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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
4
Maud Trevor keeps six purses for money matters as described through a dead woman's household budget. Trevor recalls her faithful thrift and warned excess, then mourns her memory while discovering the purses after her funeral. The narrative centers on memory, finance, and devotion.
Extract presents intimate diary entries and letters recounting social dinners, scholarly talk, and personal tensions among Mrs Chatterley, Mr Fynical, Edward, and guests. It depicts classed conversation, literary pretensions, and evolving marital strains set around Miss Trevors and her husband Trevor, with later notes of grief and a public obituary letter.
A letter reveals Mrs. Trevor’s kindness saved a nurse from despair and a life of sin. The corroded drama shows Trevor’s faith waning but restored as he learns Christ walked with him for years, while a neighborly aid network consoles a struggling family.
A Detroit Free Press retells a frontier incident where inmates were guarded in a camp with officers and work gangs. A suspect and his wife allegedly fled from a tent with stolen goods, were jailed for trial, and a Saturday pursuit ended with a dramatic escape by the couple riding a horse to safety.
In a past election scandal at a city newspaper the editorial writer complained a sentence was truncated. The editor claimed McKinley’s name led all the rest and a discharged printer said he followed copy exactly. The dispute ended when the old printer produced the proof showing the omitted words.
A 1869 edition of Napoleon’s correspondence exposes harsh tactics to extract confessions, orders to arrest espionage suspects, and contempt for rivals. Letters to Soult and Talleyrand reveal threats, confinement, and social manipulation as tools of statecraft.
The Illinois state board completed tuberculin tests in Ottawa dairy herds. Of 271 cattle tested, 11 showed fever indicating tuberculosis. all were confirmed at post mortem. Stark County near Camp Grove tested 18 with 3 diseased. Wyoming test underway. Week ending June 26 at Union stock yards: 147 cattle inspected, 108 passed, 39 held for post mortem, 24 passed post mortem, 15 condemned and tanked. no tuberculosis, one cancer.
Princess Tronbetskoy Amelia Rives has fully recovered from a nervous attack that struck her at Castle Hill Virginia and sent her to a Philadelphia sanitarium. She is back home and at work on a new novel, aiming to surpass her past work after a period of intense writing and harsh public criticism.
Judge Phillips of the U S district court sentences Earl Bell of Chillicothe Missouri to six months in jail for passing a counterfeit bill at a voting contest to name Chillicothe's most beautiful woman. Bell used the bill to buy tickets. his sweetheart won.
An estimate states the average annual sugar consumption per man is twenty nine pounds. The figure reflects typical dietary intake and is cited as a general benchmark rather than a precise measurement.
A new paleontological find reveals the largest mammoth tusk to date, measuring 16 feet in length. Scientists push for further excavation to determine the age origin and implications for megafauna history.
A list notes that all Swedish railway stations serving meals display a sign with the crossed knife and fork emblem. The item also mentions curious facts about paper made from linen scraps used for Bank of England notes, a rope tested to bear 359 pounds, camels in Arizona, a True Love tall ship afloat as a coal hulk, postage stamp usage projections, and a calculation on sea level if rivers filled the ocean.
At a San Francisco police station a long running theft of cigars from lockers ended when the lieutenant, moved to improve lighting and space, tore away a wall and uncovered a rat’s nest behind game boards. Several hundred cigars, including marked ones, were found chewed and haphazardly arranged in a large space.
A father explains in humorous terms how son Davy wears out a pair of shoes every month. He notes soles wear through in two weeks each, with occasional repeats, and jokes that only the extreme cheapness of shoes makes such routine wear affordable. He even quips about moving to a warm climate so boys go unshod.
A city directory anecdote recalls a caller who tried Polish German Italian French to identify a man in a potato patch and was told to speak United States instead. Separately, Prof Elmer Gates reports creating an apparent absolute vacuum by sealing molten glass in a test tube and draining the space to remove air.
Toddy Pond, a small Maine lake, earned its name from a winter tale where woodsmen, traveling to work, cut a hole in the ice, poured New England rum, mixed a toddy, and drank it, giving the pond its enduring association with a unique punch.
Prof Hoffman, an imperial councilor in Germany, claims to have invented a dragon inspired machine using steam propellers that he believes will operate successfully, reflecting a strong airship fascination similar to that in the United States.
An estimated average year’s crop of pecans in the United States totals eight million bushels. This reflects a robust national production typical for the industry.
A girl goes mad after a search light floods her Hudson bedroom. Maj. Heimke in Chihuahua slips and breaks a rib. A man shoots at a woman with a rifle from a mirror, killing her in Berlin. An expert named Kruger shoots his sister in front of 4000 witnesses.
Farmers are urged to raise sheep on hilly farms with regular grain feeding. Do not overconfine lambs and monitor for parasites. Nearly all farmers can keep sheep where other animals fail, but watch for bloodsuckers and dip afflicted lambs promptly.
A phony undertaker enters a Philadelphia pawnbroker's shop on Twelfth Street and Columbia to borrow against a casket with silver fittings. He asks for money to buy a shroud and to redeem the case from relatives unwilling to advance funds. The pawnshop man retreats, puzzled if the burial occurred.
A Chicago Record correspondent notes the Chinese emperor, among the oldest workers, treats night as day with activities from midnight to daylight. His routine includes three to four o'clock morning audiences, late dinners, and a daily sequence of privy council meetings, boards, and tribute interactions.
Grass Valley post office proprietor recounts a customer who demanded stamping and licking. He recalls a prior incident six months earlier when a patron kicked a sack of molasses and cost him eleven dollars, limiting his salary at twenty three dollars a year. Crayfish crabs and lobsters react to thunder by dropping claws, and can regrow them in ten days to a fortnight, leaving vulnerable, claw-less crustaceans for weeks.
In 1518 a battle occurred near Tealy showing extraordinary discipline as fighting lasted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no one seen or wounded. One rider injured a collar bone by falling from a horse.
Field, a caretaker at the White House conservatories under President Grant, found a remarkable rose in Bancroft's greenhouse. He bought the bush for five dollars, later sold cuttings for five thousand dollars, and used proceeds to buy Washington real estate that later increased greatly in value.
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