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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1884
Page
6
A reflective verse fragment condemns wealth hoarding and social indifference. It contrasts idle comfort with starving children, asking who benefits from the world’s labor and urging awareness of those left behind by yearly gains and profits.
A masquerade gala plans backfire on Kitty Grondy as her suitor Mr. Porter poses in disguise at the academy. The flirtation with a young Andalusian crony leads Kitty toward a hasty engagement to Porter for his fortune, while Mrs. Grondy unwittingly sabotages the match. Porter confronts Kitty, reveals the truth, and departs forever, leaving Kitty lamenting the loss of fortune and romance.
A London suitor lacking courage tries to pop the question by borrowing his beloved’s pet pigeon to carry news of his arrival. The bird returns the same day with a note suggesting a proposal, carried in a quaint little quill. The plan proves successful, blending humor with romance.
Peter Symonds left sixty boys at Christ's Hospital annual pennies and raisins after Good Friday service at Allhallow's Church in Laurel Street, a custom kept since his death about 1590. At St Bartholomew the Great, West Southfield, twenty one widows visit an old churchyard tomb each Good Friday to take a new sixpence placed there, a practice observed for nearly four centuries with the benefactor now forgotten.
An 1883 column-based advertisement tale from Prince George County extols Hop Bitters as a cure-all uplifting a pale wife to beauty and a healthier family. It mirrors era patent medicine pitches, touting remedies for biliousness hair loss and colds, with testimonials from local readers and doctors in Pittston and nearby towns.
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