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“Weather Be Dashed” !But, Say! It** Mild Compred to Years Gone By, Warren Man** Diary RevealsMany indignant complaints against the brand of weather dish? o Cj this locality at present are being entertained, but, according to the diary of a prominent Warren re'idem, it isn't half as bad as it | was an 1885.f According to this diaiy, tfae Hoff-iuan building, which at present is 1 being razed was started April 14th, , 1SS5. That night, the weather urnei cold and four inches of snow fell. This was 4 3 years ago, almost to a day That is. from the lime the building was started and the start of the tearing down.On April 26th, 3 885, there was | another cold snap and on the 28rb, it turned terribly cold witn ram I and snow.May 8th was another cold day , in that year, and on June 30m, fires were built in the stoves to warm the homes of local residentswhile on July 1st, another cold spell necessitated heating the homes.4Another incident relative lo the Hoffman building, which will soon be nothing but a memory, is the hod earners’ strike of July 9th, 1883, when 22 men quit work They were asking for a 25-cent raise Later, . hoist was arranged with a horse to do the pulling, and a boy driver. This proved to be far better than tbe men hod carriers 50 the strikers decided to return to workIt is interesting to try and remember where machines, like the' simple hoist used in that day. bavel replaced man labor. Watching the wrecking of the Hoffman building with improved methods and watch the excavating and erection of the new Montgomery-Ward building— quite a difference since MS5? i
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Warren Morning Mirror
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Apr 28, 1928
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Bryant S.
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