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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
4
In Warren's suburbs Pleasant Green discovers his home frozen pipes and no water for cooking or washing. Basements hold twelve inches of frozen coal and wood as the kitchen stove fails to burn. He braves a twenty seven block trek to town to cope with the cold scene inside his once bright demesne.
Mounet Sully to act Iago at Comedie Francaise. Coppee’s Violin Maker of Cremona adapted as an opera. New York season rich in new works and prosperity. Julia Marlowe credited as Julia Brough in early career. Sibyl Sanderson fully recovered and studying again. Laura Millard Josie Intrepidi and Henry Norman singing at American theater. Madrid’s Maria del Carmen fails to impress. Mascagni regains hold with Irie first performed. recalled 20 times. Coquelin delays Emile Bergerac’s More Than Queen after Cyrano. Annie Russell signs long term with Frohman. Andrew Mack’s next season The Last of the Rohans by Ramsay Morris. Goodwin likely to act in London next spring under Frohman, possibly as Iago Richard III and Shylock.
The article surveys latest fashion items including shirred silk toques in biscuit and white, cream lace blouses, black ostrich feather trims, tucked chiffon toques, pompadour hair combs, colored silk stitchings on white taffeta blouses, mousseline de soie ruches, and neutral color trends. It notes a shift toward quiet elegance in pale neutrals and moderation in style, highlighting specific trims and color schemes.
The column surveys diverse topics from ancient Bengal clothmaking to London soot fallout. It notes Egyptian cotton goes to England, and Egyptian factories suffer from dust and dry air with minimal wages. It reports Boston police studying law and facing weekly legal questions to boost efficiency.
A Chicago News quip column notes that love and money test the ring, third parties complicate courtship, clothing’s loudness spurs crowds, and experience teaches unwelcome lessons. It adds that the tongue remains a potent weapon and doormats see both feet, while sympathizers seek the particulars and spouses often misread each other.
A summary of liquefied air by Charles E. Tripler and Century Magazine reports. Experiments show liquid air freezing objects, chilling rooms, and preserving seeds, with effects on heat and cold concepts.
French novelist Alcanter de Brahms urges a new mark to denote irony so readers catch mockery like Swift. A New England editor doubts writers would adopt it, though acknowledges its value for discerning irony.
General Lew Wallace argued a civil case when he lit a cigar. He asked to keep smoking citing health, noting it was once common there. The judge granted the courtesy, and the moment was recorded in the court minutes.
The takahe is described as the world’s most valuable rare bird in New Zealand. Since 1849 only four have been seen by Europeans, with two housed in the British Museum and one in Dresden, while the fourth was offered to New Zealand for 1250 dollars.
Old Man asks a young girl about her deceased parents and what they left her. The child replies softly that she was left an orphan, illustrating a somber exchange from a New York World column or feature.
A Gay Deceiver Miss Faire le Phatt unveils an ingenious device that creates a false impression of her proportions, described in a cheeky critique by Scrape.
The English Gazette laments the arrival of automoblie technology. It jokes that horses and ostlers will diminish as machines take over transport, noting paraffin powered carts may replace horse drawn carriages and predicting horses will become mere circus acts. It mocks the pace of change and urban adaptation.
Nixon Waterman’s verse in the Los Angeles Bulletin imagines a future moment when joy returns and past friendships revive. The speaker envisions sunlit bliss, gardens in bloom, and a reunion with loved ones from Long Ago as time and longing are fulfilled.
A motivational verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges artists to persist in their chosen niche despite sneers and indifference. It contrasts the house applause with the bored observer and champions steady effort, nerve, and ascent to the top of the temple of art.
A reflective verse from the Washington Star describes red clouds in a radiant sky, Earth’s smallness, and humanity’s longings. It speaks of eternity, faith, and a sudden inner awakening as the soul stirs, guided by a celestial message and a quiet, rare heavenly song.
A verse excerpt by Philander Johnson in the Washington Star mocks a man who endlessly whistles at work, filling buildings with music and provoking annoyance, while shyly blushing when courting in the evening. The poem contrasts bustling noise with private fragility amid social judgment.
A mixed poem fragment from Tennyston and Edwin R Champlin appears with lines on crossing the bar and final departure, followed by a brief meditation on home and peace. The text includes a quirky signature Detroit Free Press note and a note about time and world affairs.
A poetic flourish extols the airy shirt waist as a charming revival in society life. Vivid imagery links fashion to leisure, nature, and merriment, noting how the celebrated garment stirs wistful, nostalgic feelings across urban and rural scenes in a playful period voice.
A fragment notes efforts to protect food safety by preventing alum contamination. The text repeats the safeguard idea, but provides no clear organization or dates. Further details are unavailable in the readable portion.
A collection of curious statements spanning fashion, weaponry, geography, and customs. Topics include early hat manufacture in England, the shortest London street, billiards in Europe, war era armament, and unique linguistic quirks such as after dinner speeches in Japan.
A compilation of quotes on friendship from writers such as Young Wordsworth Rivarol Lady Blessington Warwick Tully Addison and Feltham. The passages explore loyalty, worldly fortunes, women friendships tenderness honesty and the benefit of candid fault finding.
The Atchison Globe column lampoons social dynamics among women and men, contrasting flippant judgments of brides and town belles with claims that popularity fades like gambling. It questions honesty in female friendship and notes playful stereotypes about footwear and mobility.
