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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1883
Page
4
The Ledger edition notes a Carver House Block on Water Street within RREM Carre CS PA. The item appears as a brief listing in the Friday publication, with location details and a property reference.
A column reviews tax and political topics from a New York market to Utah politics. It notes spoiled turkey losses, comments by Mr Breener, party tallies in the Forty eighth congress, Roosecrans’s proposed anti polygamy amendment, the Nutt murder trial in Uniontown, and criticizes a postal rate rule as unjust while praising the postal system overall.
The editorial attacks Grozier Blaine for proposing to share the federal liquor tax revenue with states including Maine. It notes Maine bans liquor, questions licensing revenue, and argues prohibition states should be excluded from distribution. It warns the plan conflicts with Maine's laws and mockingly suggests the idea is for thinking, not policy.
A profile of new House Speaker Carlisle born in Campbell county Kentucky in 1835. It notes his start as a schoolteacher, law career, political roles from 1859 to 1869, six years in Congress since 1877, and describes his modest, cordial nature, integrity, and simple tastes.
The governor vetoed the appropriation bill funding legislators' pay for recess days and for mileage, denouncing the measure as indefensible and unconstitutional. He notes the Senate and House stalled sessions, yet would grant ten dollars per day for non work, and hints at broader political misconduct. The veto followed by both houses passing the bill over it. The article adds a note on Sosverger Trurn, real name Isabella Hardenburg.
The Buffalo Courier rebuts claims of sectionalism against Carlisle, arguing a southern background should not bar him from the speakership. It asserts native-born Americans from the South can still win high office and warns Republicans against a proscriptive stance that bans honest national leaders.
Wasumeatox Dec 5. Congress will be practically at a standstill until committees for both houses are appointed. Senate committees likely announced next Monday. Democratic senators will meet tomorrow to arrange minority representation. reports to Republicans later this week. Speaker Carlisle cannot announce house committees until near the holiday recess. The larger number of representatives and many new members complicate his task.
A lively table conversation turns into a debate on proverbs as diners joke about gods helping themselves. The narrator notes personal relief from catarrh and hay fever after using Ely's Cream Balm, while a pointer claims eleven thousand one-legged men exist in the United States.
Beaten by wind and rain, sailors on the Grosvenor endured a Atlantic cyclone after mutiny sent them into boats. A shore craftsman, Jabez Rogers of Chicago, credits Parker's Tonic with curing overwork related illnesses and urges its use for those exposed to outdoor perils. Prices 50 cents and 1.00. Hiscox & Co., New York.
Warren readers are invited to shop A A Davis Co for a broad holiday lineup. Novelty singing dolls, cheap books with fine bindings, dolls, confectionery, china, Bibles, juvenile books, holiday novelties, Christmas cards, photo albums, diaries, and boxed gifts fill the store. Compact ads tout a complete holiday line and gift items for December.
For twenty days Netfox GREENLAND offers Chamber suits and Parlor Suits at reduced prices to clear holiday stock. McNett & Co on Hickory Street Warren Pa claim the largest furniture stock in Warren and vicinity.
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