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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1902
Page
10
A testimonial from Mire Dag Hall of Brodhead Wisconsin praising Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for a daughter entering womanhood. The letter asserts the medicine restores health, balances mind and body, and improves appetite and nerves, claiming the product saved the girl's life and was recommended by the Common Sense Medical Adviser.
Thanksgiving services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church. The Junior league meets Sunday with no preaching after Sunday school. Supervisor Bunnell repairs roads. J C Culver paints a house. Shoemaker builds a shed. Social events, moves, and local business changes fill the week with small notices and a $20 guild supper net. A wildcat was killed near Lemon. a dairy dispatch rider is discussed. several residents travel or relocate.
Special to the Beranton Tribune Towanda details an early Lehigh Valley time table issued before 1868. Superintendent J Droerge in Sayre displays a tiny five by seven inch sheet showing a single page schedule for main and branch lines. It covers Towanda to Waverly trips with canal boat timing and return, marking the era’s evolving railway service.
The report covers a 19 minute seventeen mile run via the Black Diamond express stopping at Sayre, Ulster, Milan, and Athens. It also notes a rifle misfire injuring Mrs Eugene Wood of Troy, a football loss by Sayre Athens 18 to 0, a lamp explosion injuring an infant near Canton, and the death of Harvard graduate William C Mahoney by suicide after a rejection.
Hopbottom notes list Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Tiffany visiting in Lestershire. A. J. Green and family move into their new home purchased from J. Merrill. Miss Myra Jackson in Scranton. Charles Peck of Lestershire visits Mrs. Thifany. Universalist ladies meet at Mrs. Rhodes Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs Henry Trowbridge hosted a Friday evening party on Chase avenue for Leon Trowbridge and friends in honor of his thirteenth birthday. Gifts and dainty refreshments of ice cream and cake were enjoyed after singing and games. Guests included Emma Fisher, Luda Hawkins, Lyra Hawkins, Fanny Read, Flossy Corey and others. presided by the Sisterhood of the Presbyterian church meets Tuesday at 7 30.
Misees Cecil Ross Hersle Conrad and Dr Bond of Great Bend perform vocal solos and recitations. Florence Hawkins presents a vocal solo and a piano piece by request. Verta Shaw leads a quartet with a recitation The Dectoroon. Reta Rose performs The Ten Virgins. The Famous Peak Sisters offer a closing act. Admission 10 and 20 cents.
A wholesome rural drama set in Martinville New York follows a railroad dispute and village feuds ending in a Happy wedding The cast features James Lackaye Ray E Toyce and others with strong staging in the second act. The program also praises a big Monday matinee at Dixie and a Japanese variety show.
Situation wanted from a superior accountant and correspondent with Scranton experience. States readiness to accept dictation and accurate in reporting. Includes contact through Tribune office and references to shipping and stock exchange connections. Also lists varied local business services and address details.
A collage of classified notices lists items for sale including a oak mantel with mirror, a Studebaker New Coupe Rockaway, a Florida sectional steam heater, and a four story brick building with boiler house. Several furnished rooms for rent in Linden Street and Adams Avenue, plus exchange offers and inquiries with local contact names and addresses.
Wall Caine stars in an adaptation of The Christian at the Lyceum. The play follows two principal novel characters with new incidents and surroundings. Cast includes Stanton Elliot Lord Storm Hollingsworth Horatio Drake Edwin Morsberg Lord Robert Ure Basil West Archdeacon Wealthy Lyon Father Lamplugh Sally Hoyt Polly Love Kate Pletcher and more.
Mize Alice Fincher appears as the attire don at the Lyceum matinee and night under Henry Ts Harvis Grace Livingston Furniss directs the farcical comedy Mrs Jack. The play features Miss Fischer in New York success and centers on a widow discovering inherited realty tied to Mr Jack’s beneficiaries and will provisions.
A Thursday New York Star novelty features Hulalie in Tila with Frosic Flyaway and Indellibly stamps her as top talent. Cole and Warner deliver high class vaudeville while The Roberta Four entertain with a standout act. The two bright Hithe girls Mearl and Leo nore charm audiences in an entertaining program. Evening prices prevail at the matinee Thinksgiving.
An old and well tried teething syrup by Mrs Winslow’s is praised as a leading medical aid for children. The remedy has been used for sixty years by millions of mothers to ease teething pain relieve diarrhoea soothe wind and gulping. It claims to bring health to the child and relief to the mother with a price of twenty five cents per bottle.
In street Nov 16 1902 trains depart Scranton for Philadelphia and New York via D and T E R including Parlor Car and Day Coach Carbondale to New York and 47 a m with L W Geach Carbondale to Philadelphia and 218 495 Black Diamond Express and 1149 p m Sundays D and H R 158 p m for White Haven Hasleton and other towns via D and I OR O R Tal 28 and 4 p m for Pottsville 74 a m for Bethlehem Euston Reading Harrisburg and principal stations via I and HR to Black Diamond Express 1149 p m Sundays D and H H RR 8 38 a m and 1 57 p m for Pankhannock Towanda Elmira Ithaca Geneva and other stations via D KE W R a5 a m and 1 55 p m for Geneva Rochester Buffalo Niagra Falls Chicago and all points west on WR RR Wopp 828 Black Diamond Express 16th 14% p m Sundays D and FLOR R 12 08 8 47 p m Pullman parlor and steeeping of Lehigh Valley Parlor cars on all trains between Wilkes Barre and New York Philadelphia Buffalo and Suspension Bridge. Ollin HH Wilbur Gen Supt 26 Cortland street New York Charles S Len Gen Pass Agt 4 Cortland street New York A W Nonemacher Div Pass Ast South Bethlehem Pa For tickets and Pullman reservations apply to city ticket office 69 Public Square Wilkes Barre Pa
Central Railroad of New Jersey announces November 1 changes with stations in New York and beyond. Trains depart Scranton for New York Philadelphia Boston Bethlehem Allentown and Wilkes Barre at specific morning and afternoon times. Through connections and limited stops to Baltimore Washington Ocean Grove and Harrisburg are listed along with ticketing and agent contact.
An old timetable fragment describes weekday and Sunday rail connections from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia with through cars and stops at Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Pittsburgh. It notes limitations and station stops and credits J R Veap OCHINSON as Vice Manager and page agent.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions trains, stations, places, and times but key names and events are garbled. The readable items include references to transfers, intermediate posts, and local stations with times around 7.20 but specifics remain uncertain.
Fragments describe trains serving Carbondale and nearby towns. Mentioned lines include connections to Scranton, New York City, Atlantic City, and Pennsylvania state points. Partial references list stations, numbers, and transfer options with various towns, dates, and times.
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