G ooo oooooocxx ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo oo ooo HXX ooo ooo ooo o oooo oo ooooooo OCX ooooo o ooxxxooooo cxxx TnE SUMMON TKIHUJS-WKUJNJUSDAY MORNING, DECEMBEIS 2, 189. Si , 8 s o GET THE BEST, ONE year ago The Tribune compiled its first political handbook, and although it was , a first attempt, the compilation was easily superior to any similar publication in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and met with a very encouraging sale. It made a volume of about 100 pages. This year every important feature of the former issue is retained, the whole being corrected and brought up to datej and in addition a valuable mass of new statistical and general information is added, together with an exhaustive review of the local and national political activities of this Presidential year. The Annual for 1897 will probably contain over 200 pages possibly 250 and every line of it will have been edited and composed in this .office. Among the contents will be: The complete official vote of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Wyoming, Susquehanna and Bradford counties. Rosters of the county officials and court calendars of those counties. Postal information, with list of postmasters in Lackawanna county. Eastern and National League base ball averages, bicycle and racing records and many other sporting statistics and records. Internal revenue statistics. Coal trade statistics. Proceedings and platforms of the political conventions of 1896, with list of the Presidents, Vice Presidents, Cabinet officers and Speakers of the Mouse since the Goverment was founded. History of American tariff legislation. Digest of State laws relating to marriage, divorce, voting qualifications and interest rates. Roll of the Fifty-fifth Congress and of the next Pennsylvania Assembly ; also list of State officials. Very complete digest of official census statistics. A digest of copyright and patent laws. Table showing nutritive value of foods. Hany valuable household hints, health helps and recipes. A digest of the civil service rules and list of places still open. Facts about our coinage. List of great World's Fairs. Directions to govern one in emergencies. Brief review of past Presidential campaigns. Several hundred business painters, especially relating to legal topics. And a vast mass of miscellaneous information, all valuable and timely but too voluminous to refer to in detail. We can assure the reading public of Northeastern Pennsylvania that The Tribune Political Handbook for 1897 will be by far the best publication of its kind ever prepared in this State. It will answer thousands of questions of all kinds, such as continually arise in every household, and will be an indispensable reference book in the six counties wherein it will be offered for sale. Notwithstanding this large increase in its scope, the price will remain 25 cents. , Note to Advertisers A few desirable pages yet remain open.
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