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The Ledger of Warren Pennsylvania outlines subscription terms at 1.50 per year in advance or 2.00 if unpaid. Advertising rates include business cards up to six lines for 5.00 annually and transient ads at 10 per inch, with 0.50 per inch for later insertions. Local notices charged 0.10 per line. marriages and deaths free unless obituary exceeds ten lines. The Ledger Printing House offers first class job printing and accepts mail orders.
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Ledger Printing House
Pennsylvania
Atways
Ledger Publishing Co
H' Warren, Peun’a
State ticket and political musings from Warren
A Warren county message notes state offices up for grabs with Wright for Auditor General, Tilden for State Treasurer, and Tyrone fixtures for Sheriff alongside Wynn for Associate Judge. It laments English-American ties, reports Bank of England remittance, and quotes editorials on politicians, tariffs, and party notes while citing a company store act case in Bedford and Meadville journal snippets.
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Bedford County
Raystown Branch Coal Company
Broadtop Township
Warren Mail
Meadville Journal
Congress
Treasury and political quips echo in 19th century press
The piece cites Lie McKean Miner on a 26 million dollar public borrowing at 2 percent, and echoes in the Harrisburg Patriot, the Scranton convention fallout, and Democrat prospects. It notes Flower campaigning, Blaine messages, and Patton references while detailing funeral casket design for W Li Scott and Livesy’s resignation amid treasury ties and possible scapegoating.
Ledger offers dictionary plus book premiums with subscription
The Ledger adds 38 new names and many renewals in the past week. To entice advance payments and gain wider readership in the county, subscribers can obtain Webster’s Unabriged Dictionary for 75 cents above the $2.25 subscription total. Also offers include ten free books with one year’s subscription and Cooper’s five works in a single volume. Special canvasser arrangements will be made across northwestern Pennsylvania towns.
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The
Ledger
James Fenimore Cooper
Pennsylvania
McKinley tariff aims to protect domestic production says critic
The speaker argues the McKinley bill raises duties on competitive articles and lowers them on noncompetitive ones, boosting prices for consumers. He claims foreigners bear no tax. instead importers pay. He notes tinned plate and sugar show price rises despite protection, while trusts fix prices and stifle competition, inflating costs for Americans.
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Major AcKinley
Harrisburg
Notman
United States
McKinley
Steel Rail Trust
Bishop Turner aims to move 100000 to 150000 negroes to Africa
The piece argues Bishop Turner seeks to relocate between 100,000 and 150,000 Black Americans to Africa with financial backing from Southern supporters. It critiques Black labor shifts, notes gold inflows to the U.S., and discusses 1880s Republican politics, Indiana opposition to Harrison, Blaine prospects, and Ohio tariff debates amid Pennsylvania corruption concerns. The broad political commentary centers on promotion of Blaine, fears of Harrison, and calls for Pennsylvania reform.
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Bishop Turner
Georgia
Africa
South
Turner
Congress
Bank of England
United States
Harrison
Indiana
Julce Woods
Dudley
Supreme Bench
Blaine
Massachusetts
Vermont
Proctor
Ohio
Campbell
Major McKinley
Guio
Ohio Democracy
Roger Q. Mills
Arguments on US currency standards and value
The fragment argues against a double standard of value in the United States and discusses historical dollar standards from 1792 to present. It notes silver, gold, and greenback dollars, calls for a heavy silver dollar, cites Prof Puaries on money supply, and compares per capita money circulation and international equivalents, highlighting population and active economic elements.
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Puaries
Waiau
Britain
Canada
France
Marvin's cracker meal promoted at Pittsburgh Exposition
An advertisement extols Marvin's cracker meal as a versatile, fresh baked product for households and invalids, urging purchase from grocers or by asking grocers to stock. The piece also lists several 1891 marriages, deaths, and a trial list from Warren County, noting names, dates, and locales.
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Marvin
Pittsburgh Exposition
America
Pittsburgh
Atlantic
Pacific
Eow
Lenox Soap Promoted Amid Exposition News
The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox, and a Pittsburg Exposition opened September 2 inviting regional visitors. Major Max Klein cannot display this season, but his wholesale liquor house in Alegheny near Ft Wayne and West Penn depots showcases brands like Silver Age and Duquesne. Reports mention Turkey raising a flag at the Chicago exposition, Ely's Cream Balm praised for cold relief, and Bishop Turner urging 150,000 American blacks to migrate to Africa for self government.
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Pittsburg
Max Klein
Federal Street
Alegheny
Ft. Wayne
West Penn
Duquesne
Houlings
Guckenheimer
Finch, Gibson
Overholt
Max Koch
North Clarendon
Ely
Samuel J. Harris
Front Street
New York
Open World’s Fair on Sunday Favors Provoked
Rev. Austin 8. Garver of the First Unitarian Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, urges opening the World’s fair on Sunday. The ad promotes a medical book offered by A. P. Ordway & Co. of Boston for three two-cent stamps.
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A. P. Ordway & Co
Boston
Mass
Austin
Garver
First Unitarian Church
Worcester
Murdered man Julius Baer found near town
The body of Julius Baer, agent for Sulphur Bitters, was discovered five miles west Tuesday morning in a mangled state with head wounds and many injuries. A large sum of money on his person is suspected as motive. no clues to the killers as press time. The Civil Engineers Association of Mexico City plans to attend the World’s Fair.
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Livesy
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Livsey
Senator Quay
State Treasury
Bardsley
Gordon
McCamant
Philadelphia
Merchantile
Auditor General
Graham
Mrr. Bardsley
Auditor
Fell
McCamnant
Julius Baer
Baer
Rothery
Colorado Press
Association of Civil Engineers of
City of
Mexico
Sulphur Bitters praised for boils relief by editor
A reader touts Sulphur Bitters as eliminating boils for six springs in a row, urging reliance on the remedy. The item notes a Cleveland hotel and ten businesses burned at Sheffield Alabama with losses of 110000, along with ads for Swayne's Ointment and an account of Albert Moria, a Negro wife murderer, hanged in Savannah, Georgia.
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Swayne
Tow to Succeed in Life Nerve and Health Restorative
A brochure touts the Restorative Net by Dr. Miles as a cure for nervous diseases including headache sleeplessness neuralgia and hysteria. It claims lack of nerve and fluctuating spirits cause much failure and advertises free trial bottles and testimonials at Morris & Mullens drug store.
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Miles
St. Vitus
Morris & Mullens Drug Store
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