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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1894

Page

6

Aliases of Samuel Davis Said to Diminish in Missouri Backwoods

A Columbus cor respondent recounts a 1860 Missouri tale where a sheriff pursued a pig thief named Samuel Davis through Jim's Hollow. The search uncovers many men named Samuel Davis, each with nicknames like Old Hump Davis, Skin Davis, Lop Kind Davis, Short Nose Davis, Baldhead Davis, and Huckelberry Davis, preventing identification. The hunt for the real thief lasts five days, then months with a local detective, before success eludes them.

Missouri State House Samuel Davis Davis Jim's Hollow Sam Davis Texas Hump Davis South Carolina Skin Davis Plains California Wold Lin Baldhead Davis Huckelberry Davis Jin’s Hollow Columbus Chicago Tribune

The Newfoundland Cod Bank and Its Rich Fisheries

The article describes the Newfoundland cod banks as great rocky elevations on the seabed, about 10 miles off shore and 100 miles from land. It notes the main bank spans roughly 40 miles by 60 miles with depths 50 to 300 feet, surrounding waters much deeper, and that cod on the banks grow larger due to feeding there after age four.

Newfoundland Great Bank Labralor Goldthwaite Geographical Magazine

Barleys Wide Climatic Range and Cultivation

Barley extends over a wider climate range than other cereals and thrives under heat, drought, and cold. It grows from the Torrid Zone borders to northern temperate zones and reaches the Faroe Islands, Cape North, Archangel, and central Siberia. In warm regions like Egypt Barbary and southern Spain two crops can be harvested yearly from different sowings.

Faroe Islands Cape North Norway Archangel White Sea Siberia Egypt Barbary Spain Brooklyn Engle

Notable West Philadelphia artist among colored residents

A Philadelphia citizen praised a colored artist in West Philadelphia for landscapes of high quality. The piece notes a 1576 Centennial exhibit where a young colored woman impressed visitors with figures and plastic arts, with others recognized in wood carving jewelry drafting and penmanship, highlighting the city’s skilled colored artisans.

Philadelphia Philadelphia Press

German pastor shelters orphans sparks three asylums

A kind German pastor once housed three homeless orphans and sought aid from Christians to feed clothe and educate them. His small effort grew into three large orphan asylums across different western cities, shaping many young lives into useful citizens. A lighthearted aside notes a seaside hotel bill stirs homesickness for a simple dining room and its motto God bless our home.

Wost Sea Side Texas

Cats Stir Orthodox Keeper In Wooded Pheasant Scene

An Edinburgh Scotsman note recalls cats in woodland hunting mice and pheasants, provoking the keeper’s stern, virtuous wrath as a two legged poacher lurks nearby in pheasant coverts.

Savages in a Modern Hotel by the San Francisco News-Letter

A Comic tale unfolds as Chief Standing Bear and fellow Sioux guests arrive in San Francisco. They balk at elevators and beds, nap on the floor, and demand simple fare of meat coffee and bread, eating with their fingers as hotel staff note their culture shock.

Bear Bronx Black Eagle Lost Horse San Francisco Baldwin Hardenburgh Chadun Pine Ridge Standing Bear San Francisco News-Letter

Beecher Belief and a Final Parlor Mantel Ride

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher recalls her husband joining a shopping trip for a mantel after a long stretch of writing The Life of Christ. The afternoon in the church parlor becomes a tender memory of a last outing, with Beecher relaxed and talking about brighter colors and relief from work.

Mr. Beecher Life of Christ

Fast trains deemed safest by Pennsylvania official

Superintendent Darlington argues fast trains are the safest with no track defects. He cites No. 7 and Knightstown as examples where speeds near sixty mph keep people safe. He says slow town ordinances cause harm and recounts a freight encounter with a flock of sheep where speed prevented derailment.

Darlington Pennsylvania Lines Knightstown Indianapolis News

Yosemite Views Inspire Travellers Amid Glaciers And Rocks

An English traveler journeys 5000 miles to Yosemite and ponders its origins as Cathedral Rock Three Brothers and Sentinel Dome loom. A second man offers photos for a dollar each, selling curios while the valley's majesty leaves both men speechless.

Yosemite el Capitan

Remember you were born to teach and endure

A prose piece by Grace Maromber in Ladies Home Journal urges readers to pursue teaching with courage. It emphasizes lifelong struggle and discipline as core to learning, noting that failure often precedes growth and the soul must remain steadfast in pursuing truth despite hardship.

Litesa Keeson Grace Maromber Ladies Home Journal

Eden and Eve in a Despairing Parlor Line

A damaged excerpt from a Ladies' Home Journal poem describes Eve abandoning paradise and an unnamed woman bearing a fragment of Eden in her eye and heart. The text evokes longing, beauty, and fragile purity through symbolic imagery.

Eden Inancon Ladies' Home Journal

Baby on Board Sparks Railcar Bottle Chain

A baby traveling by train triggers a comic chain as the nurse reports a missing nursing bottle. The porter telegraphs ahead to station masters who send bottles one by one, each arrival drawing laughs from passengers and transforming the journey into a running mock delivery of milk.

Aday

Confederate and Union brothers end in tragedy at war’s end

The tale recalls Frank and George Welcome from Standing Rock country. Frank joins the Confederacy after marrying south of the border, while George enlists in the Union. A brutal skirmish near Confederate breastworks ends with both brothers dying in each other’s arms after a stray bullet halts action.

Standing Rock Welcome Frank George Frank Welcome Fair Oaks New York Recorder

Gettysburg wound tale told by weary veteran

A Gettysburg veteran explains his wound to a passerby with humor about his barber mischance. The exchange notes a fresh injury and a delayed pension, reflecting wartime memory and casual conversation at the scene.

Man jailed for loud party during neighbors’ deafness claim

In Bangor, two Portland officers arrested a man after a noisy celebration at his house. He argued he was only tabling, insisting his wife is deaf. The man spent the night in the station as officers cited excessive noise.

Portland Inquirer Bangor

Cat Meow Clue Baffles Child and Mother

A mother and daughter discuss why a kitten meows as they test possibilities. The child suspects water, but the kitten’s reply remains unclear amid playful dialogue captured by the Goal News.

Lovers at a Crossroad in Brief Shy Romance

A verse excerpt depicts a man and a woman in shy longing. The man trembles at advancing, the woman muses on a kiss from him, both haunted by doubt and social restraint. The mood shifts as self doubt fades and life returns to normal.

Evermore George Archibald

Beecham's Pills Touted For Various Digestive Ailments

Beecham's pills are advertised for biliousness bilious headache dyspepsia heartburn torpid liver dizziness sick headache bad taste in the mouth coated tongue loss of appetite sallow skin and constipation. The ad claims constipation is the most frequent cause. Free pills offered and distribution through drugstores or via B F Allen Co 365 Canal St New York.

Beecham B.F. Allen Co Canal St New York

Local Business Listings Fragment in Scranton

An OCR fragment lists multiple addresses and names in Scranton Pennsylvania. It includes Spruce Street near courthouse Square Tyas Connell Washington Avenue race Street Francke's store and 72 oat Office Deere Hoe to 18 ray and 8 tod SH to 79 pm Sunday H W Allen Lackawanna and Washington avenues Leon ard shoe store Wyoming Avenue Laubach surgeon dentist No 15 UL Wyoming Ave Rom Ste Stratton Coal Exchange office and loans. The text appears to be a damaged directory snippet with office hours and locations.

Tyas. Connell Washington Avenue Race Street Wyoming Cs Laubach Wyoming Ave Ste Stratton

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