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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1892
Page
5
The Ledger's Letters page reports community notes from Kinzua and Sugar Grove with arrivals, travels, marriages, politics, and local events. People greet visitors, discuss elections, and share small town successes and misfortunes in Warren County. Notable items include Postmaster Greene's illness, a Clarendon rally, a Warren Democrat presence, and a forthcoming marriage rumor.
Mr James Meehan of 57 Granite Street Quincy and his wife Mary share their story of illness and cure. Meehan details liver disease ulceration and sleepless nerves, claiming Dr Greene's Nervara blood and nerve remedy restored his health. Mary Meehan describes six months of rheumatism and sciatica cured after three bottles, praising the remedy's safety and efficacy. Dr Greene offers free consultation from 35 W 14th Street New York.
To Capitalists, A good Investment. The advertiser's brother and sister as rightful heirs in Hampshire England Europe hold a large estate worth three million pounds yet lack funds to pursue the claim by law. They propose forming a syndicate of gentlemen to advance steps and begin a preliminary suit, with each contributor receiving share and a large bonus. Full details via Mrs Fanny Kelly Irvine No 8 South Street East Warren Warren Co Pa. 5 tf. Also: Wanted fifty day boarders and one hundred transients to dine at Adelphia Kitchen daily. Best cooked dinners 5c. Moderate day boarder terms. Coiner Water Street and Suspension Bridge. Tet.
A colorful New York Sun tale recounts Professor Wadkins, a boastful whitewasher nicknamed professor, posting a housekeeper ad at 630 West 131st Street. Dozens of women came, misreading his race leads to comic scuffles with his housekeeper, Mrs. Wallace, and Wadkins ends the day humbled by the mob of applicants.
An 1892 notice markets Golden Specific as a guaranteed cure for drink, claiming painless, irreversible results in any drinker. The document also advertises a writ sale of oil land leases in Warren County, listing parcels in Clarendon and Mead township, with details of tract bounds and ownership chain, to be sold by Sheriff James Roy on Oct 1 at Warren Court House.
A Warren catalog lists eggs and new potatoes per bushel, flour and wheat by sack, various sugars syrups and molasses by gallon, coffees by pound, teas by pound, soaps and crackers, evaporated fruits by pound, and animal feed by hundred or ton. It promotes meat and bone meal as nutritious animal feed.
A promotional note urges sufferers of rheumatism and neuralgia to use Red Flag Oil, claiming it relieves pain. The endorsement states hundreds have been cured and prices at F. M. R. D. Kehle’s drugstore are 23 cents.
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