County Officials Directory Listing
A historical roll lists numerous county offices and officeholders including member of Congress Joseph C Sibley senator Henry H Cumings assembly E W Parshall president judge W M Lindsey associate judges J H Sandstrom Z T Weaver prothonotary Frank M Knapp register and recorder Chas D Crandall sheriffs John H Fuellhart treasurer James K r Mitchell commissioners J F Rounce W J Mead H M Preston commissioners clerk Fred B Jackson district attorney C A Peterson co superintendent of schools H M Putnam jury commissioners A H Putnam W R Dawson coroner Dr W S Peirce county auditors Geo M Pelton A M Bennett Frank McClellan county surveyor D F A Wheelock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Joseph C. Sibley
Senate
Henry H. Cumings
Assembly
E. W. Parshall
W. M. Lindsey
J. H. Sandstrom
Z. T. Weaver
Frank M. Knapp
Register
Chas
D. Crandall
John H. Fuellhart
James KR. Mitchell
Cot
J. F. Rounce
W. J. Mead
H. M. Preston
Fred B. Jackson
C. A. Peterson
H. M. Putnam
H. A. Putnam
W. R. Dawson
W. 5. Peirce
Geo. M. Pelton
A. M. Bennett
Frank McClellan
D. F.A. Wheelock
Town Officials and Posts Listed for Burgess-Frank Area
A historical listing enumerates town officers and roles including President Jas Brann Clerk E H Beshlin Treasurer A J Hazeltine Justices H B Perry C H Meacham Collector E R K Peirce Attorney Wm Schnur Engineer D F A Wheelock and constables of four wards. School directors named D I Ball Wm Leffard Mrs Peoria A Cowan J C Magee Wm Keegan W D Hinckle and others.
Train schedules and arrivals listed for regional lines
A fragmented timetable shows Philadelphia and Erie lines, Western New York and Pennsylvania routes, and Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburgh connections with arrival and departure times. The garbled text includes express and local train numbers, eastern and western standard times, and several station names.
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Philadelphia & Erie
BR. B. West
Eastern Standard
New York
Pennsylvania A. RR
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
R. BR
NORTH
Do You Know See Yellow and Cheap Stock Warnings
A brief note warns against using decomposed or offensive stock as is, urging caution with yellow and cheap grades. It emphasizes avoiding unsafe materials and seeking quality, safe sources. The advisory reflects general caution in investment or product handling contexts.
T. O. Slater Company Hardware and Farm Supply Ad
A historical catalog-style notice lists roofing plumbing and sheetiron services plus farm tools and garden equipment. It promotes bicycles from Stearns and Racyle lines, bicycle supplies, fishing tackle house furnishings and summer appliances, filters for water, paints, glass and brass goods, pipe fittings and hardware essentials.
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Stearns
Easter Origin and Symbolism in History
The piece traces Easter origins linking the festival to a Saxon deity Eostre with spring symbolism of nature rising. It notes hare and egg emblems, German legends of hares laying eggs, and Easter motifs in art such as a Rome cemetery fresco showing a boy with hare and lily. It mentions Pontianus martyrs and the cemetery’s possible naming.
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Eostre
Germany
St. Pontianus
Rome
Pontianus
The Great Lily That Could Reach the Sky
A florist estimates about 7,000,000 Easter lilies will be sold this Easter. Imagining these lilies as one giant flower, its height would be 20,000 feet, stem 150 feet in diameter, and total weight over 400,000 pounds.
New York Money Market Report Details Rates and Rates
New York money market data dated April 10 shows money on call at 4 percent and prime mercantile paper at 44 5 percent. Sterling exchange notes actual banker bills at 4.874 and 4.87 percent for demand, sixty days at 4.88 percent, with posted rates of 4.84 and 4.841 percent and 4.88. Commercial bills at 4.8314 to 4.8344. Silver certificates at 60 44 to 61 4c. Bar silver at 59 1/2 to 59 3/4 cents. Mexican dollars at 47 3/4 cents.
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New York
Prime Mercantile Paper
Sterling Exchange
New York Produce Market Prices Reported for Winter Flour and More
Prices on flour winter patents and kinds, rye, corn meal, buckwheat, wheat, corn, oats, hay, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, and potatoes across New York and western markets. Includes f o b afloat, state and regional variations, with figures for Minnesota and Jersey items.
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New York
Minnesota
Duluth
Pennsylvania
Jersey
Long Island
Buffalo Provision Market Report
Buffalo on April 10 reports a range of grain and flour prices including Wheat No 1 hard at 82 cents f o b afloat No 1 northern 80 and 3/4 cents winter No 2 red 54 cents Corn No 2 yellow 44 1/4 cents No 3 yellow 44 1/6 cents Oats No 3 white 29 8/4 cents No 3 mixed 27 4/4 cents Flour spring wheat best patent per barrel 4.00 4.25 dollars low grades 2.00 2.50 winter best family 3.50 3.75 graham best 3.78.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
F.o.b
Winter
Graham
Best
History of the Week highlights a string of 1899 events
A digest covering April 5 to 11 notes lynching in Georgia, a Rochester mother killing her children, a Rochester death by eye injury, labor disputes in Buffalo and Galeton, political doings from Washington to Reading, and crises from crime to floods. It catalogues court cases, deaths, strikes, and international affairs with multiple named places and persons.
