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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1889
Page
5
A New York Star inspired piece argues wives endure domestic drudgery while husbands neglect emotional support. It laments cold responses and petty daily cruelties, urging men to speak affection, show sympathy, and share burdens to prevent fractured marriages and wasted lives.
In a spring morning tableau a popular city ticket agent named Charlie attempts to lead his two year old Jersey cow to pasture on Franklin avenue using a rope around the cow's horns. The cow breaks loose, sending owner and animal into a wild, accelerating dash past telegraph poles and fences until a collision with a telephone pole wounds the tether. After the break, the relation between Charlie and the cow cools and the rope is no longer used.
The narrator describes approaching the Lofoden Isles with serrated peaks and glaciers catching sunlight. Eider ducks nest on rocky coves and their down protects warm quilts. A morning glimpse reveals whales, porpoises, seals, and playful marine life as the voyage nears the Arctic Circle per Temple Bar.
A Minneapolis woman traveling with the West-Oné Laittre party recalls being asked for her patron saint in Munich. She claimed Uncle Sam as her patron saint after being named Donizetti by her father. Officials recorded it, but German officials later demanded explanation and ordered her out. Also noted a Calaveras man. a 112 pound beet fed three cows for four days.
Field explorer recounts discoveries near Lima and Ancon during the Peruvian war with Chile. He describes mummies, grave depths, roofed adobes, pottery, gold and silver ornaments, copper tools tempered to steel, and the harsh labor of digging while noting the ages and fate of many bodies.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive for seasickness and a tonic for travelers by land or water. It claims protection against malaria rheumatism and bowel disorders from tainted water, plus stomach soothing, appetite boosting and nerve invigorating effects. Endorsed by Mrs Eowanp Gacix of New Haven and listing wholesale and retail outlets in Scranton and New Haven.
Borough council approves granting Forest Gas Company the right to lay pipes and connections for natural gas. Pipes must be wrought iron, buried at least one and a half feet, located as directed, and trench openings kept minimal for public travel. Street conditions to be restored to prior state after work. Dated May 16. Also notice: building a schoolhouse in Glade Run with bids due June 1, 1880. Plans available at William ONeil residence. Hazeltime and Davidson officials.
Tomorrow marks a broad sale on spring and summer dress goods with reductions across the entire stock. Prices drop 25 to 30 percent on all dress fabrics, including the richest and most handsome styles.
A seller lists 200 handsome parasols of latest shapes with fine material and varied handles. No parasol under 3.50 dollars, many valued higher, all priced to move at 1.45 dollars each during the week.
Beaded wraps offered at special prices now four fifty, items valued ten dollars or more. Jackets in black corkscrew spring styles close at three seventy five and up. Ladies gloves and hosiery featured in new spring shades with bargain pricing. Lifle thread hosiery with spliced toe and heel available at twenty five cents. Lisle thread ribbed veata with silk stitching at twenty five cents, commonly sold for fifty cents. save the quarter.
The retailer announces an enormous carpet sale effective since April 1 with damaged stock offered at large reductions. Items include Cotton Ingrains 18 cents, Extra Super 40 cents, Tapestry Brussels 35 cents, Body Brussels 70 cents, Moquettes 105 dollars, Velvet 85 cents, plus this week specials on Jace curtains, art squares and rugs.
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