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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1895
Page
2
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The Friendly Inn on Ninth Street opens under John Wanamaker’s donation drive to aid those with limited means. It offers meals at low prices and lodging from 26 cents a day for a single bed, with space for about two hundred guests and an on site employment bureau to help guests find work at no cost to employers or workers.
In Topeka Kansas on October 33 a 14 year old boy George Hilston vanished after being sent to a sand bar on the Arkansas river. A sheriff led searchers found his torn hat and a dumped sand pile near a pasture two miles from home. Parents suspect murder and hunts continue.
A letter to the Navy Department reports the steamship San Francisco departed Montevideo on Sept 16 carrying more than 1,200 Spaniards for the Spanish army in Cuba. Most were youths and about a hundred were deserters seeking pardon. others came from Uruguay.
Field Marshal Dunst-Adelshelm and his wife, both aged 73 and 0, died in Vienna on October 2. Officials say their deaths were self-inflicted, sparked by financial troubles. He had been retired on pension for some time.
Mrs. Joseph C. Parry aged 60 dies in Tolono Illinois from lockjaw caused by a rusty nail puncture. The report notes a similar death of a granddaughter weeks earlier and shows a local notice of the era's health fears.
A large crowd attended the Third Day session of the institute at the Grand. Rev Dr L J Sprague urged that education prevents barbarism and praised teaching as a profession requiring training. Dr Andrew Draper discussed criteria for professional teaching and public examinations, while Miss Age McMullen and Mrs Pollard spoke on training and diction. The report also notes a Dorrance mine gas explosion verdict and local deaths and burials.
Pennsylvania State Board of Health orders Crystal Spring Water Co to abandon Crystal Lake and Solomon's Creek sources within five days. City Clerk Deltrick receives notices amid urging action to finish the Wilkes-Barre pipeline project.
The No 6 shaft fire at Plymouth, troubling Delaware and Hudson Coal officials, was under control last night and is expected to be subdued by morning. A large crew of climbermen planned to enter the shaft today to prop up the root and stop the blaze.
Cecil J. Stuart of New Zealand travels from New Zealand to Chicago to Boston to claim a $100 wager. He must sell a manuscript of African adventure by midnight Oct. 25, having started with nothing but his clothes and earning all money without gratuities. He contends with prior delays and progress shows Cheyenne Oct. 2 and Chicago Oct. 21.
Charles Newmaster, a 48 year old well known figure nicknamed the pow wow doctor, was arrested by Special Pension Examiner L. B. Stine on charges of violating pension laws. He allegedly sought a pension under the name Catrios Smith, claiming service in the 76th Pennsylvania Regiment, though he never served. He was taken to Harrisburg for a hearing.
Franklin Harrison, a prominent farmer, sues in county court for divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. He requests five dollars alimony and accuses his wife of defrauding him, misappropriating funds, and transferring property into her name after he lent money for claims she later paid off. He states his wife now refuses to support him.
The War Department announced that George N. Galloway of Company G Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Alonsa Farm Virginia on May 3 1861. He responded to a volunteer call and held a critical post for twenty four hours under heavy fire from enemy sharpshooters.
Decision favors gambling by ruling the Montana high court finds the new gambling law unconstitutional. In Butte stores of gambling houses reopen and games resume amid renewed activity. A separate ad touts a six hour relief claim for kidney and bladder diseases from the New South American Kidney Coore sold by C. M. Harrie in Scranton Pennsylvania.
Fragmentary OCR shows names like J. C. Taylor B Scranton and H. W. Cruser with loans on real estate security. Also mentions Emily Hollenbe and Madison avenue, suggesting notices related to loans, property or treatment services in the region.
A public notice lists creditors and interested parties with filings in the Lackawanna County Register of Wills and Orphans Court. It references administrators executors and guardians settled accounts and a court date set for November 1, 1905 at 10 a.m. for confirmation at the Court House.
Under date of Oct 5 a woman in Avoca writes to The Tribune asking to omit her ad for Situation Wanted as Housekeeper and thanking the paper for the kindness and home secured through the advertisement. The original letter can be seen at The Tribune business office. Tribune adlets pay.
Various employment notices and help wanted ads including salesmen agents general labor and housework positions. Listings request experienced or capable workers with references and provide addresses in Scranton and nearby areas.
A dense listing of local professionals and businesses in Scranton Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Includes attorneys at law, physicians, educators, kindergartens, a printer, hotels, a restaurant, a musician, a phrenologist, and a wire screen maker. Names cover multiple firms and offices along Spruce Street Wyoming Avenue and Lackawanna avenues.
Anthracite service, clean and comfortable trains. Timetables show departures from Scranton to Pittston Wilkes Barre and other points with express options to New York Newark and Philadelphia. Through tickets available via station agents with general superintendent notice by HF SWI t men Pass Age J Ti OLMAUBEN.
Fragmentary timetable notes express trains from Scranton to New York with intermediate Erie points at 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. and local hops to Honesdale Hawley and nearby places at 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Also mentions connections toward Wilkes-Barre at 10 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. in a through service.
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