A bundle of satirical verses on social norms and cleverness. It playfully mocks advice, modesty, and public image with pointed lines. It notes the futility of clever sayings and the quirks of conversational health reports and naming practices.
A fragment describes Puerto Rico with lemons of uncertain origin, guava jelly as a desert, and meals served in courses. It notes no color line, small horses and people, rum as the national drink, pineapple abundance, sugar as a principal industry, and unusual social details such as babies and old women smoking cigars and no milk wagons.
This piece explains that roots for feeding stay near the surface to receive sun’s warmth, while deep roots mainly anchor plants. It notes millions of short lived feeder roots create soil friability, warns against deep cultivation, and cites sun energy and capillary rise aiding surface moisture.
The Koonce pear is large, golden yellow with a red cheek and resists core rot. Trees grow upright and vigorous with blight resistance, yielding bountiful clusters about the size of Doyenne. Its firmness suits shipping, making it a promising early variety over Manning's Elizabeth which rots at the core.
Advice covers root grafting or budded stock for vigorous trees, stock influence with graft height, signs of yellows from premature ripening, right timing for transplanting, selecting sturdy trees, soil fertility, and avoiding fresh manure under berries. Also notes on hedging, top growth, and pre-planting heel-in for spring setouts.
A humorously grim hotel notices list absurd rules and odd amenities in a Connecticut town. It describes weekly board with meals, breakfast at five, dinner at six, supper at seven, and strange directives about the dumb waiter bed springs and a halter on the bed post.
A collection of wisecracks about gender and society. It mocks professional scruples, social power, and dating rituals with quips on industry, smiles, aging, proposals, coffee, sugar, banking, admiration, and hat choosing.
A garbled collection of claims lists varied facts such as numbers of saloons in Alaska and the United States, police counts in London, a Persian shah smoking, a $4000 pipe, Beljum breweries, and British shipyards capable of a steamship daily output, ending with a vague note on chewing output and a $6,000,000 figure.
Paris afternoon gowns favor pale tints and simple lines with trims to hide silhouette flaws. Browns blues and purples pair with coral blue or turquoise while chinchilla trimmed gowns draw high fashion appeal. Tucked gray taffeta waists with lace yoke and white silk embroidery plus oversized sable and chinchilla muffs reflect current luxury. A second item notes gelatin silk, new from Leeds, made from gelatin by J J Hummel.
The five top gold producing nations for 1898 are led by the Transvaal, surpassing the United States by over $9 million and ahead of Australia. The United States produced about $64.8 million, Australia around $61.5 million, and Russia about $14.2 million, with the first three yielding roughly three quarters of global output. The U S gain from 1897 to 1898 was about $6.9 million.
Commissioner Wright reports 15 states support public institutions for feeble minded care and instruction. Grounds and buildings cost 4 640 000 dollars with annual support of 1 362 000 dollars. 828 caretakers are employed and 8 177 inmates are housed, about 55 percent of whom are men. A Dutch quip about roofing Amsterdam is cited regarding eligibility.
A North Dakota speaker touts Senator Elect Porter J. McCumber as a formidable figure who arrived in 1889 with nothing but drive. He reportedly built his career from a tiny shack office, delivering sharp legal work to win trust and spread his reputation across Wahpeton and the state.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes Americans are called quinophagists for consuming more quinine than any people. Annual imports top 1.5 billion grains, averaging 20 grains per person. Importers’ price drops from 2 per ounce to 16 cents over 25 years. Two thirds of quinine sourced from Java cinchona trees, cultivated by Dutch governors since 1852.
Journal de St. Petersburg reports municipal council issue tickets to cabbies for fare complaints. Each ticket records cab number and tariff. upon request the cabby must tear off a ticket for the passenger. The system aims to document grievances against drivers.
A historical quote attributed to Horace Greeley states that the darkest hour in any young man is when he contemplates obtaining money without earning it.
Professor W. J. McGee predicts a land bridge forming along the Aleutian and Russian island chain linking Alaska to Asia. He cites rising Aleutian islands and Yukon River detritus creating new shorelines and expanding US territory, with shorelines gradually turning to dry land over years.
Major Clement B. White of Selma Alabama, Abraham Lincoln's brother-in law, served in the Alabama state guard at the war onset and helped seize Fort Morgan under state orders. Lincoln reportedly said he would hang White when caught. White later earned recognition in Confederate military and civil service.
The historic Washington elm in Cambridge, under which General Washington commanded the Continental Army, is decaying rapidly. Cambridge park commissioners say only a few years of life remain. Workmen recently removed dead wood and plans call for spring overhauling to preserve what remains.
Recalled episode shows General Winfield Scott, then a captain, court martialed for calling Wilkinson and Burr traitors and Wilkinson a liar. He was convicted and suspended for a year. The remark mirrors a longstanding pattern of officers clashing with subordinates over truth.
The Tacoma Ledger notes lawmakers are petitioned to rename Gilman in King County to Issequah, a move to gain fame alongside other Washington place names such as Snoqualmie and Skagit amid regional branding.
A tourist notes how imagination influences the cold toughening process. He recalls a Klondike traveler who endured three years there and shivered blue during a north wind blizzard, despite rich winter clothing. The Klondiker expected spring here and even pneumonia, which shows mental resilience as crucial as physical.
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