The Ledger's Letters June social notes and visits
Thompson Hall reports the principal happenings in Jamestown area society. Jessie Braley of Jamestown visited friends, Baptists held communion, Putnams and Mahans visited Wattisburg, wedding guests to 88 Prospect Street, Miss Clara Nelson hosted Corry sister, Congregational Sunday School event with ice cream social, Stella Phillips celebrated seventeenth birthday with 35 youths, seven dollars given in tokens, Braleys spent days at their old home, Putnams and Mahlans returned from Wattburg.
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Prospect Street
Jamestown
N.Y
Clara Nelson
Corry
Congregational
Stella Phillips
H. A. Braley
Lander
Messrs
H. A. Putnam
D. J. Mahan
Wattsburg
Fox Hill News Roundup From June Activities
Fox Hill locals report visits and hospitality across the community. Mr. and Mrs. Roman Schnur hosted relatives, with several others from Steamburg and West Spring Creek joining gatherings at Fox homes. A Wrightsville trip to Chautauqua and revival services in Columbus are noted along with school closure for summer. Additional items include an Epworth League ice cream social raising nine dollars and a report of a boxing match on the Ohio River ending with Jerry Marshall defeating Teddy Glenn.
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Levi
Thurston
Wrightsville
Juxz
N. J. Wright
Olive
Chautauqua
Correll
Titusville
Hopkins
Columbus
Wilkinson
Panama
Edith Irvine
Warren
Epworth League
Rev Hopkins
Susie Stowell
Pleasantville
Joseph Sliter
Odd Fellows
Stidtson Hill
Rex
Fody Glenn
Pittspore
Jerry Marshall
Australia
Teddy Glenn
England
Ohio River
Marshail
Glenn
Obituary notices from Warren reflect multiple deaths
Obituaries report the sudden death of Peter James Christianson at his Fifth Street home after a long asthma and consumption illness He was born in Copenhagen in 1845 and lived in Warren twenty years He leaves a wife and stepson Charles Buerstedt The funeral was held Tuesday at 10 o clock under Knights of Pythias directions Catharine Brown aged 83 died after seven months illness born in Sugar Grove in 1811 She was a Presbyterian for over fifty years and leaves sister Mrs Fisk and brother Judge W D Brown John R Johnson 36 died of consumption in Warren He worked in the oil business and leaves father brother Robert and sister Mrs Sarah F Watson The funeral of Johnson occurred yesterday The notice also mentions Beecham's pills and a Pittsburgh Daily Post price cut and finally reports the suicide of Thomas M Bayne ex Representative of the Allegheny District in Congress who killed himself with a pistol in Washington to end his illness and despair.
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Peter J. Christianson
Peter James Christianson
Fifth Street
Mr. Christianson
Copenhagen
Warren
Charles Buerstedt
Knights of Pythias
Catharine Brown
Miss Brown
Sugar Grove
Presbyterian Church
Fisk
Michigan
W. D. Brown
John R. Johnson
Johnson
Robert
Sarah F. Watson
Washixeton
Thomas M. Bayne
Allegheny
Congress
Grand Valley Lodge mourns loss of H. Ken Lyon
At a June 18 1894 meeting of Grand Valley Lodge No 1072 resolutions expressed deep sorrow for the death of H. Ken Lyon and extended sympathy to his family. The charter is draped for 30 days, copies sent to the family, minutes note, and notices published in Warren Ledger and Meadville Tribune.
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Goopwit Hirz
Grand Valley Lodge
H. Ken Lyon
Warren Ledger
Meadville Tribune
F. M. Downixe
Henry N
HO. H. Hoit
Bed bugs, iron, and cabinet ignorance in a quirky weekly
The Verango Spectator repeats a bizarre tale of a bed bug surviving being dropped into molten iron and emerging unharmed. The Meadville Star comments on a lack of political knowledge among a young man, noting ignorance of the President's cabinet and Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate representative.
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Verango Spectator
Dad’s Moore
Meadville Star
Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Curious slug and eye straightening tale from era papers
A New York Ledger note describes a translucent slug six inches long kept in a jar with leaves, crawling slowly as its body stretches. A Boston Advertiser excerpt critiques a Japanese eye straightening practice cited as painless, highlighting a surgeon profiting from the trend.
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Earth
New York Ledger
Local wallpaper stock sold to Ackley Chipps at 232 Water St
We certify the entire stock of wallpaper and goodwill sold to Ackley Chipps & Co at 232 Water Street and closed our store. The notice urges patrons to visit their store for a full line of wallpaper, shades, frames, paints, and painter supplies at fair prices. Warren Pa May 28 1804. The rest advertises cheap goods at the new Racket Store 280 Water Street and praises Ackley Chipps designs and services.
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Ackley, Chipps & Co
Water Street
Warren
New Rogers Block
Geo. F. Yates
D. M. Howard
Morris & Mullen’s Drug Store
Water St
Buffalo
Corry
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