09 Aug 1887
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1887
Page
1
A funeral poem reflects on a final journey from earthly tears to eternal peace. The speaker recalls the deceased’s trials and partings, then envisions a serene afterlife and the stricken grief of those left behind. The verse contemplates blessing and danger along life’s road.
Artist Vincent Randal roams Penroth Cornwall seeking inspiration and love. He fixes on Mary Trevarrock, a fisher village beauty bound by memory of a drowned fiancé. Their romance confronts class, poverty, and a tragic past as a boat arrives with fate.
A reporter asks Mr. Chinker about current rates and receives a terse answer: seven percent on good security remains the standard. The exchange captures a steady, practical attitude toward investments in the era.
The 1887 act offers counties incentives to plant forests by paying owners up to 90 percent of land taxes for ten years then 80 and 50 percent for two more decades while limiting tree thinning. Penalties apply for injuring timber and illegal fires with jail for nonpayment and a postage of penalties to school funds.
A miscellany column collects jokes, wry insights, and brief vignettes on divorce, fashion, singing, business ethics, love, and politics. It mentions Edison inventions, a vanity about signs for checks, jokes about marriage, church missions, and a court case involving Senator Wade with a reversal and final affirmation.
Citizens of Warren express great excitement as friends proclaimed incurable by physicians are reportedly cured of consumption by Dr King's New Discovery. The remedy claims to cure throat lung diseases and comes with trial bottles and large bottles priced at $1 at A W Merck's drug store.
An advertisement states Kemp's Sarsaparilla will refund money to anyone who drinks three fourths of a bottle without relief. It claims benefits for enriching cleansing and purifying the blood and toning the system, price one dollar at the store run by L G Noyes. A child asks about a Maltese kitten in a playful exchange.
Public notice from Warren Pennsylvania lists dates August 30 31 September 1 and 2 1887. No further details provided.
The issue highlights two picture-pages of finger-play in Babyland Lothrop’s 50 cents-a-year magazine for mothers and babies with Our Little Men and Women for August. Century’s midsummer holiday number opens with Snubbin Through Jersey and features two major articles on Sherman and Hood, with other valuable pieces in the issue.
The Homeliest Man in Warren and the handsomest and others are invited to call on L. G. Noyes to receive a free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. The remedy is sold on its merits and guaranteed to cure and relieve chronic and acute coughs asthma bronchitis and consumption. Price 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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