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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1896
Page
3
Names of residents travel and return from trips to Pittston New Haven Hinghamston and Barrandsburg with mentions of family visits to Lake Arthur Monroe Avenue and Long Branch. Several confirmations of vacation returns and choir duties at Ely Park church with local society chatter and a brief health/tonic ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills.
Property values rise over a decade with bulk sale of ten million dollars. The site bought five years ago by Washington citizens was assessed at one hundred thousand dollars and now valued at five hundred thousand. Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul and adjacent structures cost five hundred forty thousand and will be built by the Episcopal church on Massachusetts avenue. Land in the section doubled in value annually. An investment of one hundred or two hundred will yield handsome returns. Details available from Attorney W. M. Curry at Commonwealth Building Scranton Read Williams' Business College ad.
Rev Dr J Maclouldrickh announces the Xaverian Order college will open on September 8 with a new faculty drawn from the Xaverian Brothers. Special provisions cover commercial studies, bookkeeping, shorthand, and typewriting alongside English foundation. The piece highlights the order’s origin, growth, and educational mission in the United States.
Police press the hunt for fugitive murderer Van Horn who is believed hiding in the city. Che? Robling may offer a reward to spur tidings as Saunders and others place Van Horn near the Delaware and Hudson station and at the Westcott house. Abs Tose Westcott is buried after services at the Delaware and Hudson line and Jer ny church.
An army of instructors rise with skill and fame yet cannot grasp the peculiar feature the religious teacher alone understands and wields.
The Board of Trade holds its next meeting on September 21 to discuss room openings in the new building, secretary Atherton's Twin Short fund report, and freight concessions matters. Transportation committee chair John Kellmerer will report on joining the National Transportation Association and coordinated museum exhibit plans with W. P. Wilson invited to speak.
Atlantic Refining company filed an appeal yesterday to the superior court in the case of James Cavigan who claims damages from odors wafting from oil tanks. Cavigan lives on Penn avenue in Pine Brook, near the refinery, and says windows must stay closed in summer to block the strong smell. The juvenile court in this county awarded him $460.
The ad promotes a 114 piece Haviland Co. dinner set for 34 dollars with optional smaller purchases at 15 dollars or less. It touts toughness and non blackening when chipped and urges replacement of broken dishes from open stock patterns.
A detailed account of the three mine inspectors report on the Twin Shaft catastrophe is summarized from the Wilkes-Barre Record. The report blames supervision in part, notes the danger of the squeeze, and offers recommendations to tighten inspection, pillar rules, and mining sequence to prevent future tragedies. It discusses Superintendent Langan's judgment, inspector McDonald, and calls for more inspectors or assistants and revised mining practices.
Rexford’s advertises last week’s picture sale as a success with more pictures left and urges buyers to act while the sale continues. It touts nearly two dollar stem wind watches, several inexpensive women’s and men’s timepieces, and a fully jeweled watch for seven dollars and ninety cents as the best low-priced offers in Berai tom.
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