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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1897
Page
4
A Philadelphia Ledger meditation on life as a voyage facing the Cape of Storms. It asserts that despite dangers and uncertain guidance, steadfast purpose and faithful will guide the soul to calmer waters beyond the perilous cape.
A tale from California and Arizona recounts the Hassayampa river superstition about truth, the rise and fall of George Washington Thompson in a mining venture backed by Los Angeles financiers, Rhodes and Rothschilds, and his later banishment from a church. The narrative mixes rumor, enterprise, and moral commentary, ending with a caustic note on lineage and temper.
The Sun recounts a man hunting rabbits with a hose and catching a frightened chunk of meat. The Sportsmen's Review notes Chicago suburb testers faced mishap as Cutler misjudged a rabbit break and instead grabbed a harmless chunk, while Von Lengerke vouched for the method.
In Reitzenberg Castle Irma von Buchow and Count Albrecht stage a wary alliance to frustrate a family marriage scheme hatched by Frau von Wolde. The ruse aims to keep Irma at the castle three months while suspicions grow, leading to a tense endgame for a fortune and estate. Irma and Albrecht navigate suspicion with careful, shifting loyalties as the plan to split them falters.
Irma narrowly escapes a dangerous bridge with Albrecht guiding her. He confesses his love, recalls their past, and she at last grants her consent to marriage as the forest around them awakes with life and happiness.
A collector notes the lord mayor’s 15 servants, eight over six feet, clothed in sapphire blue velvet livery with gold lace. Uniforms are worn during office, then sold to the supplying firm, which ships them to African kings for state occasions, sometimes including a gold crown or throne.
During the 1879 80 famine in India the Bombay mint received 12 million dollars worth of gold and silver ornaments sold by locals in exchange for food.
The Washington Post notes standout vocalists in Congress. Marriott Brosius of Pennsylvania’s Tenth District has a booming voice that drowns out speakers in the galleries, rivaled in history by W D Kelley and Charles H Van Wyck. William Allen of Ohio allegedly carried a legendary capacity, with an anecdote recalling a call to a colleague across the balcony.
Joseph Balk of 430 South Division street Buffalo New York became deranged after attending a Schwabl's hall performance. He studied the magician's tricks and grew increasingly withdrawn and agitated, later rapping on windows and scaring neighbors. Doctor Dorr diagnosed insanity with no identifiable cause.
Followers of Mme Blavatsky attend a corner stone ceremony in San Diego to inaugurate a school for reviving ancient mysteries. Katharine Tingley officiated aided by E. T. Hargrove as they consecrated the temple with corn, oil, wine, dust and water, ending with Aum chants.
Lieuts Kyo Aoki and Takakura of the Japanese royal navy arrive in Philadelphia to supervise the two cruisers under construction at Cramp’s shipyards. Capt Sakurai divides his time between Philadelphia and San Francisco where he oversees work at Union Iron Works.
The Bridgeport common council debated theater hat reform and created a hat matron to enforce decorum. Susan Watson, a milliner, is appointed to judge hat sizes and request removal of large hats, with offenders placed on a box office blacklist for front-seat denial.
Patrick Sullivan found a woman and infant near Clarksville in Gallows Hollow near Belle Fontaine in a tenement. The famished child had eaten flesh from its hands and drunk its blood. He alerted a doctor, but both mother and baby died before help could arrive.
Kansas superintendent orders Connecticut Mutual Life and New York Mutual Life barred from doing business in the state after evidence they acted unfairly in the Hillman case. Mrs Sally E Hillman pursued about 50 000 in premiums after her husband was declared dead but body never found. Jury outcomes shifted across five trials culminating in a full policy award with interest last year. No appeal exists against the superintendent’s decisive action per state law.
The piece notes that while most trades advance, the goldbeater’s craft remains primitive and unchanged since ancient times. It also observes the cook’s cap as a timeless symbol, worn from Shakespearean and Roman eras to today, underscoring two enduring symbols amid constant change.
Two special offers highlight a busy Christmas trade as the shop boasts ample stock of china and year round goods. Managers promise daily availability, fair prices, and courteous treatment, urging customers to inspect the two featured bargains.
An ornate banquet lamp with decorated globe, centre draft burner and removable font is marketed in gold or silver plate with a Cupid figure. The ad urges readers to buy soon, calling it the ideal lamp at a great bargain that may not last.
Advertisement notes a 100 piece English dinner set with brown underglaze and gold lines, guaranteed to never craze. It offers a two dollar present discount and claims a wide selection of top quality crockery in stock in Warren county.
The Writers and Pioneer clubs in London have taken steps to curb smoking among members. The Writers’ club bans tobacco for its female journalists and authors, demanding resignation for smokers. At the Pioneer club smoking is permitted only in a private crib, with non members barred, and likely to end if access dwindles.
English ordnance survey members touring southern Scotland clash with a crusty farmer who orders them from his field. They claim government papers grant right of entry, the farmer releases a bull that charges the panicked surveyors as they flee. He taunts them asking if they can show the papers to the bull.
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