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Died. Martin Maloney, So, of "Ballangarry," Spring Lake, N. J., utilities tycoon, Papal Marquis, onetime breaker-boy in Scranton's anthracite mines; when France passed laws forbidding religious orders to own property, Mr. Maloney bought nunneries and monasteries so the inhabitants could remain. He had a plan to settle the trouble between the Popes and Italy by buying a corridor of land from the Vatican to the sea. Pope Leo XIII made him a Papal Marquis, highest title ever given a U. S. layman...
Permit me to lay a cool hand on the fevered brow of your correspondent from Scranton, Dennis F. Crolly, who was so exercised last week (TIME, April 15) about the matter of legs, Nancy Hanks and the disintegrating influence of the Rue de la Paix as set forth in French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop...
...absorb the Reading R. R. and the Reading's subsidiary, Central R. R. of New Jersey. Such a merger would unite three roads with combined assets of about $1,712,826,542 and total trackage of 10,601 miles. The Jersey Central runs from Jersey City west to Scranton, Pa., and south to resort towns on the New Jersey coast. The Reading goes from Boundbrook, N. J., to Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Pa., also Lancaster, Pa. and Wilmington, Del. The B. & O. is already heavily loaded with Reading securities...
Born. To Mrs. Jacob Bertriscky, 36, of Scranton, Pa., Bridgie & Rosie, sixth set of twins, eighteenth and nineteenth children. Thirteen Bertriscky children live...
Discreet, even reticent, the Wall Street Journal deceived no one who knows the coal mining district of Scranton, Pa., and neighboring, suburban Dalton. For as every Scrantonian knows, a major glory of Dalton is the large, old house (recently remodeled) of Salt Tycoon Mortimer B. Fuller. And as every saltman knows, the Fullers (Grandfather Edward L., Father...