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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1895
Page
4
The piece weighs naval combat lessons from the Yellow Sea showing armored ships versus quick Japanese torpedo craft. It contrasts Japanese adaptability with Chinese sluggishness and criticizes Cuban misrule under Spain. It notes Britain, New Holland, and Turkey incidents and ponders Armenian suffering and Japan’s influence on China.
A Monday evening meeting in the Armory parlors elected Wm Muir as chairman and F A Shreves as temporary secretary. The Recreation Park Association Limited is formed with capital stock increased to 10000 dollars and a charter application adopted. A new 200 by 500 foot ground strip from Mr Inderleid and a 0.75 mile bicycle track were laid out. The grand stand design is finished and will begin once lumber arrives, with 1200-seat capacity and facilities.
A dealer touts cash discounts and low prices on tea, coffee, ham, syrup, flour, corn, tomatoes, matches, seeds, onion sets, and dried fruits. He claims to stretch each dollar, invites buyers to verify savings, and signs as G. H. Stickland at Waters' block near the Postoffice.
Mrs. Allie Corbett, wife of champion fighter James Corbett, has begun divorce proceedings. She declined interview while her father hinted the report may be true. Corbett is training at his quarters and manager Billy Brady would not comment.
Hone Kone reports that Formosa's movement for a republic has ended with leaders fleeing. The populace has joined soldiers in rioting and looting, causing widespread chaos. Foreign residents remain safe but anxiety rises.
United Press sues Clay ton R. McMichael of the Philadelphia North American for 100000 in damages over an article published June 1 described as false libelous and defamatory. English Spavin Lotion advertised promises to cure horse blemishes and ailments with a Warren Pa. druggist endorsement.
June 5 report from Constantinople notes a panic in Jeddah with Europeans seeking shelter on foreign vessels to avoid possible Bedouin attacks. Authorities urged calm as residents evacuated to the port.
Advertising note seeking salesmen to sell Non-Nicotine Midgets Cigars with salary or commission. Free samples offered. Address Landis & Co. Shippensburg Pennsylvania 26 W-25-E us.
An evening graduation program filled the opera house as the preparatory class received certificates and moved to the Warren academy. Essays by Ethel Wood May Leonhart Flora L Stewart and others highlighted the event with recitations, choruses, and a Whitier poem.
The Warren Co WCTU notes its twenty one year anniversary with a recounting of its widespread reach. It highlights the World’s Petition for temperance, the Temperance Temple, and seventeen county departments led by superintendents. The report lists budgets, memberships, and ongoing bills, including school and custody reforms, plus a tone of resilient optimism.
Advertises Dr. Agnes's remedy for organic and sympathetic heart disease with relief in 30 minutes. Claims to cure palpitation shortness of breath and left chest pain in one dose. Sold by P. H. Dixons. 46-ly.
Forty masked, armed men have left to intercept sheep herds entering the parks as cattlemen warn them out. Tension mounts with potential clashes feared between herdsmen and cattlemen in the border region.
DErRorr June 5. Two hundred fifty cigarmakers in several shops have struck to protest the open or annex system that trains boys and girls in all branches of the trade.
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