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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1878
Page
3
The issue lists nightly fogs and sleigh activity, announces a North Warren election site, and reports on police arrests, a fire at an Osmer oil derrick, and political commentary. It highlights Dr. Bull’s cough syrup ads, winter stock sales by multiple stores, and insurance and railroad talks.
A Warren Ledger reader endorses the Warren Bradford and Olean Railroad with routes via Isinzua Kinzua Creek Marshburg and Bradford. The letter praises mineral lands, pine scarcity, and new prospects, followed by notices on Rev. I Lampe readings for North Warren Sabbath School, local entertainment plans, a glove find, baby health advice, and Rev Dr Crane sermons and opinions on hell and blue laws.
A jumble of notes notes travel plans and local notices from Warren and Oil City era papers. Mentions Wallace and the Alger bill, residents in Florida, court attendance, and a mix of editorial quips, travel returns, church events, and railroad and oil line discussions.
Epior Lipoxr recounts visiting a Pittsburgh facility selling patent butter named Oleum Margerint. He details stages from suet washing to oil rendering, churning with milk, and final butter, noting skepticism and triumph. The piece also mentions coppery city politics, oil producers boycotts, and mayoral hiring with thousands of applicants as unrest and business failures persist.
An elderly doctor, long retired, claims a vegetable remedy gifted by an East Indian missionary can rapidly and permanently cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments along with general debility and nervous disorders. He will mail the recipe free with preparation instructions to any reader who sends a stamped request to Dr M E Bell at 68 Courtland St Baltimore Md. February 4 1878 Sugar Grove notes a Presbyterian Church supper and entertainment on February 18 1878 with proceeds to benefit the church. Committees oversee music invitations reception refreshments and table arrangements. Tickets are 25 cents and the event is anticipated to be a grand time.
A reader pleads for intervention from the President to rescue them from a pitiful situation. The speaker accuses a chief culprit of theft and calls for judgment and mercy via a favourable writ to avert severe punishment. The piece uses a dramatic, archaic lament tone and ends with a cryptic signature WN Sun.
The Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston returns to Warren this Friday evening under the Musical Association. Tickets are on sale at Wells & Noyes drug store. event chaired by G. N. Parmlee, president.
Warren Oil News reports Thomas Struthers plans an oil rig at Stoneham about three quarters of a mile from the Bugbee well where sand was good. Bugbee well torpedoed last week, producing about ten barrels per day. Indications point to a new oil territory and lively operations next summer if Struthers’ well proves as strong as Bugbee. Also notes that on the 28th last, the first Rochester Salamanca passenger coach passed over the State Line RKR, with directors and Ellicottville citizens aboard. track laid and regular service soon.
A Bradford Company engineering corps, linked to the New York Central line, is surveying to bridge Warren and Olean by constructing a missing link. They assess cost of a Coutwango River bridge as the line runs three miles along this bank. A meeting with a chief engineer is anticipated. details remain unofficial.
Titusville February 1 1878 letters report criticism of milk and water papers and call to hold the Republican party responsible for suffering. C Green leases Palace Hotel to K Alvord of Nunda who takes possession and is praised based on prior hotel experience. Green will reside on Court Street with plans not yet shared. Alvord formerly ran Sugar Grove House.
We offer attractive chromes to subscribers who recruit five new members for a club. The pictures are quality art, not common souvenirs, and cost several dollars each where sold. Subscribing present year in advance counts, but new names are preferred. Dr Dnoff at 179 East Swan Street Buffalo continues to treat chronic, nervous and special diseases. Pamphlet free. Charges moderate. jyé-ly
An advertisement extolls Dr King’s New Discovery for throat chest and lung ailments. It claims it cures consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis and related issues where other medicines fail. Notes trial bottles free and regular size priced at $1.00. sale by A W Morck & Co Warren.
Perry correspondent reports two hunters near Alexander found a cave in a bank wall containing the body of a young woman aged about twenty two, chained to a wall iron ring with a brass padlock. Nearby were clothes, books, cigars, eleven oyster cans, bottles, tumblers, and a broken kerosene lamp. Coroner investigating. locals talk of lynch law. Also includes brief notes on Titusville Leader and Horace Greeley correspondence regarding politics and lectures.
The piece argues insomnia stems from indigestion and links digestion to sleep. It promotes MWostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safer alternative to sedatives, claiming it aids digestion, liver and bowels, calms the nervous system, and yields sound sleep. It stresses restoring stomach activity to balance brain function.
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