16 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1890
Page
1
Dry goods and carpet department showcase Cottage Hall and Velvet Carpets with Ingram and Maquette lines. Dress fabrics, embroideries, and white goods offered with broad selections and low prices. Spring wraps and cloaks highlighted alongside fabrics, silks, and latins.
A clipped timetable lists train names such as Erie Ace Shef Ex Warren Exp St Mary's Ex Oil Express Erie Mail and Buffalo connections. It shows arrival and departure times across a West East route including Dunkirk and Pittsburgh lines with express services and mixed schedules.
The excerpt surveys diverse creatures and how they ingest food. It notes oysters, worms, insects, fish, and reptiles, detailing tongues, jaws, gizzards, and stomachs. It claims frogs have teeth, snails lack them, and the starfish ejects its stomach to surround prey. It ends with a street-column aside about a neighbor's son entering the Legislature and a resident’s sense of town progress after absence.
An aggregation of paraphrased royal tales notes Victoria ordering an American pie, Belgian King’s height and tastes, Sweden's Crown Prince adopting two Tyrolese boys, William’s public art ban, and January’s ill omens. It links lineage with present crowns and claims Italian King Humbert sits closest to British throne by bloodlines.
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry vignettes captures everyday quirks. A Boston girl queries electric fluid prices while a tramp seeks work, and a debtor cites nine causes for不足. A photographer coyly seeks a kiss for good faith, and a professor jokes about inflation.
A reader recalls Betty aging with humor and grace, noting her beauty endures. The verse contrasts her growing old with lasting charm, ending with a mother’s memory that Our Betty was six on May seventh in 1900s Inter Ocean.
Prof Ponder marries a mysterious widow who had three prior husbands. The husband dies, the widow inherits, and the professor drafts a test for pyroplexin. He dies after revealing a discovery in the University Bulletin. The widow is implicated as investigators uncover poisoning. The doctor calls police. the test is proven on the professor. The widow ends in prison.
The piece discusses Mr. Gladstone's critique of Ellen Middleton and its moral themes, contrasting sacred influence in novels with what he views as unhealthy religious fiction. It notes his view that true spiritual preaching can appear through fiction and warns against dilettante approaches to morality.
Williamson Price recalls his 1871 move to Kansas and recounts Gordon Hubbard’s frontier exploits. The tale covers Hubbard trading with Indians, winning a seat in the 1830 Illinois Legislature, the Danville to Chicago route, a four foot snow passage for hogs, early Chicago street life, Tom Dunham’s observations, and harsh winters that claimed lives including Hildreth and France.
A collage of quotes from diverse sources on virtue, faith, enthusiasm, honesty, and social behavior. Notable lines discuss truthfulness as a cornerstone, patience in disagreement, and cautions about reputation, friendship, and government.
The article chroniclesChristian missions and church groups worldwide including Bengal girls earning scholarships, 1000 Chinamen linked to Congregational work in Oregon and California, 800 clergy petitioning to canonize Columbus, and Nordic nations funding missions with hundreds of workers. It also notes Oberlin’s missionary children, Bible translations reaching 300 languages, and the push to fund Peking University under Methodist auspices with a half‑million endowment appeal.
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