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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
5
The city buzzes with shoppers and notices as A. A. Davis & Co. promote Christmas items, 99 cent store deals, and dolls while O. H. Hunter & Son attract crowds with cloak and knitwear displays. Reports mention notable visitors, local weather hints, and community events alongside repairs, new stock, and upcoming services.
Warren shoppers are urged to visit Schell hammer and Lesser and City Crockery Store for holiday specials. Roller skates at first cost and coal heating stoves at actual cost promise strong value. The Eben N. Ford Post G A R held its annual inspection with officers including Austin Curtis and W W Ames visiting, staying at the Carver House.
Boarders wanted for Grindlay house No 382 on Hickory Street. Miss Sarah Hackney offers day board at 4 50 a week or 35 cents per meal. Two upper rooms for rent, one furnished, one unfurnished, both heated. Convenient to business district. Also notices on watches clocks and jewelry repair, neckties, footwear, lamps and Christmas gifts from local stores.
A Warren jewelry store, Merck Bros, displays vast stocks of ornaments, watches, clocks, diamonds, and opera glasses with courteous staff ready for holiday shoppers. Sales of gold watches and fine goods rise as prices stay low, signaling strong public wealth and festive demand. Munn's College Herald launches as a new educational journal from Prof. Munn's Commercial College featuring contributions from noted local writers.
Last evening shortly after nine o'clock observers saw a bright glow in the north indicating a large fire in progress near the Wetmore farm. The fire was near the old red house occupied by Mr Slater in Mr Wetmore’s employ. The cause is not yet known.
About six oclock last evening the boiler house at Harry Angrer s well in Glade caught fire from unknown cause and was burned along with tents and other property. The rig was uninsured with an estimated loss around 400 dollars.
Edward Lovell of Kingau township Warren county applies to the Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania for a vacant land site described as an island below the B N Y S&P railroad ridge and above Bent island in Allegheny river, with references to warrant numbers 5564 and 2428 in White and Kinzua townships. Two jurors had not visited the county seat before and were compelled to be there.
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