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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1895
Page
6
In the Italian senate a heated dispute over a proposed tax on boards led to blows among honore d statesmen. Crippling finances and a failing treasury prompted Crispi to seek propositions from senators on raising funds as Italy faces a looming deficit. The debate produced many impractical and humorous proposals as officials searched for new revenue sources.
Dr Abie W Nelson of New London showcases a rubber padded police club designed to subdue suspects without lasting injury. Tests at a morgue in New York used skulls and a 200 pound calf, showing dazed recovery but no brain damage. the calf was later killed.
In a heated session from the Italian senate Casale from Spiro pitched a beard tax to raise funds. The plan drew laughter and later a physical altercation with Count Laurenzano, ending with the purquant-at-arms restoring order. No beard tax was enacted and Italy’s finances remained dire.
In New York a cousin by marriage of the Marlborough bride sues Jacob Hand Vanderbilt for separation and support. She recalls a settlement after a prior alienation suit and says the husband’s conduct, urged by his father, broke their marriage. She seeks alimony and notes his income has risen yet.
An 1880 Kentucky legislature reception for Charles Stewart Parnell is recounted with a mistaken introduction of Mr Cornell by the speaker, corrected after Parnell whispers the right name. The anecdote, cited from Fun on the Stump in Century, recalls public sympathy for Ireland and admiration for Cornell.
A year and a half before the Civil War Savannah hosted the last great slave sale, 988 enslaved people sold over two days for $803,850. Pierre Butler, later linked to Fanny Kemble by marriage, faced heavy gambling losses leading to the sale of his enslaved family. The sale prohibited family division, yet broke that promise when Tom Pate bought a man, his two sisters and wife and later split the sisters, triggering a deadly feud.
A Chicago Tribune description explains how sales managers place colored pins on territory maps to signal goods and quantities. Beads mark markets, guiding salesman routes, campaigns, and advertising pushes across regions until territories yield to competition.
A remarkable Fourth of July speech in Seattle by Matthew P. Seattle, a full blooded Indian and grandnephew of Seattle’s namesake chief, praising Americans for raising his race from degradation and recognizing the land they share. He told friends and countrymen that Americans possess the land that is truly America and that his people once occupied.
Fragmentary verse voices grief and distant strangers in a dated lyric. The speaker laments unpurchasable jewels and tears shed by another, insisting the sorrow is not for the listener but for the past owner and the speaker’s own distance from shared feeling.
A San Francisco Post tale describes a Humboldt County hunting guide feud over a wife and sister in law ending in a gun wound and ongoing watch on mountain trails. The piece then defines parody basics with examples from classical and contemporary authors, noting wit, brevity, and fair familiarity as core.
The largest oak board ever sawed came from a mammoth tree near Scottsburg Indiana. The tree stood 87 feet in circumference and was said to be the state’s largest perfectly round oak. Purchased by H Hermann of New York for 75 dollars the log yielded boards with a 10 inch thickness and up to 5 feet 234 inches wide at the butt. The 85 foot board required two yoke of oxen and eight horses for a full day to move 1014 miles to the depot on a broad tread wagon. Lumbermen claim it was the largest oak board ever sawn in America.
Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad schedule in effect Sunday October 20 1895 at 6 oclock A M EST. No trains on Sunday. Trains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday. Depot at Laurel and Fourth streets. C H Ketcham Superintendent.
The June 9 1895 Erie Lines timetable lists trains westward from Jamestown New York with vestibuled No 5 daily No 11 Pittsburg & Cleveland Ex daily No 3 Chicago Ex daily No 9 Accommodation Ex Sunday No 1 Cincinnati Ex Daily and No 87 Way Freight except Sunday. Eastward departures include No 6 Accommodation ex Sunday No 12 N Ex Daily No 10 New York Special No 16 Chautauqua Express and No 38 Way Freight. From Buffalo region No 108 Daily No 109 Daily except Sunday No 101 Daily. Officials Roberts and Busking Fours and Garfield are named as agents with their offices in New York Chicago Cleveland Jamestown.
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