27 Sep 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1889
Page
1
A survey lists cigar making firms in Warren with brand lines and worker counts, including Keystone Cigar Works and F. A. Steber & Co. The Glade Tannery, Warren Refining, and several wagon manufacturers are described, with employment totals, wages, and production scope, plus a critique of magazine literature in the same issue.
Delegates returned from the county Ww. Co. T. U. convention at Sheffield full of zeal and brighter prospects after defeating the saloon amendment. News covers local business rivals, Hazeltine death, trade shifts with North Warren, and a pension office dispute. Also includes baseball league changes and a vendor’s marketing quips.
The twenty fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania state sabbath school association will be held at the second Presbyterian church in Williamsport on Tuesday to Thursday October 8 9 and 10. Delegates from each county may elect six. entertainment and excursion tickets should be arranged via Mr George T Banger. Also the fair association directors authorized committees to revise the premium list due to mis entries and outdated premiums.
A Chautauqua Ohnstown dispatch notes G B Clark of Altoona completed a flood era directory. Proof sheets preserved names printed as before the flood and a special record of the lost. The drownings are estimated at 3600, a close figure. The directory includes flood related statistics.
In the 32nd district Republican convention split with Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties nominating rival slates. Commodore P. Vedder of Cattaraugus and Loren Sessions of Chautauqua led their factions, while Democrats ponder Hinman or D. Murray as possible nominees. Delegates walked out over representation disputes. the coming campaign is expected to be heated.
A vivid portrait praises a wife as able to reason swiftly, coordinate many people, endure tight fashion, and calm temper. It extols her skills from needlework to teasing, from memory of texts to dancing, and from mothers’ patience to outwitting rivals with a sly remark. The piece ends noting she can charm a man in twenty four hours and lift him to paradise in seconds with a gentle touch.
The fourth annual convention of Christian Workers in the United States and Canada will meet in Buffalo New York for six days October 24 to 29. It is a union gathering of city mission workers pastors evangelists and others engaged in outreach to classes not reached by regular church ministry.
George Ball advertises a major price cut on all fall and winter suits in the merchant tailoring department. The sale promises first class goods with a guarantee on every suit. A large, complete stock is available as the fall trade begins.
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