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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1891
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press note recounts a Lime Kiln Club meeting where Brother Gardner lists fanciful reforms like expanding currency and higher meat prices to ease poverty. Other vivid vignettes follow, including a photographer’s tense session with Ras Chugwater and a cartoonish chat about overwork causing nervous prostration in Munsey’s Weekly.
In a six year litigation over a prized coon dog between Jaggs and Henderson the dispute has cost nearly $20,000. Pryor asks the point at issue and the lawyer explains the case began over ownership of the dog. The dog died early in the second year of the suit.
Brenkenson, fresh from church in a somber frame, teaches his 4 year old daughter the Jonah and the whale. Ethel, with wide eyes, then declares she can tell a bigger lie, prompting a wry moment captured by the Somerville Journal.
A reflective note cites the paradox of memory and forgetting, musing that easier to forget what one would rather forget persists longer than what one wishes to recall. The piece frames memory as a tangled choice, prompting readers to consider personal recall and avoidance.
The Des Moines Leader quotes varied use of feminine titles in early 20th century press. It cites a well known real estate speculatress, a presidentress of a fair board, and an elopement involving dime museum performers, illustrating evolving language and social roles in journalism.
Hurly asks Burly what business he is in and Burly answers stock brokerage. Burly notes there is much money in that business but adds that much of his own money is in it, in a wry line of dialogue from Puck.
A brief note from Texas Siftings portrays a threatening exchange over food and favors amid courtship turmoil. A man of seven years finally asks the maid to marry, but her evasive reply leaves the matter unsettled as Cape Cod Item reports.
Ten men ride from the depot to a Charleston hotel. A polite but sly man retrieves a wallet from a young eyeglass wearer, then boasts about gentlemanly conduct. An officer is called, the crowd disperses, and later the supposed gentleman thanks others for their courtesy, only to reveal he escaped by sawing a window bar and fleeing.
A New York Sun clipping recalls a Jackson Mississippi railroad stockholders gathering. A colored man whispered to a duty officer about wage cuts, sparking a tense exchange of identities and kinship claims before a cautious, coded remark about future actions at the meeting.
Marah Rocke writes a sentimental farewell in Housekeepers Weekly, bidding a friend goodbye as life’s winds drift them apart. The poem promises future joy, hoped reunions, and blessings, urging patience until paths cross again and happiness returns.
A young lawyer, practicing a few years, receives an unexpected gift from a client. A brown paper parcel with red wax seals contains Blackstone's Commentaries volumes. The reveal prompts a stern recollection of a past dispute, illustrating a blunt teaching about professional ethics and boundaries.
The master of the rolls and two judges hear Bolander the Swedish tailor in a libel appeal over a description as a drummer. Bolander argues the term is misrepresentative and injurious to his craft of cutting breast pockets while critics press the pianist analogy.
The Lenox Herald reports a royal opening at an exhibition where Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice signed the visitors book. The mayor and his wife joined the titled guests, the mayor’s wife writing Jane in bold after the royal names. The book’s official in charge is missing, believed to have exploded in an anteroom.
A Boston note recalls a clever housekeeper who stores unwanted items in a trunk and finds them later when needed. San Francisco stories honor the late Kalakaua as a linguistic reader of Greek and Biblical texts. A Nashville man wears a petrified human eye in a gold frame found in Peru during an Inca expedition.
Kate Thorn paints a satirical caricature of a wealthy, anxious man who clings to his riches while denying aid, fearing bank failures and railroad losses. He trims expenses, shuns charity, scolds workers, and decries taxes as he downgrades his family’s living standards amid hard times.
In this fragment from Currill Magazine a dog is praised for philosophical thought and self aware attachment. The creature blends permanence with change and seeks a human protector, using intelligence to shape benefits. The writing frames the dog as unusually thoughtful and insightful.
The New York Evening Sun notes that photography exposes hidden flaws and truths in people, revealing likenesses, vanity, deception, and concealed traits the sun exposes. It cites James's story The Liar and an artist who painted a portrait showing a consummate liar, illustrating how portraits can reveal what lies beneath.
A St. Louis Republic item recalls a traveler describing a Prague mill where a devilish figure was said to preside. He also notes a similar tale in a Bavarian or German context, framing the encounter as a sensational local anecdote from the era.
A brief dialogue cites a phrenologist praising a finely shaped head as full expression while a layman concedes there is little room left for new ideas per Kate Field's Washington.
Elorle Williams declares his seventh annual harvest home on December 1 1840 inviting friends for daily dinners up to May 1 at 25 cents each. He lists dairy stock fruit vegetables and canned goods including cows hens turkeys potatoes turnips beets carrots onions cabbage pickles sauces canned fruit corn beans peas tomatoes and oysters with meals offered daily and meats available to order.
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