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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1883
Page
6
Local newspaper entry dated Friday morning August 3 1883 from Warren eee Ledger. Contains brief notices and notices of events. Reads like a clipped public record page with town notices and simple advertisements.
A Victorian-era column recalls Paymaster Hodge’s $400,000 theft and pardon, comparing him with a petty thief, then shifts to Captain Webb’s Niagara death and Blondin’s rope walk. It warns on cholera fears, postal contract suits, stamp portraits, and vivid whirlpool dangers and ghostly drowning tales.
A dramatic account describes a deep peril believed to swallow explorers whole, warning that no man can escape alive. Eyewitness notes recount treacherous currents and perilous conditions challenging even the bravest divers.
A fragmented, antiquated narrative describes a “giggling girl” as a social phenomenon tied to the upper classes. It contrasts her adolescent emergence with adulthood, framing her behavior as both pitiable and irritating, with lurid asides about temperament and societal boundaries amid references to Niagara and political imagery.
A satirical scene portrays an editor with a microscope seeking his salary, a reluctant elevator, and a bold printer's night toil. The piece lampoons the newsroom hierarchy from the editor’s pretensions to the printer’s tricks and ends with the editor’s lavish castle home and his seventy five dollar monthly wages.
A public vendue on July 2 1583 at 2 PM at Warren court house exposes for sale a Conewango township leasehold in Warren County Pa described with multiple land boundaries and exceptions, including equipment list such as larpenteck rig tubing jars elevating gear and other mining gear, held by John Bell and others in a suit of H A Thompson, Sheriff Allen Warren Pa June 11 1883.
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