01 Sep 1893
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1893
Page
1
The column surveys local manners and politics with notes on health, election debates, and civic concerns. It laments cholera and yellow fever threats, urges cleanliness of the Conewango creek area, praises Charley DeForest, and reports on church affairs, the World’s Fair attendance, and Warren’s prominent citizens.
The Granges invite three prize offers totaling 295 dollars with cash premiums. Entry books open Sept 12 to 15 at the Main office for exhibitors, with tags ready at the fair. Industrial Hall invites business leaders to secure space with Geo. 5. Davis. Ladies urged to display fancy work, canned fruit, pastries, and more, avoiding previously rewarded items unless worthy. Livestock display expected larger, featuring English horses, imported cattle and sheep from G. W. Nichols, Sinclairville, and B. Lord, Sinclairville, with coach and standard bred horses, Holstein cattle, and Shropshire sheep for sale or display. Other stock breeders will vie for red ribbons.
Rainfall yesterday was heavy in western Pennsylvania with Parker's Landing reporting the heaviest at 3.75 inches. Other totals include Warren 3.18, Oil City 2.57, Clarion 2.80, Mahoning 2.62, Johnstown 1.40, Saltsburg 1.70, Freeport 2.53. Catarrh cure ads claim internal remedies. Hill’s and Halls Catarrh Cure advertised with testimonials and price 75 cents.
The Pennsylvania Republican convention at Harrisburg nominated Fer for justice of the supreme court and Colonel Samuel M. Jackson for state treasurer. Senator Quay influenced moves, while Speaker Thompson withdrew, citing insufficient delegates and aiming to maintain party unity.
Mr. Seymour, the mind reader, entertained a large audience at Library Hall last evening with tests of locating scars, finding hidden articles, naming initials and dates in a ring, describing a person in the audience, and totaling figures from cards. The exhibition was praised for precautions against trickery and touted as evidence of a possible sixth sense.
The Holinhero State Normal School opens August 28 1992 offering better facilities a large library beautiful surroundings a good museum qualified teachers enthusiastic students and thorough instruction for fall term at only 50 dollars Principal Marti G Bexepier Ph D oversees enrollment.
The cyclone from Florida battered the Southeast Sunday causing telegraph and line outages in Augusta and Waynesboro, severe crop damage, and wrecked ports. Blackville reports crushed buildings, dam breaches, and impassable roads as Port Royal suffers a verified disaster with over ninety deaths and millions in losses along coastal towns.
Horace Johnson of Mibopatows predicts a storm between September 6 and 10 far more severe than the recent tempest. He says a great tidal wave will flood Boston and New York docks, submerging waterfronts briefly, and warns coastal merchants to move goods away from the water.
Walter Horton, a prominent tanner, died in Philadelphia on Saturday from impoverishment of the blood, aged about 60. Thirty years earlier he moved to Hancock New York to join Allisonville tannery partners Leonard H. Allison and H. H. Crary. He later started a Sheffield Pennsylvania tanning business with subsequent success. He left an estate estimated between 4 and 8.6 million dollars and one child, the wife of the head of Stoelkopf Horton & Co.
Symptoms include head pain nasal obstruction mucus discharge nasal drip morning vomiting offensive breath and impaired smell. The ad claims Century Catarrh Cure can permanently cure catarrh if used timely, noting varying symptom presence.
A vintage ad touts Hill's Pile Pomade as a cure for piles with a printed guarantee on every package. Price one dollar, six for three dollars, available by mail or at Siegfried & Co. druggists in Warren, Pennsylvania. An accompanying testimonial praises Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, citing relief after years of nosebleeds.
The House approved the Wilson repeal bill 239 to 111 as debates closed with pro and anti silver factions clashing. The measure ends silver bullion purchases and is sent to the Senate, where finance committee plans to let it rest while a superior Senate version emerges.
L DeForest died Tuesday at 5 o'clock in the Watters block Third Street after an eight year battle with diabetes. He came from Brooklyn three years ago representing John Hills & Co refiners. Born in Canada at 44, he leaves a wife and four children. Funeral held Thursday with Rev Ryan and Odd Fellows at the grave.
An advertisement promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as purifying vital blood and strengthening nerves digestion and body. It urges monthly use, touts thousands of cures, and offers a 100 page medical book for three 2 cent stamps. Also touts Hill’s Chloride of Gold Tablets and De Witt’s Hazel Salve with vendor names Morris & Stullen and H. Dickson.
The Union Temperance meeting at Library Hall drew a crowded house as churches united for the event. A large Warren choir and notable quartet delivered stirring songs while Mr. Bennett urged that boys’ training at home and male role models shape future character. He warned mothers and women of their moral influence, pressed male responsibility, and urged state action. The bulletin notes European animal protection congress plans, Black Beauty adoption in Philadelphia schools, Maine teachers teaching kindness to birds, and a Hawaii king’s feather cloak amid bird-slaughter debates.
The British Medical Temperance Association warns of drink’s threats to health, mind, morals, and life. It highlights widespread habitual drunkenness across classes and calls alcohol a leading cause of poverty, crime, disease, and death.
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