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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1895
Page
3
A speaker laments the sweetness of past friendships and recalls meeting old friends. Amid nostalgia one attendee, Jones the grocer, begs for a loan, prompting mockery. The crowd then jeers the speaker and he is jailed for thirty days.
A narrator recalls a night bicycle ride to a country village, detailing a hedge lined lane, previous tumbles into a ditch, and a failed rider’s lamp. He endures darkness, learns balance anew, and improvises with a tied lamp to glimpse obstacles, ending with cautious progress and humor about his misadventures.
A narrator recounts a late night bicycle ride with a lamp that keeps going out. He collides with a couple, escapes after a scolding, avoids a hedge, and meets a tramp asking for a match. A policeman questions the lamp, coins are found, and the rider eventually makes it home while vowing safer night rides. The piece ends with dental-like domestic tips for birds and canaries from ads.
The article traces John R. Gentry a famed Kansas bred trotter and his clashes with Joe Patchen and Robert J. in 1892 1894 races from Detroit to Chicago to Nashville. It notes Gentry’s fast times 2 13 2 09 5 and the dramatic Nashville race where Robert J won by default after a footing injury. It also mentions English yacht racing switching to a one gun start system to heighten excitement and skill.
A new four act spiritualistic play titled Mpirnacula by Bartley Campbell, staged in this city within a month, stars renowned mediums and features four seances plus a full form materialization by Mrs Mabel Aher, aiming to spark a sensation in religious spiritualistic theater circles.
Jockey Fred Taral grows into a strong rider and Captain Frank Hickey will coach Yale football this season. Governor Russell of Massachusetts enjoys lawn tennis, while Janes Corlett’s associate notes a 279000 earnings from pugilist and theater ventures. Chicago football will face Wales, Pillsbury Steinitz and Tseligorin dine with the Ladies Chess Club of London. Lamplighter’s purses total 90000, sold at 22 years for 80900, later fetching 7500 at a sale.
A Sunday School Times verse reflects on grain sown in earth and the choice between self preservation and service. The poem contrasts two grains one seeking safety in a dry shelf and the other embracing sacrifice, suggesting that life comes from death and bearing fruit beyond self.
A 17 year locust emergence described with night activity and detailed nymph to wing metamorphosis observations. Ivory dust from London ivory factories is discussed as a jelly making byproduct and substitutes for ivory are listed. A minister notes a stranger in church via a found dollar, and a quote on post assault pil lage from 1631.
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