03 Aug 1880
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1880
Page
1
A 1880 notice asks all county and country residents to send brief newsy communications with factual content and no anonymous articles. Writers must include their names for publication. subscribers can identify the paper by the date printed opposite each address.
A restive political figure asks an ally to draft a letter of acceptance for a nomination. The note jokes about flapdoodle and bosh, hints at advice from Tilden, and urges urgent return from Europe to shape the missive. The exchange blends political maneuvering with personal appeals from Winfield Scott Hancock.
In a Faneuil Hall ratification address Senator Hoar denounces General Hancock as the Democratic mask, contrasting him with Garfield as a true Republican figure and praising Union generals like Grant Sherman and Sheridan as the party’s real heroes. The piece cites Civil War loyalties and criticizes Democratic use of veteran fame. It also notes a separate item about knife etiquette leading to a facial injury and a Buffalo Express report on a general officer swindled by a petroleum venture.
The headquarters of the National Republican Committee are established at 241 Fifth Avenue New York with all campaign communications to be addressed there.
A postal order bans sending one cent advertising cards by mail starting October 1. Lixxors reportedly is nearly debt free. The note adds that it is a Republican state, and the latter fact explains the former policy move.
A Atlantic Monthly August tale by Mark Twain, Edward Mills and George Benton, satirizes the sentimental praise of crime. The story follows Mills who stays loyal and Benton who becomes a reformer, his downfall, grand forgiveness, and a public memorial after a fatal bank burglary linked to him.
The New Haven Register decries free press temptations to publish for advertising, noting how information is traded for tickets and favors. Editors face constant requests to publish notices, write ups, or promotions, while the press profits from selling papers and high white paper costs.
A narrator recalls a winter with a sister and her husband who enforce strong roles of mother and father. The mother is omnipresent in meals and drama, while the father becomes a fixture of humorous, blown out claims. The tale ends as antics and secrets drive a wedge in family chatter.
A brutal Exeter man received a fine of five shillings after thrashing his wife for not having breakfast ready. A Cambridge offender was sent to the workhouse for picking a rose and geranium spray, with the Mayor and Aldermen deeming it a three month hard labor offense.
The average life of a farmer is sixty six years. At sixty-five he may safely begin to return borrowed tools, pay old debts and ask forgiveness for cheating in horse trades.
A 1880 New York correspondent critiques a new fashionable waltz noting the tall muscular man guides the slender woman with a firm hold beneath her shoulders and against her hip. He warns the dance is swift erratic and physically vigorous risking modesty and dress damage for summer socials.
In Virginia, two reverend gentlemen and a choir singer played croquet behind a parsonage on Taylor street. The scene showed exhausted ministers guiding wooden balls through wire arches while a sledge-wammer blacksmith looked on.
The Chicago Times reports Maud S. trotted a mile in 2 13 with a 2 11 first three quarters and finished 2 13, while Trinket trailed finishing at 2 23. Bair kept her for a near record pace, making observers deem the effort near the all time best.
A tale from Saturday morning near the East River bridge recalls Gen. Grant stopping a wounded veteran with a homemade wooden leg. Motives alleged poverty and large family, Grant gives twenty five dollars to aid a better prosthesis, the veteran weeping with gratitude as he meets his famed benefactor.
At Sheridan Center on July 3 a strong iron bound barrel with a forty foot pipe filled with water burst under pressure, demonstrating that a column of water forty feet high can exert forces beyond belief, capturing attention of onlookers and the Sherman News reports the event as vindicating philosophy.
A fashion correspondent notes a woman in bright red attire at Coney Island races. She wore a red outfit from hat to leather slippers but her overall look did not match the costume, with darker hair and no sunburn.
A jumble of quotations and vignettes covers manners economy and humor from 19th century society. It references Dr Tanner Mrs Hayes Nasby Mark Twain and hotel clerks while mocking gender roles race class and travel mishaps with sharp satire and jocular anecdote.
A reflection on the sight of a young bride in white at the altar, her surrender to marriage marked by ritual vows to love and obey till death. The writing evokes Ruth’s pledged devotion, “Whither thou goest I will go,” in a tribute to sincere marital fidelity.
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