11 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
1
A Warren newspaper page blends verse and local notices with weather, events, and civic updates. It highlights Easter observances, millinery sales, a high school baseball trip, town meetings, hospital visits, and cemetery reports, all anchored by local names and dates.
At Migs Sill the ladies shop for handsome and fat millinery with reasonable prices. The notice highlights fashionable hats and affordable options appealing to buyers.
Secretary Dodge details for the first three months: total YMCA membership 420 with 343 seniors and 77 juniors. New Year’s Day attendance 950, three month room attendance 9,625 and event attendance 4,980. Physical instruction totals include 405 business men, 432 senior men, 504 junior men, 525 senior boys, 611 junior boys, 81 pastors, 74 leaders, and 1,213 individual exercises. Gospel meetings total 3,588, Bible classes 303, and prayer circle 94. Finances show member fees 504.25, subscriptions 1,019.50, rentals 243, and miscellaneous 680.85, total 2,447.60.
The article urges farmers and households to use printed note heads and envelopes for letters. It notes cost is low and benefits high, and praises the Matt office for offering a box of 250 note heads and 250 envelopes printed to order for $1.50, cheaper than stamps.
A U S census bulletin on the oil refining industry shows 1899 refined petroleum output of 42,234,664 barrels with 16,666,809 barrels exported. Total wage earners reached 12,199, with $6,717,087 in wages and $102,859,341 in raw materials. Pennsylvania hosted 39 refineries and $26,580,504 in capital, employing about 3,299 workers with $1,681,603 in total salaries.
County Superintendent O J Gunning announces exams for prospective teachers across multiple towns from April to May 1901 with special and professional certificate sessions in Warren. All must attend, entrants must be 18, bring stamped envelopes and paper, and exams start at 9 oclock with strict entry rules.
All but six liquor license applications were approved last Monday and Tuesday leaving sixteen in Warren borough and twenty seven across the county Five were refused and one continued to April 22nd No remonstrances arose except from Sheffield where four papers protested resulting in licenses granted to ODonnell and Leroy Each time the paper notes one less licensed place than last year ROBBED James D Harris of Corydon Township reports five men entered his Warren home bound him and his wife and hired man Then they unlocked the safe took about 1000 in cash watches and jewelry left him tied until he freed himself about an hour later He offers 100 reward for the arrest and conviction of the robbers
Patrick E. Barrett of Warren wed Bertha Irene Miller of Caledonia Pa at St Josephs Church Warren in a 7 30 am ceremony conducted by Rev Father Sieverding on Monday April 8 1901.
Death notices and brief obituaries from Warren and nearby towns list Louis Richard Peterson age 10 months in Warren. Mary Jane Morris widow of Robert Morris in Tidioute aged 86. Lucy Ann Palmer Garfield in McGraw aged 77. George McDonald formerly of Tidioute aged 50 buried in Tidioute. Rev C O Hultgren Swedish minister died in Jamestown. Uncle Sam Ridgway Hydetown aged 77. Burial details noted for several.
The Bon Ton Millinery Store offers fifty trimmed hats at a 25 percent discount on Saturday April 13. Hats are marked in plain figures at regular price and not marked up for the sale.
Notice to all Oakland Cemetery lot owners that no lots will be mowed next year unless mowing fees are paid to the secretary. Owners are urged to attend to this matter so mowing can occur before Memorial Day. By order of the Board of Trustees. 11ant C. C. THOMPSON, Secretary.
Chafing dishes spoons forks toast ers lamps globes at low prices Fehman Bros announce a special millinery sale day at the Bon-Ton on Saturday April 13th Large stock of latest styles and novelties N K Wendelboe 217 Liberty street shows new Zuber Florals and Sanderson tapestries Miss Sills Warren also offering latest millinery designs
Special bargains offered in SKIRTINGS listing multiple lots: 32-inch fancy back heavy goods at 32c. 32-inch plain back greys tans and blues at 42c. 54-inch greys at 75c. shrunk and scoured greys tans browns at 1.38. 54-inch shrunk all colors plain and fancy back at 1.58. fresh wash silk stock at 45c.
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