25 Aug 1874
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1874
Page
1
The schedule lists service times for Presbyterian Episaopal Evangelical Lutheran Catholic and Scandinavian congregations. Rev W A R Sabbath Rev A J Merchant Rev H S Getz Rev Robert Mott Rev G A Brugel and Fathers De La Roque Cosgrove lead Sunday masses and vespers with varied Sabbath School times.
A compiled list shows Warren County Pennsylvania officials including Congressman C B Curtis Erie Senator H Cutler Assemblyman Geco W W Allen Sheriff Sylvester H Davis Register James G M Treas Geo C Cornelius County Commissioners J R Morrison W G Garcelon E R Wheelock Coroner Theodore Chase District Attorney D Reeves Auditors E W Mudge B Pook John Fuellhart County Superintendent Byron Sutherland and others across Warren Tidioute Spring Creek Sugar Grove Pine Grove Farmington.
WILL REMOVE AND PREVENT SCALE a many Steam Boiler, and make no charge until the work is found satisfactory. GEO. W. LORD, 992 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. JOE PENT kinds, neatly and cheaply executed at the MAIL OFFICE.
A fragmented rail timetable lists connections from Corry to Dunkirk and Fredonia, with arrivals at Titusville, Irvington, Youngsville, Warren, and Fentonville. It mentions Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway tickets, a summer extension in 1874, and various stops including Oil City and Erie regions, plus a poetic interlude about harvest and wind.
A preacher urges balanced living beyond narrow duties arguing there is a time for rest health education and beauty as essential "things." He advocates fair pursuit of farming trade leisure nature and culture while honoring Sabbath rest and proper care for body and mind. He champions broad creeds including rest parks diamonds home beauty and moral virtue.
Dr Hall warns against overdrinking water, especially in summer, arguing less water meaning less overall need. He says excess fluids require energy to expel, reduce nourishment from albumen in food, and increase urination and perspiration, recommending a single cup of hot tea or milk and water per meal.
In New York the demand for singing birds is high with canaries accounting for about two thirds of buyers. German import canaries dominate, English stock is minor, and many families spend money on birds even amid poverty. The trade includes eight large metropolis establishments and over a hundred minor stores, with hundreds employed in breeding and selling birds.
A New Haven resident attempted a dramatic landing from a carpet sack and cane as a steamboat pulled away. He leaped onto the deck, injuring two passengers in the process. The crowd’s laughter followed as the boat neared the wharf then moored.
A reflective piece urges readers to abandon apathy and superficial adornments. It champions genuine kindness, open affection, and frank spirit, arguing that warmth and encouragement uplift others more than wealth or status. It contrasts hollow social polish with heartfelt generosity.
An old trained Detroit goat, famed for charging at sticks with a firecracker, struck a corpulent man on the belt when his cane was waved near the beast. The incident sent onlookers scrambling amid debris while a boy laughed and stones flew.
A compact, period tone piece advising working men on behavior and thrift. It emphasizes church attendance as better advertising than a circus, savings as safer debt, neat dress, honesty, hard work, and the link between childhood poverty and future wealth. It likens laborers to locomotives moving a train of prosperous shops and urges diligence in drilling rocks and personal conduct.
An historical note on military water use contrasts German 1870 practices with Swiss style care. It cites Bavarian troops near Sedan suffering heat collapse when denied water, and praises Swiss allowances of personal water bottles and village-water pails prepared by orderlies.
A Boston Transcript writer from the Saranac lake region extols the area’s scenic watershed. He recalls standing with one foot in each side of a small pool and drinking water that could reach either the Hudson and Atlantic or the Ausable and Gulf of St. Lawrence, praising the region’s picturesque beauty and sylvan loveliness as unmatched.
The poem mocks prounced shifts in English vowels and digraphs. It argues for consistent pronunciation rules while noting how modern usage varies by speaker and region. It contrasts old and new forms with playful examples like ie and ei shifts.
The London Review describes women and girls in London who create artificial blossoms under harsh working conditions. They toil fourteen to fifteen hours daily in gas lit rooms, handling deadly pigments, arsenic green and verdigris blue, risking eye and head strain as they assemble fragile blooms for fashion.
The speaker recalls a night when a wayward youth in Worcester was invited to a meeting and pledged total abstinence. The boy became a leading reformer, credited to a stranger’s brief counsel and the like of Exeter Hall applause. The tale honors bootmaker Joel Stratton in heaven.
The Danbury News man remarks on London boys being constant fixtures in streets and windows. He critiques their clumsiness and habit of backing into obstacles, noting a long display of slips and falls versus an American boy's quick, costly harms.
A dated moral piece warns writers about vice and hypocrisy. It labels a departed man as deeply corrupt, delighting in others’ downfalls and opposing Christianity while aiding Satan’s cause and neglecting good counsel and heaven.
Mrs Marrofat describes a dramatic scene as a woman ill enough to be bedridden places her bonnet on and lies with her head out the front window for the entire afternoon, despite everyone’s concern. The exchange between Mrs Quaggs and Mrs Marrofat conveys astonishment at the woman's stubborn resilience.
A collage of humorous aphorisms and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century paper. The items tease fashion, politics, manners, and social ratios, with quips about Chloroform, smokes in France, Lincoln’s log cabin, golf of pranks, and a string of short vignettes and jokes.
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