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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1892
Page
4
The Ledger offers subscriptions at 1.50 in advance or 2.00 per year if not prepaid. The Ledger Printing House provides first class job printing in western Pennsylvania with prompt attention to mail orders and satisfaction guaranteed. Address Ledger Publishing Co. Warren Pa.
A fractured set of political notes covers diplomacy with Chili and Mexico, tariff disputes, and U S Senate election reform. It notes Harrison and Blaine admissions, Carnegie jibe, a Crawford County congress candidacy, Flood and Reed jockeying, Spurgeon’s legacy, and Governor Campbell of Ohio as a cautious yet decisive figure.
The article reports on political figures doubting the New York State convention timetable and favoring Cleveland over Hill. It notes Rep Grady proposing salary cuts for federal workers, Pickier's on-floor outburst, and a War Department count of troops. It covers canal debates, Arnold urging recall of Minister Egan, and a Supreme Court anti lottery ruling with warnings about mail and moral law, ending with a critique of public opinion.
An 19th century style advertisement urges readers to trust Sulphur Bitters as a reliable remedy. It accuses unprincipled makers of selling worthless medicines and claims the product purifies blood and restores health, citing the Boston Daily Despatch as a testimonial.
Dr Miles pills claim to regulate liver stomach and bowels via the nerves promising speedy relief from odiousness bitter taste torpid liver piles and constipation. Advertises 30 doses for 25 cents with free samples at Morris & Mullen's drug store. Also notes a house and lot for sale inquiry by Mrs John Allen Oak Street East Warren.
Warren borough will elect a Burgess and several council and school posts next Tuesday. Incumbent Perry D. Clark seeks a second term. various candidates named for council, collector and assessor. Key issue is paying for services, with local contractors favored and a superintendent to oversee work. Gov. Parrison sues. Louisiana Lottery defunct. John A. Morris drops charter bids. Real estate ad notes a 14 room high street home for sale.
A sensational claim promises radical cure for rheumatism and neuralgia in eight days with a single treat ment. The ad touts immediate relief from the disease and its cause, with first dose benefits, priced at 75 cents from L G Noyes & Co Warren Pa. It also promotes Pantina for Coughs Cols and Consumption at 25 or 30 cents with free trial samples.
A short local item notes Bobby Frey a bright boy living at Silver Lake with his parents. He fell severely sick from a cold that resisted treatment until a neighbor suggested Pap Tina a popular remedy. The first ten doses reportedly helped and a three cent bottle was used, sold at L. Co.'s rag store.
A jumble of old ads tout cures for itching and bleeding tumors with Swayne's Ointment and Ayers Pills. Claims include ulcer healing and blood purification, with prices like 20 cents. Also mentions ads for education products and theatre tickets, plus notes on a school fundraiser and salaries.
The article recounts the arrest in London of Louis Clowns Bonaparte, son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, detailing a lineage of intrigue and scandal. It covers disputed marriages, divorces in Britain and Scotland, a later Isle of Man wedding, alleged jewel theft to funds a new union, and an arrest warrant with bail set at 5,000 pounds. It also includes a local anecdote about a Crawfordsville woman defying her husband by sleeping in a barn through freezing weather.
France reports that Parisians ate 21 291 horses 220 donkeys and 40 mules in a year weighing 4615 tons of meat. At 180 stalls prices ranged from two sous to a franc a pound with best horse steaks at the top. About one third sold fresh, rest used in sausage. 402 horses seized as unfit for food before being sausage.
The winter of 1891 2 brings unusual weather records. In the north mild temperatures contrast with unprecedented cold and heavy snows in New Mexico. Grant county ponds froze for the first time in nearly a decade. Fat antelope near Muswell City perished as deep snows trapped them. Rocky Mountain snowdrifts reach thirty five feet on main roads and snowslides cause fatalities across several areas.
James Avery, or so he is known, a young alias of a Gilbert & Sullivan style rascal, eluded the Scottsburg sheriff for the second time after biting the jailer with a poker on January 4. He had been arrested for grand larceny last December and, after feigning illness, jumped from a second story window to flee again, prompting local authorities to pursue him as a slick, twenty one year old criminal.
A Sydney Ohio girl Bertha Shorr survived a grave consumption after doctors feared death. Local physicians and townsfolk declare her recovery a medical marvel, creditting Dr Acker’s English Remedy. Family friends and a druggist testify to her dramatic return to health and urge others to consider the cure.
Under the 1874 Act the Burgess and Town Council of Youngsville borough publish a list of debts including several six percent bonds with varied issue and maturity dates from 1888 to 1900 and a 1900 maturity bond. Clerk SAELIUS, with O. M. A. F. E. SMITH, notes totals and real estate valuation figures.
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