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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1887
Page
2
Chicago leads in pie production with three large factories supplying wholesale demand. A West Lake Street plant, employing about 100 workers, turns out 10,000 to 12,000 pies daily, baked continuously by rotating ovens. Pies cost 12 to 15 cents, with a profit goal of half a cent per pie and plant investments around $100,000.
In Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock a veteran recalls a time when General Robert E. Lee, then a major, counseled a young wife not to separate from her husband. Lee urged unity for happiness, warning that living apart weakens essential bonds. The author notes obeying the counsel and later reuniting with her spouse on the battlefield.
A Chicago News remark recalls the famous bone setter Mr Hatton who died recently noting he had no formal learning and did not know medical terms yet trained professionals sent dislocated patients to him.
A compact verse notes seasonal change as flowers emit fragrance and humans shed thin flannels while dogs swap summer pants, illustrating playful personification of nature and fashion shifts.
A damaged text fragment describes a surreal scene with a ram, a wall, quivering fires, a brig of gold, grasses, and a butterfly. The readable bits form a chaotic, poetic snapshot without clear events or context.
A New York Tribune account details the station lost property room where passengers’ articles are logged, stored, and returned if claimed within a week. Umbrellas, rubber shoes, and money are common finds, with notes on unclaimed items incurring storage delays and occasional checks and coins ranging up to thirty dollars.
A Newport correspondent of the Rochester Union discusses aging beauty secrets and fashion vanity. The piece explains the V shaped back, sleeveless styles, long gloves, and a high waist as methods to preserve an apparent youthful contour, noting nefarious use of toning aids like alum water and a wrinkle annihilator.
The article describes mixed spirits where whisky, rum, gin and other hard liquors are combined into barrels, destroying distinctive qualities. An internal revenue officer measures proof and quantity, ensures delivery to the distillery where it is reprocessed into salable alcohol, with purchasers paying based on the alcohol content, about ninety six cents per gallon. Wines are handled similarly, according to the Boston Advertiser.
The old pine tree at Dartmouth College was struck by lightning. Alumni observe a class day custom where graduates smoke clay pipes then toss fragments to the base and scramble after them, a preservation of the Indians tradition noted by the Chicago News.
A veteran recalls the Memphis press scene in 1862 as Union forces occupied the city. Printers rushed to publish The Weekly Reveille and its successors, while The Daily Appeal and The Daily Union Appeal battled for readers usando republican Union stance. The piece notes pay struggles with Tennessee money, shifting offices, and the tenuous life of wartime journalism behind enemy lines.
Edgar L. Wakemann's Mystic Lake Letter describes gypsy society as fundamentally equal, where wealth carries no social weight and mutual aid is universal. It highlights weddings and funerals as major social events, seasonal courting, and temperance in behavior alongside a pervasive gentleness, loyalty, cleanliness, and kindness in daily life.
The New York State reformatory experiments show physical exercise as the surest method to arouse and develop restrainer criminals moral and mental faculties. Proper training aids mental growth and strengthens moral power, suggesting confinement reform is solved through regular bodily activity.
The London Truth mocks the Prince of Wales appointment as honorary admiral of the fleet calling it fantastical puerility and a tactic to ridicule the navy and the prince. It condemns tailors' craze and traces the trend to extravagance akin to pre revolutionary French court excess.
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