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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1891
Page
3
A farmer announces the seventh annual harvest home on December 1, 1890, inviting friends and patrons to partake in dinners at 26 cents daily through May 1. The notice lists abundant quantities of meats, produce, canned goods, and oysters to be served or sold, with meals and other meats available by order.
A tense encounter unfolds in a Pennsylvanian depot waiting room as a large gruff man clashes with a thin, cadaverous stranger who mutters about astronomy and physics while attempting to engage the big man in odd questions and harmless banter before a shove turns physical.
A group resting on an Louisiana platform edge escape trouble when a seven foot snake coils for a strike. A local man drops a grindstone to kill the reptile while joking about mule thefts. The column also notes quirky items from satire to social quips including a soap ad rejection and theatre gossip.
Dialect sketch where Flossy asks how Grace, though homely, attracts young men. Dorothy retorts that Grace is homely yet popular because she has no little brother, a witty contrast in Borébaer's Magazine style.
Ledger fragment lists accounts from Warren County including mercantile taxes and receipts. It mentions balances, expenditures on prints, treasurer's commissions, and various items such as bonds, deposits, seed and grain, lumber and building materials, coal, hardware, clothing, and furniture. Names of local entities appear, with scattered figures and ledger terms embedded.
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