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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1902
Page
7
The Susquehanna notes report Hon. Galusha A. Grow announces retirement from politics after current Congress. A minister, Charles J. Personeus, renounces M E church ordination and joins the Second Elijah group. Also noted are local harvests, a fox incident, a county fair, and community items from the area.
John A. Zirkle of Philipp, West Virginia, says his father suffered chronic diarrhoea for years until he used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One bottle cured him, and he has been well for over eighteen months. He can work as a younger man at sixty. The Zirkles publish the Philippi Republican and report the remedy is for sale by all druggists.
Evans a Scranton resident at 229 Twelfth Street reports dull back pain across hips with leg pain worsened by damp weather. After using Doans Kidney Pills from Matthews Bros drugstore, the pain gradually disappeared. Sold by FosterMilburn Co Buffalo and agents nationwide. Remember the name Doan’s.
Special to the Scranton Tribune reports stone masons on the Pittston Cannon Ball trolley line strike for $3.00 daily, down from $2.70 for nine hours. three men return to work, others idle. Also mentions a mine accident victim recovering, a baseball result at M C A Park, a Luzerne County fair opening, and church donations for a rectory.
Isadore Stern plans to move his family back to New York City this month. A mission begins September 14 at the Catholic church led by a Passionist from Hoboken. A small kitchen-stove fire caused minor damage at Thomas Sherwood’s East Tioga Street home. The Bar selects trialists for October. local ferry competition lowers river fares. Women’s Christian Temperance Union Wyoming county meets September 8–9 with Belle Kearney as speaker. The Democratic county convention meets at the courthouse for November nominations. New Citizens National Bank expected to open September 1 in the Billings building. Patrick Boyce resumes as Lehigh Valley railroad foreman. son P A Boyce assists. Montrose fair Sept 16–17. Harford fair Sept 24–25. Democratic primaries held in wards. Republican county committee elects Frank S. Harding chair and Alvira G. Gregory secretary-treasurer. Recent Tunkhannock High School graduates registering for postsecondary study at various institutions.
In Crawford county voters polled in Pittston and West Pittston. Jones leads Smith by about twenty votes in Pittston while Smith gains 241 to 114 on the West Side. County reports name Jones and Thomas Smith as commissioner nominees and Mainwaring ahead of Hunts for register.
Furnished rooms for rent at 537 Adams avenue with modern improvements and private family. other listings include 199 Adams avenue with heat gas and bath, 300 Jefferson avenue with first class table board. Dalston Pa advertises summer boarders in three large rooms. also a general agent sought for Lackawanna county with Rand address in Philadelphia. various properties for sale and business ads appear including stock and wheat trade, elocution lessons, and a Dunmore laundry shift rate.
A string of short notes from Wryualusing lists visits and moves. Mr and Mrs Leonard Leach and son Frederick stay in Auburn with Mrs Leach’s parents the Gaylords. Burt Gaylord relocates to Towanda for work. Miss May Westly visits Mrs G Mortimore Lewis. Relatives visit from Westfield Mags and Laceyville. Edward Larkin attends Athens High School. Fred Mitten moves to Miss Hatthe Marsh’s home and Rev Armatr at the former Mitten residence.
Puzzle page invites children to cut out daily pictures, mark hidden objects, and mail entries with name age and address for a chance to have names published. Last week winners listed and solutions outlined for each weekday, noting positions of hidden objects and figures.
Sealed proposals are invited for filling the northerly Bloom avenue approach and rebuilding Hollow street bridge in Scranton plus rees tablishment of a Lackawanna river bridge in Old Forge. Bids must be in by 2 40 pm September 0 in Scranton and 12 noon September 20 in Harrisburg with separate envelopes and guaranties. Plans available from the Bureau of Engineering and the Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
A dense OCR of railroad notices and business listings in Scranton and nearby Wilkes-Barre. It includes architects names, firms, and addresses, several train schedules for the Erie Railroad Wyoming Division, and stops to Hawley Carbondale and Beranton with arrival times. It notes trains to New York and intermediate points, plus general travel instructions and ticket office references.
American League action at Detroit and Chicago features the Orioles and Washington clashing with boxscore details. Umpires Sheridan and Johnstone and attendance figures reach 14,500 at Detroit and 17,100 at Chicago in two games.
Fragmentary OCR lists include Wiley New York Pittsburg Butterico Cushman Phelps Pounds Donahue Umphehan Newark Hoboken and New York entries. The readable text shows names and locations without a clear event or narrative.
Trains depart Scranton for New York Philadelphia Gouldsboro Duffield Lin Run and Oswego with multiple daily times. Services include Bloomsburg Division departures at 10.10 a m and 6.10 a m. Notes list various station calls and special accommodations on the line.
Trains depart Scranton for New York via D and H routes with multiple daily departures including 7 41 p m and 9 47 p m plus Sunday services. Through service Carbondale to New York and Philadelphia connections, with Black Diamond Express and through Pullman sleeping cars. Other major destinations include White Haven Hazleton Pottsville Bethlehem Easton Tunkhannock Towanda Elmira Ithaca Geneva Rochester Buffalo Chicago and beyond via D and H routes. Official contacts Wilkes-Barre and South Bethlehem ticket offices listed with general managers and agents names and addresses.
Central Railroad of New Jersey schedules effective June 2 2002 list Scranton departures at 7 00 am for New York Philadelphia Boston Bethlehem Allentown and other points with connections to Quaker City Express at 7 00 am and 2 10 pm Sundays and various other routes to Long Branch Reading Tamaqua Pottsville and more with rates and tickets via agents at stations William Ressler General Manager and C M Burt General Passenger Agent noted.
Trains depart Scranton at 6 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. through Weathhuile and Witkey Bome routes to Philadelphia via Pottsville with Pullman buffet parlor cars and coaches. Connections exist to Sunbury Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh and the West. Weekdays and Sundays feature through vestibule service from Wilkes Barre with stops at major intermediate stations.
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