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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1888
Page
8
EJ Cleret reports a bustling Warren area with visits from Philadelphia residents, social dances, and holiday plans. Local incidents include a broken arm, a stolen watch, burglaries, a deer bludgeoned by dogs, and a larger oil field discovery near Towanda. Marriages, receptions, theater plans, and charity suppers fill the social calendar as readers await events at Library Hall and Bennett’s hall.
The Baptist church ladies plan a Library hall concert on Tuesday evening in December. The program includes an eight hand two piano piece and quartettes. Mrs Caldwell Miss Barnes and Miss Hovey will headline with celebrated press notices praising their voices. Warren locals travelling to Philadelphia join the audience.
MOXIE N.K. Wenderlove presents a large wallpaper invoice tied to asbestos roof paint claims and warranties, with promises of ten years free repointing and bonds. Local shops offer shoes, lumber, violin strings, and insurance while Jacob Keller touts midmarket tailor goods and Watt furniture.
A fragmentary OCR shows book mention of Mrs Mary Livermore a noted abolitionist and author. It lists several marriage notices from Warren and surrounding towns with names Becker Schafer Weiss Ward Abplanalp Balmer Lawless Cady Haines Hamna Burgeson Anderson and dates in 1880s.
Harper's periodicals advertise per year subscriptions for Harper's Weekly Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young People. Details cover postage free rates to U S Canada and Mexico and volumes bound in cloth with postage paid or by express. Remittances by postoffice money order or draft and note that newspapers should not copy the ad without Harper & Brothers order.
A city notice advertises a daily lunch sale from noon to 2 pm offering a broad catalogue of items at 25 cents. Items include lambs, pork, poultry, various vegetables, canned goods, beans, fruit, and sauces. The event lists quantities and multiple preserved foods as part of a bulk sale to the public.
The magazine notes an issue to all subscribers in the 01 Amada or Mexico urging continued support and engagement with Harper's Bazaar Harvester content.
Harper's Magazine announces its 1850 lineup including a new American novel Jupiter Lights by Gunstace Woolsen, Shakespeare illustrations by Abbey, a Russia series by The Thulstrup, Canada studies by Charles Dudley Warner, Norwegian studies by Bjornstjernedsjoruson, Commodus a historic play by the Ben-Hur author, and editorials by Cairns, Vowels, and Werner.
Subscriptions available for Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People. Postage free to US Canada Mexico. Bound volumes three years back in cent cloth binding post paid. Index to volumes 1 to 70 from June 1850 to June 1585 with cloth. Remittances by money order or draft. Address Harper & Brothers New York.
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