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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1890
Page
8
Local pages describe Warren events for September 24 including Ringling Bros circus, a grand free street parade with wild beasts and bands, skating and dancing season kickoff, and updates on court week trains. Also notes on theatre ads, advertisements for merchants, and Vermont election analysis sidebars.
Geo Brown of Bradford rests at home for a few days. Mrs J E Gould of Corry visits friend Mrs Beebe. Tim TI and Mrs Brown with Miss Rogers go to Cape May. Chas Thompson of Olean NY calls on old friends. Chas Beecher of Hamburg NJ returns home after sister Mary’s death. Wm Wilson of Sugar Grove visits Wednesday. E C Knowles of Oil City attends fair with fine oil display. D Thompson of Tidioute visits Warren and stops at LepGER office. Mr and Mrs W H James of Oil City stay with daughter Mrs B F Gates. F B Stevenson moves from Warren to Oberlin OH. C A Gornen, Emil Amann, S E Walker, and T B Clawson depart to Reading PA for Democratic societies convention.
During a flu outbreak Rev. Dr. Blank reminded his congregation that coughing is more under a person’s control than usually thought. The scene in the church drew attention as many joined in coughing, then subsided after his cautionary talk. The incident is shared by Youth's Companion and recounted by the New York Telegram.
In the affluent quarter a young couple dining privately discuss a rumored child. The woman asks to test a maid and learns the establishment once housed a child only last Sunday. Detectives are said to be pursuing the girl.
A pilot describes the life as delightful uncertainty like a sealed bottle tossed by waves. A pilot boat left New York for a two weeks voyage but returned to Staten Island within ten hours as pilots were taken off by incoming steamers. It set out again, reaching Newport eleven days after the second start, cruising between New York and Newport without sighting a steamer.
The Ventura plant, planted in 1876, shows a trunk three feet in girth and first branch at four feet. Climbing vines yield large clips annually while the shrub covers about 1200 square feet, predicted to surpass Cologne’s famed rose within fourteen years.
A concise note on the emergence of punctuation in printing history noting the period dating earlier than the fifteenth century and placing the colon around 1466, the comma about thirty-five years later, and the semicolon around 3470, attributed to Chibéer.
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