Ruling on Civil Rights Act Applies in Washington Territory
Judge Miller in Washington holds that the civil rights act of March 1 1875 makes racial discrimination a misdemeanor in travel and dining. Rev Mr Smith colored of Norwich Conn was refused a meal at Bell’s Washington restaurant. The decision says all guests must have equal access and uniform rates, marking the first enforcement of the law’s criminal provisions in a Congress controlled territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Washington
Territories
District of Columbia
Mr. Smith
Norwich
Conn
Bell’s
Congress
Registry Lists Guide Voters to Check Inclusion
The piece explains how assessors must post district voter lists before August and add new eligible voters upon request. A separate list of new assessments is also posted. On September 4 and 5 assessors will be at the polling place to correct the lists.
Cooper’s political gambit and the Cassidy edge
The Philadelphia Times concedes Cooper may win a Democratic victory but warns his strategy hinges on Patti son Cassidy and Gordon. Cassidy’s track record against the Democrats is noted, with speculation he is motivated by past favors and current pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carping Phila. Times
Cooper
Pattison
Cassidy
Gordon
Survivor officials from Buchanan and Lincoln cabinets
The death of Judge Black leaves Jacob Thompson as the sole surviving Buchanan cabinet member. Simon Cameron remains the lone survivor from Lincoln's War era since Montgomery Blair's recent death. The last surviving ex-chief justice is Judge Agnew following Black's demise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Black
Jacob Thompson
Interior
Buchanan
Simon Cameron
Lincoln
Montgomery Blair
Black
Judge Agnew
Addressing mail to ensure delivery across regions
A note on non compulsory yet wise postal practice urges writers to include addresses on both the enclosed item and its wrapper to prevent loss if the wrapping is damaged. The Elk Democrat critiques a Democratic Senate and Representatives caucus, accusing them of delaying adjournment to trigger an extra session for per diem pay, claiming the cost has reached $237,000 and urging Taggart and Powell to stop the leak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Aracaucus
Taggart
Powell
Notable Items and Local Notices From Warren and Beyond
A collection of brief items covers a Greenback Convention in Youngsville with 34 delegates led by W. D. Whitney and Rev. W. K. Crosby, tax receipts drop on tobacco and liquor, post office rulings on printing and typewriters, two new postal notes, a humorous take on summer resorts, and a political jab about the Democracy and whiskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenback
Youngsville
W. D. Whitney
W. K. Crosby
James Roy, Jr
John McLean
Warren Academy
New Postal Notes for Small Money Transfers
New postal notes prepared by a New York contracting firm will be available around September 1. The blank form notes show spaces for origin and destination post offices and feature three punched-digit columns for dollars dimes and cents to prevent counterfeiting. Notes range from 1 cent to 4.99 dollars with a 3 cent issue charge. unlike money orders these notes are transferable, avoiding in-person money collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Speculative Bank Cashier Fitch Surrenders in Boston
Kirkland M. Fitch of Warren Ohio, a bank cashier, lost 80000 while speculating with bank funds and fled in womens clothes. He surrendered in Boston asking to be taken back without a requisition, admitting bond sales of 30000 and buying half a million in Government securities. He blamed oil stocks and provisions trades for the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkland M. Fitch
Warren
Ohio
Boston
Vanity Fair rails at American tourists as ill bred and brash
The English weekly Vanity Fair criticizes American visitors as ill dressed, ill mannered, ill voiced and uncouth. It also condemns Americans who stay in England and seek social entry as a plague in high society, urging imitation of refined English manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanity Fair
