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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1878
Page
3
Minnesota winter shows little snow cover while Warren reports on court attendance, a sermon farewell by Rev Leroy, a lecture at the Baptist Church, a horse runaway, a kitchen farce at the Warren Comedy Club, school term closings and reopens, and legislative slow pace with a home burglary incident.
A Harugari parade in ludicrous masks passes a funeral procession returning from the Cemetery at the suspension bridge on Water Street. The mingling of gaiety and sorrow prompts reflections on masks of social life and common human pretense as the crowd moves.
A. B. Richmond of Meadville delivered a temperance lecture at the Court House last Tuesday. Hon. L. D. Wetmore chaired as the audience filled the hall and bar seats. Richmond argued against licensing liquor shops and supported woman’s suffrage as a path to ending legal sales. The lecture lasted about an hour and a half with little levity, ending in applause. A vote of thanks was given to Richmond and to the County Commissioners for the use of the hall.
Court convened last Monday with Judge Wetmore. juries verdicts include seduction and larceny Guilty while some cases continued. A lengthy satirical column mocks the Mail and silver politics. Local notes praise oxen, discuss weather and the Youngsville Literary Society formation. Baby teething warning ends with Dr Bull’s Syrup price.
A winter trip to Ridgway reveals thriving timber operations along the Clarion river with Hoffman & Co. and Curtis mills, a grand Hyde store and opera hall, a large Union School, two tanneries, a plank road, and active press scenes. J. S. Clyde and J. S. & W. H. Hyde are noted wealth makers. Ridgway Bank and Elk County Bank serve a bustling community. The piece praises local enterprise, governance, and civic spirit amid steady trade activity and modernization.
A 1878 traveler muses on meeting Gen Thomas Kane described as an invalid with enduring vitality. He reflects on his own limited travels and promises an engaging, instructive series about journeys from America toward a metaphorical Golden City, noting skies, roses, and sorrows along the way.
The article cites Dr. L Rabatz of Vienna noting that only a small class of patients may benefit from tooth replantation, with cautious prognosis and many cases unsuitable. It urges a slow approach, preferring extraction only when necessary to avoid total tooth loss and ongoing looseness.
Geo Ball and Company begin a Monday evening sale of a full line of Ready Made Clothing and Gent’s Furnishings due to moving to a new uptown store. Sale runs from March 4 until all goods are sold at the old store No 7 Keystone Block. Curley the brown spaniel is stray or stolen, return rewarded. Warren March 7 1878. J K Ronne announces spring woolens stock complete with new styles and invites comparisons on price and quality.
A street message from Hornellsville warns a target to stop pestering a wife and threatens consequences if not. The same issue advertises an old physician offering a free vegetable remedy for consumption and lung ailments by Dr M E Bell in Baltimore, with instructions to send for the recipe.
Beautiful song and chorus titled Silver Gray composed by 8. Turney, praised as one of the prettiest songs now published. Music dealers can mail it on receipt of 30 cents. Published by W. L. Thompson & Co. East Liverpool, Ohio.
A vintage barrage of patent medicines touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal antidote for fever, bilious issues, and stomach liver and bowel troubles, claiming malaria resistance. It urges Soyenck's Pulmonic Syrup for coughs and consumption, combined with Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Spa Weep Tonic, plus personalized advice from Dr. Schenck. It warns against fraudulent cures for Consumption and promotes Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar and Pike's Toothache Drops as remedies.
The famous remedy Boshee's German Syrup is claimed to have cured throat and lung diseases after distributing 2,400,000 free bottles over three years. Druggists nationwide endorse it. sample bottles cost 10 cents, regular 75 cents, with three doses claimed to relieve most cases. Dr. Duff of Buffalo offers pamphlets and further information.
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