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Allen Brooks
Bloomingdale
F. W. Hart
Catherine Meyer
Rochester
Glover Beardsley
Yale
Auburn
N. Y
New York
Jork Kruz
Caracas
American Federation of Labor
Cruz
Grippe
David Campbell
Empire Iron and Steel Company
Reading
Wheat Field
Webster Davis
Hitchcock
Interoceanic Canal Company
Trenton
N. J
New York City
Lucania
Elijah Simons
Elizabethtown
American Society of Religious Education
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington
Kooru
Karee
Spruit
Buffalo and Susquehanna
Galeton
Chico
Cal
George Bidwell
House of Peers
Senor Birao
Lorenzo Marques
Delagoa Bay
Nathan’ Baldwin
Wichita
Kan
Garson Avenue
Admiral Dewey
Mount
Indiana
Harrisburg Letter on Republican Pr imaries Victorys and Insurgent Setbacks
Special correspondence from Harrisburg reports another round of stalwart Republican wins in Saturdays primaries across Bedford Clinton Westmoreland Luzerne Warren McKean and other counties. The piece highlights defeats for insurgent Flinn Mackey defeats in Lackawanna by Edward James and a pro caucus vote in Northampton County backing General Reeder aligned leadership.
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Harrisburg
Flinn Martinites
Flinn
Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Lackawanna
Dr. Mackey
Flinn- Guffey
Mackey
Edward James
Quay
Philadelphia
Wanamaker
James
Scranton
Balter
Bedford County
State Senate
Weller
House
Dr. Miller
Senator Weller
Colonel Quay
T. C. Sanderson
Sanderson
Thropp
John M. Reynolds
Reynolds
Thorpe
Clinton
Packer
Elias Deemer
Reeder
Northampton County
Easton
Edward Weldon
Bethlehem
Committee On Resolutions
McKinley
Stone
Boise Penrose
Pennsylvania
M. S. Quay
United States Senate
William J. Caskie
Lehigh
William Cogie
Geo. F. Coffin
Orlando B. Desh
William R. Grubb
Bangor
George F. Coffin
Reder
Northumberland County
Stalwarts Triumph in Several Counties on Primary Day
Westmoreland voters largely backed regulars, with Cyrus E. Woods likely winning state senate and two to three of four house candidates expected to be regulars. Warren nominates L. C. Baker, Venango allies back W H Corring and J P Emery, Sibley to Congress. Clearfield and Center show strong stalwart showings, Montgomery and Cameron groups aligned, Acheson delegate backed. Regulars foresee two thirds of state convention support.
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Westmoreland County
Huff
Cyrus E. Woods
House
Warren County
L. C. Baker
Assembly
Venango
W. H. Corring
Oil City
John P. Emery
Franklin
Joseph Sibley
Congress
Clearfield County
Center County
Hastings
Montgomery County
Cameron
Northumberland
Dauphin Counties
Acheson
Greene County
Wheeler's Statement on Ambition Not a Candidate
General Wheeler says he has no ambition beyond what has already been realized. He notes his name has only been mentioned as a compliment in politics and he respects the praise but will not pursue vice presidential candidacy. He celebrates Confederate veterans fighting under the Stars and Stripes and the nation's rise as a world power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wheeler
United States
Southern States
Grand Army to Invite Dewey for Chicago Encampment
Chicago on April 7 reports that should the Dewey committee not welcome him on May 1 due to his political aims the Grand Army of the Republic will invite Admiral Dewey as a presidential candidate to attend the August encampment. William H. Harper, chairman, notes the group wishes his presence and previously extended an invitation when Dewey first landed in New York.
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London Daily Mail
I. W. Jenkins
Philadelphia
Daily Mail
South Africa
W. T. Cluverius
United States Navy
Maine
Hannah Walker Sampson
Admiral Sampson
David B. Hill
Syracuse
George W. Harner
Northern Central
Elmira
N. Y
Matilda S. Poucher
L. B. Poucher
State Normal School
Oswego
Poucher
E. A. Sheldon
Natal
Lord Roberts
Roosevelt
Galena
Ills
General Grant
Porter H. Bliss
Boston
United States District Court
Senate
Chicago
Dewey Committee
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Admiral Dewey
William H. Harper
General Committee
New York
Dewey
Dewey and wife vacationed then returned to Washington
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday and left for Washington on the Congressional Limited. Mrs. Dewey went to New York to shop and rejoined the admiral for the trip back. J Matt Ward sent ecards. In Kansas City John R. McLean rented deluxe Dewey shared quarters for the July Democratic convention.