Europe
England
Oscar Wilde
Nighttime Finance Clerk Cited as Civil Service Reform Case
A prominent politician escorts a Democratic Senator to view Livsey, the Republican State Treasurer nominee, working alone at ten o'clock at night in the Treasury, arguing this illustrates the reform need and contrasts with other clerks on Capitol Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Treasury Department
Livsey
Storrisburg
Young Men Urged to Enlist for Westward Service
A newspaper notice urges unemployed or seeking change young men aged 21 to 22, five feet four or taller and 120 to 190 pounds, to enlist with Uncle Sam. They can gain a uniform gun and bayonet and plentiful cartridge supply, with pay modest but fame in Indian chasing offered as lure. The piece shifts to harvest outlooks noting a strong Thanksgiving, vast wheat yields in the Northwest, 30 000 acre Dalrymple Dakota farm predicting twenty bushels per acre, and varied crop prospects across regions including Georgia and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
West
Northwest
Dalrymple
Dakota
Georgia
Canada
Tur American Rapid Telegraph Co Revokes Strike Benefits
Washington dispatch reports the Tur American Rapid Telegraph Co has revoked all advantages granted during the strike and will pay workers as before the strike while mandating the same hours. The company had earlier yielded to operator demands and earned praise for that action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur American Rapid Telegraph Co
Washington Dispatch
Brewers to disclose beer ingredients after next Saturday
The Venango Spectator notes a new law will require full sworn statements from brewers on and after that date, detailing whether beer uses malt or maltose, barley, corn, rice, hops, glucose, or other ingredients. Brewers have long made monthly sworn statements, but drinkers reportedly care little as long as it remains beer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venango Spectator
England Debates Deceased Wife's Sister Bill
Discussion of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in England hinges on unnamed sister reference. The articles note public interest and parliamentary debate without naming the sister involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Bill
George Ball Promises Largest Stock and Low Prices in Warren
The ad claims Geo. Ball runs the largest store in Warren with the biggest stock and offers clothing hats and furnishing goods at cheaper prices than any rival. A call will convince you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Ball
Warren
Dentists Endorse Yes Teeth Powder Sold by Johnson and Siegfried
Dental pros back Yes Teeth Powder with Johnson and Siegfried selling the product. The ad notes the item is available through the Johnson and Siegfried firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson & Siegfried
Letter from Wisconsin endorses Zopesa as cure
A Dec 20 1882 letter from Fon LAC Wisconsin features J C Brown praising Zopesa as a liver and stomach panacea. He claims long life of pain, illness, cure after one bottle, and offers to provide references, noting price at seventy five cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fon On
Lac
J.C. Brown
Various 19th Century Notes on Industry and People
A broad miscellany covers topics from a Sugar Grove fair and Lincoln graves to the Maid of the Mist replica, railroads, Indian schools, dental industry, a California holiday, Garfield monument ceremony, Henry Sankey and Francis Murray tours, and a bank cashier loss. It also reports a Minnesota cyclone, Rochester destruction, and Poor's Manual railroad statistics across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Grove Fair
United States
Lincoln
Niagara
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chiloca
Indian Territory
Lawrence
Kan
Genoa
Neb
California
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Macpy
Sankey
Iis
Jerem
Brockie
York
