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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
7
The poem recalls a boyish dream of presidency and patience as opportunity may come. The speaker has repaired and prepared, painted the porch, removed vines, and learned elocution to deliver a speech if called. Washington Star notes the stance on seizing potential political chance.
Poem excerpt from Woman's Home Companion celebrating universal motherhood and the beauty of babies around the world. It asserts each mother loves her child most, regardless of race, nation, or occupation, praising tender maternal pride.
The poem contrasts sighs and smiles with a refrain that times will improve after a while. It urges keeping faith through winter and sorrow, dreaming of May, and seeking light at dawn while angels watch. It ends noting the challenge and virtue of forgiving. Faith Bradford in Youth's Companion.
A reflective piece weaving night and day imagery with love, aging, and family ties. It shifts from lyric meditation to personal reminiscence, ending with a sentimental note about a bustling family life in Chicago.
A 30 by 50 foot barn with integrated manure shed offers drive through access, level ground driveway, and sliding doors. Configurations include left and right bays for hay, space for ten horses or cows, optional sheep or calves area, and weatherboard between sections. No bulk grain storage. Ohio Farmer by W D Watson.
J. L. Irwin in Farm and Fireside warns that soil loss from washing rains harms farms especially corn ground. Crops like rye provide fall and winter pasture and bind soil. on hillsides a soil binding crop is essential. The piece urges progressive farmers to adopt practices to protect soil richness.
William Scott of Pittsburgh, famed as Mr Carnegie's lawyer in the Frick and Carnegie dispute, asks a probing question at Nassau's commencement. The tale notes the rival firms, the split, and Scott's Princeton ties. A freshman answers that athletics outs. Scott is reminded that fame attends King Scott's son and King.
A Philadelphia Call cartoon story recounts a wife furnishing a new home bought with a garbage contract fortune. At Market Street a salesman asks about spring mattresses and she replies that she wants durable four season mattresses, not one for each season, noting she can be rich yet not easy.
A man of Chinese descent was taunted by a white rowdy on an elevated train at Twenty third Street. He stepped off, waited for the gates to close, then replied in clear English asking if the taunter was a Christian, provoking laughter from the gateman and passengers as the toughs retreated.
Across major markets on August 21 flour, wheat, corn and oats prices are listed for New York Cleveland Toledo East Liberty East Buffalo and Cincinnati. Commodity ranges include hog and cattle quotes with steady to strong demand and regional variations in weights and grade offerings. The record shows diverse prices from wheat at 78 4e in New York to hogs around 5.40 5.80 in various markets and cattle values near 4.80 to 5.85 per hundredweight.
A schoolteacher from Ginsport Ohio reports ten years of monthly agony with nervous system pain and ill health. After trying many doctors and a specialist who warned of surgery she wrote to Mrs Pinkham and used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief and offers to answer letters.
An advertisement claims Palmer's Lotion can cure pimples eczema and other outward skin diseases and urges keeping it in every home. Palmer's Lotion Soap is sold as a companion product and a free pamphlet with testimonials and a sample is offered if the local druggist does not stock them.
A brief Philadelphia Press item recalls a playful misprint in a letter asking for two dollars. The writer admits spelling error with two as to and crossed t, and notes receiving a $100 payment from Graphter-Well.
Special round trip excursions from Chicago to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City and Ogden via the Great Rock Island Route depart August 21 September 4 and 18 at 445 pm One regular fare plus 2.00 for the trip with return limit October 31 1900 Tickets valid on regular trains Information and reservations available from John Sebastian G P A Chicago and the color brochure Colorado the Magnificent mailed free
A brief quip from the Chicago Evening News contrasts love and wealth as Maude questions marrying without love. Clara responds she would love him if he possessed a million.
An old ad claims Lane's Family Medicine aids healthy digestion and purifies the liver and kidneys. It describes soothing relief for headaches with a 25 cent price point.
In Somerville Journal commentary the critic faults a landscape for not resembling nature while the artist defends fidelity, saying nature’s likeness is secondary to the painting’s integrity and vision. The exchange highlights tensions between perception and representation in art.
An English tourist returns to a third class carriage to find a waterproof coat left on a train. When asking the compartment occupants if they saw a mackintosh the reply is a humorous Gaelic play on names as one passenger says we are Macphersons here.
A Chicago rail line advertises Nebraska as a land of plenty with opportunities in grain fruit cattle and hog farming. It promotes informational papers The Corn Belt and The West Nebraska Grazing Country and offers cheap excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays for year sightseers. Also listed is land for sale in tracts of 40 to 400 acres by G W Fithian Newton Illinois.
A collage of short quotes and advertisements from 1900 era papers. Snippets include parenting lines, a tailor joke, dye ads, a gas likeness remark, Piso's Cure testimonial, self-made wisdom, cold remedy pitches, a China partition quip, Beeman's Gum, and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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