29 Aug 1882
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1882
Page
1
A reminiscence on how a great periodical rests on many hands not a single editor, with examples from Beecher and Holland, then a string of gentle, humorous vignettes from a Sunday school and family life about children, teachers, and everyday mishaps.
Schedule fragment shows westward travel times and savings for the New Bradford Short Line. Entries include multiple daily times from early morning to night, listing departures and arrivals across varied segments.
Aug 1 82 update shows schedule times and mail routes for P. & E. railway and regional offices. Regions listed include Upper Oil Regions New York and New England Ohio and Western States with routes to Latrobe Titusville Tidioute Corry Meadville and nearby towns. Daily and weekly mail connections noted with varied 4:00 7:15 and 11:40 time blocks.
The notice lists local government roles including Burgess H A Jamieson, Town Council members K Dennison A Conarro A W Marck C A Waters A J Hazeltine G H Leonhart J H Eddy L T Borchers J A Bell, Clerk R P King, School Directors R P King Geo Ensworth Charles Dinsmoor W M Lindsey Dr R B Stewart W H Pickett, Assessor J W Benson, Justices Geo O Cornelius E Beeman, Constable G C James, Notaries D I Ball C H Noyes H E Brown O F Hoffman Ozro Nesmith C Dinsimoor.
The page shows service times for Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Meritoprist, Evangelical, Scandinavian, and Catholic churches. Each denomination provides Sunday services, Sabbath schools, and vesper or additional mass times, with pastors named for most congregations.
A list of local government candidates and officeholders is presented for Warren and surrounding towns. Names include Congressman L. F. Watson Warren State Senator J. W. Lee Franklin Assemblyman W. B. Benedict Enterprise President Judge W. D. Brown Warren and multiple associate judges, sheriff Theodore Chase, prothonotary Jos A Weible, register George W. Kinnear, treasurer F. M. Knapp, county commissioners Benj Ellis and others, surveyor D F A Wheelock, coroner H K Siggins, district attorney Wm Swanson, auditors N P Curtis L T Putnam A S Dalrymple, and county superintendent C D Arird Lander.
A compact schedule lists fraternal groups in Warren with meeting nights and halls. Entries include Warren Lodge No. 481 K of P every Friday at 7 30 P M in K of H Hall, and Warren Lodge No 339 I O O F Tuesdays in Allen Block, among others.
Sunday trains run from Clarendon to Garfield with morning and afternoon departures and return options. Trains follow P and FE routes with limited layovers at Garfield. Tickets available at P and E depot Warren with round trip reductions offered. A D Wood Superintendent.
The notice lists morning and afternoon trains from Clarendon to Erie and Philadelphia with through Pullman cars to Philadelphia and from Williamsport to Baltimore and Washington. It describes Warren through trains from the east and south, including Warren Express and Evening Accommodation, with exact departure and arrival times and senior railroad officials.
Advert for a dubious mail order scheme promising large earnings with no risk and no capital required. Claims of fortunes for men women and children. Instructions to contact H. Hallett & Co. in Portland Maine for details and outfits.
A lyrical exchange catalogs how money is spent across life’s needs and luxuries. Rents water rates bread coal hats and carpets follow, then bonnets coats silks and furs, wages taxes debts and gifts. It ends noting spends on schools charity plays and public sins.
A humorous verse praising doctors as the pill box crew. Dr Diet checks the tongue and diet, Dr Quiet assesses the wrist and prescribes rest, and Dr Merryman laughs off the fee as the speaker follows advice to eat right and sleep early. The poem ends with repeated praise of Dr Merryman.
A Corry businessman visits Warren and hires a lordly stranger to wheel ashes home for ten cents. The ruse ends with the employer and his wife guessing the hired man is a wealthy Corry resident, who leaves a dime and card before retreating in laughter.
The Aug 21 report notes the ninth Assembly ending at 8 AM with addresses by Dr. Vincent Lewis Miller Frank Beard and Prof. Sherwin. It highlights record attendance diverse lectures led by eminent clergy and scholars and a surge of oil region visitors from Bradford Warren and nearby towns.
