29 Aug 1888
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1888
Page
1
A few more French patterns American Satteens at 123¢ a yard. The balance of Fine White Goods at 10c a yard. Ladies' and Children's Gauze Vests as low as 25e each. A few dozen Black Silk Mitts at 25¢ a pair. Also a great many other special low prices.
Readable details are unavailable. The fragment lists times 11:20 pm 11:26 pm 11:37 pm and the text dledt am, offering no clear event, names, places, or outcomes to summarize.
Readable fragments show a rail timetable linking Philadelphia and Erie with arrivals and departures. Notable entries include Erie Acc at 7:45 am, Warren Express at 9:00 am, St Marys Express at 10:05 am, Oil Express at 1:45 pm and 12:20 pm, Erie Mail at 2:20 pm and 6:20 pm, and Kane Act at 5:05 pm on Sunday. other times appear partial or cut.
Town council members include C Smith p J Bayer J W Crawford W Leffard A Mintzer Nelson Moore A J Hazeltine Jy Keller L Werle Clerk Geo B Smith constable John G Brown surveyor Geo C Hamilton and school directors Rev W A Rankin Jas Clark Chas Dinsmoor J M Siegfried ALS Hazeltine F H Langworthy Justices Geo O Cornelius J F McPherson.
A literary snippet lines out perpetual song in nature with birds singing through sun and rain. The verse notes lark thrush bluebird swallow robin cricket and autumn leaves, attributing the calm music of seasons to nature and memory.
A Brooklyn Eagle poem speaks of labor and devotion to a beloved ideal. The speaker, browned by sun, endures heat and burden to plow and fence a field. He describes weary patience as light winds cool his face, while birds flit above and he sits still beneath a maple shade.
An old black clad clergyman at a Presbyterian convention pauses at a cafe cigar stand. After a quar ter price shocks him, a nearby lawyer pays with a five dollar bill for a standard cigar. The clerk pockets the bill, the clergyman departs speechless, and $4.85 is returned as change.
A five and a half year old girl, nicknamed Nettie, visits a busy Boston Globe household on a Saturday. After defying a scolding with dignity, she gathers her playthings, dons her shawl, and declares she will not stay to be talked down, asserting her rightful autonomy.
A prof in Cairo is mocked at his hotel by donkey-boys competing to lend him steeds. One touts a Gladstone donkey, another a Bismarck donkey, while a third declares his own to be better. The scene is described in a humorous note from the New York Tribune.
The death of Henry Woods removes one of Hart county's quaintest citizens. A self taught recluse living in a tiny cabin he built, he conducted sparse retail trades with small sums. Sickness left him without kin, and he died in the county poor house after a singular life akin to Lazarus.
Robert Vane loves Sylvia Dene but accepts the heiress Miss Guilford as a wife to secure fortune. Sylvia tests him, they reconcile as she reveals a plan to share both love and wealth. Emily Guilford assists, and the couple marry with Sylvia becoming mistress of both love and fortune.
A county woman, Mrs. Luther Lutz, suffered seven years from a severe cough and sleepless nights due to a lung disease. After three months she began relief with the first dose of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption and, reportedly cured after one bottle, with a free trial offer at Morck Drug Store in Shelby North Carolina.
A compact profile of H. Rider Haggard, tracing his Norfolk roots and South African service, then his turn to fiction. It notes his early history, legal career, and the success of King Solomon’s Mines and She, plus his method and prefatory notes for Allan Quatermain. The piece cites plagiarism discussions and Besant’s remarks on shared incident.
In the Pochuck Mountains a beauty named Mrs. Charlie Rinehart elopes with a sapper-like admirer, taking two children and provisions. A crowd trails them through the woods as Rinehart recaptures his wife, who says she seeks town life and fine dress, with promises of a new bustle dress.
A collage of light quips and brief jests from a late 19th century pages. It blends jokes about townsfolk, theater prompts, and small-town social scenes with mini cartoons of daily life. The items showcase humor from pulp era columns and cartoons, including wordplay on names and public topics.
Dr Hutchinson notes Barbados as the most densely populated area with 166 miles housing 180000 people, like a man of war with no privacy. Streets crowded from dawn, and locals described as good humored blacks, neat in white.
The passage describes austere burial practices with plain coffins and unknown caskets, affordable eggs at a penny per egg, butter at 18 cents per pound, and long epitaphs on tombstones. It notes formal business correspondence, a growing country retail trade, simple noon dinners, and varied bank notes. It also mentions bread baked at home, fresh coffee ground daily, and the family coffee mill a morning routine.
Preases offers complete assortment of paper cards envelopes and skilled printers for all job printing in one class style. Satisfaction guaranteed at low prices. All kinds of blanks kept on hand or printed to order. The mail matter is entered for circulation as second class in Warren P. C.
The article notes a Georgia man marking a golden wedding anniversary with his second spouse while a related remark reflects on a widow who runs her late husband’s pawnshop, describing her as a loan widow.
A society woman denounces attacks on female manners and argues men share many habits. She cites coat tails flung aside when sitting, pant legs folded, shoe laces tied oddly, handkerchief refolding, head and face touching, cuff pulling, and other small behaviors. She criticizes street observations of male pedestrians and urges fewer remarks about the weaker sex.
The testimony of W D Sult a druggist from Bippus Ind and Abraham Hare a Bellville Ohio druggist plus thousands of testimonies claim Electric Bitters cures liver kidney and blood diseases. One patient reportedly cured after six bottles for rheumatism of ten years. Morck Drug Store sells bottles for fifty cents.
Artist Greaves offers six to seven hundred photographs etchings steel engravings and other art treasures at cost to reduce his stock. These valuable works will be framed in fine mouldings at the lowest cost, providing an attractive chance for ladies and gentlemen to adorn their homes.
The proprietor pledges thousands of bottles yearly as proof of a perfect cough and throat remedy. The ad urges immediate use, offers a trial bottle free at druggists, with large sizes priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar, attributed to L. G. Nores.
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