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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1888
Page
12
A collage of joke captions and light quips from multiple papers. It features pithy lines about weather, love, aging, fashion, and social mores, with characters like a judge, a merchant traveler, and a dumbfounded waiter. The items read as a humor page, listing witty one liners and cartoon captions across newspapers.
A collage of oddities spans coaching origins from 1659 in England to curious modern trivia. Items include large City Park in Philadelphia, seltzer burns, Stradivarius values, a 20 inch jaw bone, odd names, long bridges, St Patrick’s death anniversary, ancient mail, a Montreal fine for kissing, and a chair Jefferson used. Also notes a theater mascot, Bavarian legend, a vegetarian from Connecticut, numerous Vienna balls, huge Florida produce claims, eye cinder remedy, and a judge’s merciful sentencing. Michigan reporter taunts with Beavers and otters be hunted for $400, and a Cumberland widow recalling Washington visit in 1794. A Birmingham doctor captures a raccoon with chloroform and a fishpole.
A wholesale drug dealer cites quinine as the most prescribed drug in the country. The piece notes quinine, derived from cinchona, treats fevers especially malaria with remarkable efficacy, but warns against random use. It praises quinine as a valuable American discovery while acknowledging some abuse and habit risk.
A well to do farmer within six miles of Carrollton has not left his farm in twenty five years. He is healthy and intelligent. In town during the war he met Captain Devis, a Kansas jayhawker, who urged him to pray and spare his life. He promised to return home and never come back, a vow he has kept while staying informed through newspapers.
An elegant Indianapolis mansion sits empty and for rent at a low price after the owner left due to disturbances from midnight visitors. Furniture is overturned, a piano plays itself, a ghostly finger traces blood colored letters in mirrors spelling Beware, while a New York widower faces a spectral lecture on his misdeeds on his wedding night.
An editorial extols Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla as a preventive and restorative tonic. It cites anecdotes from Mrs. Maggie Kerchwal and others, claims skin health improvements, and urges readers to buy from their druggists. The piece also references Warner’s Safe Cure as the maker and a world-spanning guarantee of excellence.
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