A bustling scene centers on George forgetting school and dodging chores. He lies about swimming and a knot in his shirt, blamed on Bill Fairfax, while his mother and narrator tease the boy about his antics before Bushrod’s arrival with a skate strap.
A Census Bureau bulletin reports 4,008,907 farms in the U.S. with only 139,241 under ten acres. The piece urges small plots of one to ten acres for profitable fruit, vegetables, herbs, flowers, mushrooms, and bees. It highlights cucumber yields, niche crops for women, and emphasizes personal care and hard work as keys to success.
The September Peterson's Magazine opens with a steel engraving from the Paris Salon and includes a large colored fashion plate plus fifty wood-engravings. It notes Howell's Modern Instance will end in October and be followed by a mining life story and another Howells novel in 1885. The Atlantic September issue features Lieut. F H Cushing on The Nation of the Willows, Gen A C Mc Clurg on The Last Chance of the Confederacy, and essays on witchcraft, Greek mythology, geology, and Southern education, with Hardy and Phelps serials advancing and Bishop’s The House of a Merchant Prince continued.
The Bazar lists long waists and burgundy mahogany as new red tones with enamelled jewelry returning. Bouffant sleeves and watered ribbons dominate dressy outfits, while lurid colors like Yerra Cotta and Marlborough copper red appear. Lace floods outfits with ornate hats featuring Alsacian bows and feathered aigrettes.
A lengthy moral discusses the virtue of minding one’s own affairs. It argues that meddling leads to trouble, while restraint reflects refinement. It cites Solomon’s adage that a misspoken word harms like apples of gold in silver.
The essay argues that men aged forty five to sixty are in their prime, with strong constitutions and sound judgment. It warns the transition beyond sixty as a fragile bridge to old age, threatened by gout or apoplexy, and advises prudent self care and steady support to endure the passage safely.
A New York Observer writer advocates a simple liniment for wounds to prevent tetanus and ease pain from rusty nails. The remedy combines alcohol oil of organum and camphor, applied to the wound every two hours, with a claim that it keeps sufferers out of danger and aids healing.
In a tender dialogue a mother guides a sleepy child through bedtime prayers as the little one mixes in stray words and animal sounds. The child pleads to finish before morning while the mother gently corrects mispronounced lines and prays with a hopeful, patient tone.
A sweet-looking woman in a sealskin saque and plush hat rings a bell at an uptown residence to offer charity. The mistress, flushed from doughnuts, refuses and instead criticizes a neighbor's son. The Astor Library notes 175 volumes.
An inventor describes the process of placing an iron ball inside a sand core shaped like the bell. The core sits in the outer mold, metal is poured to fill the gap, the core is burned away, and the ball remains encased in the bell shell. The technique also yields ball valves and swivel joints.
A mocked enraged subscriber bursts into a newspaper office to demand stopping his paper over a supposed slight. The piece compares the scene to a retail grocer and argues publishers ignore petty demands, noting a five cent weekly habit and the donor-like behavior of readers.
Eli Perkins narrates a comic scene as aristocratic mothers observe democratic flirting below at the Union balcony. He counts 482 umbrellas, notes quiet, then sees 222 young ladies escorted back by their mothers after a rapid crowd reaction.
McNett and Company advertise the largest stock of furniture ever seen in Warren for sale at bottom prices on Hickory Street.
Mary Murry testifies in Crawford County Pennsylvania that she suffered seven days with inflammatory rheumatism, screamed in pain, found relief twenty minutes after using Wilson's Lightning Remedy for Rheumatism, then claims a permanent cure within ten days and mobility restored in five days. Sworn April 15, 1880 by J B D Clark J P.
A granddaughter corrects reports that Catherine Taney, claimed as sister of the late Judge Taney, was sent to the Albany Alms-house in destitution. She says she is an impostor and that Chief Justice Taney outlived his siblings with no descendants remaining bearing his name.
An herbal remedy named Zoogia is advertised as permanently curing Heapacue by removal. A 10 cent sample is offered to test its effects on the stomach and liver. The claim promotes self cure and ongoing use.
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