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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1892
Page
6
A fragmentary poem by Richard Watson Gikter contemplates the earth walked by a holy figure in the Holy Land. It links sacred sites in Judea with the sun and moon that illuminate the path, while mourning a sacramental air tainted by base thoughts and foul deeds on hallowed ground.
A colonel narrates how a Gladstone bag holding ten pounds of nitroglycerin sparks a madcap odyssey from London to Paris. He hires, steals, and smuggles the deadly cargo, narrowly avoids seizure, and stores the explosives in Versailles after a perilous chase through rail cars, customs, and cab rides.
The Chicago Tribune recalls Whittier as an essayist and prose writer alongside Emerson Longfellow Lowell and Holmes. It notes 1833 pamphlet Justice and Expediency on slavery and lists prose titles like The Fish Didn’t Catch Pawtucket Falls Yankee Gypsies My Summer with Dr Singletary and The City of a Day.
A Buff alo Express item describes a well dressed young man who picks up a pin and explains that picking up pins with the head toward you ensures good luck for the day. He adds the charm requires wearing the pin on clothing until midnight.
The piece explains symbol meanings of engraved gems and their use as protective talismans. It notes the turtle and snail for domestic inclination, serpent for eternity, owl as reflection, Bacchus with a parrot for sociable inebriety, and women wearing poisonous symbols like scorpions and spiders for protection.
Chauncey Ripley urges New Jersey to build two major state roads from Cape May to Sussex and from Newark to Camden to revive agriculture. He proposes a state commission, funded by debt, to design and oversee highways, arguing widespread benefits, rising land values, and the potential to spur tributary improvements statewide.
In Lewiston Journal fashion a Maine woman asks a neighbor for a quarter to buy scissors after a series of refusals. Her child reappears asking for the same, highlighting a small domestic dispute over a simple tool and a neighborly gesture.
A fragmented exchange cites writer's cramp and life comparison. Ausband notes relief from common faults while Wife challenges his view, reflecting a domestic vignette in terse, clipped dialogue. No clear event or outcome is established.
Miss Maggie Donger of Shelbyville Indiana began a peculiar treatment for consumption last week. On medical advice she is consuming a diet composed entirely of young dog flesh as part of her regimen.
An advertorial piece touts Restorative Nervine as a cure for headaches, insomnia, neuralgia, and other nervous disorders. It claims Dr. Milles discovered it and offers trial bottles and testimonials via Morris & Mullens. The text also mentions a fatal incident where John Johnson, sixteen, shot his father and fled.
A short notice touts Alphonso Hempfling of Butler Pennsylvania claiming Restorative Nervine cures for speechlessness from St Vitus dance and lists several individuals from Indiana and Pennsylvania who gained weight or were alleviated from convulsions headaches and nervous prostration. Trial bottles and a book are offered free by Morris and Mullens who guarantee the remedy. A Minnesota bank examiner calls for winding up American Building and Loan Association of Minneapolis.
An old advertisement notes Castoria for a family's ailments through generations. A central part of Beverly West Virginia including the courthouse burned, leaving about five hundred people nearly homeless.
An advertisement notes a former local craftsman offers carpet weaving and rug making with specialties in striped and hit or miss patterns. Services include material drop off at his Glade township shop, pricing by yard, and prompt attention via Siegfried & Co. Also promotes books, printing, pharmacy goods, hair goods, and assorted items from local merchants.
A New Yorker report recounts a wedding night burglary where Charles Rohan W was accused of deceiving a neighbor and robbing a home. The wife kept her identity secret, while Shaw’s affidavit linked Rohan to the crime amid court appearances.
In Chicago yesterday a middle aged man approached Judge Tuley after a land case and offered five hundred dollars to Mrs Tuley for charity. The judge asked who could be told the money came from, and the man replied it was immaterial before departing.
A Clothier and Furnisher column notes that excess items like two umbrellas two bath robes two canes or two smoking jackets do not spoil gifts a pair of suspenders is the safest present and duplicates are acceptable a man may own a pair of suspenders for every pair of trousers
A ghost said to be a former mine foreman drives workmen from the 700 foot level of the Anaconda copper mine at Butte Montana. It perches on timbers in the stopes and issues orders on how to perform tasks. The report attributes the haunting to the foreman named in the Exchange item.
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