Spring Street and Seras Cooper of Dickson City were burned at work in Storrs No 1 shaft during a gas explosion at 5 am yesterday. Both ballets suffered burns to hands and face. Cooper protected his hands and was burned on the face, Amos sustained the more serious injuries. Fellow workers carried them to the mine hospital where burns were dressed before they were sent home.
P O J McManamon the park police officer tendered his resignation to Director Wormser citing private business demands. John McAndrew was named as his successor in an order issued yesterday, with McManamon's departure effective last evening and McAndrew to report to duty tomorrow evening.
A meeting of Hahneman hospital directors and physicians at Bimpson & Watkins discussed sustaining the hospital until a larger appropriation is secured. State funds cover only a small portion of costs. A thousand dollar group donation from physicians and surgeons and another thousand from Dys, Coolidge and Peck bolster efforts.
The Tribune reports two more contestants selected scholarships. Harry Albert Freedman chose the Washington School for Boys scholarship valued at 1700 dollars. Fred K. Gunster picked the Syracuse University award worth 452 dollars. J A Havenstrite of Moscow will choose next upon return.
At a teachers committee meeting of the school board in New Woosehool district a dispute arose over granting control of the new Bellevue building to the Sixth ward controller, Murphy. Controller Van, from the Fifteenth ward, protested and argued for his side. The motion to recommend the transfer failed on a tie vote with Gibbons voting for, Barker O’Malley and Phillips against. A minority report will be presented at Monday’s session.
Rev J F Beates of Wilkes-Barre who spent time in Utah delivered a lecture at the Evangelical Lutheran church of the Holy Trinity on Mormonism. He described their religion as religious yet tied to business and pleasure and warned that their system is an Oriental despotism posing a menace to civilization and American life. He urged Christians and citizens to oppose the spread of the church and curb its influence.
A Polish man, name not learned, was struck and killed by a Delaware and Hudson train near Maple Street around midnight. He was walking on the railroad and did not see the oncoming train. The body was taken to his undertaker, Apial Ski, at 1258 Prospect Avenue.
Effective half tones and line cuts for cards and ads offered by The Tribune office. Work is prompt and unexcelled, with low rates. A trial order will convince you.
Council directs Director Roche to notify M H Dale to complete the Lackawanna avenue sewer. Borough officials debate repairs and bridge funds while Meridian street lateral sewer repeal is proposed amid objections from six property owners who would pay for a private sewer instead.
A vintage medicine advertisement touts Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a safe, effective remedy for catarrh in nose throat stomach and bladder. It claims rapid relief from coughing hawking and throat clearing with no habit forming ingredients and lists Hydrastin and Red Gum among components. The ad asserts tablets work for internal catarrh and emphasize easy use and availability.
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