Returning Home Helps Ecuadorian Reporter Get Scoop
In a personal letter dated Feb 4 1894 from Pizarro, the author describes a voyage from Callao to Panama and on toward San Francisco. He notes quarantine in Panama due to yellow fever risks at Guayaquil, evolving conditions along the Colombia coast, and a colonial mix of passengers including an Ecuadorian reporter seeking news. He assists the reporter by uncovering a tip about Ecuador’s government buying engineers for warships, hoping the lead yields a column or scoop.
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Panama
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Valparaiso
Callao
Pizarro
Imperial
Balmaceda
Chile
Washington City
Frisco
States
England
U.S. of Columbia
Buenos Ayres
Puna
Peru
Ecuador- Peru
Mexico
Brooke
F. A. Hazerrine
Court News: Smith v Horns verdict for plaintiff
In the case Sarah Cordelia Smith versus Carl and Margaret Horn a verdict favorable to the plaintiff was returned for $10.75 for damages and costs. The next case, Joseph A Weible versus Stoneham Tannery Co. et al., involved broker services for timber land purchases in Forest county. The jury awarded the plaintiff $1,000 after disputes over commissions and a partial payment of $1,100.
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Sarah Cordelia Smith
Carl Horn
Margaret Horn
Joseph A. Weible
Stoneham Tannery Co
Forest County
Philadelphia
Fire Destroys Balston Harrington Block in Youngsville
Fire discovered at 3 30 Sunday morning in rear of the Balston and Harrington Block on East Spring Street. Three story brick building interior badly wrecked with $10000 damage. First floor housed Oil City Fuel Supply Co and Max Nartowsky dry seeds store. Tidewater Pipe Line Co offices on second floor. Building built 1872 and to be rebuilt. This is second major fire in a week. Meacham and Tunstall advertise bakery and cafe at 308 Second St Warren Pa.
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Balston & Harrington
East Spring Street
Oil City Fuel Supply Company
Max Nartowsky
Tidewater Pipe Line Company
Our Man About Town in Warren Offbeat Notes
A column recounts local matters in Warren from church and bank leadership to gender questions in jury duty and school boards. It comments on annexation talk, future electric lights, Fifth Street bridge, and a temperance demonstration, mixing anecdotes about mothers, babies, and a mysterious mud stained stranger.
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Mary Louis
Taffan Whitney
Unitarian Church
West Somerville
Mass
First National Bank of
Lexington
Neb
H. R. Temple
E. A. Temple
Warren
Chicago
Miss Farsin
Fifth Street Bridge
And the People Stood Beholding W C T U Column
Brief notes from Spring Creek and Stoneham Union on Luke 23 25 and the crowd at Jesus crucifixion. The piece challenges readers to oppose alcohol’s ruin and asks if modern Christians will act or merely stand beholding.
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Spring Creek
Stoneham
Jesus Christ
Palestine
W.C.T.U
Temperance program and new W U T U officers at Stoneham
Spring Creek M E Sunday School conducted a temperance program under Mrs A G Baker with singing, lessons, scripture references and readings. A $165 collection was given to the W C T U for temperance papers. New Woman's Union Temperance Union officers organized at Stoneham on March 7, 1894 with Louise Schemmelfeng as president and several district superintendents listed.
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M. E. Sunday School
Spring Creek
A. G. Baker
T.H. Hyer
Epworth Hymnal
T. H. Reno
Jesson
Epworth
Joel
Temperance Boys
Minnie Brownson
M. Lena Jackson
Viola Carpenter
Stoneham
Louise Schemmelfeng
Alice Scott
Libbie Quinn
Carrie Baldensperger
Elia Bines
T. Strickland
Ee Schemmelfeng
T Strickland
Wies
Flower Mission
Libbie Quinp
Chas
Schemmelfeng
Women’s Duty and Influence Cited by Manchester Times
Evra Lacy writes that women’s spirit and work are vital to society and religion. She argues women must be granted rights and influences, asserting that withholding rights harms national life and praising mothers as childhood’s teachers.
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Evra Lacy
Manchester Times
Death of Parker M. Smith at Tiona in 1904
Parker M. Smith died in Tiona on February 22 1904 after a year long illness. Born in Concord Maine June 10 1854 he was 89 years 9 months and 11 days old. He lived in Tiona ten years and is survived by his mother a son and a brother. Funeral at his residence on Sunday February 25 under K of P Clarendon lodge. Interment in Quak Lund cemetery Warren Pa. The rest notes a Chicago soap claim and a Roman centurion definition.
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Parker M. Smith
Tiona
Mr. Smith
Concord
Maine
K. of P Lodge
Clarendon
Quklund Cemetery
Warren
Teaching Canaries In Saxony Town Deters Domestic Jobs
In St Andreasberg Saxony about 700 families rear and educate canaries for sale abroad. The best hohlroller birds fetch high prices while schreir canaries sell for 22 to 38 dollars in America. Education begins in May teaching young birds by imitation near a master singer, cages wrapped to muffle noise and domed to amplify sound.
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Saxony
St. Andreasberg
London
Australia
United States
Germany
Harz
America
Koller
Canaries
Popular Science News
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure and Reward
A 19th century advert entices readers with Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh claiming a constitutional cure. It offers $100 if it fails and cites testimonials from F. J. Cheney Co Toledo and local druggists T. F. Anthony Warren Pa.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren
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A. Hazeltine
Youngsville
Meacham & Tunstall
Macuam & Tunstatt
Second St
Warren, Pa
Man
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Allegheny City
New York
Fifth Street
Glade
Corydon
M. A. Root
S. B. Morrison
Corydon School Board
S. M. Ault
W.C.T. U
Ault
Charles Marsh
L. W. Flatt
Johnston
Quinn
Sugar Run
Bradford
Salamanca
B. M
Boston
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