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Domestic and dress goods departments along with white goods linens housekeeping woolen gloves and hosiery underwear laces trimmings ribbons buttons are cataloged for purchase at the local store.
10 Apr 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
1
Domestic and dress goods departments along with white goods linens housekeeping woolen gloves and hosiery underwear laces trimmings ribbons buttons are cataloged for purchase at the local store.
Daily trains with arrivals at Sheffield St Marys and Williamsport connect Erie Philadelphia New York Harrisburg Baltimore Washington. Through Pullman sleeping cars operate Erie to Philadelphia and Williamsport to Baltimore Washington. Kane accommodation runs daily except Sunday.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a timetable fragment with multiple unreadable times and codes across lines. No clear events, destinations, or entities are identifiable beyond scattered clock-like entries.
Fragmentary timing notes show 7:20 4:09 4:00 2:44 2:15 entries with AM PM markers and a stray Beau reference, offering little context for a full event or schedule.
Spanning advice on budgeting farming inputs pay as you go and the value of knowledge for success. It covers carrots for profitability, feeding with straw mixed with clover and bran, drainage in wet spots, weed control in pastures, peas for seed, fertilizers rich in phosphate and potash, and whitewashing tree trunks to deter insects with caution on thick applications.
A collage of humorous lines and anecdotes from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century column. Jokes about bookkeepers, a Montreal woman who claims to have eaten nothing since 1880, a doctor joking about burial, a nose injury over a whale, a classroom exchange with Master Kirby on grammar, and an Irishman tied to a bull all feature in light entertainment.
The lines celebrate spring’s arrival with vivid nature imagery and contrast the first bloom with mature passion. Eva Wheeler from Cosmopolitan asserts lasting love beyond early flame. H. S. Keller in the New York World notes Kitty’s marriage with playful flattery and public interest.
The excerpt presents Eugene Field poems with Wynken Blynken and Nod aboard a wooden shoe sailing a misty sea and fishing for stars. It shifts to The Court Fool describing a jovial feast where Snuff the fool entertains guests while one guest remains pensive in study.
The article outlines Kouang-Tong as China’s wealthiest, largest province with Canton as a hub. It details three main ethnic groups Pounti Hoklo and Hakkas, major silk tea sugar and spice products, extensive firecracker manufacture, and high duties on tea impacting cultivation and export markets. It notes exports of silk and firecrackers valued in millions and contrasts local prices with American costs.
A Chicago doctor argues that pure atmosphere is the finest disinfectant and that well ventilated homes reduce disease. He warns against sealing houses for winter and urges ventilation in new and old buildings to avoid basements’ sewer gas and widespread illness.
After losing his first wife and daughter, Sandy McPherson remarries. The new wife is kind to Maggie but governs the household strictly. The family’s life becomes tense, with the club, latch-key, and pipe all curtailed, prompting gossip. A kindly old lady consoles Maggie while expressing pity for her father.
A speaker asks a grandmotherly figure about life a century past and wonders what joys and woes, lovers and friends, might have filled that bygone era. The poem frames nostalgia and curiosity about ancient life through a flirtatious, reflective exchange.
Dr A T Hudson cites Dr Weir Mitchell experiments showing snake venom retains toxicity despite mixing with alcohol ammonia or other reagents. He argues whisky only supports vitality during elimination and warns against legging into remote use or wound applications. He calls such antidotes fallacious and urges scientifically grounded treatment.
A collection of parables with moral lessons about weather predictions, cunning, ingratitude, and public finance. The Ox outwisks the talkative Ass, the Wolf outmaneuvers the Hare, and a Canadian defaulter defends his wheat purchases, urging agriculture despite loss.
A citizen, moved by a quarrel, gives a quarter to a tramp who cannot live with his wife because she won't support him. The exchange from the New York Weekly reveals sympathy amid hardship. Disappointment is noted as a common guard to the rose.
A string of curious incidents reported nationwide includes a bear stomach find in Northern Michigan a Georgia man with a double-egged hen a captain Ericsson anniversary note a Florida grower selling watermelon seed to Northern seed houses. Also mentioned are a Milwaukee brewer’s daily lager a ghostly Alton spiritualist guest a Georgia fox hit by a train and a Planefield NJ watch returned after twenty years. A California boy struck by lightning near Ontario and Virginia men find a tree hollow with 5000 to 6000 dollars. Also noted is Rush Valley shoe-blocking material and a Los Angeles county clerk marriage on a moving train and a Nanaimo harbor rock blast spawning a silver fish surge.
A hundred year old apple shaped watch in a London museum features a pearl adorned golden exterior. Kine Grerce HL of England owned a tiny watch with 120 parts. Giovanni P. Morosini of Irvington owns 500 to 1,000 watches valued around 30,000 dollars. A Swiss museum holds a three sixteenths inch watch in a pencil case top with a dial showing hours minutes seconds and the day. Swiss watchmakers have built a watch for the blind using pegs to indicate hours. Caruarte L of Russia showcased a musical watch with the Holy Sepulcher and Roman guard moving inside as the Easter song plays.
A collection of satirical phrases on commissions poets musicians lighthouse keepers and colonization schemes. It notes forged notes a waiter measuring a man from tip to tip and cautions against mustache stroking. An Irish speaker jokes on self‑harm and capital punishment with clipped phrasing.
A selection of moral maxims on kindness, vanity, virtue, and human nature. Observations warn against flattery and deceit while noting how success and fault shape perception. The lines explore how people judge others and themselves, urging self awareness and restraint.
A local advertisement touts Dr. King's New Discovery as a must try remedy for coughs colds and chest troubles. It claims guaranteed satisfaction with money refunded and offers trial bottles at Morck Drug Store.
The proprietor of Kemp's Balsam markets the product as a perfect cure for coughs throat and lung troubles and urges immediate purchase. A trial bottle is offered free at all druggists with large sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
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