Pacific
Northern Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
Minnesota
Rochester
Poor’s Manual
New England
Middle States
Pacific States
South
Guard Camp Duty Revenue and Mountain House September Plans
The National Guard of Pennsylvania completes a fourth one week camp duty tour. State revenues allocate about $220,000 to the guard, with half to transportation and subsistence. Meanwhile a Cresstone Mountain House on the Pennsylvania Railroad summit remains open through Oct 1 with September visitors in mind and discounted rates after Sept 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard of
Pennsylvania
Philo. Press
Cresson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mountain House
August 15 1883 Exaporape Letter From H Barron Warren County
Exaporape August 15 1883 Matt. H Barron writes from Warren County noting recent rains after a long dry spell since June 15. He reports large potato crops, wheat yielding up to 30 bushels per acre, high crop prospects, and quick threshing by two men. Prices: corn 18 cents, oats 15. Hog markets weak, labor scarce, money plentiful, land prices rising. He questions returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt
Warren County
H. Barron
The Chautauqua Idea by T S Flood Gains Wide Circulation
The Chautauquan movement began about three years ago under T S Flood aiming at the Chautauqua Literary Scientific Circle. Initial doubts faded as circulation reached 26000, proving the idea’s broad appeal with subscribers across the United States and internationally including England Ireland Scotland France Sweden Germany Italy the East and West Indies Africa China and the Sandwich Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
By. T. S. Flood
England
Ireland
Scotland
France
Sweden
Germany
Italy
East and West Indies
Africa
China
New England
Sandwich Islands
Show Them How Oil Exchange Worked for Emery
Senators visiting Mr. Emery were shown the oil exchange in action. He bought 25 000 barrels at 1.07 on Saturday and sold on Monday at 1.11, earning 1040 in the deal, a spectacle described as more entertaining than a circus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Emery
Oil Exchange
McXean
Jacob Keller Tailor Offers Spring and Summer Cloths in Warren
Jacob Keller the Tailor stocks imported and domestic cloths in Spring and Summer styles. He can tailor dress and business suits, Spring overcoats, or fitting pants. Prices are low, workmen skilled, clothes warranted to fit when paid for. Rooms on second story corner of Second and Liberty in Warren, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Keller
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren
Druggist offers free bottle of cough syrup to all patients
L. G. Noyes the Druggist proclaims no risk of failure due to want of confidence and gives away a bottle of Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup to those suffering from coughs colds consumption asthma and throat lung ailments in hope of proving its efficacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Noyes
Bosanko
Piles Remedy Offered by Local Druggist
L. G. Noyes, a local druggist, advertises Dr. Bosanko's Pile Remedy as an absolute cure for piles and skin diseases, sold for 50 cents. It claims sufferers experience relief when health is good and magnified suffering when ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Noyes
Bosanko
Sheriff Sale of Pine Grove Land in Warren County Pa
A writ of fieri facias directed to Geo W McCoy leads to public vendue at Warren Court House on Monday Sept 3 1883 at 2 PM. The property covers 400 acres in Pine Grove Township with about 200 acres improved including a frame dwelling two barns and outbuildings. Sold as the property of Geo W McCoy in the suit of B Nesmith by Sheriff E A Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of of Common Pleas
Warren County
Warren
Sugar Grove
County of
State of
Pennsylvania
Youngsville
Pardon Hazeltine
Williams Willson
Said Willson
Magnus Haltberg
Said Haltberg
J. M. Fiddier
John Brooks
James Wade
J. H. Nichols
