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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
2
The Lehigh Navigation Company reduces its half yearly dividend to 2 percent per share citing demoralized anthracite trade and conservative resource use. The move follows a decline in Jersey Central stock and is linked to the overall weak coal market. past dividends are listed from 1881 onward.
The Carnegie mill at Homestead resumed operations Monday on a double turn. The Ohio Southern reports October gross earnings of 1,523, an increase of 22,001 from October of the previous year. For ten months ending Oct 31, Pennsylvania lines moved 12,999,400 tons of coal and coke, down 2,199,459 tons from the prior year. The Indianapolis Journal notes that through car service between Nickel Plate and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western has been abandoned due to lack of profitability, opposed by other Vanderbilt lines.
The stock market opened with rising prices led by sugar trading at 804 and 90 against 81% Monday. Populist defeats in the west boosted buying while a new congress portends temporary commercial peace. Sterling weakness also influenced the market outlook.
Dyspeptics faced with unreliable remedies are urged to trust Carlsbad waters from Sprudel Spring. The article claims long history of healing digestive disorders and cautions against fake “Improved Carlsbad Salt” sold by unscrupulous dealers. It advises adding a tittle of the genuine salt and to ensure the seal of Eisner & Mendelson Co., New York.
Across items from wheat to butter the market shows mixed activity. Wheat dull to lower while corn and rye hold firm or ease. oats and barley steady. Butter and cheese demand remains modest, with pork steady and lard quiet. creamery and Pennsylvania dairy products show varied prices.
The New York Bun quotes Hill claiming a victory is within reach but the subject seeks an immoral victory instead. The discourse suggests Hill faces public scrutiny over motives as he pursues his campaign this year.
An Indiana newspaper recounts the Madison County terror, a giant snake of thirty feet reported in Dismal swamp. A thigh-length tail fragment and a fifteen-foot skeleton surfaced, suggesting a monster larger than ordinary snakes. Bones will join Madison County Historical Society museum stock.
Fragmentary exchange shows a grave mood as speakers debate a dead comrade and muddy evidence. Tension arises over respect and duty and a deacon deflects with a terse rebuttal amid harsh street imagery.
An ad voice recalls Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to childhood and beyond. The jingle links Castoria to repeated care as a child grows. The phrase ends with a branding flourish referencing Castoria for future generations.
Proposals will be received at Scranton City Clerk's office until 7 00 p m Thursday November 15 144 to furnish the city a lot of land within the Third ward for a Cumberland Hose Company house site. City reserves right to reject all bids by order of City Councils M T Lavelle City Clerk. Scranton Pa November 1 1s. Notice also states plans to apply to the Governor for charter of Latin Coal Company by Willard Arren & Knapp solicitors.
Inquiries and letters to Man A Leblang at ¢ North Lincoln Avenue seek a Parisian dressmaker who can cut by the latest Parisian style, the Great Nymph System, with available work immediately.
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