13 Apr 1875
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1875
Page
1
The People's Store in Jamestown advertises extensive silks, cashmeres, grenadines, poplins, and merino fabrics at deep discounts. It touts 2500 to 30,000 yard lots, new spring styles, dinnerware, linens, and shawls with prices well below current market, plus menswear and hosiery bargains. Refunds not specified.
In Hemps Cotton Chains Wool Ingram Tapestry and Brussells in the New Turkish Persian and Maquette Styles offered at unparalleled low prices. Prices listed range from 20 to 85 cents and up for brussels. A full line of textiles completes the display.
In a Civil War vignette, a boy named Tobe serves as a stable helper and runner for Captain Leigh. He earns a banjo and cavalry boots, shows loyalty by keeping the boots for his captain, and perishes defending the boots in a Rebel raid, their memory kept as a monument in Leigh’s home.
A test drill for a shop fire plan ends in chaos as workers misfire turning the scene into a comic disaster. Bolink is drenched by water from his own hose while barrels and tools fly and the shop crowds scramble to safety. The incident resonates with a river of names and places from Detroit and Danbury.
The Hans Christian Andersen fund in Denmark already exceeds 18 000 crowns for a statue. Mr Anderson will reach his 70th birthday on April 2.
The February 20 Santa Rosa Democrat recounts a morning encounter by Wooldridge above Cloverdale where two enormous rattlesnakes fought all night, entwined and striking, leaving tracks across a twenty foot area. A pole-wielding bystander and Mr. Murphy intervened, both snakes killed. One had sixteen rattles and the other fifteen.
Mercer county finances show a 23000 surplus while Pars-Midnight mechanics operate in parts of the state. Buffalo to Chicago fares drop to 5. Passenger employment remains 85000 in eastern mines. Bucks county reports many partridge deaths from cold. Bradford adds a 50 barrel daily oil well. Forest county hosts twenty two stores with ten in Tioga. Reading hosts a spelling bee trend. Dan Rice to head a Cincinnati circus for six months. Colonel Forney to edit Philadelphia Press again in July. Women candidates emerge for County Superintendent under the new constitution. Clarion notes Gov Allen’s 1876 bid and Judge Trunkey for Franklin governor. Brookville boasts notable residents. Williamsport to host June Pennsylvania Reserves reunion. Nettie Ingram seeks County Superintendent of Schools. A Horse Congress in Greenville plans trotting season. Union City fine for dog fighting by a wealthier defendant. Philadelphia worries about crowd handling for the Centennial Exposition. Clearfield Raftman Journal sees timber markets tighten and prices firm. Central Pennsylvania winter harms peach and grape crops. Erie hotel swindler preys on guests. Hollidaysburg social exchanges about gifts and references. Pennsylvania abolition centennial set for April 14 in Philadelphia with Douglass, Garrison, Whittier expected.
The wills of the Hon. John H Walk er and John A Tracy Esq filed in Erie value 150 000 and 500 000 respectively. Walk er provides cemetery monuments and debt payments and halves a Missouri farm to daughter Mrs Armstrong. Tracy names son John F executor and divides assets equally but awards ten percent extra to William who lost an arm. A NH Historical Society paper says Mt Kearsage derives from an Indian word meaning Notch pointed mountain of pines.
A New York woman whose hair turned silver and who dressed with dignity attracts a wealthy Californian suitor. He offers marriage and a European voyage, suggesting white hair grants distinction and premium status for matrons and superintendents in public institutions.
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