D. D. Hazeltine
C. Hazeltine
Hardin Hazeltine
A. C. Blodget
Heriff
Exponas
Court of Common Pleas
Borough of
Cherry Grove Township
Grace and Book
Prudence Ann Titus
A. J. Brown
W.P. Book
EF. A. Allen
Elk
Warren and Olean Road
Harriet M. McStraw
F. D. Reeves
Barton
Hugh Brezee
Harriet M. MecStraw
J.S. Briggs & Co
Out Lot
Water Street
Water and Market Streets
Conewango Creek
Cornelius Mastin
John Keller
Guy C. Irvine
Pine Grove
Philo Blackmore
Lyman Common
Joel Wilson
Zera Fellows
Dommon
Geo. W. McCoy
B. Nesmith
J. H. Neill
Darius Mead
James H. Neill
J. Jackson
B. J. Jackson
A. Allen
Brokenstraw
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad
Evaline Mead
Josephine KR
Benedict, Executrix, &c
Warren Savings Bank
BE. A. Allen
Main Street
Shaw Hotel
Said Street
Samuel Grandin
Grandin
Allegheny River
Shaw
James K. Jennings
Tidioute Borough
State of Pennsylvania
S. H. Evans
Evans
Frank Williams
Recorder's
Tidioute
County of Warren
Peter P. Garrett
Warren and Franklin
Shaw’s
P. P. Garret
Triumph Township
Deerfield Township
New London Oil Company
Benjamin McGraw
Luther Green
W.P. Shaw
Jas. Shaw
Hugh Shaw
Benj. Gorman
Eva E. Gorman
E. A. Allen
Court House
Freehold
Mark Tanner
Wilbur Falconer
New York
Abner Chapman
Archa Chapman
Ward Chapman
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Co
A. Carpenter
H. Willson
John Ayling
Pittsfield
Holland Company
Clark Dalrymple
W. F. Dalrymple
Brokenstraw Creek
John Mead
Presbyterian Church
Church Street
E. W. Ross
Ross
W.F. Dalrymple
Ss. P. Johnson
C. E. A. Allen
Brokenstraw Township
Drusilla Hazard
Susannah Mead
William Mead
J. C
Elizabeth
William 5
Roney
J. C. Mead
Elizabeth Belknap
Elizabeth Belnap
David G
John Mckinney
Hog’s Back Ridge
Hog’s Back
Eliza Walton
John Griffin
D. N. Walker
W. A. Mead
A. J. Thacher
Philadelphia and Wire Railroad
Elijah Livermore
Livermore
John A. Jackson
Henrietta Daveny
Mary Minor
Z. Mickle
Xherife
Garland
Frank Ball
Ball
Andrews
Garner Mead
Mead
H. F. Andrews
Amos Bloomfield
Recorder's Office
A. C. Bloomfield
William C. Hyde
Sarah A. Chase
E. H. Chase
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warren Mail
William Livley
Allegheny
J.B. Niles
Tioga
Charles H. Mauley
Deerfield
D. F. A. Wheelock
Isaac 8. Alden
Pittsburg
Wisconsin
News and Notes
D. L. Moopy
Christian Workers
Chicago
Kansas
Wuerras
Young Peoples’ Literary Society of
Farmington
W. W. Mix
Man, Ledger, and
Jamestown Journal
F.S. Mansi
H. M. Prestoyn
Lou A. Knapp
Lander, Pa
High Rock Spring Company
Saratoga Springs N. Y
Warren, Pa
Biffin Reno
Roscoe Hall Block
Waterstreet
THE
Orphan’s Court
Counaty
Nancy Bain
Wilford
Dinsmoor & Cable
Robert Dennison
M. Waters
Josephine Dennison
I. S. Alden
Etters
D. M. Lamony
Spring Creek
Warren Co
Minerva Lamony
Andrew J. Brown
James Brown
Frank Brown
Calvin W. Brown
C. W. Brown & Brothers
M. Breckwoldt
Jacob Reig
Andrew Platt
T. J. Porterfield
Same
Frank Palmeter
Jay White
Ami Smith
John Cooney
Ann Cobham
John G. Grindley
A. Anderson
Wm. Pero
John McIntyre
John Riwa, Jr
N.C. Clark
J. A. Brechwoldt
Levi Pierce
Nancy Eddy
Ebenezer Collins
Henry Stoneburg
B. P
W. R. RB. Co
James P. Conroe
Wm. Porter
Geo. Bush
J.A. Weible
Burgess and Town Council
Conewango Street
A. Kirberger
Liberty Street
Geo
P. Orr
Burgess
Rufus P. Kina
J. Dante
Variety Hall
Schellhammer & Lesser
Water St
Invincible
Royal Square
Schellhammer & Lessers
Sheriff's Office
EE. A. Allen
Sheriff’s Office
Glade City
New Bridge
Ww. Co
Rever Warren, Pa
Citizens National Bank
Warren, FA
G. Hertzel
Cashier
S.P. Johnson
F. Henry
H. A. Jamieson
8. V. Davis
W.D. Brown
A. Hertzel
G. N.parmilee
Finam
Rowland & Greenland
Hickory St
Rerovais
Cogswell & Wheeler
People’s Market
Scofield
Postoffice
Kentucky
E. T. F. Valentine’s
Carver House
Malulo Uus
E. T. F. Valentine
Idewalk
A. P
Struthers Library
Third Street
Rurus P. Erna
A. Siegel & Sons
George Ball
George
H. A. Jamieson & CO
Simond’s, Disston’s, American Saw Co
Holmes Patent
Log Dog
Z. E
H. G. Eddy
New Orleans
Jacob Dod
Richard B. Stewart
Second & Liberty Lts
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