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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1890
Page
3
A veteran baggage handler recounts an 19th century case where a grim coffin carried westward to Denver sparked suspicion. The plan to trap a stranger claiming to guard the remains led to opening the coffin in Valparaiso and discovering it housed the stranger's dead mother, the shock causing grief and a tense, moral crossroads aboard the railroad car.
In a Chicago Globe fragment a sheriff unveils a casket with a gray haired face evoking memory and kinship as a mother recalling a lost brother named Tom. The tale is punctuated by a farmer in Atlanta repurposing a coffin as a watering trough after his child recovers, and a joke about using the lid to repair a fence.
A.C. Hepburn, starving and without funds, left a note pleading not to prosecute Idaho Jack after a fatal duel at the Ark in Prescott. The note explained his failed prospects from Tin Cup Colorado and his plan to end his life by taking Jack with him, a new method he called suicide. The town funded a coffin and headboard as Jack contributed what he could, and Hepburn was buried with no prosecution.
A humorous look at eccentric probate, citing Swift and Sharp wit in bequests. Notes a will gifting ten thousand dollars then turning page reveals ten thousand thanks. Mentions a death marked codicil with vast earth area and a nephew spoiled by a missing spoon, illustrating playful ancestral humor.
The Flint glass making process relies on pure sand free of iron red lead potash and soda plus ri tre cullet. Red lead is often replaced by baryta though many contend red lead is essential for the finest glass.
A reader suggests neutralizing tobacco odor by placing a pail of water with a handful of hay in the room for about an hour. After this, all traces of smoke smell disappear, allowing men to smoke in any room when they leave, provided the pail remains in place.
Signor Arrigo, an Italian banker, was held for a large ransom by Sicilian bandits. He endured captivity in a dry well with regular food drops and occasional ransom talks. The captors settled on 25,000 pounds after demanding more, threatening murder if payment lagged.
The scene shows a boy asking why Union soldiers are paid 13 a month while a congressman earns 13 a day. The father replies soldiers do not set their own salaries, leaving the question about pay inequalities to the broader political system.
In a humorous Epoch clipping a baby is described as rapidly becoming a musical critic as a mother sings. The Palmita Palatka fruit dealer offer of coconuts for a nickel misleads several buyers who discover the shells are too large for pockets.
An old man named Mayhew hosts a camp meeting at Hollow Rock Springs. An officer complains the spring water tastes and smells bad. The proposed remedy is removing a dead dog found in the springhouse, a family dispute complicating action.
The Ladies Home Journal describes a Vanderbilt family Sunday routine. Children attend church with parents, rest at home, walk briefly, and enjoy quiet tea. Twilight brings music from piano, organ, violins, and harps as Cornelius Vanderbilt and relatives join in hymn singing before bed.
A New York lady’s fan lineage traces to Napoleon and the Empress, passing through Mme. Campin to present owners. The set includes a De taille scene of horses at Jerome Park, Borra’s christening tableau before a Spanish alcalde, and a Bois de Boulogne skating vignettes by Lafitte. Mrs. Levi P. Morton carried a Centennial hall heirloom ivory fan with hand painted silk.
A report notes Germany’s compulsory vaccination curbing smallpox with empire wide deaths of 198 in 1886, 160 in 1887, and 110 in 1888. Four fifths of 1888 deaths were in border regions without vaccination protection, while German cities showed far lower fatalities than in Austria, Hungary, England, Belgium, and Switzerland.
London Letter reports vast meat losses at sea with Canadian ships sending 61,012 cattle 61,882 sheep and 75 pigs to British ports yet 1 cattle 1 sheep and 1 pig perished. From US exports 138,661 cattle 30,317 sheep and 17 pigs suffered 1,570 first class and 837 second class losses totaling 4,856 animals pitched overboard in the year.
Two sons of a prominent Detroit family, punished in a locked room, donned makeshift costumes from dresses bonnets and bed clothes and started a fire that drew the fire department. Firemen battled the blaze as the youngsters contentedly slept later that night, warm from their adventure.
A quick desk lamp shade hack uses a wire bent halfway around the brass beneath the wick screw with the other end extended to clear the globe. Thread the wire through two pasteboard holes to fasten the shade, creating a simple homemade accessory as described by Cor, Writer.
Fittsburg Bulletin reports a dialogue where a practical believer questions keeping servants and a reformer defends higher education for women. The exchange touches on wages and female education, reflecting contemporary social debates.
A wife recalls surprising a man who entered the bar flat last night and, when her husband asked if she shot him, she says she threw the pistol. A Detroit Free Press note adds a writer’s remark on birds illustrating marriage rivalries among older singles.
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