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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1894
Page
8
The notice announces a special offer in Warren and vicinity with a price of 90 cents for the blank paper and 1.75 for a year of the Lxepazr and the New York Weekly World. It highlights a limited deal and provides subscription terms.
A brief collection of items reports two Franklin youths killed by a W N Y and P train near Polk after stepping onto the tracks. Other notes include a wedding in Warren and upcoming Elk parade participation, local business ads, and a foreign legend about tailed men.
The article mocks a beauty college that trains women in speech and expression, noting courses on pronouncing words like potato and using music to enhance looks. It jokes that Chopin unsettles fair-skinned pupils while Wagner suits brunettes, and laments the mystery of teaching graceful sleeping poses.
A party of five cyclists from Galitzia Pa passed through Warren yesterday en route to Buffalo and home via Philadelphia. The Titusville Iron Company Limited is rebuilding two 10,000 barrel iron tanks at Warren, cut down at Clarendon, owned by John Ellis. A ten man gang led by Nell McKenzie conducts the work.
Mrs Lizzie M Bots of South Williamsport Pa reports Hood's Sarsaparilla cured her child of scrofula over a year ago and she has stayed well. She also says two bottles relieved pain in her side and lungs and could have avoided consumption without it. Hood's Pills marketed for biliousness and headache. Falconer excursion rates offer 90 cent round trips June 18 to 24 with return by June 25 and train 11 held at Falconer for southbound passengers.
A clipped ad style snippet promotes C. P. Northrop’s claim of offering the best assortment of summer footwear at low prices while noting widespread claims about stock and inducements. The speaker urges investigation to be convinced.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierces Pleasant Pellets as a safe gentle remedy for constipation indigestion bilious attacks headaches and liver stomach or bowels derangements. It claims gradual lasting effects without harsh remedies and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
W A Johnson of Mitters Falls Massachusetts cites thirteen years of his wife’s illness and repeated cures using Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. He claims the medicine cured lung trouble kidney liver stomach ulceration and general debility and that it is a family medicine used by neighbors.
A 19th century note cites a French Academy of Sciences calculation claiming the world will be washed away by year 4500, as ocean erosion and volcanic action wear down land, with oceans covering continents. The claim reflects period fears rather than scientific consensus.
The London Court Journal notes each shot costs about 950 pounds including the projectile, with the gun priced at 39,000 pounds and a maximum of 60 firings. At two shots per minute, continuous firing would render it valueless in roughly 30 minutes. The gun’s range is 15 miles and its projectile weighs 2,600 pounds.
A Boston piece mentions a scheme about Mavd Frank Plutus proposing to Carrie while Edith Carie questions the brains versus money. A Biddeford tale cites a burglar scare as a woman’s illuminated clock is destroyed. Various snippets cover a London quip about rejection, marriage counts, and quirky curiosities including a Brooklyn deacon’s sieve for church money and a remark on the daily 3,000 marriages worldwide.
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