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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1888
Page
5
A stout gentleman in a silk hat and blue overcoat visits a city hall dig site. He volunteers as a laborer, recalls his boyhood ax work, tests a shovel, misses a swing, injures himself, and is escorted away with a bleeding nose. The scene ends with him joking the ax was dull. Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
A writer profiles a distinct breed of wealthy drinkers who linger in barrooms from morning, each day spent in heavy drinking and routine sobering at lavish homes. He recalls a recurring, lifelong patron at a popular chop house near Madison Square, Alfred Trumble, a rich, bachelor figure whose existence revolves around alcohol and self-destruction.
London theatre refreshment rooms generate large revenue as patrons arrive from dinners and order ices, cakes, coffee, and sweets. Waiting maids hawk drinks at doors and programmes are sold, averaging twelve pence per show. American managers would riot at such pricing in the United States.
Historian Bancroft receives many autograph requests daily. He discards ordinary requests as sales fodder and responds to courteous ladies with a personal note or quotation. The Clover Club of Medina sent for an autograph and the reply wished the club members remain "in clover."
A fragment from Harper's Magazine and a note from Mary J Holmes in New York Mail and Express recount amusing dialogue about a narrator’s and publisher’s roles. The piece contrasts a vagabond speaker with a widow and notes publishers push books with vitality affecting sales and blame.
The New York Tribune criticizes men with umbrellas who angle them at others on stairs and at elevated news stands, calling the behavior asinine. It cites Spain stamp practices as a separate note from the New York Evening World, describing yearly stamp issuances and prior issues becoming worthless to curb counterfeiting.
Public Opinion notes Leon, the premier manufacturing town in New Mexico, lacks large factories. Most work is home produced with weekly outputs including 10 000 saddles, 25 000 ordinary blankets, 10 000 fine blankets, 26 000 men’s shoes, 20 000 women’s shoes, and 89 000 children’s shoes. Andrew J Blackbird, an Ottawa Chippewa chief at Harbor Springs, writes An Indian's Book detailing traditional history and a complete grammar with 1 241 verb forms.
A capitalist tells a young man he asks nothing from anybody. The youth retorts that whenever the capitalist sees something he wants he just goes ahead and takes it. The exchange is described by a merchant traveler.
In a bold boast Dumley bets Robinson he can walk from Twenty third Street to Forty second Street in eight minutes. Brown doubts him, citing too many saloons along the route as a hindrance to such a fast pace.
A burrfish owned by a Pensacola man is described as entirely covered with short quills and enclosed in a shell as hard as an oyster, opening underneath in a curious manner, noted as one of the most wonderful specimens of submarine life. Another item features a witty exchange where Smith teases Mrs. Jones about homeopathy over a coffer prank.
A Pittsburg firm earns a jab about a solid steel gun as a prop. A Chinese opera outfit in New York boasts over 4,000,000 stitches. A Life quip notes the moon grows brighter with fullness. Tokio cremations last year numbered 10,240 with 501 beds for infectious cases.
A Pennsylvania letter from Fayette County dated January 12, 1888 describes a railroad worker who suffered 47 days from kidney and back pains. After six bottles of Warner’s Safe Cure, he reports complete relief and improved health, recommending the remedy to friends and neighbors.
In Pennsylvania on December 29, 1887 Jeuphe Halarose Alerosvne reports using Warner's Safe Cure for kidney trouble with great benefit. A second user notes liver improvement and similar results.
Portraits and careers of David Dudley Field Stephen Johnson Field Cyrus W. Field outline a family of law reformers and transatlantic engineers. From New York codes to the international code project and the first Atlantic cable, their public careers shaped governance and communication.
Henry Martyn, born in Stockbridge on April 3 1822 and a Williams College graduate, became a pastor in St Louis and later edited and owned the Evangeliet. He witnessed 1848 Paris revolutions and Italian upheavals, inspiring his book The Good and Bad of the Roman Catholic Church. He produced many travel writings and lived as a prolific author. Student roll includes Rush Sigeins Frank Newmaker Sterbert Davis Bert Sising and others with attendance ending April 10 1883.
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