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Philadelphia
McLean
Kansas City
John R. McLean
Admiral Dewey
Minnesota grass exhibits at Paris show humane industry
An exhibit at the Paris exposition features a Minnesota grass industry barely two years old. It is converting swamp grass into furniture, screens, carriages, baskets, and mats, replacing reed and willow. The material is light, elastic, and durable. Over 500 workers are employed, with plans to triple the number as demand grows and two new plants are planned. In summer over 8,000 people work gathering the raw grass.
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Minnesota
Wedding Invitations and Programs From Marz Office
The Marz office offers wedding invitations announcements calling cards ball invitations and programs with neat elegant work at slower prices for broad affordability and quality.
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Marz
Philadelphia Campaign for Philadelphia Congress at Large Nomination
Business leaders in Philadelphia push for a Philadelphian to be named as a Republican congressman at large at the Harrisburg state convention on April 25. The effort aims to boost harbor improvements League Island shipbuilding and a large dry dock to benefit Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, with no particular candidate pledged.
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Philadelphia
League Island
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Board of Trade
The
Trade League
Trades League
Thomas Martindale
Trades League of Philadelphia
Boles Penrose
United States Senate
Congress
John Sherman
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W. Dunkle J
Warren
Hoffman Building
Liberty
Second Streets
A & Andrews
Law
No. 312
Liberty Street
Warren, Pa
J. G. Smith
K. M. Andrews
Charles W. Stone, Ralph W. Stone
First Nat’l Bank
Superior
Supreme Courts of
Sill & Son
Exchange Block
Water Street
F. E. Sill
Jenuson’s Law
Edward Lindsey
Dairstow
Tin
Saebson
Rapher
Attorneys At Law
Warren Savings Bank
Chas. Dinsmoor
Chas, A. Peterson
Joseph T. Danforth
S. Keller’s Sons
Second Street
Perry
Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer
Woodard & Lesser
Third Street
A. W. McAlpin
R. W. Stuart
Hazeltine Building
Iiberty Street
Greaves
ALL & Thompson
Beaty Block
O, Thompson
Local Directory
Warren Borough Officers
Railroad Guide
Lee
A. A. Davis & Company
Lippincott’s Monthly
T. O. Slater & CO
Water ST
NEW York Tri-Weekly Tribune
Tri-Weekly Tribune
Daily Tribune
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Tion
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Market Report
History OF the
Albert Dixon
East Batavia
Bilicott Street Road
Colonel Eddy
Rhode Island
Henry C. Eddy
Eugene Tucker
George Miller
Dunwell
Lyons
Partridge
W. S. Sanders
Ontario
Erie Canal
Sanders
Fred Burmeister
Lake Shore
Toledo
Hawaii
Polonius
Page
Middletown
Simeon Rodriguez
Carlos Pecheo
Hermongnes Pacheco
Eugenio Rodriguez
Rosalie Santiago
Porto Rico
Senor Prudencio Nendez
Yauco
Joseph Horne & Co
Dewet
Mafeking
Great Northern
Texas
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Central
American Plate Mirror Company
Steyn
Free State Volksraad
Kroonstadt
Lindenhurst
Orange L. Tozier
Sheldon
Wyoming County
Westfield
Ninth
New York Cavalry
John Gedding
Watertown
Arthur Griffiths
United Irishman
Ramsay Colliers
Irish Figaro
Great Point
Edward F. Jones
Binghamton
Canada
Samuel K. Clauses
J.C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass
Bedford
Westmoreland
Luzerne
Warren, McKean
Ron
Northampton
Bly. Ff
Udge
Erneen Wees
Fred Fuellhart
D. F. A. Wheelock
Wees
John A. Steen
al Wm. Pedlow, Jr
George B. Munn
Sixth Dist
J.blein
L. Morris
Youngsville
W. J. Grandin, Jr
Tidioute
Sherwood Simmons
Columbus
A. F. Crossman
Clarendon
Bear Lake
Sweetland
Scott Stewart
Sugar Grove Boroug
H. Steee
Teeee
Haehn
Grand Valley Borough
John Akins Brokenstraw
Dist
Fist
F Nelson
Wteae
P. Curtis
Conewango
Seeeee
B. F. Mead Columbus
E. M. Crosb
Nelson Mea Corydon
Ane
E. Hoop Corydon
Chergrove
Paneer Wees
S. Cole
Deerfiel
J.J. Morrison
Frank Hagberg
Eldred
James Cochran
Freehold
F. E. Eastman
Farmin
Hester Phillips
Dist Senna
B. Lindberg
Glade, Og
W. E. Crip
Mars Sean
Kinzua
Limestone
J. i Sanne
Mead
T. Ellis
Ist
Etree Rene
Awe Baynes
Secon
Pine Grove
T. J. Bennett Radek Cas Ass
F. Griswold Pittsfield
Ayers
Frank
Martin
Sugar Grove
Ll K. T Jones
Co. E. Stearns
Spring Creek
A. H. Olmstead
A. B. Smith
A. Secor
Sheffield
J. Lehman
L. Stevens
Joe
Commonwealth
Specis
W. B. Harrison & CO
Massillon
Ohio
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