30 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1890
Page
1
Hamburg, Nainsook, Swiss embroideries and insertings line the sale with skirtings and laces. Spring wraps show a large jacket line in black and colored fabrics. Cloak department features stylish, cheap options, and a broad assortment of French and American latins, dress fabrics, silks, and gowns.
The excerpt surveys diverse topics from permanent magnetism in steel ships affecting compasses to mica as an insulator and lubricant, a smokeless coal burning process, and artificial diamond production. It notes sea depth compression effects, Sir James Hector’s colonial athletic critique, apple nutrition claims, solar heat absorption, coffee’s microbial destruction, phrenology critiques, and electric shock death theories, ending with telegraph pole explosions from moisture-induced steam.
Cincinnati river man Captain Collier recalls a comic misfit pants swap with ex-Sheriff Wallace. Both men wore ill fitting white duck trousers swapped by laundry, forcing church pew mortification and a private trousers exchange with the minister.
Readable timetable fragments show arrivals and departures on the Erie line with service names and times including Erie Acc and Warren Exp. times like 7:45 am and 9:00 am, plus Oil Express and Erie Mail stops. The data is partial and cut off after Kane Acc. 5.
A selection of aphorisms on happiness friendship wealth honesty and character. Advice contrasts good heart with tact and warns that disguise and affectation reveal true nature, urging forgiveness tolerance and steady conduct as guides to fulfillment.
A Kansas frontier tale recounts Cimarron Joe Evans, first settler near Morton County, who becomes entangled in love with Emma Jones. After Joe marries rival John Kelley’s wife, Emma, he endures sorrow as a blizzard traps him en route to help during Emma’s illness. His body is found near Dr Tyler’s, and his horse travels far in the storm. Emma, now married with child, bears memories of Joe.
A veteran animal tam er George Arstingstall challenges common beliefs about elephants noting they are often cruel selfish and dangerous to humans with males becoming moody and murderous as they age while females are steadier though seldom affectionate. The piece also recalls the Princess of Wales wearing the first jersey in England and a snow blockade near Emery Gap and Folsom New Mexico mentioning rabbit and goat meat as food for those stranded.
The Rose Croix ceremonies endured Easter lights be extinguished on Maundy Thursday, with lights relit at Easter. Buffalo lodge funds financed a 26 foot temple monument costing 1000 dollars. Grand Secretary Nesbitt reports 387 lodges in Pennsylvania with 59,735 members, up over 1,000. Chicago opens a premier club house on Ashland Ave April 12. New York State lists over 2,000 minister members excluding Catholics. Michigan Grand Lodge proceedings 1890 issued, 368 active lodges with 30,635 members. Illinois and Minnesota grand lodges prepare to meet May 6 in St Paul and Quincy respectively. McDovn caLt.
Mecca Temple in New York City held its regular monthly session on Monday night March 31 with two feasts and twelve candidates receiving the order of nobility. Nearly three hundred nobles attended including Burton Parsons and Stark weather of Al Koran Temple Cleveland and Charles Clough of Syrian Temple Cincinnati along with H K Blanchard W P Anthony J B Rogers of Palestine Temple Providence and Lewis P Cash of Kaaba Temple Davenport Iowa. At Kismet Temple Brooklyn the Lu Lu Temple Philadelphia with 108 officers and members were royally entertained and representatives from Ismalia Temple Buffalo Zegara Temple Utica and Oriental Temple Troy were present.
Grand Chancellor J H Kellogg with Patterson and Caldwell visits Aurora Illinois Thursday evening April 10 and institutes a new lodge with fifty charter members and about one hundred applicants. Banner Hussar division Chicago has engaged seventy five horses for Milwaukee encampment in July amid high demand. George W Peck elected Milwaukee mayor and leads arrangements for the Supreme lodge session. Uniform rank at Mattoon holds a reunion, Charleston division visits Mattoon, Grant division parades, sixteen Grant division candidates initiated at banquet.
The annual session of the Grand lodge of Wisconsin met in Milwaukee on Thursday April 10 with delegates from nearly every Council in the state. Reports show a prosperous order and a net increase of five hundred members. Deputy Grand Regent Aldrich was continued as State Organizer. Three April assessments are expected to boost talks of state independence, joining Illinois and others in favor of self funding death benefits rather than relying on the Supreme Council.
The Houstholm lighthouse on the Jutland coast uses a 200000 candle power electric light visible from forty miles. Other notes cover naturalists reports, a six horse power electric wood-saw in Lewiston, and various bird nests and animal reproduction facts.
Mentions plans for a Farragut monument in Boston costing 22000 dollars and funds for Michigan and Pennsylvania veteran projects. Reports on Muskegon gift of 15000 for a soldiers’ monument, a 6000 hall build by Custer Post, indigent veteran burials in Chester County, and pension bureau expansion. Also quotes humor on history accuracy and notes a Grand Army member from Maine and a Cherokee post in Wisconsin.
The Mar office advertises specialty in first class job printing with promptness neatness and cheapness as a motto. It keeps legal blanks and can print to order. The mail is entered as second class matter in Warren P.O. and will publish letters from county and country if brief signed and not anonymous.
An Irish attorney’s quip, jokes about beehives and roaches, a Siamese proverb on naming, a twenty millionaires wish for digestion, and a tale of an eagle that raised a pig and a lamb. Light vignettes carry wit on marriage, poets, and ordinary misadventures at a station.
The Journal of Education lists regular army counts, war footings, and annual costs for nations including CmmnA Brazil Turkey IraALy Japan Spain Russia France Germany Great Britain India Austro-Hungary and the United States. Data shows large disparities in manpower and expenditure across 19 entities.
The article details coronet designs for British and French nobility, listing pearl counts for counts, viscounts, barons, and marquises, including a tortil for French barons. It notes the Prince’s continental imperial coronet, plus who may bear it, with references to emblems like strawberry leaves, pearls, and the globe and cross.
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