Ledger adopts cash subscription policy in 1887
The Warren Ledger announces a shift to prepaid cash subscriptions starting January 1, 1888, dropping in arrears subscribers and promising a larger twelve page issue with improved features. It touts a democratic stance, broader news coverage, and local Warren county focus while noting the prohibition vote in Atlanta and editorials on national politics.
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Ledger
Pennsylvania
the Ledger
Warmas
Globe
Warren County
Atlanta
Grady
Atlanta Constitution
Uowell
Ledger holiday edition expands to sixteen pages with ads
The Ledger announces a forthcoming sixteen page holiday edition with extra advertisements and illustrations. It highlights high ad rates but claims merchants gain strong returns, noting countywide reach in Warren and urging readers to peruse ad columns over the next four weeks for goods and bargains.
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the Ledger
Ledger
Warren
Publicity in Legal Notices Sparks Broad Outcry
In eastern Pennsylvania counties courts control which papers print legal ads, creating monopolies and hiding notices from the public. The Ledger faces Republican pressure as officials withhold patronage, yet it remains widely circulated. The sheriff favors obscure papers and same rates, suggesting rebates influence decisions.
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Pennsylvania
Warren County
Ledger
Thanksgiving at Home The Return to the Dear Old House
The piece extols Thanksgiving as a return to home and family, praising the comfort of the homeplace, mother and father, and the peaceful, reconciled spirit of reunion. It invokes John Howard Payne’s lines and the timeless refrain Home sweet home, closing with a note about violin strings at Wyman and Davis.
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New England
John Howard Payne
Ana
Mecca
Wyman & Davis
Fragmented 19th century record mixes politics and prosecutions
A sweeping mash of 1887 era items covers Republican claims on Northern soldiers, a murder trial involving ARENSDORF, wreck casualty counts, a Treasury report on 1887 revenues and deficits, a Chinese admission case in New York’s courts, and real estate transfers listing farms, homesteads, and property deeds across multiple towns. The piece weaves political, legal, and financial items with numerous named individuals and places.
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Dennis Kvarnng
Preme Court of
New York
Hang Yen Chang
United States District Court
Court of Appeals
Chang
Yale College
Columbus Law School
Literary Notes in Harper s Magazine for Christmas
A survey of poetry and prose in Harper s Christmas issue with verse by Preed Carleton and Lang translations, Harriet Bradley Christmas song, plus notes on Mr Murat Ulstead province essay in Forum about democracy and senate. Drake s Magazine and The Cosmopolitan highlights include frontispieces, articles, and poetry from Hawthorne to Lowell Y. W. Ayer s Annual discusses newspaper advertising. The November Century covers Washington home and Mount Vernon, with Drift the Buffalo humor paper also reviewed.
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Harper's
Euwin A. Abbey
Preed
Gilbert Gaul
Will Carleton
Carleton
Andrew Lang
Matthew Arnolds
William Black
Heine
Henry
Ogrres
Harriet Lewis Bradley
St. Anthony of Padua
Murat Oulstead
Cineinnati Commercial Gazette
Democratic Party
Shell
Senate
Supreme Court
Cosmolitan
Win T Tornaday
Julian Hawthorne
California Ranch
Ella Sterling Cumming
Shirley Dare
Joel Benton
William H. Rideing
James Russell Lowell
Joseph T. Alling
Harriet Prescott
Uncle Mason
F.D Murfree
Sequatchee Valley
M. Fulano
Louise Chandler Moulton
George Edgar Montgomery
Edith M. Thomas
May Riley Staith
Henry Torrett
Frank Dempster Sherman
Washington
Mount Vernon
Wash
Doxology and parrot tale shared in Warren paper tale
A Warren newspaper item highlights a Washington visit by the president and Mrs. Cleveland at church, plus a humor tale of a deacon and a parrot. Also advertised are Golden Specific cure claims, art services, and a Smyrna rug bonanza with clothing and knit goods offers from Hunter & Jarvis.
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Cleveland
Washington
Nwubserver
Church Sewing Society
Haines
Golden Specific Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lyrae Aes
M. RK. English
Diamond Block
Taiani
Hunter & Jarvis
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Keep Bros
Warren, PA
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Dos
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pulitzer
New York World
Dana
the Sun
Courier-Journal
A. Witz
Warren Ater
Arensdorf
George Haddock
Eretary
W. A. Scholten
Rosa Mary
Dover
James W. Hyatt
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Newell
Fred Wagner
Mary E Tyde
Spring Creek
N F Ilyde
Nancy W Trumbull
John Trumbull
Sheffield
John Wedess
John Spencer
Sugar Grove
Augusta Johnson
A M McDonald
Mary Irvine
Martin V Irvine
Freehold
Lemuel Irvine
Martin Y Irvine
Burchard
Jennie F Storer
Pittsfield
Rachel Zeigler
John St. McWilliams
Glade
Geo Welker
Pennsylvania Gas Co
Joanna Sullivan
Same
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J M Turney
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Thurya M Phillips
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Kay
Drake's
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Hudson and
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W. W. Ayer & Son
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York
Tower Publishing Co
Allerheny Pa
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London Life
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