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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1888
Page
4
A poetic exhortation to seize delight while morning shines and time slips toward night. The speaker urges cherished companionship to enjoy the present, noting dew on roses and the swift advance of day toward darkness and sleep.
A Philadelphia Press description portrays a long line of visitors at a presidential reception. The exchange blends cordial greetings, cheeky boasts, and moments of awkward humor as the Chief Executive opens to a steady stream of callers and a few personal interruptions.
A Connecticut man testifies in a legislative hearing on a corporate charter. He reveals he sells peanuts in New York, earning from a million to one and a half million pints and dollars annually at the Cotton Exchange. The exchange man’s blunt arithmetic thwarts the lawyer’s challenge.
The Nevada Enterprise reports a new oath for Chinese witnesses in American courts. The oath invokes Chinese gods and the God of heaven and earth, pledging punishment if false, with a chicken head severing demonstration using a cleaver held in the hand.
Major Andrew B Wells once kept a lifelong grudge against a Virginia woman who helped capture him as a spy. He learned she was innocent and heard of his impending execution she attempted a flag of truce to Gen Lee to save his life.
Bucklen Arnica Salve touted as best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with piles cure guaranteed or money back. Priced 25 cents a box and sold at Morek Drug Store. Rheumatism claimed to be quickly cured by Arnica and Oil Liniment.
Agricultural advice from winter farming practices covering animal care, feeding, housing, manure management, drainage, wood fuel, and equipment. It includes guidance on lambing exercise, manure heaps, animal welfare, fodder processing, and fire use. The piece also notes sheep numbers in Scotland, dairy trends in Holland, and a trichinosis outbreak linked to poultry.
Methods for cooking oatmeal and variations include boiling water with a porridge stick, adding meal gradually to avoid knots, and testing thickness by texture. Different milks and additives like rice meal or barley may be used, with water brose and milk brose methods described.
Quote shows a dying man instructing his wife Catherine to use $2,000 from his life insurance to start a chair of living skeletons in a dime museum. The odd request hints at macabre stage entertainment.
Tonight and tomorrow night at L. G. Noyes' drug store Kemp's Suppositories are hailed as the most successful treatment yet introduced for piles. Old sufferers receive relief and a permanent cure is claimed to follow. Check the disease in time by using the remedy. Price.
A comic and curious roundup reports Nelson Cardwell's death in Greensboro from a neck spider bite, De Grimm the New York cartoonist claiming Russian baronage, a centenarian rider near San Antonio, and North Carolina’s small cities. Other items note Athens residents, Germany's champagne factories, Russia’s imports, a Warm Springs hen hawk, Sabin’s finances, Paris librarian De Chantelauze, Mrs. Wanamaker's hospital gift, a Vienna prodigy, an Orlando orange tree, a Colorado eagle, cow boy evangelist Rasure, Isham White’s age claim, Harvard Annex graduate Miss Mary Whitney, Vas sar College vacancy, and Berwick’s Robert Peters’ age dispute.
A San Francisco Chronicle tale recalls a wife showing off a diamond ring with three opaque bluish stones. The husband reveals the stones are the first teeth cut by their three children, saved and set into the jewelry as an astonishing, sentimental gift.
Wall Street figures face rapid decline as bank presidents note high failure rates among operators. The piece cites John Tobin, Henry Smith, and John Pondir, detailing their losses and health breakdowns from overwork and speculation, and promotes Warner's Safe Care as a remedy to preserve kidneys and stamina.
A 60 year old man recalls his mother giving him Downs Elixir for loughs and colds when he was a boy, with mentions of B. F. Morris and N. C. Allen.
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