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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1902
Page
5
The Tribune announces rate adjustments for display advertising and card notices. New pricing details specify per inch costs and a 6 cent increase for cards of thanks and resolutions of condolence and similar contributions.
A morning note asks if the reader is a candidate for the recorder position, indicating local interest in the upcoming election. The brief hints at a formal bid process and community attention to leadership roles.
The article discusses the Molineux trial and retrial, urging justice and cautious verdicts, and notes Cornish’s indictment. It examines arbitration’s limits in strikes, contrasts moral suasion with enforcement, and cites Mayor Low advocating tighter control of explosives in New York.
Miners reject arbitration award in France and vow to continue the strike as the government avoids intervention. The piece also argues for currency reform, advocating asset currency to stabilize money supply and prevent panics, criticizing the current hoarding and ill fit banknotes system.
The piece argues that newspapers are the cheapest advertising form despite some readers skimming, noting about 3,000 weekly passes reach attention via street vendors and agents. It mentions Emma Goldman being barred by Providence police from addressing anarchists at a local gate.
A Saturday Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion challenges the idea that a new profit company may use an old line’s tracks for connections. It suggests that one corporation cannot appropriate another’s property for the same uses, potentially blocking new trolley lines from entering cities like Scranton and leaving municipal ownership as the only relief. The Dispatch summarizes the broader impact on urban transit and traction monopolies.
The piece highlights a November spread with a poem by Wharton and criticism by Wolf, plus notes on Andrew D. White's Germany studies and a new Allie Caldwell story in The Century. It also mentions Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch’s continued popularity, Gunton’s Magazine essays, and a Chinese Ways article in Woman’s Home Companion.
A damaged text presents hazy, musical imagery about memory and loss. The speaker references violin sounds and a distant era, with vague names and obscure imagery conveying melancholy and reflection.
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