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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1891
Page
3
A London Tit-Bits piece recalls Jimmy Clinmitt’s youth and manhood marked by a giant head. He describes mud pies, schoolyard jests, and epitaphs about his size, plus trials with hats, barbers, and theaters. A single romance ends with a missed love as a rival jokes about his head during a train farewell.
A meditation on solitude cites the dangers of isolation and the law’s harshest punishment the living death of solitary confinement. The piece contrasts this with a New York Times note about the Mutual Life Insurance building chamber of commerce art gallery displaying 200 portraits of deceased New York merchants attracting visitors, including rural sightseers who joke about bidding on a Hamilton portrait.
E C Rice of Mandan North Dakota patented a prairie burning device made of heavy sheet or light boiler iron in various sizes. It uses gas generating burners with gasoline to create a hot fire that advances over uneven ground at about twenty miles per day at nineteen to twenty cents per mile. Iron trailers behind the box extinguish sparks.
A Munsey's Weekly cartoon exchange has a child named Johnny declaring he will become a congressman. His father questions the ambition, and Johnny insists his father should buy him a drum before he solidifies his plan.
Theodore Child praises the Plaza de la Constitucion station in Buenos Ayres as a vast, handsome hub rivaling European stations. He notes marble halls, grand staircases, and an extensive goods area hosting the wool market, with modern English built rolling stock and luxurious vestibule trains between Buenos Ayres and La Plata.
Sidney Woollett, a New York elocutionist, explains memory training by rote and steady practice. He recalls memorizing thirteen Shakespeare plays and ten Tennyson idyls, using daily ten line sessions and repeating passages until perfect, often walking twenty miles while reciting to reinforce recall.
In Paris a renowned painter, strict on costs, observes students replacing a broken pane with a pasted paper cover. After days of the same ruse, he shatters the paper and pane with a single cane strike declaring, He that breaks pays. The tale, told by Exchange, underscores consequence.
The article asks how a 1624 sale price of twenty five dollars would grow at seven percent to 1881, estimating roughly 1.6 billion dollars, and ponders whether Manhattan is worth far more today.
A biting critique of a selfish invalid husband as a burden to weary wives, contrasted with a Thackeray anecdote about his childhood and a traveling showman. The piece weaves moral commentary on ingratitude with a humorous reminiscence of the novelist’s youth and a London Bit source fragment.
A collage of quotes touches on Lincoln legends in ancient Athens, Butler legends linked to clever people merging into demonology, and a grammatical riddle about ice yachting versus sailing. The clipping also advertises Woolford's Sanitary Lotion with claims of quick cure, sold by L. G. Noyes & Co. in Warren, Pa.
Willians announces his seventh annual harvest home on December 1, 1840. He will serve dinners daily to one hundred patrons at 26 cents each through May 1, with meats produce eggs canned goods and vegetables listed in detail. The notice specifies many items from farm livestock to preserved foods and assorted preparations.
The drug store boasts popular goods and widest supply of medicines and sundries. It emphasizes the best brands, careful dispensing, and pond treatment. The business notes growing prescription demand, full departments, and gratitude to the public for support while seeking to expand trade fairly.
An 19th century newspaper fragment promotes Kemp's Bal Sam as a remedy for the grippe and similar lung ailments. It mentions Morris and Mullen fancy goods and Gregory's, then describes a boy of twelve fired from work, with domestic disturbances and observations about farm pests and foxes.
A fraud claim touts a “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia that supposedly cures in eight days, with dramatic, unverified system effects. It advertises orders from L. G. Neyes & Co in Warren, Pa and a five dollar trial, but presents dubious guarantees and sensational lines aimed at fearful readers.
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