02 Apr 1878
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1878
Page
1
The document names municipal positions including Burgess M Miles and J H Pamer with council members J Clark and A Hertzel. It lists Clerk K P King Assessor J P Marston School Directors Nesmith King Keelor Wells Henry Ensworth Justices Hodges James Constable J F McPherson Notaries Ball Noyes Brown Hoffman Nesmith Auditors Orr Parmlee Hodges.
A list of Warren County political figures and official positions includes Congressman L F Watson State Senator UC W Stone Assemblyman W M Lindsey Judge Lansing DL Wetmore Associate Judges W B Acocks W W Connely Luxernf Henry Brace Prothonotary Starling W Waters Raster Recorder W J Alexander Treasurer T E Barnes County Commissioners M Dunham Wheelock J B Jennings Co Surveyor Geo UV Cornelius Coroner Sterling Green District Attorney Wm Schuur Co Auditors E A Spencer T E Barnes G C James County Superintendent N R Thompson.
A dense OCR fragment lists multiple station names including Dunkirk Fredonia Laona Casadaga Sinclairville Vermont Ross Mill Falconer Fentonville Ackley Russellburg Warren Jackson Youngsville Pittsfield Garland Newtons Grand Valley and others with scattered times around morning and afternoon hours, indicating a regional transit schedule or timetable snippet.
OCR fragment lists multiple station names and arrival times including Franklin Raymilton Stoneboro Amasa Jameston Andover Jefferson Ashtabula Cleveland Pittsburgh with several partial times across the day. It presents a jumble of depots and routes, not a coherent narrative.
Timetable shows station list from Cincinnati to New York with departure and arrival times including connections at Dayton Springfield Union City Urbana Jamestown Mansfield Ashland Meadville Salamanca Buffalo Elmira Binghamton and others. Timetable adopted December 30, 1877, reflecting schedule details and route sequence.
A serialized tale follows Ida Rivers who befriends a destitute man with a child. A merchant, Mr. Haver, becomes suitor to Ida while Kittie bonds with her aunt. Arthur Haver seeks a home for Kittie and love, ending with Ida and Haver planning a future together.
A compiled schedule of lodge and chapter meetings including K of H units at Carver House opposite Carver House J, A. Merrill reporter, A. Merril. Meets weekly or monthly in various halls with officers listed. Reservations include North Star Lodge 41 regular Wednesday meetings, Occidental H R A Chapter 235 on second Monday, and I O O F Kossuth Encampment 98 meeting second and fourth Thursdays.
An upper mill and a tower mill fell apart by the water as two men, bound for war in law, hired lawyers to feud over fees. When costs rose, they settled without fuss with each lawyer taking a mill, the upper to one, the lower to the other.
A Baltimore woman about forty five years old died after a eight year gradual change from light mulatto to deep black. Witnesses say her body transformed from stout to thin and angular. Doctors cannot explain the mystery of the color shift or its cause.
Edison envisions an aerophone device built like a phonograph attached to trains. It would announce train name and number, stop points, arrival times, and other necessary information four miles away. The idea is under patent consideration in Washington with public confidence in Edison backing it.
The notice lists postage costs for mail within the United States and Canada, plus rates to Europe and Asiatic regions. It covers letters, newspapers, magazines, and miscellaneous items with specific cents per ounce or per two ounces, and special routes to Great Britain Ireland France Germany Denmark Switzerland Italy Russia Norway Sweden Turkey Egypt Australia British India Japan, among others.
A Cincinnati Star reprint argues Col. Robert Ingersoll owes gratitude to the Bible’s influence. It notes his infidelity, mocks his lectures, and contrasts his condition without religion, imagining him in Africa or at the Nile headwaters. It references Niagara Falls at Paris and a Norristown Herald remark.
J Russell Young recounts a march into Jerusalem with a General’s escort, the crowd in honor, and a walk along the Via Dolorosa. He notes sights from Calvary to Ecce Homo, detailing scenes of biblical stations, beggars, soldiers, and the sobering trek to Cavalry, contrasting ancient path with modern surroundings.
A selection of brief notes and quips including Annie Luise Cary’s $2000 monthly grant, Whitelaw Reid and Bayard Taylor name spellings, frontier Indian deaths and costs, timber depredation losses, and a parade of social jests. It also mentions Mrs. Hayes visiting Chillicothe, a Paris Exposition travel cost, and light poems and verses.
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