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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1875
Page
3
A dense catalog of prices for various meats, fish, dairy, produce, dried fruits, and refined oils. It lists per barrel and per pound costs for items like pork products, hams, bacon, lard, cod, halibut, mackerel, herring, white fish, trout, and salmon, plus vegetables, fruits, and refined oil at stated rates. Prices feature numerous abbreviations and regional product names.
Advertisement notes Royal Baking Powder now guaranteed full weight, pricing 2 pounds and up at 50e per pound. Also promotes Royal Celery Salt available in 2% and 59e bottle sizes with pricing.
A fragmented grocery list shows canned goods like pears pine apple strawberries corn sugar corn and string beans with varying price notes. It also mentions mushrooms condensed milk honey tomatoes and green peas in glass jars, suggesting a sale or price notice.
Trade card lists Fxtar Drips with a former price of 85 and multiple molasses offers. White Drips appears alongside 3 extra N. O. Molasses and 100 extra P. R. Molasses, totaling 380 in value.
A catalog snippet lists tea types including Good Young Hyson Finest Young Eyson Choicest Gun Powder and choicest Oolong with new crop. Mentions airtight can packaging and one pound tins for home use.
A fragment lists Standard A perturbed grades with 1144 cents crushed il c Granulated Extra C Yellow C and 1044e Powdered G per tablespoon, implying pricing or grade notes for sugar products. The text lacks context on source, date, or full description.
Local Warren merchants promote new goods with slogans and heavily advertised prices. 5,500 yards of foreign fabrics offered at 25 cents per yard, alongside clothing and accessories from C McDaniels and Greenland Brothers. George Ball, Pine Grove area agent for Holman Bible, promotes publications and subscriptions including Science of Life and Secrets of Convent and Confessional. Mr Wilson, trusted colporteur, assists Sabbath School organization and market outreach in Warren County.
Local notes cover market greens and croquet sets, a spell-reading contest, bank cases in court, a major fire, and upcoming travel plans. Notables include Rev H S Getz trip, Mrs S H Evans as WCTU president, a planned Erie Manufactory organ, and a new Youngsville bank start up with key directors.
The Journal reports A M Kent of Warren is pushing a new four story hotel at Lake View on Chautauqua Lake. It features a 24 by 100 foot dining room, 100 guest rooms with hot and cold water and gas, bath rooms on every floor, extensive verandas, and a tower offering lake views. Open expected June first.
A Youngsville dramatic fever grows as residents stage Baker's Down by the Sea to cheering crowds. Principal performers include W. J. Davis N. Belnap George Day and Arthur McKinney with Clara Belnap and the Misses Axtell Bowles receiving praise for home entertainment aiding local causes.
The Warren Musical Association held a Tuesday benefit in Roscoe Hall with the Darwin's Darlings home troupe. Prof. Coleman and local artists performed in minstrel style, the 8 PM program mixed song, dance, and impressions, raising $215 for teachers and music supplies.
The Mutual Base Ball Club of Meadville intends a summer tour starting July 5 visiting New Castle Pittsburg Altoona Harrisburg Easton and Philadelphia reaching New York on the 12th then Saratoga for the College Regatta on the ith The article notes proposed rule changes from the National Base Ball Players Association including ball replacement on request home base corner alignment extension of home base line calling games after five minutes rain and new high ball rules
Drawn for May term of Court commencing on the first Monday and third day with lists by county including Warren M Beecher F Barnhart G c James A J Merchant C McDaniels W E Smith E G Wood Eldred S C Boyd Farmington H Braley N M Philo Pittsfield H H Cole J Hawkins R S Page J Robinson Spring Creek W Crook J B Wight man Sugar Grove S S Darling T N Green J Howles J McKely J M Martin Columbus D A Dewey H Owens Glade John Elliott A MccWilliams A Walker Brokenstraw D Gregg Samuel Hull Kinzua Wm Harris Conewango Robert Henderson Freehold M Johnson 8S Warren Limestone Robert Kelsey Pine Grove J M Martin 2d T T Putnam Lewis Sears Deerfield R E Scott Sheffield R C Wright
Titusville letters report Major McLonaghlin once of Titusville sought a $10,000 side match with England’s champion. Beecher cited as support a claim that may be true yet false. McLonaghlin promises to swim back if defeated and will let his opponent choose holds.
The amateur troupe Darwin’s Darlings from Warren performed at Roscoe Hall last evening drawing the largest audience except for Blind Tom’s visit. Receipts totaled 215 dollars. End men Hackney and Trushel would travel well. The cast included Marden Hazeltine Goodrich Noyes Waterhouse Crandall and Wells.
The piece recalls a busy river week with Warren eddy and Cone wango rafts, Allegheny rafts passing daily, and crowds watching landings. It notes fewer drunken raftsmen and improved public morals due to Local Option, with hemlock and pine lumber predominating and prospects tied to selling lumber at old prices.
Warren Pa April 10 1875 stockholders meet to secure a building site and materials for the Warren Wooden Ware Works. A committee is empowered to purchase a site draft by laws and organize the officers with the next meeting set for April 24 at J H Mitchell's office.
Dull times rumor disproved as Warren reports full occupancy of shops and homes with several new dwellings and another new dry goods store opened by W. H. Siple. Court records show Gill & Sons v. Clark & McAfee verdict for plaintiff 677 and Sevier v. Marsh settled by confession of judgment for 3500.
Supt Sunderland reports about fifty men at work in the stone quarry brick yard road building and stone dressing with plans to hire more. Oil well at Beatty still locked with neighbors noting oil hauled in barrels suggesting strong production. Verbacks rig and John Bells rig now up as neighbors add a new steam engine from Struthers Iron Works for the Ledger power press improving efficiency.
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