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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
4
The serial Roy Berry or The Fruits of Intemperance by Geo W Woolsey aims to reveal the evils of drinking through the life of Roy Berry and Hettie Hines. Set in Southern Kentucky with humble origins, the tale follows romance and temperance moral values without political or church allegiance.
A reader argues over the expected bust to waist difference in women. Doctors Mary Putnam Jacobi and Mary E. Gage cite no fixed ratio, noting variation by height and development. Measurements of several women show waist bust gaps from six to ten inches, with corsets influencing figures and young girls needing proper gymnastics.
A California man raises a beer to feed two horses and three cows for four days. A Crxcrxnatrn young lady receives a 17 ft 8 in letter from her best fellow. Minnesota broom factory strike ends with married men wage gains and single men warned. marriage by month end required for continued employment. Michigan venison arrives despite new ironclad law. Wisconsin hunter ships a deer corpse in a coffin labeled John Deer aged twenty one deceased, needing a first class ticket. A Scottish exchange notes a cow nursing a foal at Kirbymoorside. Reading hotelier Hezekiah Shetlen digs his own tomb for later, plans a monument. Reading resident boasts cats cleverer than hens at hatching, others hunt with him, one cat with webbed feet catches fish. Putnam County Florida farmers witness a fiery column seen rushing through the air with explosions heard miles away.
A summary of the 1386 clash at Sempach where Leopold of Austria led 1,400 foot soldiers and 4,000 cavalry against Swiss forces. Arnold Winkelried sacrifices himself by grabbing lances to create a gap in the Austrian phalanx, allowing Swiss fighters to break through. The tale, told by Burton R. Miller in the Philadelphia Press, honors Winkelried's deed.
In the street two teamsters collide their wagons. One apologizes and asks for pardon. The other replies that the fault lies with both, and both bow, parting with a pleasant good day as they resume their errands.
A court ruling in England denies women the right to hold seats on city councils marking a setback for women’s political participation. The decision affects local governance and argued equality laws in public office.
Mr C H Morris of Newark Arkansas credits Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption with ending his abscessed lung illness and returning him to farm work after three bottles. Jesse Middlewart of Decatur Ohio says the remedy saved his life from lung trouble. Free sample bottles at Merck Drug Store.
A travelogue excerpt describes deadly yellow and black scorpions in Durango and the Staked Plains with tin bed protections and red herrings about bites and remedies. It then shifts to Breton legends of musical stones that produce tonal echoes, the two rock types, and a tale of a humpbacked tailor who learns to “sound the stone.”
Report recounts a circus horse in Unionville Pa dying from grief after being abandoned by the caravan. A separate Irwin County Ga woman uses a cruel leg-breaking method to force hens to sit, nailing eggs and hen in a nest.
Tourists visit the Guildo cove near Dinan to see three large amphibole stones that produce a clear silver tone when struck. The central stone weighs about 165,000 pounds and is flanked by wear points where repeated blows yield the strongest sound.
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