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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1876
Page
3
County officers and borough officers listed with names and titles along with several local notices. Mentions of oil men in town, ongoing projects, hotels, and transportation, plus remarks on local newspapers and politics. Also references to River, river craft, and upcoming centennial Fourth celebrations.
Reports from Warren describe Bellwell flowing after tubing, with estimates of 100 to 200 barrels per day. Many wells nearby begin pumping or drilling, drawing operators from Titusville and surrounding regions, signaling a busy, expanding oil boom with town transit and leasing interest surging.
Cooler with showers. Ground broken at Holt farm two and a half miles north of Warren. Old boilers moved through town. jobs for horses and men. Towle strawberries ripe. orders at house. Houses for rent rising. workers relocating. A Swede woman dies after a coughing spell in Sheffield. J D Giegerich opens barber shop at Revere House. skilled gravers. Struthers well to get drilling gear. result announced soon. Heinz to open machine shop for drill tools at Royton opposite Beatty’s. Rev. Mr. Riley of Youngsville may quit ministry for law, doubt on honesty. Anderson well imminent. oil could broaden regional activity. Dalrymple font in Republican fracas. Apple blight threats to crops. Oil territory viewed as strong. prospects for larger wells. No unemployment. state projects provide work. Band Convention preparations underway. processions and archways. Prohibition Picnic on Brokenstraw Island today. parade to depot for 1:14 train. Fourth of July poster: Hornellsville celebration with parade, fireworks. Gen. Crane marshal. Charley Crandall noted in banking firm.
A reader laments Ledger editor’s harsh personal attacks and asserts the paper should be relegated from civil discourse. The piece recalls W. L. Riley’s obituary and notes local lodge formations, real estate offer near the oil belt, and a cigar shop appointment at A. A. Davis & Co’s News Depot.
A travel note from Wilcox describes the Wilcox House run by Mr Patterson, once with the Adams Express Co., as well kept and polite. A visit to Ernhout at Wilcox Tanning & Lumber Co. leads to an excursion to a nearby oil well with a Kentucky thoroughbred, described by depth and roaring gas. A second letter defends a local candidate, denouncing anonymous criticisms and recounting local political loyalties and past supports. Community notices include a Sabbath picnic at Russellaburg, a Smethport marriage, and upcoming Chautauqua Assembly Herald publication plus various local commerce notices.
Horrific scenes unfold as Nick Baker allegedly tries to assault Mrs. Dougherty on the Columbia farm. She dies within twenty minutes from a heart wound while Thomas McCool is stabbed while pursuing Baker. Baker is captured and jailed as McCool lies near death. Dougherty returns to a shattered home and a grieving, enraged husband.
An old column promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to calm nerves by aiding digestion. It touts Impor ter's Sample Tea at 46 cents per pound, claims free samples, and urges readers to try Green's August Flowing for dyspepsia with small bottle trials and attendee offers. Also notes a July 4 tub race challenge by the Seven Sleepers Tub Club.
The Neptune brand ground full weight dredge top cans sold in bulk and 1 pound cans are advertised as strictly pure. The Whey powder claims to be the best and purest now on the market, offered in various packaging and full-weight guarantees.
A newspaper item advertises a broad assortment of canned fruits vegetables and preserved foods including peaches strawberries raspberries cherries plums pineapple pears currants corn tomatoes peas beans succotash pumpkin and more. The offer also lists oysters mushrooms sardines beef tongue and a wide tobacco and cigar selection with wholesale and retail options.
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