News scraps from Warren area boast social highs and local woes
Last week’s notes report silver dollars 318235 in circulation, university ranks future doctors, and a Meadville convention. It covers charity balls, a Reading landlady’s home removal, a 92 year old pioneer, a Detroit sleep fasting feat, a ten child Ankeny clan, and plans for an opera house in Corry. Community clashes over Decoration Day, wheat worm damage in Adame county, jail board pricing, Chautauqua teachers meet in Jamestown, police actions in Jamestown, and cigar trade friction. Also notes a spike in Pitt and Allegheny deaths from grip, robberies in Altoona, dog nuisance in North Warren, and road debate favoring plank or gravel options with taxes looming.
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Ankeny
Ligonier Valley
Corry
Meadville
P. A. McDowell
Atlantic
Morris Crossman
Grand Army
Pottstown
Bradford
Pla
Adame
Asorth Werren
Sorrsh Warnes
Charles Lott
Mr. Lott
Farmers’ Club
E. Lincoln
North Warren
Decker
F. E Lincoln
Mt Alton false news notes spark local scolding
The Beaver Falls Tribune reprints a harsh rebuke from Bradford papers accusing a Mt Alton student of misrepresenting facts and spreading fake stories. It also recounts a Darlington incident where Zimmerman traded a wife for a pony and Montana land, only for the wife to return to her husband.
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Mt. Alton
Bradford
Sunday
Star
Boylston Street
The
Mr. Alton
Zimmerman
Darlington
George Davis
Davis
Dickering
Montana
Revenue bill debated in Erie Dispatch stance on taxation
The Erie Dispatch summarizes replies by Giles D. Price and Leonard Rhone endorsing a local revenue bill taxing real estate and personal property to ease local levies. It argues taxation should be broadened to balance burdens, with exemptions for public property and penalties for fraud. The piece highlights railroads, bankers, and local impacts on Erie County and law details.
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Erie Dispatch
Giles D. Price
County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania
Leonard Rhone
Pennsylvania State Grange
Erie County
Erie
Bloody strike clashes at Morewood works in Westmoreland
Mobs and strikers clash near Connellsville with women leading torch lit processions. Sheriff Clawson calls for militia as 500 assault the Frick Coke plant. seven foreigners die and forty wounded in early morning firing. National Guard deployed from Pittsburgh and nearby towns. Deputies armed with Winchester rifles vow to protect property. The dead are prepared for burial. militia and troops remain on scene as authorities seek to restore order.
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Euke
Connellsville
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvanian National Guard
Pitwburg
McKeesport
Monongahela City
M. F. Pickard
Pickard
Lear
Clawson
Pattison
Pittsburg
Workman Wise
Phineas Taylor Barnum Pioneer of Showman Fame
Phineas Taylor Barnum born July 5 1810 in Bethel Connecticut rose from penniless boy to famed showman. He built wealth through ventures including a museum featuring Joice Heth and later celebrated acts like Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind while pursuing public spirited philanthropy in later life.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
Bethel
Danbury
New England
Joice Heth
George Washington
Tom Thumb
Jenny Lind
Love at Long Range and City Gossip Collide
An advertisement in a Chicago matrimonial paper led Grace Glassgow of Huntingdon County to a Spokane Falls marriage engagement with Harry Fleming a Spokane baker. After a costly trip and a failed match she returned home unmarried and fatigued. Interleaved are Parnell O'Shea rumors with a Baltimore Methodist conference voting against women delegates by 41 to 1, sparking calls for gender equality in church leadership.
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Chicago
Harry F. Fleming
Spokane Falls
Wash
Grace Glassgow
Marklesburg
Samuel L. Glassgow
Huntingdon County
Mise Glassgow
Fleming
Miss Glassgow
Huntingdon Globe
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
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Want
Pittsburg Oil Exchange
University of Buffalo
United States
Huston
Titusville
Lucy Hoffert
South Bethlehem
George Cunningham
Detroit
Fayette
McCormick
Chautauqua County
Jamestown
Rogers
Westfall
Morse
Philadelphia Sabbath Association
Allegheny
Tobin
Franklin
Hight
Altoona
Faxing Heal Estate
Court of Common Pleas
Noyes
John Gustafson
Emma Gross
Richard Grooree
Conklin Run Oil Co. and Lumber Co
Henry Fuellbart
Wison
J. J. Wheelock
H. Fuellhart
Marion Greenle
Kisebaum
Mas. K. Webb
R. A. Love
Robert Henry
B. A. Lynde
T. J. Reynolds
Ohio R. R. Co
Home Mutual Life Insurance Co
Gunnison
Pair & Breen
the Torpedo Co
Torpedo Company
Allegheny River
Hemlock
Oil City
W. Breeve
C. Heydrick
R. L. Blackmar
Geo. A. Varnes
S. D. Wilson
Torpedo Co
Varnes
A. S. Dobbs
T. J. Huff
Parnell
Loxton
House of Commons
O'Shea
O’shea
MT. Pleasant
Proops
Scottdale
Kridwepert
Connecticut
Parnell O'Shea
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