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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Oct 01, 1898

Page

3

Market Review Signals Mixed Domestic Trade Trends

R G Dun reports September failures at 6.7 million and quarterly totals around 22.9 million with overall business improving except for a cotton price slump to a 50 year low. Pig iron demand remains firm, rail and iron production strong, while wool stagnates and grain exports surge amid a forecast of a record crop. Weather and astronomical notes close the item.

New York R. G. Dun &O Review of Trade Ilaives

Prof Coles Predicts October Sunquake and Global Weather Chaos

A speculative forecast warns of a dramatic solar event in October as planets align and push gas from the sun, potentially breaking atmospheric balance. The author predicts extreme heat and cold waves, air quakes, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and fires as consequences.

Saturn Uranus Jupiter Mercury Neptune Mars Venus Earth

Physiological harmony and Dr. Pierce remedies urged

A horse analogy explains that a fit body is essential for productive work and the head cannot progress when the body is bulky or sick. It warns that nervous exhaustion results from overworking the brain on a poor physique and recommends Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the best remedy to restore appetite digestion and blood nourishment. It also touts Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and overall restoration.

Pierce

Parlor Match revival headlines Lyceum bill

Revived Parlor Match at the Lyceum features J W Kingsley as a book agent and Mark Sullivan as Old Hoss with many audience favorites. The Agnes Hern don company ends its run at the Academy of Music with My Uncle from India and Saved from the Flames. Wargraph and other shorts are shown, with Lost Strayed or Stolen teased for Thursday. The Hoosier Doctor at the Lyceum stars Digby Bell in a warm, praised performance.

Evins Hoey Lyceum J. W. Kingsley Evans Mark Sullivan Old Hoss Agnes Herndon Academy of Music Uncle Inidis Digby Mell Job Ihs Digby Bell

Wall Street Review A Quiz of the Markets

The market showed brief momentum on higher London prices and strong demand before bears struck with declines in Manhattan earnings and uncertain equipment plans. Rallies appeared but lack of solid support led to a downcast close though with a firmer tone at session end. Total sales reached 988,780 shares with government securities offered and two registered fours down on bid. Furnished by William Linn Allen & Co.

New York Ept London Commission House Bears William Linn Allen & CO Meare Building

Property for Rent at Linden Street and Quincy

The notice offers a new 12 room house at 1118 Linden Street with steam heat and optional barn for rent for one or more years. Apply on premises to H. A. Kaufthold. Also available is the second floor for rent at 71 Quincy Street.

Linden Street H. A. Kaufthold

For Sale Items and Wanted Notice Bundle

For sale a fine Schubert upright piano with mitre, perfect order and guarantee, very cheap. Also a second hand Payne center crank high speed engine in first class condition. Ten R-1-P-AN-S for cents at druggists. One horse for sale harness and feed as new. Wanted for man and wife a large furnished room with closet or side room. Address J. Tribune office.

Burr Building Payne Center Thie Tribune Office

Chiropodist Offers Pain Free Foot Care At Home

SAA one ee ee AAR et CORNS, BUNIONS AND INGROWING nails cured without the least pain or drawing blood. Consultation and advice given free. KE. M. HETZEL, Chiropodist, 30 Lackawanna avenue. Ladies attended at their residence if desired. Charges moderate.

KE. M. Hetzel Chiropo Lackawanna Avenue

Classified Advertisements Montage

Government positions advertised for civil service study catalogs from Columbian College Washington DC. Salesmen opportunities listed with earnings, company names Arctic Refrigerating Co Cincinnati Ohio and Butler Alger New Haven Conn. Trade items include butter and dairy products with varied prices and classifications, framed as market notices.

Columbian College Washington BC. c Pang Sa Columbian Correspondence College Washington, D.C

Chicago Grain and Provisions Markets Open Weak on Russsian Offers

Chicago trading highlighted by heavy Russian offerings and large receipts weighing on wheat which closed with a slight decline. Corn and oats held near steady, while provisions showed fair support and closed higher. Cash quotes listed include No. 2 red wheat at 61/8 to 64 cents, No. 2 corn around 44 to 46 cents, No. 2 oats near 10 cents, and pork and lard prices advancing moderately.

Chicago

Briggs Cleans Privy Vaults and Cess Pools

A. B. Briggs, proprietor, announces cleaning services for privy vaults and cess pools with improved pumps and no odor. Leave orders at 1100 North Main Avenue or at Kicker's Drug Store corner Adams and Mulberry. Telephone 40.

A.B. Briggs A. ‘Briggs North Main Avenue Kicker Adams and Mulberry

Personal ads seeking work from a diverse group

A dense block of classified notices lists many help wanted and situation wanted ads. Entries include a wealthy widow seeking a husband, trustworthy janitor, helper in plumbing or hardware, grocery driver, coachman for a private family, a 14 year old seeking grocery work, a housekeeper for a widower, a clerkship in a large dry goods store, a young colored man seeking any work excluding Sundays, a driver or relief worker, a colored man seeking butler or coachman roles, and a man to care for horses. Names and addresses span New York, Scranton, Hyde Park, Carbonale, and other locations, with varying ages and references.

