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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1885
Page
7
A September 1870 Eastern line dispatch train speeds to Reims with fear and awe aboard. An engineer visits his wife and six year old daughter before departure. The child’s faith steadies others as the crew risks a high speed run to deliver vital dispatches.
A woman recently found herself in her yard in full view of the street, shielded only by a parasol and a low cut bias blouse, causing shock among nearby passersby.
A midnight ceremony at the Union Depot in Fort Worth unfolds as Dr H C Lane weds Mrs Alicia Towsley after a long cross country courtship. The minister who marries them previously officiated Lane’s first marriage in the city, a reunion seen as a good omen for the couple who plan to depart for Lane’s ranch tomorrow.
John Mumma twenty five from western suburbs carried his bride Emma Bowen seventeen to safety to avoid her brother's pursuit as they fled toward Calverton and Baltimore. The couple wed with Rev Dr Daughtery at Hanover Street M. E. Church after eloping yesterday.
A newspaper man on a duty tour with Mexican visitors rides in silence through Washington visiting sites including the Soldiers Home and Capitol. He breaks the quiet with a mangled compliment to the Capitol, receiving a blunt humorous reply in return.
The Overseer of the Poor of Oxford Township has brought the county’s last surviving slave to the almshouse. Jack, bought in 1810 by Philip Mowrey for 250 dollars, endured a lifelong injury after an accident, refused freedom after emancipation, and after Mowrey’s death his inheritance supported him through two sisters and Senator Mowrey’s line. The income from Mowrey’s estate continued to fund Jack’s care.
By virtue of a writ of Ven Exp issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county I shall expose to sale on Monday September 17 at 1 o clock a.m. the defendant interest in two village lots in Warren Borough plus an adjacent parcel with a 72.11 house and frame barn. The proceedings name Bridget Silk Maury Suk J. Uapis O. Wurster Maggie Van Ausdel and A. Allen as parties. The sale follows an order in the case of A. Allen sheriff at Warren Pennsylvania August 15 1655.
Local notice lists several names in fragmented OCR text: St D Wetwork J D Vermonk T Neill J D Bradley Porter Sheldon.
Notice that Limestone Cemetery Association seeks incorporation before President Judge W D Brown in Warren Pennsylvania on Monday September 7 1885. Its purpose is to improve preserve protect and manage a cemetery in Limestone township Warren county with Brown and Stone as attorneys.
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