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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1893
Page
2
A wanderer with unshaved face asks for a doughnut recalling his mother’s recipe. He returns to see the dent in the fence made by a kettle, while a doorway scene reveals a terse domestic exchange. Wary humor and memory shape a small slice of life from Detroit Tribune and Truth snippets.
Mrs. Jones seeks a tack hammer amid household chores while Jeptha Jones misses it in a comic chase of the tool. After a late night search and misdirection, the hammer is found in the secretary, prompting a weary-sounding exchange about using it for spring cleaning.
The document lists receipts and expenditures for Warren County in 1892 including tax duplicates, treasurer commissions, and balances due districts. It enumerates bonds, mortgages, and judgments affecting accounts, plus detailed line items for county operations such as jail, court house, reform school, roads, and welfare. It notes inmate counts for Rouse Hospital, livestock and farm details with Warren Academy, and numerous allocations from fertilizer to insurance and repairs.
Ree'd from inmates shows total produce raised during the year including hay potatoes oats corn apples buckwheat beets turpips beans onions tomatoes and garden stock. Farm tools and implements listed with purchases include a Berkshire boar bull calf heifer buck and rooster.
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