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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1901
Page
1
A wry column notes editors prune, cites Tre Eve and daughters, mocks Profs Coles and Punch jokes. It laments prejudice funding ship subsidies, praises Sir John Tonner’s Punch tenure, and predicts the new century ends in exactly one hundred years.
Reports from Southampton note tepid popular enthusiasm despite Lord Roberts’s return from South Africa. London crowds feared the campaign’s success, with much of the doubt focused on the broader quest for British conquest rather than Roberts’s leadership. Gov Stone’s address to the Legislature reviews finances and urges school funding and labor arbitration alongside capitol and Pan American Expo planning.
The text critiques the limited, self interested diplomacy shaping policies in both London and Washington, arguing that such narrow statesmanship undermines broader national and global interests and favors short term gains.
Listings of Sunday worship times and activities for Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, Our Lady, Presbyterian, St Stephen’s, Grace Lutheran, Grace Reformed, Church of God, and U P, including morning and evening services, Sunday schools, youth groups, and midweek meetings.
Scranton business bars food and supplies to strikebreakers, forcing telegraph orders from Philadelphia to prevent scabs from starving. Many brought-in workers opt to join the union as hotels refuse to board them and local merchants avoid aiding strikebreakers.
The foundry added Charles Pancoust of Danville as a new experienced worker on Wednesday and he moved his family to join him in the city.
The Lawrence colliery tunnel driven by Mt. Carmel contractor Osborne is finished. Rumor says the P and R C I Co plans a modern breaker at Hammonds colliery Girardville after the Shenandoah project. The Girardville breaker would be about as large as a cave breaker with a capacity near forty cars per day.
Christian Eberle was walking down Fourth Street Tuesday when struck by a Robert rifle bullet. The slug hit the outer edge of the bone around his right eye and narrowly missed penetrating the eye.
Next Wednesday issue of THE Item will publish the full list of applications for Wholesale and Retail Liquor Licenses. The number of applications for Mr. Carmel is expected to be higher than previous years. Judge Savidge will hear the petitions on Monday January 28.
David Dyke won first prize in the New Year wheelbarrow race held in Centralia. Four men competed as hundreds watched the light hearted contest to push wheelbarrows past and over houses. Dyke also served as the event manager.
Edward Brennan reports four fatal and eight non fatal accidents in December in the Seventh district. He notes December was quieter than November, when fatalities topped all months that year.
In Chester, former townsman William Schnee itis learned that his Lancaster visit was only casual. He instead walked into a Chester pharmacy last week and accepted a very remunerative salary after the West Philadelphia store where he worked closed.
Secretary Coombs reports a sharp rise in deaths in Mahanoy City for the past year. With a population estimate of 14,000, the death rate reaches 212.7 per thousand, while births total only 180.
A tale recalls Sir Richard Webster then Attorney General and Isle of Wight juror member who sang in Kensington parish church. A verger refused to reveal his identity, saying the choir’s satisfaction mattered. A semipolitical meeting featured his tenor, drawing a witty interruption about gospel truth.
A simple chestnut soup method from People’s Home Journal instructs blanching about 60 chestnuts until skins slip, simmering in a rich stock until tender, rubbing through a sieve, then diluting to the right consistency and serving with croutons.
A local bartender notes New Year swear offs drop receipts about 26 percent for three months with a gradual return to normal. A veterinarian adds that horses must stand level to avoid strain. A lawyer discusses athlete afterlife stats and careers of 1892 football men and students, outlining incomes and marriages.
The record lists the year's key observance days and holidays by date and weekday, including Epiphany on Sunday Jan 6, Valentine’s Day Feb 14, Washington’s Birthday Feb 22, St Patrick’s Day Mar 17, Easter Apr 7, Independence Day Jul 4, Thanksgiving Nov 28, First Advent Dec 1, Christmas Dec 26, and St John the Evangelist Dec 27.
Honorable John W. Foster discusses amusing and revealing instances of American diplomats and court dress. He notes ministers sometimes wear militia uniforms to court and tells of a European envoy in a cavalry captain outfit, prompting palace officials to joke about belonging to an American fire company. The State Department permits adaptations to secure welcome at ceremonies.
The Atlanta Special operates via Seaboard Air Line and Florida and West India Short Line with through Pullman drawing room and buffet sleeping cars from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Richmond to Athens and Atlanta. Direct connections are made in Union Depot for Montgomery Macon New Orleans and all points South and Southwest. Trains arrive and depart at Pennsylvania Railroad stations with inquiries directed to W. Shoemaker C L Longsdorf W M McConnell E St. John and L L Allen, General Passenger Agents.
The P. and R. line announces that starting January 1, 1900, no more contracts will be made for steam size coal and buyers must pay regular retail price. Large manufacturers using 200 tons yearly face a 35 cent per ton rise. Buckwheat coal rises to 1.25, pea coal to 1.75, while small domestic sizes were popular for their low cost but now harder to supply.
A Sunday dawn blaze in Bloomsburg destroyed the W B Moyer firm and three large barns in the business district. The fire started in the W F Slagle barn and exploded three barrels of oil, wiping out the Hartzell City Hotel stable the Woolsey bakery barn and Slagle stable with total losses around 30000 dollars. One horse perished in the Woosely Woolsey barn and other losses are estimated around 10000 to 3000 dollars in various structures and contents.
State Secretary John Hamilton reports 1,274 cattle tested for tuberculosis last year in Pennsylvania, 1,227 were slaughtered, and owners were paid 28,839.60 dollars, averaging 28.10 per head. Infection rates declined from 26 percent to under 10 percent since the program began four years ago.
Winter excursion tickets are on sale to Southern Pines and Pinehurst with similar routes to Camden from major points south of and including Washington. Double daily service and through Pullman drawing room and buffet sleeping cars operate from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Richmond. Direct connections via steamer lines at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. For details contact W. C. Shoemaker or L. Longsdorf or W. M. McConnel or the Portsmouth General Passenger Agent EH St. John, V. P. & G. M. LS Allen.
Local Union No 579 U M W of A urges buyers to patronize union made goods bearing the union label and to use union teamsters and barbers per resolutions adopted December 4 1900 by order of The PRESIDENT hk
On account of the holiday, Centralia Local 1479 U M W will hold a meeting Thursday evening this week.
A subpoena and alias subpoena in a divorce case against Mary Hraboski, respondent, require appearance before the court by the first Monday of February next or a decree may be granted in her absence. Eugene B. Zereing, Sheriff of Sunbury, Dec 19, 1900.
Letters of administration granted to Bernard E. Cannon in Locust Gap Pennsylvania. Debtors must pay and creditors must present claims by the date in this administrator notice. Dec 20 1900.
The American Federation of Labor hosts a weekly gathering every Monday evening at 7 30 inviting all trade workers to join the federation and participate in the meeting.
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