Ledger Carver House Rates and Warren County Ads
The Ledger lists subscription terms at 150 dollars annually in advance and 2 6 per year when not prepaid, with 15 cents added for all postpaid outside Warren County. Advertising rates include business cards and six insertions, with transient ads 2 dollars for first insertion and 60 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Local notices cost ten cents per line, with obituary notices charged per line beyond ten lines.
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Warren Couny
Entry in Warren Post Office Listed For Warren Og
A fragment notes She Le Pa, AS 1 PEt being entered in the Warren Post Office as second class. The terse line references postal processing and classification in the town's mail handling.
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Warren J Wwatter
Feeling the Walter Draw in Star Route Prosecutions
The New York World reports Republicans shrinking from a probe into Star-route prosecutions and DOJ abuses. It claims immunity buys were used to omit indictments, hints at bogus civil suits to block Congress, cites Jackson and Blaine as precedents, notes Brewster Cameron’s resignation from DOJ, and accuses the era of pursuing a tariff setup for 1888 politics.
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Department of Justice
Congress
Jackson
Baat
Bairstow
John S. Davenport
Arthur
Brewster Cameron
Far West
Democracy
New York World
PAKING THE ESTIMATES Evaluation of pension cuts and fiscal policy
The Philadelphia Times praises Chairman Randall for trimming Commissioner Dudley’s pension estimate by twenty five million. It argues Dudley overstated needs despite fifty million from prior appropriations and notes only sixty six million was spent last year. It urges further pruning of extravagant estimates.
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Randall
Dudley
Rendall
Philadelphia Times
Palmer joins prohibition party amid crime statistics claim
Esquire General Palmer, now aligned with the prohibition party, argues prohibition will be the era’s biggest political issue in Pennsylvania. He cites Wilkes-Barre crime tied to liquor, while The Philadelphia Record notes Luzerne and other regions show declines in intemperance and crime compared with twenty-five years ago. The piece notes Republican hesitance to make prohibition a campaign issue and cites a Democrat in Indiana boasting on whiskey revenues sharing.
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Palmer
Prohibition Party
Wilkesbarre
Philadelphia Record
Luzerne
Pennsylvania
Republican Party
Torre
Indiana
Blaine
Trial of James Nutt Set for the Fourteenth in Pittsburg
Editorial notes the Nutt trial scheduled for the 14th in Pittsburg. It mentions postholiday recovery of Hox Sioux Canerox in Slat Springs Arkansas and reports on a severe general snowstorm. It also covers a confessed motive in a Carey murder, vast US economic notes, and local officials’ bills, with broad social and political commentary.
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James Nutt
Pittsburg
A S
Hox
Sioux Canerox
Slat Springs
Arkansas
Law Gives Insight Into Legislative Pay Practices
An 1874 act set daily pay for legislators during extraordinary sessions, including weekends and recesses. Some members donated full pay, others partially, with notable examples like Emery Coxe Gordon Crawford and Hulings, who redirected funds to charity or educational causes, while questions of rightful entitlement remained.
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Emery
Coxe
Gordon
Treasury
House of Representatives
Crawford
Air. Clark
W. J. Housings
Payne wins U S Senate caucus on first ballot in Cleveland
In a party caucus, HB B Payne of Cleveland secured 49 votes to win the U S Senate nomination. Pendleton 15 Ward 17 W H Booth 1 Geo W Geddes 1. News of the victory sparked a hundred gun salute in Cleveland. Payne, a wealthy local figure, faces speculation about future political moves.
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U. S
HB. B. Payne
Cleveland
Pendleton
Ward
W. H. Booth
Geo. W. Geddes
Payne
Paynes
Fragmentary ad copy on medicine uses and effects
The readable text mentions a remedy to resist malaria fevers headaches and kidney issues. It claims purification of the blood and liver and stomach action. The fragment cites dosing twice and keeping the preparation handy, but many words are garbled and unclear.
Local Notices and Personal Names From Warren 1880s Fragments
A fragmentary page snippet lists testimonials and notices involving druggists praising Zopesa for digestion and mood, Ely’s Cream Balm for hay fever, and several marriages and births. Names include T. B. Jexxs, Wm Lonerman, Miss Madgie Dubois, F. H. Barker, Emily Black, Joanna Kelley, and Leona Unman, with Warren County Pennsylvania and surrounding areas referenced in 1880s era.
