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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1884
Page
6
Mr J N Lacy now represents the Lepcer Job Printing Establishment to county business men. He may show samples take orders and make collections. He is also authorized to receive and collect subscriptions to The Ledger.
The notice urges subscribers to pay in advance at $1.50 per year, outlining a Christmas offer: send The Ledger for one year and choose four books from Funk & Wagnalls' list. It highlights cheap prepayment, the value of the book set, and payment methods, urging subscribers to remit or visit in person.
Tre Leperr of this week is the largest paper ever published in Northwestern Pennsylvania. It is composed of 69 columns of reading and advertising matter. 12 pages of solid enjoyment and instruction for the holiday season. Advertisers tried to crowd the reading matter down, but readers’ rights kept pace with the Lepore’s growth and we preserved space accordingly.
A newspaper excerpt highlights Johnson and Siegfried and Frank R Scott presenting large store ads on a holiday issue. Variety Hall store resembles a Nijoei Novgorod bazar as readers gain more reading matter while advertisers cash in on holiday traffic. L G Noyes writes in an easy friendly voice attracting attention. A A Davis Co advertises a double half column but omits parts of truth.
Help the Warren Public Library invite all residents to a free reading room and gift a Library ticket for a year. The note quotes Emerson on the value of books and learning, urging generosity toward the library and its access for future readers.
The Erie newspaper items show mixed signals of economic revival with increased shop hours and larger payrolls at the Er ie and Nipano shops. Pig iron production debates fade toward resumed furnace activity while broader social quips critique editorial standards and a hymn authorship error prompts correction about Rock of Ages.
Letter discusses how high tariffs raise wages and production costs, reducing US export competitiveness. It cites lumber and steel rail pricing, wage differences with Canada, and shipping costs, arguing protection worsens the trade balance while labor costs and taxes overwhelm. It questions why US shipping lags and calls for reevaluating free trade arguments.
Matthew Arnold's eldest daughter wed Mr. Whitridge of New York at Cobham England. Newsboys and bootblacks in Meadville received a Thanksgiving dinner. Lawrence Barrett to tour Australia 50 nights in Sydney and Melbourne starting April. Greeley prepared Chicago Current Christmas number on frozen North day. Gorman fixes Baltimore banquet for 18th with 100 covers. Friedel translates Goethe into six languages amid illness. Yale College is the name of a man living in Boston. Mr College a former slave. Senator Ingalls argues buying Louisiana sugar would be cheaper than maintaining tariff.
The excerpt urges the Union to persevere through danger and fear. It recalls the builders and materials of the nation and urges steadfast courage against tempest and rock. It emphasizes collective hopes, prayers, and faith with the ship of state sailing forward.
A long exhortation argues for a broad temperance movement uniting temperance and teetotalers on common ground. It praises a two pledge system, urges Sunday saloon closures, age checks on liquor sales, and high license to reduce saloons. The piece stresses moral cultivation, home life, and personal responsibility to preserve manhood, citing Dr Howard Crosby and leaders in the English speaking world.
A ragged spread of ads and notes covers arnica salve claims and 25 cent pricing by A. W. Merck, Josephs Oil bulk medicine, Schuyler Brothers sale of Milton Economist, and Gilmore’s Aromatic Wine cures. It also reports a poisonous air bomb inventor Professor E F Ritchie, a Cambria coal vein find, York Chain Works strike action, and actress Sarah Bernhardt’s pious moment with Mon Dieu.
News from Sheffield highlights rapid completion of the Opera House by a stock company, followed by wage cuts at Horton Crary & Co and expectations of increases after Cleveland's inauguration. Also noted are a masquerade at the skating rink, a buck weighing 191 pounds shot by a local hunter, hotel renovations at the Lee House, Einstein’s new store near completion, Siegfried & Hull’s holiday stock, and Arm Corey returning from a hunting expedition with nine deer. The Lepeer reporter visits A Race’s harness shop, illustrating local prosperity and steady business.
Amusements column notes Kate Claxton in The Sea of Ice with Z Louise de Lascous and Ogarita at Library Hall. Carius role played by Mr Charles A Stevenson, ice sequence praised, plus other items about theater, gas leases, and local notices.
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