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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1900
Page
1
General Insurance Agents on Water Street Warren Pa advertise JOHN SILL F FE SLL a Portrait Painter. Portraits from life or old figures in Oil Pastel or Crayon. Satisfaction and first class work warranted in all CHSes.
A puzzled speaker questions gender double standards in parental behavior and praise. The verse contrasts boys and girls, asking why boys endure harsher discipline while girls are praised for emulating mothers, amid broader reflections on life and temptation framed as a translated Rumi piece.
District and County Officers include Member of Congress Joseph C. Sibley and Senate Henry H. Cummings. Assembly E. W. Parshall. President Judge W. M. Lindsey. Associate Judges J. H. Sandstrom and Z. T. Weaver. Prothonotary Frank M. Knapp. Recorder Chas. D. Crandall. Sheriff John O. Fuellham. Treasurer James R. Mitchell. County Commissioners J. F. Rounee W. J. Mead H. M. Preston. Commissioners Clerk Fred B. Jackson. District Attorney C. A. Peterson. County Supt. Schools H. M. Putnam. Jury Commissioners A. 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.
A historical notice lists town council officers including president Jas Brann and clerk E H Beshlin, with treasurer A J Hazeltine and attorney Wm Secinar. It names justices H L Perry and C H Meacham, collector K R Peirce, engineer D F A Wheelock, and constables from wards one through four, plus a slate of school directors and ad agents.
Fragmented railroad timetable lists Western New York and Pennsylvania routes with arrival and departure times in Eastern Standard, noting express services between Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh and bolded times such as 6.25 pm and 9.12 am with unclear annotations.
Summary of multiple extant items including a New York horse contract for cavalry in South Africa, a Delaware Lackawanna verdict of 11000 in Tompkins County, and ongoing South Africa conflicts. Other notes cover immigrant arrivals, fires, riots, politics, and notable deaths across the United States and abroad.
A statement warns against using degraded stock. It urges avoiding yellow and cheap grades and emphasizes keeping products intact without decomposition or offensive content.
Advertising a full range of roofing, plumbing, sheetiron work, pipe fitting and farm tools including plows harrows seeders weeders cultivators and hay machinery. Sells bicycle brands Stearns and Racyle plus full bicycle supplies and fishing tackle and home goods and hardware items from paints to pipes and glass.
A poem urging men to heed the costs of wives and daughters fashion. It contrasts somber male dress with women’s beauty, arguing that despite bills and vanity, women remain the roses of the earth and deserve fine attire. It closes praising women's impact at gatherings and the value of adornment.
Poetic verse from the Los Angeles Herald recalling longing and memory. A speaker pleads for dreams to counter reality, inching between toil and reward, childhood and cherished loves, as visions of past happiness mingle with present absence.
A Springfield Union reader quotes Perry Marshall urging careful study of one’s native language and Latin, warning against excessive foreign writing. Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Cosmopolitan verse extols divine discontent as the engine of progress, urging sustained effort and ambition.
Harrisburg April 17 arrangements are made for a large crowd at the Republican state convention on April 25. Delegates at large will be named to the national convention and McKinley renomination is urged. Quay may lead the delegation. Penrose and other leaders plan to mobilize support amid insurgent opposition.
Governor Stone strengthens dairy and food enforcement against oleomargarine and renovated butter. Pennsylvania agents collected hundreds of samples, securing prosecutions and pushing new legislation, with Major Wells as president of the national dairy and food commission group.
In Cabul an autograph letter with the ameer’s consent criticizes Britain’s aloof stance toward Afghanistan amid Russian designs on Herat. The Afghan leader urges decisive action over mere talk, stating Afghanistan’s ruin would follow a railway suggestion from India.
Rev O B Wilson a leading Negro educator and president of Stillman Institute Tuscaloosa Ala was killed instantly by lightning while talking on a telephone during a storm in Chattanooga Tenn on April 18.
New York money market reports call money at 3 percent. Prime mercantile paper quoted at 4 and 4.5 percent. Sterling exchange shows actual bankers bills at 0.8714 to 0.875 for demand, 0.8442 and 0.85 for sixty days. commercial bills at 0.83 to 0.84. Silver certificates at 60 1/2, bar silver at 59 1/2, Mexican dollars at 47 1/2.
Market notes flour rye cornmeal buckwheat and wheat prices across regions. Listings include winter patents 3.70 to 3.95, Minnesota bakers 2.85 to 3.00, rye No 2 western 62 cents fob afloat, corn 46 cents fob afloat, oats 28 to 30 cents, hay 70 to 90 cents, pork family 14.25 to 15.00, butter 13 to 18 cents, cheese 12 to 12.5 cents, eggs 12.4 to 13.5 cents, potatoes Jersey 1.25 to 1.50, New York 1.75, Long Island 1.50 to 1.10.
Buffalo April 1 7. Wheat No 1 hard 82 f o b afloat No 1 northern 7 c winter wheat No 2 red tic Corn No 2 yellow 43 c No 3 yellow 43 lec Oats No 3 white 23 c No 3 mixed 26 tec Flour Spring best patent per bbl 4.00 4.25 low grades 2.00 2.50 Win set best family 3.50 3.75 Graham best Butter Creamery western extras 19 20c state and Pennsylvania creamery 18c Dairy extra state lic dairy West ern extra lic Cheese Fancy full cream 12% fair do 11 4 12c Skims 5 8c
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