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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1892
Page
6
The speaker asks a woman to judge him by motive not deed and declares that true love requires a kind generous heart. He seeks a woman with purpose who improves the world and gives her life for others, praying she be all that God can make of her.
Miss Sophia Nichols a retiring spinster in Laurel street notices an old gentleman across Beech park who waves a red bandanna toward her window each night. Her nephew Jack Brown visits and grows furious, demanding to know the meaning of the impudent display as the odd ritual continues amid neighborhood gossip.
Jack confronts an elderly weather observer accused of flirting with his Aunt Sophia. A deaf old man and a witty daughter explain the peculiar weather notes and the harmless misunderstanding. The exchange ends with laughter and a promise of secrecy as Jack visits his aunt.
A desert trader ordered a new canned meat labeled with two lions rampant and a "Hon brand" after seeing its gaudy label. Initially selling many cans, demand faded as Native customers, including an English-speaking buck, refused the product, allegedly deeming it dog meat. The trader could not change their view.
Frederick J. Haxbey Hamilton, born in London in 1845, who served in the army and later became a journalist, is remembered for risking life in typhus wards and dangerous assignments. He married Bertha Wolf in 1887 and was famed as a singer and lively Press Club member.
A Chicago fire destroyed General John A Logan's former home at 8 Lake Park Place, Chicago. The blaze, likely incendiary, spread rapidly with delayed alarm. A resident escaped from a fourth floor roof, using a bay window to reach another stair. The building housed many visitors and notable guests, including Generals Grant and Sherman. The incident highlights the mansion's historic occupancy and the perilous escape. A discussion on spelling reform follows, proposing a $50,000 federal appropriation for a new method. The report also notes the Ramese II statue found in Hanes ruins, delivered to the University of Pennsylvania for antiquities.
A dismissive notice cites Dr. Franklin Miles blaming fashionable young women for elopements with various men. It claims Restorative Nervine as a universal remedy and advertises trial bottles and a book of cures at Morris & Nullen's, also offering Miles' New Heart Cure for heart flutter and short breath.
An advertising notice touts Swayne's Ointment as a universal skin cure for tetter eczema and eruptions with promises of white healthy skin. It claims Dr Gram's Grand medicine, a three months treatment for $1 with no cure no pay. Also notes 400 boxes sold in Warren and sales at Geo.8. Davis Drug Store corner 2nd and Liberty Streets. mentions Dossies neck clams and chowder at Siegfried's. 10-tf
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