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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1885
Page
4
A local library in Struthers sets subscription terms at 2 dollars one year in advance with a reduced rate of 1.50 dollars per year for prepayment. The note indicates fiscal details for ongoing access and future renewals.
A long advertisement lists many Funk & Wagnalls titles offered as a premium for paid in advance subscribers. It promotes four books for one year at four dollars and details numerous novels, histories, and works by diverse authors, all highlighted as high quality and attractively bound.
A notice states customers can pay two dollars for two books and receive four dollars worth of books for fifty cents. It suggests remittance by postal note money order or registered letter, or visiting the library in person to complete the transaction.
Two paths to pure water for Warren are proposed. Elect officials pledging reform, or build new water works. The first is cheap and quick, the second costly but permanent, with voters urged to decide and local candidates to debate the issue openly. The Warren Water Company is blamed for yielding sewage alongside water, and a Morrison Run pipeline and dam are suggested if reform fails.
A baldfaced lie letter from Warren Pennsylvania dated January 16 1385 claims the imported editor of THE LEPGEIR quarrels with the Water Co over water charges for his shop. The editor replies that the accusation is a baldfaced lie and that the author knows it.
An editorial urges Warren's Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue E Cowan to remain in office. It notes his long faithful service, lack of partisan abuse, and Civil Service protections, arguing a Democrat should not demand his resignation for political gain.
The Corry Herald notes strange city water contents with mentions of lizards, tannery hair, tanbark, mud, and occasional alligators. It suggests readers check Taz Leperr of the week for more items and hints at local enterprise lacking progress in allcy matters.
A collage of local notices and satirical quips criticizes Sugar Grove pushing for borough status while mocking water works, prices, and political figures. The piece recalls historic incidents, oil storage, and political contrasts between Evarts and Cameron, ending with a jab at Republican legislators.
A personal note reports Mrs. Garfield claiming ownership of land in North Carolina without gold mines. She plans to travel south. The item then shifts to brief society notices about Theodore Tilton in Paris with Sarah Bernhardt, and mentions of various political figures and cultural anecdotes.
The fragmentary verse fragment features a winter lament by Fanny Irvine about Trop tard and the fading of summer dreams. It contrasts stormy imagery with a hopeful early morning scene. A second piece narrates children waking to peep o day as larks, cherubs, and leaflets celebrate dawn and bless God for the new day.
The Titusville company is commended for its professional training with a well rehearsed performance of the Chimes of Normandy. Mrs Wakefield receives praise, and soloists Ed McCuen May Burgess Jessie Stoddard are noted for strong work. Warren audiences expected to warmly welcome them again soon.
An adjourned meeting of Company I at the armory adopted unanimous resolutions mourning 8 J Allen a sergeant and honorary member. The committee expressed sympathy, praised his faithfulness as a soldier and citizen, directed minutes to record the resolutions, and called for publication in borough papers and transmission to his family.
A collage of quips and vignettes mixes jokes about parsons and bears with flirtatious banter and a Russian belt metaphor. Local items note Franklin Sportsmen’s Club planning quail importation for about 150 pairs, with $50 allocated and March release, plus two 1885 marriages in Warren and Farmington.
Obituary notice states Jane wife of Samuel G Hook died January 17 1885 in Glade aged 42 years 4 months The brief notice records her survivor and date of death for local readers.
E T Roberts secretary of the Titusville Gas Works describes a Canadian invention by Peter English. The machine uses a cupola furnace with a two chamber design and a superheater to gasify steam and petroleum with coke. It yields 60,000 cubic feet per day, costs 3,000 dollars, runs on one man, and delivers 24 candle power gas for 1.50 per 1 060.
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