Warren County political rally and circus notes
The Warren city page reports a Democratic Society meeting set for Saturday at 3 pm in the society rooms and a grand rally planned for Tuesday September 20 with speakers from Warren and beyond. It also notes circus performances by Ringling Bros. and local social events, plus updates on local visitors, auctions, and a hospital eye and ear doctor’s visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Democratic Society of Warren
Dr. Hill
Warren
Perry D. Clark
W. £. Rice
Kinzua
A. Hardenburg
Pattison
Black
Grand Valley
Ringling Bros. Circus
Jackson Station
Irvine
Orris
Lima Exchange Fails After Brief Operation
News notes report the Lima exchange closed after only three days of business. Garry Alvan Hall of Elk county wins the democratic nomination for state senator for Elk and Cameron counties, promising electability. Wickersham, longtime state superintendent of schools, shifts to support Robert E. Patterson for governor, with others from Warren Dow of Randolph, NY joining as county treasurer candidate in Cattaraugus. A local ad touts Siegel's offer of five dollar tailored trousers with a guarantee.
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Lima of Exchange
Garry Alvan Hall
Elk County
Elk
Cameron
Hall
John G. Hall
Wickersham
Robert E. Pattison
Warren Dow
Randolph
N.Y
Cattaraugus County
Dow
Flower lessons from a garden of manners and myth
A dated moral essay likens women to flowers to illustrate notions of femininity and propriety. It uses symbolic blooms such as hollyhock, lily, mignonette, and geranium to contrast forward or steadfast traits with idealized grace. The text frames male gaze and social behavior with florid metaphor.
calendar reform explains leap years and drift in time
The article recounts Julius Caesar establishing a 366 day leap year every four years, Gregory later dropping 10 days from October to realign the calendar, and the rule that February 29 occurs only in century years divisible by 400 to prevent further drift, noting the system will stay correct until around 448 years from St. Louis Republic reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Cesar
Julius
Czsar
Gregory
St. Louis Republic
Six Lucky Travelers at Watts House in Rochester
The six poor travelers from Dickens are hosted by Richard Watts in Rochester. A Pall Mall Gazette corresp describes their arrival and the strict meal of bread meat and stout, with washhouse and white washed chambers for rest in a whitewashed 300 year old gallery.
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Dickens
Richard Watts
Rochester
Watts
Pall Mall Gazette
Queer Facts About Goldfish From Old New York Sun
Goldfish in parlor globes react to weather changes, becoming restless before storms. They can be trained in large tanks to approach attendants with a bell. They can be frozen in ice in December and thawed in April. Goldfish were introduced from China about thirty years ago.
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China
New York Sun
Noisy Parrots or Kitten Cited in Neighbor Plot
A suburban woman recalls a neighbor plotting to drive out a rival over a cheap property, mentioning noisy pets as a solution. The reply reveals the neighbor has only a kitten, causing the plan to be dismissed as a misreading. The scene closes with someone waking a baby.
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Jane
Irish Attachment in Anecdotes from Barrington
Barrington’s anecdotes illustrate the Irish peasantry’s devoted attachment to the gentry, though some moments proved awkward. A gamekeeper, overhearing a mistress wishing harm on a disliked gentleman, spent days collecting Dennis Bodkin’s ears in a snuff box and presenting them with evident delight.
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Barrington
Dennis Bodkin
We Regard for Her Feelings in a Texas Household
A Texas family employs a colored servant who is never civil in reply. As an experiment the mistress buys a pew calico dress for Matilde and says she is glad to share the pleasure of giving it. The servant retorts with sharp, sarcastic contempt. New York Lesser.
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Saring
Matilde
New York
Woozy Word Play Echoes in Sausalito Beach Scene
A playful local exchange on Sausalito's shore sparks the term woozy in town lore as a speaker likened to a gentle gazelle remarks to a young man. The Arizona Republic notes the pun as swoozy evolves into woozy in future lexicography.
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Sausalito
Bay
Arizona Republican
Census Revelation in Gibson County Tenn
The Second district of Gibson county Tennessee reports three men whose combined families total sixty people. One man has seventy seven grandchildren, highlighting large extended families noted by the St. Louis Republic.
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Gibson County
Tenn
St. Louis Republic
Fanny’s Heaven Gate Bell Tale in Youth’s Companion
A child’s fear of heaven’s gate is sparked by a parable at church. Fanny, too short to ring the bell, cries at the thought she could not reach heaven, prompting a gentle lesson on not taking the preacher literally.
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Fanny
Lome
Gate of Heaven
The Soap King and Cleanliness Prosperity
In Atlantic City and cities alike, the soap king varies by city name but shares a simple scheme. He gathers discarded grease, mixes it with lye and potash, then adds advertising to thrift to prosper. Soap’s scent and symbolism rise with cleanliness as a social virtue and even a kind of religion.
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Atlantic City
London
Philadelphia
Bazan
Siddalls
Brooke
Cincinnati
Procter
Zanesville
Schultz
Hoag
New York
Babbitt
Higgins
Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Doctors Names in Directory Prompt Amusing Names
A literary critic notes odd and ominous names in a medical directory. He cites Dr Coffin Dr Death Dr Sexton and others like Dr Butcher Slaughter Cranks Craze Ague Shivers and Sweat as examples of inappropriate naming patterns that might alarm or amuse patients.
