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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1895
Page
6
A column mixes social commentary on women’s roles and rational dress with local notes on Swedes, a streetcar test by a ladies' auxiliary, and Warren Fredonia industrial progress. It cites advertising lore and autumn fashion finales, ending with Christmas purchase reminders.
A small crowd at the Armory watched Frank Dove lose to Joe Burns in five falls after a 13 minute wrestling program. Earlier bouts featured Ezra Lytle vs Glenn Martin and Dan Lytle vs Cleve Pike with Lytle winning a lively six round match. Burns challenged Robert Reisse after the main event. Cleveland hosts a temple cup loss to Baltimore with 8,000 spectators present.
Card of Thanks from Mrs Stephen Marrer and daughter grateful for friends and Masonic lodge assistance during the hour of trial. Salesmen wanted to sell our Non Nicotine Midgets Cigars with salary or commission as a side line. Address Landis and Co Shippensburg Pa PAG F 2 B.
Conductor John Weber on the Pennsylvania line from Homewood to New Galilee reports a German mother traveling to meet her husband in Lima gave birth aboard a fast Sunday-bound train. The infant was placed with hotel staff in New Galilee after the mother and child moved to the saloon. The mother, from New York, continued on foot to the hotel with the baby. Both mother and son were reported well. Weber has not been heard from since.
The Salamanca Republican notes lucrative ginseng sales locally with root prices from three to three and three quarters dollars per pound when dried. A three to one drying ratio applies. berries fetch seven dollars per pound. Wild roots are common on north or east slopes in beech, maple, or basswood timber. Cultivation exists but long maturation deters many growers. New York Pennsylvania Canada roots fetch about 30 percent higher than other states. Demand centers in China for medicinal use.
Maude Steide the Chicago arrestee and Father Dominick Wagner face marriage in St Joseph Missouri on October 1. Legal proceedings will be dropped. Wagner agrees to pay seven thousand dollars in cash and seven thousand five hundred dollars in real estate to avoid prosecution.
London reports a large two masted steamer with white banded funnels seen four miles off Graystone in heavy weather heading toward Plymouth. The vessel vanished suddenly and is presumed to have foundered.
Corydon Phelps a longtime stock buyer and shipper and Henry J Sigden a painter were struck and killed by a passenger train in Ottawa Illinois yesterday. The accident occurred in the city with authorities investigating the scene.
Read: Hall's Catarrh Cure claims a universal cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, by internal use affecting blood and mucous surfaces. The advertisers offer $100 for any case not cured and invite readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 73 cents.
Advert says a day cure for rheumatism and neuralgia in one to three days. Claims rapid system action removes cause and disease, with first dose benefits. Sells for 75 cents via L. G. Noyes & Co in Warren, Pennsylvania, and OH. N. Richfield, Warren, Pa. 16-1y.
A chapter on state finance notes ten months receipts totaling 10 875 054 01, up from 10 603 900 73 last year by 271 153 28 due to railroad capi tal stock tax timing. After adjustments the current year trails 1894 by about 100 000, with the school balance and county shares looming large. Surplus funds dwindle as author ities cite the next two year revenue estimates by Auditor General Mylin and State Treasurer Jackson.
Engineers survey the route to connect Falls Creek with Warren passing Rockdale Mills and Sugar Hill. They seek a grade across the divide to the Clarion river with the Falls Creek end already contracted and grading begun toward Clarendon.
At the Oil City session of Pennsylvania’s Women’s Foreign Missionary Society Mrs W V Hazeltine Erie conference secretary received a life membership in the Philadelphia branch board of managers upon a $100 gift from friends. Delegates elected for the St Louis general meeting include Mrs S L Darlington Philadelphia Mrs W V Hazeltine Warren Mrs C SK Ross Philadelphia and Mrs Dr J P Strayer Oil City reserves.
The Kossuth encampment No 98 installed officers on Thursday with Marcus Spaulding presiding as District Deputy Grand Patriarch. Elected Chief Patriarch Robert F Gray Senior Warden Leon G Ball Junior Warden J K Simpson Scribe Marcus Spaulding Treasurer J P Johnson High Priest Elect Chas Chase absent. Appointive officers named include Guide A C Joy Outside Sentinel L H Greenlund Inside Sentinel Wm Grindley First Watch C H Greenlund Second Watch Wm DeForest Third Watch A M Curray Fourth Watch R Ward Trustee C H Greenland Representative to GrandTF Encampment Marcus Spaulding.
Mrs Henry Moll opens a restaurant and bakery opposite the Alleghany hotel with clam chowder tonight. L Coates is ill at home. Miss M Parshall returns from Pleasantville. Jo Coates and family relocate from Cleveland to Glade Run. Mr and Mrs Horner depart for Mrs Horner's father’s funeral.
Boston Oct 5 The Republican state convention renominated F T Greenhalge for Governor and the entire state ticket.
Real estate transfers dated 1895 record deeds from Freemont C. Lainey and wife to S A Brooks in Pittsfield two for 1 dollar, John A Day and wife to Wilson McGrew in Brokenstraw two for 1000, Pred R Johnson et al to the borough of Warren Grade two for 700, James Clark and wife to Ernestine Ugarick Grade two for 3500, P W Thelin and wife Sheffield two for 25 percent, Theodore Stebbins to Emmett D Stebbins Farmington two for 523, Lucy Hall et al to Chauncey S Homer Conewango two for 500.
Friday marked the end of the first month in public schools with notable gains. The high school reports record attendance now about 150, up from ninety two years ago, prompting calls for a new building as classes expand. The Grade high school influx has enlarged senior and junior classes, while recitation rooms were reorganized. The chemistry lab is enlarged and lighting improved, English instruction advances toward college readiness, and the school newspaper The Student debuts a monthly issue praised for quality.
Fire at Warren Manufacturing Company destroyed three cotton mills two warehouses sheds freight cars and more, with losses estimated above a million dollars. The blaze began last night and was fought until under control.
An earthquake shock added to terror in Constantinople as rioting and bloodshed continued. About 500 Armenians were imprisoned, prisoners were killed in cold blood, and troops remained under arms at all points, fueling Turk suspicions and fear.
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