Raymond Court Beranton T. B. Stiff Williams Avenue Carbondale Beowah Street Cty N. Y John C. Zeller South Main Avenue Hyde Park Scranton Kim Atreet

East Liberty Market Prices for Hogs Pigs and Veal Calves

Market listing from East Liberty Pennsylvania shows prices for hogs at various grades from common to prime, with mediums and roughs priced around 2.65 to 8.55 per hundredweight. Pigs and skips fetch around 1.50 to 3.00, veal calves traded at 6.50 to 7.00 per hundredweight, plus several scattered figures for other livestock types.

East Liberty

Wheat and corn prices ease in Philadelphia market

Prices quoted September 30 show wheat down 1 cent on contract and spot trade with mixed oats and firmer cotton. Corn steady with No 2 mixed at 20 cents spot and October, oats led by steady to slightly higher values, butter and eggs mostly firm, cheese steady, hogs and poultry weak, receipts list including 40 barrels flour and 21,000 bushels wheat.

Philadelphia D.c

Bauer's Orchestra Performs for Social Events and Concerts

R J Bauer conducts and offers music for halls, parlors, parties and receptions. Located at Wyoming avenue above Hulbert's music store with Megarger Brothers printing supplies and warehouse at 130 Washington avenue Scranton PA.

Bauer Halle Terme R. J. Bauer Yoming Avenue Hulbert Megarger Brothers Washington Avenue Scranton

Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Detail

Chicago market recap shows cattle weaker to steady with prices around 1.15 to 1.25 per pound for common and choice grades, hogs trading near 4.70 to 5.02, lambs firm at 8.70 for common to choice, and sheep ranges 2.50 to 4.00. Receipts indicate about 2,000 cattle, hogs and sheep listed with partial figures due to OCR.

Chicago Sept. W Lambie

Cattle Hogs Sheep Market Report From East Buffalo

East Buffalo market notes dull for cattle and hogs with slow trade. Sheep and lambs show weakness with lamb prices cited around five dollars and change. wethers and culled sheep mixed and declining.

Grain futures hold steady amid mixed buying and selling

New York market reports quiet but steady trading as Wheat and Corn show small shifts. No 2 red and No 1 northern Duluth prices cited with f o b and overseas demand affecting activity.

New York Minnesota Duluth Manitoba Twge Wwe Mic

Oil Market Amid Mixed Trades in OU City Pa

Credit balances stand at 1.05 with certificates at the day’s high and low. Closing bid recorded at 4.0514. Market saw 61 180 barrels in run and pipenanza figures.

OU City Runu Udi

Baseball scores and delays from rain ruined day

Cincinnati and Cleveland games postponed due to wet grounds. Boston defeated Philadelphia 7 to 3. Baltimore won 6 to 3 against Brooklyn in a rain halted game. Brooklyn and Baltimore tied 0 to 0 after eight innings, called for darkness. Washington and New York tied 5 to 5 when darkness ended play in the ninth.

Chicago-Louiaville Cincinnati-Cleveland Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Brooklyn Washington New York

Scranton Rail Time Tables Outline City Trains

Trains depart Scranton to New York Easton Trenton Philadelphia and South with multiple morning and afternoon runs. Services include Manorunka Chunk area and a Tobyhanna accommodation, and express links to Utica Ithaca and Buffalo with connections south and west. Pullman parlors and sleeping coaches on all express trains.

Scranton Philadelphia New York H.R. RB R& W Arrow Hazlet Sealpees Bethiehq Bastion Readingsburg Tunkhannock Towande Fimi Ithaca Geneva Richenter Buffalo Niara Falls Chicago Ork Nonemacher South Bethlehem Exrae Baet Easton Trenton Manunka Chunk Tobyhanna Binghamton Oswego Elmira Corning Bath Dansville Mount Morris Weat Northweat Southweat Binghamton and Way Stallions Factoryville Nicholson Utica Richfeld Springs Ithaca Northumberland Pittston Wilke Barre Plymouth Bloomsburg Danville Williamsport Harrisburg Baltimore Washington Pantionke Kinston M. L. Smith Tchet Ofee

Transit timetable summary from New York and Philadelphia routes

Listing of train departures and connections from New York foot of Liberty Street and South Ferry to points including Reading, Allentown, Mauch Chunk, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City via various lines. Includes departure times on Sundays and weekdays, return times from Reading Terminal, and transfer notes to elevated railways and ferries.

New York N. B South Ferry W Street Beranton Wilkes-Barre Sunda Mountain Park Mountain Park, 5. a. Sundays, #0 a. m., 1.00, 2.15 For Lukewoo!) and Atlen Newark Reading Terminal Mauch Chunk Allentohem Fasten Philadelphi Pallimore Long Branch Qovan Grove Reading Lebanon Harri Allentown Pottsville Lierty Street North River Whitehall Street Cove Broadway Brooklyn Staten Islands Iand Central Depot Low Island Railroad Philadelphia J. WH. Olhausen Gen. Bape H. P Baldwin Cen Pass. Agt

Scranton Erie timetable announces daily trains for 1898

Timetable in effect September 1898 lists trains leaving Scranton for New York Newburgh and intermediate Erie points at 7 09 a m and 2 25 p m. Trains arrive back at Scranton from above points at 10 20 a m and 9 03 p m.

Tras Scranton Wee Carbdéndale Wis Albany Datatoun Montreal Bosted England Honendale Pennsylvania Maton Nota Lehigh Valley Railroad Geranton Wilkes-Barre J. Burdich GP. A Alben H. \. CROSS New York Newhare Erie Railroad Hawley Polite

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