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Coffit
Death
Sexton
Coffin
Butcher
Slaughter
One Man Band Touts Eight Instruments in St Louis
Benjamin Franklin Dixon, a young Black man in St Louis, performs as a portable orchestra. He plays eight instruments simultaneously using a brass leather device around his neck, electric triggers under his foot, and cords linking bass, cymbals, triangle, bells, and wind instruments. He directs his own summer garden concert with head, arms, and feet coordinating a self contained musical display.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Benjamin Franklin Dixon
St. Louis
William and the Danish King’s Unlikely Bond
Harper's Bazar recalls the moment when young William, snubbed by royalty at Rumpenheim, found a steadfast ally in King Christian of Denmark. The Danish king treated him with kindness, inspiring William to later honor him as his "uncle" and defender.
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William
Christian
Rumpenheim
Hesse
Denmark
Harper’s Bazar
The Infant and the Self Made Man In West Ore
A brief exchange features a child asking if God makes everyone and a reply that God does, noting a pap’s remark about another man being a self made man.
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Paps
West Ore
Warren Pa postoffice list of letters September 1890
List of remaining letters at Warren Pennsylvania post office dated September 1890. Names include ladies and gentlemen with specific initials and full names such as Josephine, Annie, Emma, Mrs Rust, Allen Warner Co Maul J C, Patrick Hartley, Miles Henry, Robert O’Hara, and others. Note states two weeks remain before transfer to the dead letter office. R A Love postmaster.
Cure for Catarrh By Dodds’ Jo urn treatment
Doe Catarth Cure Local and Internal Treatment claims to soothe irritated membranes cleanse plugged mucous discharge and heal ulcers. Internal remedy purportedly removes poisons and rebuilds to restore lungs digestion and blood. Book on catarrh offered by Soster Milburn Co Buffalo with Warren and Siegfried & Co distributors.
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Soster, Milburn & Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Warren
Geo. S. Davis
Second and
Liberty Streets
Siegfried & Co
Liberty and
Second Streets
Marriages and notices from Jamestown and nearby towns
A compact page lists multiple marriage notices with names and dates from Jamestown N Y and surrounding towns. It records couples such as Thomas E Haliday and Lizzie A Tuttle and other nuptials occurring in September 1890 plus related local business notices about farm products traded in Warren Pa.
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Tuttle
Wrightsville
Y. W. Douglass
Thomas E. Haliday
Youngsville
Lizzie A. Tuttle
Lindburg—Ellis
Jamestown
N. Y
G. W. Norton
J. B
George Lindburg
Jennie Ellis
Chandlers Valley
DOTY
Oliphant
M.E. Parsonage
A. C. Ellis
Henry Doty
Lucinda Oliphant
Clarendon
Griggs—Janes
Farmington
G. E. Heshaw
Kiantone
Eugene
Griggs
Maud M. James
Aspen—Irvin
D. D. Woodford
J. F
A. Edward Aspen
Pleasantville
Maggie M. Irvin
McGraw Center
Spitz—Johnson
Jamestown, N. Y
A. A. Magnuson
Andrew J. Spitz
Local business assures growth with expanded inventory
The firm celebrates its first year of operation with larger than expected sales and a plan to boost future performance. It pledges a complete, well chosen stock and daily shipments, promising new and stylish items at small profit and guaranteed satisfaction. Owners invite customers to present any past issues for refunds or exchanges to their full satisfaction.
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Warrer
Ledger
Young Men's Christian Association
Third
Liberty Street
Sill
W. A. Hensel
Rider
Riverside Hotel
Cambridge
Meadville Tribune
Sioux City Corn Palace
Democratic Society
Wm. L. Scott
Brandis
Erie
Wm. Pepper
Chief Utter
Citizens National Bank
Franz von Suppe
Marie Greenwood Opera Company
Library Hall
Miss Greenwood
Fiammetta
Mamie Taylor
Boccaccio
Faust Co
Bank
Hays
Pittsburg
Presbyterian Church
Agricultural Fair Associaion
Pleasant Bridge Company
I. S. Gibson
Oil City
J. P. Miller
Sugar Grove
R. B. Orr
Louise Nesmith
Corry
Henry L. Harvey
Covington
Orris Shutt
Tatham Tunstall
Tidioute
T. V
May
Annie Rockwell
H. EK. Welsh
Bradford
Ada Walgren
John Bearsted
Hickory Street
Wm. Hassan
H. I. Beers
James Woodburn
Franklin
Venango County
RB. Brown
RB. Brown and Mrs. Brown
Belmar
Harper’s Magazine
Antoine
Julian Ralph
Remington
Canada
Port Taracou
Alphonse Daudet
Henry James
Lincoln
L. B. Chittenden
P. Mclean Creen
J. 8. Newberry
Wadsworth
Alfred Parsons
Theodore Child
Newstead Abbey
Joaquin Miller
George William Curtis
Madison Square Garden
William Dean Howells
Charles Dudley Warner
Siegel's
B. A. Lynde& Son Co
Truth
Chauncey FE
Chauncey F. Black
the Opera House
A.G. McIntyre
Democratic Co. Com
Yore Huitter Wholesale Bakery
Warren, Pa
Hunter & Jarvis
Warren Savings Bank
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