05 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1870
Page
1
Fragmentary timetable details show a sequence of times and periods including 8.00 P.M. 6.00 A.M. 2.20 A. 9.55 a. 7.00 a. 6.00 P. The readable numbers suggest a daily or shift timetable with no clear events or names attached.
Latimer Leary narrates how a telegraph wedding to Kate Leary led to a twist. He travels to Indianapolis to meet a lookalike passenger, finds true love with the unseen Kate, and ends by declaring he is bound by wires to his wife, the famed Kate Leary.
Florence Gindele and Vane Percival, long parted by a quarrel, are drawn back together by longing and a ghostly reunion. Amid autumnal gloom and a crimson grate, forgiveness arrives as they embrace, renewing their love and ending a life shadowed by sorrow.
In a snow lit scene Florence Gindele gazes toward the window as a figure resembling Vane Percival appears at the doorway. Her heart, once consumed by self, now seeks spiritual transformation while longing for the lover who stands imploring at the hall lamp glow.
An 19th century fragment notes Rachel burial near Ramah and a Longfellow reference while printing a satirical boardinghouse rules list. The rules mock strict temperance, board charges, boot removal, bed arrangements, and even nightmares and snoring in a humorous tone.
Mr. Greeley recounts a graycoated farmer who bought land in timber thirty years ago for 14 per acre and now sells timber at 100 per acre while keeping the land. He warns against debt but urges buyers to choose a home wisely, invest where they can live and work, and note that land may be cheap in any state for those who can afford and know how to use it.
The piece describes growing hostility toward Chinese in California amid hard times. It cites threats of mob violence in San Francisco with youths saying they are ready to kill Chinese. The article fears a vigilante terror worse than previous eras and hopes such fear proves unfounded.
A passenger quips that his face is his ticket while a conductor showcases a strong pair of fives and declares orders to punch all tickets on the line. The exchange plays on bravado and authority aboard a passing train.
An object of interest is a girl whose annual income is cited as three thousand dollars, highlighting the social or matrimonial dynamics referenced in the piece.
The Boston Gazette critiques piano instruction for young women, noting the taste matters little once the trend is set. It says mothers favor foreign teachers with long hair and broken English, and after costly training only a small fraction become skilled, with many wandering from light pieces to more ambitious works.
A meditation on how poverty and class prejudice suppresses gifted individuals who prove God grants equal nobility of mind to the poor and the rich. Society, envy, and scorn silences many bright souls, driving some to hide their flame and die unsung.
The Thames tunnel built 40 years ago faced great difficulty and high cost. A new tunnel begun last April reached the river bed under the London clay, costing under 90000 dollars. The route lies a half mile upriver near the Tower and London Bridge with dual lifts and an omnibus transit.
A man from Bedford visited Page County on Monday and, after lifting two heavy sticks of timber, nearly blinded himself. Within half an hour his right eye became sightless though he felt no pain then or since.
A romance unfolds as a couple, betrothed for thirty six years, finally wed in Frankfort on the Main. The groom is sixty eight and the bride sixty four, illustrating a publicized union long in the making.
Prentice quips that in America a couple needs a hired girl as well. He imagines Adam would have a hired girl in Paradise to tend to Abel and “raise Cain.”
A Chelsea, Massachusetts housewife tried to burn bugs from a cupboard by coating shelves with kerosene and striking a match. The kerosene catch fire but firefighters prevented further damage.
An Indiana farmer reported sighting a ghost in a cemetery and fired his gun to test the apparition. He struck and killed his own old white horse, according to local accounts.
A schoolmaster asks a pupil for the Latin word for cold and the boy replies he cannot recall it at the moment though it sits at his finger ends. The quip highlights playful wit inside a winter classroom scene.
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