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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1902
Page
4
The paper states letters must be aligned with the writer’s real name and are subject to editorial revision. It also explains the flat advertising rate and price per line for one year. Scranton date listed as September 1, 1902.
State Governor W Pennypacker and Lieutenant Governor W M Brown head the slate with Isaac B Brown as Secretary of Internal Affairs. County figures include John Courier Morris and John Penman with Lewelyn M Evans and David T Williams as commissioners. Edward James and P A Pittl listed for districts. Election day is Nov 4. Soldiers at Shenandoah endure elements with patient resolve to preserve peace.
A discussion on labor unity, rights, and duties contrasts individual freedom with union action. It notes strikes in the anthracite coal fields, praises Massachusetts corporation laws, and argues strong regulation prevents abuse while supporting fair dealings between employers and workers.
Sixteen weeks of strike pass with workers insisting on their own rights while noting the equal importance of others as tensions over pay and concessions persist. The piece reflects a tense public debate on labor justice and wage demands.
An article discusses ten years of agricultural progress in states like Missouri Virginia Oklahoma and South Dakota citing census figures and farm property values. It notes a strong rise in total farm production and livestock value and quotes Cicero on agriculture while framing exports of manufactures and materials as a growing portion of overall trade in July 1902 with comparisons to the previous year.
A collage of political and economic notes cites progress toward 1910 on sound finances, a failed meat packing merger after presidential warning, Alger’s shifting stance on Roosevelt, a cordial Chinese empress dowager message, Southern Railway gains, critiques of Schwab’s steel trust, Spokane police robbery, and Oxford economist Hobson’s nine month study on American politics and trust issues.
The article notes that American ships carried 3 percent of 311.2 million dollars in total factory exports to Africa last year. Other regions fared poorly besides Europe with 8.2 percent to Asia 7 percent to Oceania and 6.6 percent to South America.
A poem by Busan E. Dickinson dated August 31, 103 presents a call to labor and progress. It exhorts mankind to work toward a divine vision, claiming wealth lies in effort, discovery, and endless exploration from earth to heaven.
An 19th century account describes John B. Gough’s temperance lecture in Topeka, where critics heckled and asked how prohibition would affect corn and whisky industries. Gough retorted with wit, noting more hogs would be raised and believing temperance would bring money, clothing, happiness, and God to homes.
The Philadelphia Times recalls a nomadic revivalist once praised by James B. Roberts for fiery preaching. A quoted sermon dramatizes eternal punishment with a vivid hop across oceans, warning sinners that even endless journeys would not reach sunrise in hell.
A compilation of humorous anecdotes shows United States Senator Nittredge of South Dakota famed for terse replies to reporters. A metropolitan reporter tested him with questions until he revealed Sioux Falls as the largest city, prompting a quip about adding the words to his vocabulary.
Walter J. Ballard of Schenectady argues in favor of Republican tariff policy as a shield for business and stock markets. He cites past prosperity under McKinley and warns against importing political medicine from opposing parties, linking tariffs to national resilience and growth.
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