Preparing for War as U S Anticipates Mexican Tensions
Washington discusses imminent hostilities with Chile and rising Mexican border concerns. Officials flag possible war preparations, massing regular troops, and Garza's border movements heightening risk. The War Department and Navy step up readiness amid tense diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boston
Valparaiso
Euteline
War Department
Navy
Chili
Italy
Bourder
Mexico
Garza
Premiums Offered for World’s Columbian Exposition Exhibits
The Pennsylvania Committee on Agriculture offers cash premiums for cereals, tobacco, and related seeds to showcase best displays at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Prizes range up to 30 dollars for tobacco, with multiple categories for crops like white winter wheat, dent corn, oats, barley, timothy seed, millet, and other grains. Exhibitors must ship in by March 16, 1892, and provide exact variety cards, yield, and grower addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Agricultural Committee
Committee On Agriculture
Board of World's Fair Managers
Harrisburg
His Own Grandfather The Queer Cause a Man Assigned for Death
TransvnLur Pa Dec 25 William Miarman killed himself in a despairing belief he was his own grandfather. The peculiar letter explains how a chain of marriages made him his grandfather and his own grandson, ending with the claim that the husband of a person’s grandmother is his grandfather.
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TransvnLur
William Miarman
Sooun
A Crazy Lot at Library Hall Aims at Comic Panto Fame
A Library Hall notice touts the panto comedy A Crazy Lot by Bobb Watt with a large cast including Jas R Adams and Frank and Jebe Leuten. The piece centers on servants eager to become actors and promises broad humor from a popular stage tradition. Also a Children’s Aid Society appeal seeks a home for an eight year old boy in Warren County. Horton advertises hair goods with guarantees.
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America
Bobb Watt
Jas R Adams
Frank
Jebe Leuten
Nelly Franklyn
Hattie Grover
Edith Paul
Atlantic
Children's Aid Society
Warren County
J. A. Beat
Second -Street
Warren
Children’s Aid Society
Independent Hose Company
North Clarendon
C. &. Quilliams
Waertas
C. P. Quilliams
Watson Sidney
G. M. Hits
M. Porter
A Wolf Among the Sheep in Blairsville
Blairsville Indiana county residents discover that Professor Ennis former superintendent of public schools for ten years demoralized morals. Eight or ten of the largest pupils testified before the board. Ennis fled to Pittsburgh where arrested but released he then went west. He left a written confession and pleads for leniency. Ennis is 54 and active in church and social circles.
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Blairsville
Indiana
Ennis
Pittsburgh
Thas
Professor Ennis
Fire Burns Malt House in East Pa Mill Yard
Fire swept the dry kilns of Jacob Weschier & Sons malt house in East Pa on December 28. The main building was totally destroyed while adjacent property containing half a million bushels of Canada barley in bond was saved. Loss estimated over $50,000. building and stock insured.
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East
Jacob Weschier & Sons
Wanted Men to Work a New Business in Geneva
Insurance solicitors preferred. Earn salary or commission with no existing model. World's Fair Transportation Co. in Geneva, New York seeks right parties for a new venture.
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World’s Fair Transportation Co
Geneva
N.Y
Farmers Indicator Agents Wanted in Warren Pa
Franklin Cogswell general agent in Warren Pennsylvania advertises 32.50 commission on new articles for Farmers Indicator. The notice appears among Christmas goods promotions and medical product endorsements for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Cherry Pectoral and Almanac.
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Frank Cogswell
Warren
Ayer
Mothers and Daughters Role in Modern Womanhood
A 1891 column urged mothers to educate girls beyond fashion and fragile nerves. It advocates self discipline, equal opportunities with men, practical livelihoods, and moral strength, citing Quaker equality and calling for independence, informed choices, and rejection of marriage as sole aim. It notes modern single women as active, responsible contributors.
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Tet Ug
Copper artifacts from mound reveal Mexican links in Ohio finds
The World's Columbian Exposition Survey at Anderson reports a mound dig yielded 4 mags of 120 copper items including fish, crosses, discs and crescents with leaf motifs. Skeletons lie beneath. experts say items show Mexican workmanship, possibly from Yucatan or Chiapas, suggesting cross-cultural ties. The team expects more copper effigies and aims to finish in a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren K. Moorhead
Anderson
Ohio
Mexico
Chiapas
Yucatan
Messrs
Moorehead
Cresson
New Year Wishes and Masonry Note from Warren Commandery
A New Year greeting expresses hope for 1892 as a prosperous year. The Warren Commandery notes Sir Knight Friday’s passing and pays tribute to his Masonry service, asks bereaved to be consoled, and recommends banner crape for a month. The notice concludes with local pharmacy and perfume shop promos.
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Warrens
George TL. Friday
Knight Friday
A.C. McAurrns
FL A. Strrex
G. N. Hawkey
Court of Appeals Dims Four Contested Seats Shows Senate Edge
Albany December 20 The Court of Appeals ruling pares four contested districts with Osborne and Nichols certified for Democrats Derby for Republicans. Stenheim and Onondaga results finalize, while the Twenty Seventh leaves certification to the Senate amid a tied outlook. The board’s decisions tilt the Senate to Democrats 16 to 15 with one doubtful seat.
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Court of Appeals
Senate
Lion
Alhany
Walker
Stenbeim
Nichols
Onondaga
Derby
Rensselaer
Colling
State Board of Canvangers
Osborne Dem
State Board of Canvassers
Osborne
Canlidate
Sherwood
Son of Kit Carson Kills In-Laws Then Escapes
A La Junta report states Kit Carson Jr, son of the famed scout, shot and killed his father in law and mother in law after demanding his wife from their Nine Mile Bottom home. He wounded the father in law and killed the mother then fled toward Banat Canon into New Mexico. A San Francisco dispatch adds Joaquin Miller’s son Harry Miller was arrested for attempted stagecoach robbery in Medocing County, with $10,000 bail.
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Denver
la Junta
Kit Carson, Jr
Curzon
Susie Richardson
Nine Mile Bottom
Carson
Carsoni
Suan Francisco
Harry Miller
Joaquin Miller
Souil
Medocing County
Miller
United States
Sawyer
Farmers Club Meets to Tackle Warren Road Woes
The Farmers Club held a December meeting at the Court House to elect officers and review road conditions between Warren and the state hospital. A road committee found current laws insufficient, with J H Donly absent to advise. a January meeting was set to pursue reforms, possibly by law changes or bonds. Old officers were reelected: Chas Lott President, W B Acocks Treasurer, W Cowan Secretary.
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Farmers Club
Court House
Warren
State Hospital
J.H. Donly. Esq
Warren County
Chas, Lott
W. B. Acocks
W. Cowan
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Committee of Agriculture
Horton
Dixson
East Warren Bazar
POWER
Francis Willard
Alluce Hopkins
Kate Bushnell
Kate Lindsay
Good Health
Ella Kraorr
Sheffield
Muss B. Moxrnigox
D. M. Hristol
D. M
Bristol
Library Theatre
Sheffield Union School
Misa Ada McKee
Misa Daisy Mead
Jennie Wood
Jeanette McCalmont
Kate Horton
Jennie Putnam
J. M. McConnell
J. M. McConxey
Weaver
J. WH
Sonny
Jameson Tryin
Neigfried & Co
Fanny Advace
Dixson’s
East Warren
Siegfried’s
THE
Senate OF
New York
Democratic
Dbracken
Brighton
Farmers’ Club
Noyes
Noyes’ Drug Store
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