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Celle Y—Logan
Wola
Pine G
Andington
Toner
Lonman
Lutherance Doerr
Wm. Loner
King County
Glade
Warren Co
HOLMES_DUBOIS
Warren
Barker
Wommer
Carver House
W. W. Painter
F.H. Barker
Mary 4
M. E. Parsonage
W.W. Painter
Wmn. B.mcnall
Ridgeway
Emily Black
New Sethiehem
Joanna. Kelley
Mary J. Logan
Farmarton
S. Nase
Rey Potsey Shore
Lyea Leona
Death notices from Mid Finton district and Warren
Obituaries and marriage notices: Mrs Mary A Vinton found dead after heart condition, husband J Martin Hoggle marries Elizabeth Hoggler in Warren Lutheran parsonage, George C Chapel dies aged about 45, Charles Lowe of Columbus weds Lillian Stranagan of Spring Creek in Sheffield.
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Finton
South Weat
Mary A. Vinton
Gtr
Vinton
J . Martin Hoggler
Warren
Lutheran Parsonage
P. Doerr
Peter Marti
Elizabeth Hoggler
Glide
Warren Co
George C
Lowe-Stranagan
Sheffield
A. A. Horton
Charles Lowe
Columbus
Misa Lillian Stranagan
Spring Creek
The Times enters the new year with independence and strength
The Philadelphia Times pledges independence and fearless reporting, promising broader readership, stronger organization, and a staff of capable contributors. It contrasts modern daily news with older weekly papers, touts edited concise dispatches, and outlines subscription prices for Daily, Sunday, and Weekly editions to support its forward-looking urban paper.
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Philadelphia Times
Times
the Times
Reading Journal
Philadelphia
The
Dag
Telegraph
Dews
Weekly Times
Piles Cure Ad and Church Pew Sale Report
A county notice advertises Dr Archisi’s Italian Pile Ointment guaranteed to cure internal and external piles with money back if not. Price is 50 cents a box, sold by A W Merck. Also noted is a sale of three pews at Mr Beecher’s church last Tuesday with a reported shrinkage in value since January 1893.
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Mr. Beecher
Noted Patent Medicines and Cough Syrup Advertisements
An assortment of early 20th century patent medicine pitches appears, touting Dr Ki New Discovery for consumption and coughs, Graves Heart Regulator, Bulls Concoction, Joseph's Oil for diarrhea, Emory's Little Cathartic Pills, Shedd's Little Mandrake Pills, and Shedd's Excelsior Cough Syrup. The fragment preserves vendor cues like Johnson & Siegfried and Warren, Pa, and markets claim cures for throat and lung ailments, heart disease, biliousness, and digestive issues.
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A. W. Merck’s
Dr. Ki
Valuable Encyclopaedia for Social Life Published
A detailed notice of A Very Valuable Work Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms by James D. McCabe, issued by The National Publishing Company. The advertisement touts its wide scope from etiquette to handwriting, public meetings, legal forms, and household guides, with 872 pages, superb engravings, and subscription sale through M Bly, canvassing at Gurver Ouse Warren Da.
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National Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Atlanta
Navy
Arlists
M. Bly
Asan
Gurver Ouse
Warren, da
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Georgia
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Ohio Politics
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Bob Ingersoll
Helen
W. C. Plummer
This County
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Dakota
Tie
Ely
T. B. Jexxs
Grand Rapids, Mich
Man
Renner Manufacturing
Smithfield St
Pittsburgh
Ludlow House
Hm, Silk, Proprietor
Questa
Jan
M. Silke
Christian Beag
Gottlieb Haag
Bulls Conzoe
Mayes
Cating
Chas. A. Johnson
Joseph
Johnson & Shefried
Warren, Pa
Emory
Shedd
Johnson & Siegfried
James D. McCabe
Fisher
Warren, Penna
Beech St
Dunkirk
Nixon & Cr
W. County
J. K. Weaver
Forest
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