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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1875
Page
3
An advertising notice for Royal Baking Powder claiming top quality and full weight. It offers 2 pounds and up at 50 cents per pound in cans, bulk at 45 cents, plus Roy Celery Salt in 25 cent and 50 cent bottles.
A pantry price rundown lists canned peaches pears pineapple strawberries corn green peas and related goods with unit weights and old versus new pricing. Condensed milk honey and honey in jars are described with packaging notes and purity.
Fragmentary OCR item lists molasses prices and blends with stray characters. Includes references to extra molasses, gallon pricing, and former price markers. No clear event or persons identified.
A dated 1875 listing multiple tea grades including Good Young Hyson, Finest Young Hyson, Choice Oolong, Choicest Gun Powder, and Good Japan. It notes air tight can storage, crushed, granulated, and standard grades with prices and a reference to Friday April 19 1875.
The People's Store advertises 5500 yards of French latins cashmeres poplins and plain colors with plaids and stripes. Remnants of alpacas and cashmeres priced 25 cents per yard, calling this an unparalleled bargain. Also promoting clothing from C McDaniels and John Ronne cutter with Spring cloths and fittings. Local listings include George Ball clothing No 7 Keystone Block Warren Pa and Pictorial Reference Bible from Holman Co. plus other works and Sabbath school services by George T. Wilson colporteur.
The column lists maple sugar at 20 cents, Dunkirk lighthouse plans, Ridgway church offerings, a 400 pigeon hunt near Tionesta, and Warren civic items. It notes a wreck inquiry at Limestone, a 92 year old Warren resident celebration, sodas and a new fountain, truancy of sharpers, and weather cautions as spring nears. It also covers local births, deaths, and public notices including railroad collisions, police, and church activities.
A humorous guide on stamping checks and banking manners notes rigid enforcement of new rules. It advises delaying visits to the bank until late, letting tellers lick stamps, counting money upside down for the teller, delaying endorsement, and dating checks to imply good balances. The tone mocks pretentious bank etiquette with practical sarcasm.
County Superintendents of Common Schools are to be elected the first Tuesday of May in all counties for a three year term the first election under the new Constitution. They must take an oath of integrity and commissions issue after a 30 day period allowing objections. Union School Hall hosts the county convention on Tuesday May 4 at 2 pm to elect a Superintendent and set the salary for three years.
A clergyman at an Ohio teachers meeting argues examiners impose rigid intellect criteria, ignoring natural aptitude for teaching. He claims this leads to leaders in schools who cannot nurture the human mind, likening their abilities to a Modoc artist drawing the heavenly Jerusalem with charcoal.
Word circulates that C W Stone defeated for Warren and Senatorial nomination last fall will move to Erie to pursue the presidency judge seat. The Erie Gazette notes rumors can be manufactured but expects Erie to supply suitable material or will seek Warren as an alternative.
The notice reminds tobacco cigar and liquor dealers that the revenue year starts May 1 and licenses must be renewed. Failure to obtain a license incurs a 50 percent penalty and potential prosecution for sale contrary to law. A word to the wise is sufficient.
A Temperance Mass Meeting was held in the Baptist Church on Saturday April 17 under the Wo man s Christian Temperance Union with Mrs L T Parmlee presiding. Speakers included Mrs Dr Hazeltine C H Noyes and Miss Jordan urging temperance and license reform. The piece also covers local fish laws and a quirky advance notice about Barnum and a Detroit boy.
Mrs Gillmore announces spring trimmed millinery opening next Wednesday April 21 inviting all Warren area ladies for early shoppers advantage. Miss Daggett returns from New York with largest stock yet and special opening dates April 27 and 28 promised, urged as unmatched. Also notes a train mail messenger anecdote and a charity dance event titled Fun for the Million at Watson Davis Hall on Thursday evening April 22, 10 cents a dance, committee ordered.
The Spring term report shows 508 pupils registered, 93 percent attendance, and fewer than two tardies for two pupils in the month ending April 19. Punctuality leads in rooms three and four with about fifty outside-borough pupils noted. lists enumerate pupils never absent or tardy by class number, including Ella Babcock and Julia Burgess among others, along with various Sheltering district residents.
In a Sunday incident near the Frank Braley farm between Basti and Kiantone Mrs. Chapin fired at J W White twice after he sought a lantern and his former employer’s return. The ball struck his cap, tore scalp, and left him stunned. Bystanders aided his return to his father. Trial held last week in Jamestown. verdict not yet known.
The Warren Sub-District Sunday School Institute of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in Sheffield PA on May 11 and 12 1875. Sessions cover preparation of the lesson Berean lessons childhood conversion pastors duties and model superintendent. All Sunday School workers and the public are invited.
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