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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1894
Page
3
R G Dun weekly review notes weakness in business last week but anticipates a sharp post election lift. Coal stocks struggle. pig iron output up from October but still below last May. Banking talks consider lowering out of town balances to 1 percent.
Promotion for Carlsbad Sprudel Water and Salt as at home remedies. Claims include relief for stomach, liver, and kidney disorders, habitual constipation, gout and rheumatic conditions. Advertises genuine article with Carlsbad seal and Risner & Mendelson Co. New York as sole agents.
Today's Stock exchange transactions total 286000 shares as outside demand lifts prices throughout the list. Short interests in grangers coalers and Manhattan help push markets higher with late buying on rumors of a government bond issue. Prices close at day’s highs with gains of from 1 to 3 percent across active issues like American Sugar Jersey Central Grangers Western Union Lackawanna General Electric Lead Missouri Pacific and Chicago Gas.
The Scranton wholesale list shows prices for fruits vegetables meats dairy and grain items. Dried apples Turkish prunes English currants and muscatels are listed with per pound and per box rates, alongside beans potatoes onions cheese hams smoked beef pork lard flour feed grain hay and buckwheat flour with varying per unit prices and packaging details.
The New York Produce Market reports firmer flour with active options and varied quotes for No. 2 red and white wheats, corn and oats. beef, lard, and pork markets show firmness in some grades while others stay dull. Regional grain receipts and shipments are listed, along with Chicago and Philadelphia price activity.
Robert Morrow, killed by a fall of coal at Old Forge shaft No. 1, was buried yesterday from his Stark residence with services in Langcliffe church and interment in Langcliffe cemetery. John Bosley lies dangerously ill at his brother Mark Bosley’s home. Miss Laura Johns of Richmondale visits Avoca friends as church services are planned at the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning and afternoon.
A fragment of James Whitcomb Riley style dialect verse describes rural imagery. The speaker notes odd sounds and animals as if narrated from a porch or farm scene with lively colloquial voice.
A fragmented verse recalls feeding a child with Castoria and the caregiver’s care through sickness and infancy. The poem shifts to a mispronounced name and ends with another Castoria reference.
A chaotic page shows repeated appeals for agents and salespeople to push various products and opportunities. Listings include promises of high earnings from peddling books, liquor, aluminum novelties, electric dynamos, and premium merchandise. Several notices seek traveling sales staff and home workers, while others offer steady salaries or commissions and request responses to named firms or addresses.
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