Around the County Notes and Local Gossip
Town news from Norrs Wares and nearby areas recounts spring pew building, crop troubles from drought, and garden seeds failing. The Arcanum order marks eight years with a White's supper. Seventh day Adventists prepare a house of worship. Farmers' Club meets at the court house. Local anecdotes cover a tin pedlar chase, Margarine talk, and whisky-license remonstrances. Garland and Jackson Run road notes close with weathered farm chatter and tariff reform debate in Pennsylvania Democrats.
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Norrs Warees
Arcanum Order
White’s
Seventh Day
Deacon Button
Panama
P. Berry
Farmers’ Club
Court House
Lott
Jackson Run
Ped
Cleomargatine
Warren
Star Pex
The Old Pastor's Dismissal in Warren Parish
With Miss Nye of Warren as teacher and Miss Hazeltine of North Warren ill, the church dismisses the aging pastor. The deacons seek a younger man to lead the fold, and the pastor resigns in silence amid sorrow and quiet faith. The people gather, puzzled and grieving, as Providence’s ways unfold.
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Nye
Warren
Hazeltine
North Warren
Orn Ros
White House wedding minister Byron Sunderland long served
Rev Byron Sunderland officiated Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom’s marriage and has led the same Washington church for 33 years. He was Senate Chaplain from 1861 to 1864 and again from 1872 to 1878, taking ill health breaks and a Paris posting. He returned to his pastorate in 1866 and remained until his second six year tenure. In notes to women, shops advertise art supplies and Mrs Gilmore’s latest millinery designs.
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White House
Grover Cleveland
Frances C. Folsom
Washington
United States Senate
Siik
Paris
France
New York
Opium Cure Debate Prompts Public Testimony
A former opium user recounts brutal cravings and a life ruined by daily doses. He credits Warner’s Safe Cure and a kidney and liver focus as key to breaking the habit, claiming strong medical endorsement and success across many cases.
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Vine Street
de Quincy Ins
HL. c. Wilson
Loveland, O
March, Harwood & Co
S . Louis
H.C. Wilson & Co
Warner
Wilson
Wn Sn
Special sale at Bell Bros on Hermes line
Bell Bros announces a one week consignment sale starting Monday May 24 offering 100 spring wrap styles from Hermes Wolf & Cold at manufacturers prices. Goods billed to receive or pay, 40 percent savings guaranteed. Also discounts on prints cottons linens and ginghams with low prices across all departments. Benn Bros.
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Hermes, Wolf & Cold
Bo Us
Benn Bros
Last Hemlock Timber of Wayne County Disappears
The article notes the long decline of Wayne county hemlock forests once supplying large tannery operations. Dill Kimble, a veteran river pilot, drove the last logs to mills and had previously led the first log drive in 1860. The loss ends a mill era as tanneries relocate to other counties with remaining vast hemlock forests.
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Dyberg
Dill Kimble
Wayne County
Union
Eus
Forest
Warren
Finse
Purge tive PeNets Dr. Pier remedy claim
An advertising fragment touts Dr. Pier Purge tive PeNets as a pure vegetable harmless cathartic for stomach and bowel derangements. It claims small size and pleasant sensation, labeled as household remedy with fig plaster and Hop Plaster equivalents. Appears as early 20th century ad copy urging relief from pain and disease.
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Pier
Tive PeNets
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Bradford
M. CO. Isher
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Mercer County
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Jackson
Pennsylvania
Randall
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The
Buffalo News
Congress
Chicago
Byron Sunderland
A.A. Davis & Co
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John Langdale
ALA. Davis & Co
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N. K. Wendelboe
Bell Bros
Salas
Fairheld
Tova
UWE
PARTI
MGST
Jinnie MM
Long
Lhereby
Jons D
Lona
Baipena Pittstiell
Gaur Hix
Miss Daggett
Miss Daggett’s
Larest Stynes
Miss Daggett S
USA
Jamieson’s
King
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Tenn
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Lowell
Bood
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C. M. Stanley
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Ace. Pa
Matrick
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