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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1891
Page
6
A New York World excerpt extols rural life with lines about poppies and dew, orchards and clover, bees and cows. It invites readers to return to Mother Nature on a farm, praising peaceful air, fields, and animals and contrasting with city cares.
The essay argues that poets trade accuracy for art, noting Pope’s apt rhymes can intensify praise or blame beyond prose. It likens storytelling to embellishment, admitting historians sometimes favor vivid details over strict precision and that truth often seems stranger than fiction in memory.
Colonel Richard Bright recounts fishing on the Potomac at Woodmont when a larger bass lunged and swallowed a smaller one hooked by minnows. The cannibalistic catch weighed 3 pounds together and was presented to the National Museum in preserved form, the small tail protruding from the larger. The tale ends with a proverb about hunger.
A muddled clipping notes charms worn by American mothers to ward off eye trouble and teeth eruption. It cites seeds nicknamed Job’s tears strung into baby necklaces, beetle pendants from Bechman mothers, and bird bone charms found with graves in Arkansas and Missouri. Professor Putnam links these to teeth cutting. Also mentions Joe Jefferson chasing fishing gear and a funeral moment remarking on a rod sale.
A Charleston World item notes a car driver on a street railway who is described as a confirmed glass eater. The small, healthy man reportedly maintains a glass diet with no clear harm to date. The unusual claim is part of Meehan's Monthly style commentary.
The piece argues that receivers often dislike gifts for intrinsic or personal reasons, but by focusing on the giver’s happiness and the joy of giving one can accept gifts graciously. By valuing the giver’s pleasure, reluctance fades, enabling kinder, less burdensome acceptance.
C W Strickland a young farmer and Ida Porter of the same neighborhood eloped amid family objections. After two licenses and a secret ceremony in a cotton patch, conducted by the same minister, the couple wed while her brother was away at the gin. Local gossip and publication timing surrounded the event in Galveston News.
The Zodiacal Light may be seen just before sunrise as a pearly gray, elliptical glow caused by sunlight reflecting off meteors orbiting the sun. It is proposed these meteors may mediate Earth solar connections, akin to copper wires linking a dynamo to a lamp.
Poetic exhortation to seek and bring the Christmas holly as a sacred emblem for homes and churches. It urges all people including Christians and others to partake in Yuletide joy, worship, and the spreading glow of the holiday greens across kingdoms and lands.
A Boston Herald summary notes mistletoe’s festive role, its botany and origin, Druids, and myths around Balder. It describes its appearance, parasitic growth on oaks and apples, spread by thrushes, and ironic shift from sacred to profitable in some regions.
An ironic Christmas tale follows The Man who buys a fan for a friend, misjudges its price as ten dollars, then blunders to reveal sixty dollars. Shock and embarrassment ensue as two ladies react, ending with a quip about male folly. A seasonal joke and a brief song segment close the item.
Train notice from H. Ketcham, superintendent, and William Parks, ticket agent, listing No 6 and No 3 trains departing Sundays at 10 02 from Depot corner High and Beech Street.
Train times for SOUTHWARD and NORTHWARD runs listed with stops at Garfield Tiona Shefield Barnes Brookston Sheffield Wolf Run and Sheffield Junction. Connections at Sheffield with PL TE and Rand and Rh noted. schedules show arrivals and departures across multiple stations and times.
Through tickets for sale at all stations on the P. and E. Railroad. From Ridgway to Erie. Freight deliveries at Vanderarift one quarter mile south of Garfield and at Dunham's Mill five miles west of Garfield. Ivy Clarendon and Gormen Trains operate on schedule.
Limited reports a new immense warehouse 36 by 120 feet four stories high. Basem ent houses sewer pipe brick nails shoes iron pipe and stove pipe. First floor stocked with 125 tons iron steel wire nails rope belting hose f. etc. The shop on third story covers 10500 square feet and offers plumbing steam hot air heating gas fitting roofing spouting and sheet iron work. They ship to eight states and carry Pickett and Perfect Axes plus lubricants and oils at low prices.
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