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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1887
Page
3
Readers learn that a level head and strength in the forearm are key to racing success. Experience, not special training, shapes a good driver, with the healthful outdoors and steady effort building skill. The article notes owner conduct, horse knowledge, and that true driving comes from sulky practice, not handholding every horse.
A man learns a woman’s name and sees a friendly rival, only to discover he is her husband by marriage. The tale notes public sentiment as a tyrant and cites a papier mache church in Bergen Norway that seats 1,000.
Prof David Swing denounces mesmerism as mind control. The piece depicts aggressive stage routines where subjects obey commands, mocked as a critique of passive intellect. Swing notes women dominate the spectacle and warns of widespread susceptibility to such influences.
Max Eliot in the Boston Herald describes a New York social ascent scheme where a mother seeks to place her educated daughter with the help of a cultivated Gotham socialite. The arrangement nets thousands as the girl frequents high society while the mother avoids public intrusion, shadowed by lavish fittings at Mme Blank Blank’s residence.
In a Lewiston Journal style reminiscence at the De Watt house, Den nison of Portland discusses watchmaking costs with North Anson Trustee Ben Hilton and Rufus Prince of South Turner. They recount a Waltham founder claiming watches could be made by machinery for eighty eight cents, while a jeweler’s quote reached a dollar. Paris Ballet Corps notes include salaries from forty cents per appearance to six thousand dollars yearly for stars, tracing origins to Louis XIV in 1718. The Readoption of Iron highlights locomotives shifting from steel back to iron for key wear parts.
Washington’s Capitol site nears completion of the western approach with marble terraces and a grand staircase. The article notes the 1790 survey by the French engineer amid ongoing work, detailing dimensions, costs, and the future placement of statues and lamps. It compares the capitol’s grandeur to global landmarks and mentions the Garfield statue unveiling next month.
A blotter style health note announces a remedy called English spavin hument that supposedly removes hard or soft lumps and blemishes from horses and treats spavin curbs swellings and other leg ailments. It advertises a fifty dollar saving with one bottle and warrants the product, sold by L. G. Noyes a druggist in Warren Pennsylvania.
Rail timetable details trains from Warren to Sheffield Ridgway Erie and beyond with eastward and westward departures. Includes through Pullman sleeping cars Philadelphia Erie Williamsport Baltimore Washington and Kane connections plus Warren excursions from Sheffield and Ridgway. Officials Chas E Pugh and J R Wood listed as general manager and agent.
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