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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
2
The piece contrasts male self view with behavior in love and marriage and notes flaws in male consistency. It recalls a village spider web social slip and warns readers not to harshly judge others. It ends with a broader view that all people err and society trends toward ignorance until a grand finale.
The Natalie colliery idle this week because miners cannot reach it by rail and cars are scarce. Saturday a second-hand engine No. 777 encountered a flue burst at the Junction. the crew moved the engine to Natalie, fires drawn, and six lead flues found. The flues are an odd size and must be custom made, while the machine remains temporarily rigged for duty.
Advertisement proclaims Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a true specific for kidney and bladder troubles. It warns of Bright’s Disease from kidney damage and claims thousands cured after other methods fail. Sample bottle and book offered by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY.
Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trip tickets to Philadelphia for the Republican National Convention. One fare with a minimum of 50 cents. Sale June 1 to 19 and return June 29. Tickets valid for travel to Philadelphia June 1 to 19 and return by June 29.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway announces a new Florida route opening June 8 1900 with through sleeping cars from New York Philadelphia and other eastern cities to Florida and connections to Atlanta and South and Southwest. Trains depart New York daily at 1 pm and 12 15 am from Pennsylvania R R Depot with full dining car and sleeping car details via ticket agents.
Reported discoveries near Siberia cross into Alaska with potential imperial charters sought from the Czar. Prospectors William Frye and Charles Swanson claim surface rich alluvial gold inland from the coast, backed by Henry Cowley of London’s Daily Chronicle, who travels to Saint Petersburg to obtain a charter and attract Seattle capital.
Official reports describe Baron d Alessandro's floating net system to calm harbor entrances and protect hydraulic works. The device uses a hemp net 360.9 by 49.2 feet with center open space, buoyed and anchored to withstand heavy surf near Havre jetty.
A Washington Star observation quotes an ordnance corps officer reporting tobacco use in Cuba and Puerto Rico is nearly absent in pipes. Locals favor cigars, cheroots, and cigarettes, with no pipe culture and a lack of pipe sales.
Orea Sweden operates a municipal nursery producing an income of 150000 dollars. The facility contributes to local revenue with steady output and sustained community services.
Philadelphia and Reading Railway offers single fare round trip tickets from all stations to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Fare minimum 60 cents, children 5 to 12 half fare. Tickets on sale June 16 to 19 and valid for return until June 26. Contact Edson J. Weeks, Reading Terminal, for rates and schedules.
Notice is given that an application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County on June 8 at 10 a.m. under Pennsylvania law to charter the St Volodimir's The G Little Russian Beneficial Society of Mount Carmel. The society aims to accumulate funds for sick and death benefits and member social and intellectual improvement. Walter & Vought, Mount Carmel, Pa., May 22.
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