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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
6
Flour dull and easy while wheat holds firm with several futures listed. Provisions and lard remain quiet with little change. butter dairy products steady. Cheese prices steady to firm as regional markets show mixed movement in various grades and states.
Cattle receipts reach 7 000 head with 6 000 on sale. market steady with veals steady. Calves from good to prime fetch 6.40 to 7.50 per hundredweight. mixed and medium stockers around 3.90 to 4.30. Sheep and lambs receipts heavy with lambs selling near 3.90 to 4.20. culls to fair priced lower. Prices listed for prime, fancy, extra selected white lots and mixed lots along with feeder ranges.
Chicago November live stock receipts show cattle market firm with mixed grades. Cattle prices range from value for common steers to higher for extra quality and stockers, with calves and cows noted. lamb and hog figures appear mixed amid overall activity.
Toledo Ohio November 4 wheat receipts and shipments limited with cash and December values around 6 1/4 to 6 1/2 cents per bushel, corn 1 000 bushels shipped, oats nominal, cloverseed offerings steady with 60 bags shipped. November price 4 1/4 dollars, March 1.42.
Philadelphia on November 14 reports a steady but dull tallow market. Prices quoted include city prime tallow in birds and various renders such as Macs ounry and Bebbis offerings, with grades for cake and grease figures, amid thin trading and uncertain demand.
Oil trading reports from Pittsburg Pennsylvania show the market opening at $1.59 with the low, and closing at $1.55. Standard's price is listed at $1.45. An Ol City entry records opening at $1.64, high at $1.49, and close at $1.574.
The Erie railroad will not extend its trackage but will invest about 1,000,000 dollars annually in improvements for several years. An Erie official says no radical changes will result from the road sale, though many officials feel uneasy. A railroad men’s convention is planned for Sunday in Hazleton with prominent national railroad leaders expected. Meanwhile the Lehigh Valley will extend its Easton line five miles to connect with its main at South Easton, crossing the Jersey Central overhead and a Lehigh River bridge.
The Pennsylvania Steel company, among the nation’s largest, reported its record output last month. Arrangements once kept Sparrow Point’s steel mill idle for a year at up to 400000 dollars were made to lease the blast furnaces to an iron importing firm, using foreign ores, and fires were lit in the Sparrow Point furnaces yesterday.
The Cleveland World argues the Democratic defeat stems from party feebleness and disorganization. It lists accusations against leaders over money questions and policy clashes, then faults the party for lacking a unifying idea and core discipline. It criticizes ties to Hawaii and free trade while calling out perceived betrayals of voters.
The piece argues a party cannot rally behind three moral aims at once without breaking its own momentum. It compares current struggles to the Democratic split a half century ago over slavery and secession, naming leaders like Douglas Randall Dix and Butler. It warns that factional strength destroys party unity and vigor.
A long assemblage of quotes from Balzac, Shakespeare, Emerson, Johnson, Goethe, and others discusses virtue, knowledge, happiness, memory, and the human condition. The collage-like text links ideals of patience, judgment, and perseverance with reflections on fate, imagination, and mortality.
A fragmentary reflection on inner desire and the call of the infinite. The speaker admits uncertainty about voice and form while pursuing a philosophical, satirical, and lyrical exploration of meaning. The piece hints at a nascent, restless quest beyond ordinary sight.
In a Washington Post fragment, a colonel recounts a late night gathering where a humorous tale about a philosophical cat sparks debate. The narrator notes the cat Tom chasing crabs near a wharf, illustrating the claim that cats reason, while colleagues probe measurements and tail length.
Aphorisms from Emerson compiled for Rochester press present concise lines on nature spirit self trust fame and wisdom. Notable ideas include character surpassing wisdom success following right action and seeing the miraculous in the everyday. The text sketches Emersonian themes on self reliance and perception.
A vivid account of a doomed crew of sea robbers holding stolen pearls, pursued by a cruiser. Scalded by steam and scorched by metal, the pirates relentlessly repair wrecked machinery to escape, driven by enduring Anglo-Saxon pluck.
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