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Newspaper

Warren Ledger

Location

Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Aug 22, 1884

Page

5

City and vicinity notes and upcoming events

Exhibition halls rise on the fair grounds while local firms advertise building supplies. A Cassadaga excursion drew a large crowd and tickets for Yevenne go on sale at 9 o’clock September 1. Borough house numbering is urged. A painting of Mlle Rhea and a 10 000 francs painting copy are on display. The Morrison reunion is Sept 4 at Corydon. Hotel registers show steady guest lists. Front Street flood repairs use stone by flatboat. Benedictine Sisters school fall opening announced for Beech Street. Gala Day at the Driving Park on the 30th draws horse owners. The Council seeks industry to replace oil. Cannibalism question raised in historical debate. Front Street graveling replaces paving. Race track and Skating rink progress noted. Warren boasts fine artists Gr eaves and Rowland on the Democratic banner. A Church Choral Union is planned starting Sept 4 for fifteen weeks with leaders from New York City.

A. W. Merck’s Cassadaga Yevenne Front Street Benedictine Sisters School Beech Street Catholic Church Cogswell Russel Warren Greaves Rowland Cleveland Hendricks

Personal notices detail wide Westward travel and social ties

Local column lists residents and visitors. Joe James leaves for New York for health. Carrie Hoffer visits Pauline Leonhart in town. Misses Maud Crull Grace Stone travel Grand Valley. several others attend Chautauqua, Philadelphia trips, or family visits. Notes on business, soda advertising, and canoe convention visitors wrap the social roundup.

Joe James New York Carrie Hoffer Buffalo N. Y Pauline Leonhart John C. Lowen Titusville Maud Crull Grace Stone Grand Valley

New Bell Brothers Carpet Room Opens in Warren

Bell Brothers expands within the large dry goods house by adding a second story carpet room featuring a broad new stock of carpets rugs and upholstery goods in Warren Prices are marked low and customers are urged to visit before shopping elsewhere A fair will feature a dog show with emphasis on the display of prized canines Harry Ungerer oversees the fowl department and aims for orderly arrangements Buffalo New York and Philadelphia road now serves Big Bend Geer's platform station replaces the former Tonlorx stop

Bell Brothers Warren Bell Bro’s Harry Ungerer Buffalo New York Philadelphia Big Bend Geer’s Tonlorx

Elopement and boat life in Dunkirk area spark public concern

A local report recounts Mrs. Boehn’s alleged elopement with Williams from Warren to Youngstown, leaving five children. Lodge members seek the child’s return, paying seven dollars for board, while observers describe the boat’s bar and living quarters. Separate item notes Burglars rifling a store near Glade Run Tannery and two men jailed after police raids.

Levcer Dunkirk Boehn Christian Boehn K. of P. Lodge Nelson Greenland Joseph Wagner Charles Groh Wesley Corwin

Mile Rhea to Star in Yvonne at Library Hall

Actress Mile Rhea comes to Library Hall on September 3 to perform Yvonne in a setting praised for her Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. The Struthers Library Building will reopen September 1 with a donor ceremony and public reception, inviting members and guests to tour the new library and hall.

Beatrice M’lle Rhea Benedict Opera Struthers Thomas Struthers Board of Control North Star Lodge Library Association

Grand Gala Day with Elsa Von Blumen Stars at Warren

The L F Watson Hose Company hosts a Grand Gala day featuring America s first female cyclist Miss Elsa Von Blumen. She will race trotters and runners in five mile events at Warren, offer a prize to beat her best three in five, and compete in other attractions including a 100 yard dash and a handicap race against Watson Hose. Pupils and teachers meet at the school room for classification and a bookseller is noted.

L. F. Watson Hose Company America Elsa von Blumen Mies von Blumen Pittsburgh New York City Warren Watson Hose 3Fiss von Blumen

Woman among vines aids Speers Port Grape Wine praise

A reader notes a woman in a neighboring column harvesting grapes at Speers Vineyards. Speer’s Port Grape Wine, highly esteemed by the medical profession for invalids, weakly persons and the aged, is sold by druggists.

Speers Speer

Parker's Tonic Promised To Save Patients And Cure Rheumatism

The passage touts Parker's Tonic as never too late to try cures. It claims a patient named Michael Guilfoyle of Binghamton New York was cured of rheumatism after ten years. R W Mosher, a local druggist, certifies selling over a thousand bottles citing its reputation for cures.

Restorative Wine Ad Offers Port Grape Remedy

An old ad promotes peer Port Grape Wine as a restorative for the weak and debilitated claiming it purifies blood and refreshes. It notes sales by A. W. Merck and offers the found plain gold ring reward, with the lost item reported as Friday evening last week with uncertain location, likely Fifth or East Street, to be left at the Postoffice.

Peer A. W. Merck East St

Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised for skin ailments

Bucklen’s Arnica Salve billed as the best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, and many skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Priced at 25 cents per box and sold by A. W. Bforck.

A. W. Bforck

Editor's Tribute to Dr King's New Discovery

An editor from Fort Wayne Indiana credits Dr. King's New Discovery for curing severe and mild coughs over five years. He praises its reliability and urges friends to try it, noting Lennsidurit as the only reliable cure. Call A. W. Moick's Drug Store for a free trial bottle. large size $1.00.

Theron P. Keator Ft. Wayne Ind Gazette Dr. King A. W. Moick

Port Grape Wine and Various Patent Remedies

The column advertises Speer’s Port Grape Wine as a cure-all praised by physicians. It lists Dr Thomas’ Electric Oil for deafness and earache, Joseph’s Oil for internal or external use, and Shedd’s Exe and Shedd’s Blood and Liver Remedy sold by local druggists. Burdock Blood Bitters are touted for dyspepsia and liver issues with claims of over 800 bottles guaranteed.

Speer A. W. Moreck Thomas Joseph’s OF Johnson & Seigfried H. B. Cochran Druggest Lancaster

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