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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1890
Page
3
The Warren Mail lists a mix of local notices and ads including weather, sales, and services. It notes upcoming holidays Good Friday and Easter week events, a county superintendent election date May 6, church services for Lent and Easter, plus lecture and musical program details at the M E and Lutheran parishes. It also mentions youth activities, school closing, and local crime and civic notices.
Judge R Brown improves in health and expects to be out soon. Miss C S Seichrist leaves for Newton Kansas after visiting her father J C Seichrist. Hon C W Stone in town over Sunday with daughters Grace and Anna home from college. Mrs Alson Rogers and son Carl return from three weeks in Richmond Virginia. Peter Holmes and Andrew Johnson arrive from Denmark with Danes seeking American citizenship. Fred S Wetmore named Postmaster of Thalia Virginia as a Warren native gains prominence. Mrs A M Kent leaves for New York to meet her son Charles D Wetmore and travel to Florida for a fortnight. Rev J M Thoburn and wife attend the silver wedding of Mr and Mrs Sarsall in Oil City and return with greetings and plans to visit again.
A night watchman is greatly needed in Warren's west end near the railroads to guard stores, hotels, and factories. Citizens complain of insufficient protection as Lynde soap factory was robbed last Friday night with $50 taken and no arrests. Local officials are blamed for not providing police presence while tramps are said to loiter in the round-house.
The Presbytery of Erie will meet in Titusville from April 8 to 10 with about 150 delegates including ministers elders and lady delegates. They will discuss revising the Westminster Confession of Faith amid major and minority reports. supporters say revisions clarify election and avoid implying universal damnation while preserving core faith.
Karl Gardner will perform next Friday at Library Hall in Warren in the new comedy Fatherland by Sidney R. Ellis. Gardner plays Herman Leopold, a Tyrolean peasant guide in a romantic, picturesque drama of Tyrol life, with notable songs including Lilac.
B F Mead and Weiler Bros of Conewango have purchased the imported Percheron stallion Joseph from J W Akins of Scipio New York. The six year old stallion weighs about 1800 pounds and is noted for speed and liveliness for his size. Details of his service times and location will be announced soon. Farmers and horsemen are urged to admire this noble animal.
Late Eight Horses and Ponies Single and Double Harnesses Sleighs Cutters Carts will be sold cheap Four to six months time will be given on approved notes Eric Ericson Warren Pa As it is almost impossible to collect any money at present time we will sell first class Pianos and Organs at about half the prices that other dealers or agents ask for the same class of goods.
Warren Lodge I O O F elected N G J J Nesmith W G Sidney J Crocker Secretary Dwight Cowan Assistant Secretary Peter E Sonne Trustee A J Davis Fresh Bread Cakes etc at W A Messenger & Co s Herztel block by Conewango bridge
At the monthly Farmers Club meeting in the court room the road question dominated discussion. A State Road Commission letter was read regarding an early Warren meeting. Proponents urged a stone crusher and macadamized roads, proposing local ownership and tax work by hauling stone for a fixed load price.
Washington Camp No 479 Patriotic Order Sons of America resolves to present public schools in Warren and East Warren with enough national flags to equip each room and raise flags on school grounds. The aim is to foster American history study and patriotism across all grades and unite natives and foreign born residents in a strong national spirit during peace and war.
The Patriotic Order Sons of America credits the school flag with protecting the public schools and shaping patriotic youth. It notes millions in public schools versus about one million in private and sectarian schools, underscoring the flag’s meaning for the nation’s largest education system.
Wooparp & Lesser, Warren Pa tailors and clothiers, announce a new spring line offered at sharp discounts. They guarantee one hundred cents worth of goods per dollar and promise items priced at their true value, with stock ranging from medium to finest grades and prices from two to fifteen dollars.
Frances L. Mace in Harper's for April writes of two angels watching over the sleepless, comforting Mary, and urging believers to look to the morning light. In Easter dawn, angels rise in glory, gathering flowers from morning fields and proclaiming Christ is risen, guiding souls beyond the empty prison at daybreak.
The Warren Public Library has added numerous new titles across FICTION JUVENILE and MISCELLANEOUS sections. Notable authors and works include Abdallah Laboulaye Agnes of Sorrento Stowe Iceland Fisherman Loti and many others from classics to travel and history. The acquisitions feature works by George Sand Wilkie Collins William Black Kate Wiggin James and many more across 19th and early 20th century literature.
March 31 items report local prices for eggs maple sugar and butter, people visiting Pittsburg, and town happenings. Ed Baker improves after typhoid pneumonia while Geo Martin remains ill. A sap run boosts maple sugar making and a Russell district dance draws liberal receipts. A political nudge urges clean records for agricultural support. Also mentions Dr Hoxsies Croup Cure priced at 50 cents.
Sudden death of Deacon Daniel Strickland of Farmington and the Bradford boy Mentry Lewis who died after a revolver accident. Funeral for Robert Fitch. Erie Woman’s Relief Corps shift to auxillary to G A R. Arbor days set for April 11 and May 2. Jamestown reports spills on licenses, roseola outbreak, and school superintendent Rogers takes post. Erie license revenue split. Philadelphia girl and oil leasing on Goshen road. two day reduced tickets to be sold by Pennsylvania Railroad. Chautauqua season outlined with July and August programs including lectures by Roosevelt and Bellamy, Ben Hur tableaux, and extensive musical offerings.
An exhortation extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safer, gentler remedy than old fashioned purgatives. It claims the Bitters strengthen and regulate bowels, stimulate the liver and kidneys, and help conquer malarial, nervous, and rheumatic complaints. Local ads promote shoe stores, druggists, dairy salt, canned soups, cheese, and furnished goods.
A fragmented price list from Warren dealers showing market rates for apples, butter, beans, cheese, eggs, lard, onions, potatoes, pork, ham, sugar, coffee, tea, flour, meal, corn meal, molasses, syrup, rice, timothy and clover seeds, salt, and kerosene. Details include per bushel, per pound, per gallon, and per barrel quotes with several items listed in ranges or unclear units.
A long list of property transfers across Pine Grove, Warren, Colum bus, Farmington, Mead, Tidioute, Freehold, and Kinzua. Buyers include F A Nelson, A Whipple, J Bright, F Henry, J Ayling, and J Johnson with amounts ranging from 1 to 20,000 dollars. Several transfers involve couples and multiple estates, with properties valued at hundreds to thousands of dollars in varying towns.
A blend of promotional notes and business solicitations urges readers to a stimulant dealer Klein and promotes various goods. It includes offers on whiskey six year old, other beverages, seafood at Chsedrich & Fehrman, coffee at Nesmith & Knupp, shoes at C. P. Norruropf, and piano factory tours with Colby branding. W. L. Darina invites factory visit and inquiries in Warren.
The ladies of Warren and vicinity are invited April 2 to 5 to see the most complete line of millinery ever shown in the city. New novelties arrive daily and a first class trimmer from New York is engaged for the season. Visit Jno F. Kertener & Co successors to G N Patterson at 424 Water St Warren Pa.
The note cites arrangements with territory owners for Steinway Behr Bros Lohmer Haines Bros and other makers and maintains agency for various firms. It offers pianos from 250 up and invites consultation by mail or in person. Also mentions Mrs J W Kitchen and Goodrich Fehlman offering fines layer raisins and new crop citron lemon and orange peel.
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