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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1897
Page
4
The article offers a home paste recipe for durable wall paper with flour and water boiled thrice, then fortified with washing soda. It also suggests using patched cloth strips soaked in paste to mend plaster walls where mason patches fail, noting long lasting results.
The piece argues for two window hangings per room a light airy summer set and a heavier winter set. It notes this saves wear on both and can be inexpensive with cheap thin summer fabrics and heavier cottons for winter. It cautions that cotton offers many options including tapestries velvets and oriental prints at lower prices.
After a busy day, loosen hairpins and remove street gown and shoes. Wash face and neck in hot water, cool with vinegar or cologne, rest fifteen minutes, then drink hot water or weak tea and dress anew for a relaxed dinner.
Advice from an expert on carving for women notes practical skills. It describes honing tools on emery and oil, cleaning with cork and Bristol brick, and polishing on a flat board while keeping blades dry and stored in soft cases.
A historical cure for burns advises mixing flour and lard like pie crust, adding cold water to form a soft dough, and applying it thickly to burned areas for two to three days. As the dough loosens, the burned skin peels away with it, then a fresh dough is reapplied until the skin loosens again. It is claimed that burns treated this way will never scar.
The article explains preserving potatoes by briefly immersing them in boiling water to kill the sprout germ, followed by drying in a warm oven before storage in sacks.
Lavender scented sheets are described as inducing sweet slumbers and smelling exceptionally fresh and wholesome. The text notes old fashioned housewives scented linen with sprigs of lavender and mentions substitutes like Italian orris root and French verbena dried root if lavender is unavailable.
The guide explains carving a tongue into very thin center slices for best texture. It notes center cuts are most tempting and advises slicing across with some fat at the root on each side.
An old description explains petal-dust as a pot-pourri preparation for linen closets or chiffoniere drawers. It can be sprinkled from a pierced-top jar resembling a large pepper box to scent fabrics.
A Baltimore Sun dispatch notes many couples travel from West Virginia and Pennsylvania to Oakland to wed. A notably young looking pair stayed at Commercial Hotel and claimed a sixty mile mountain drive to be married. The girl, claiming nineteen, appeared fourteen and spoke little, having never seen a piano before. They obtained a license, wed, and headed back across the mountains, likely content without a piano.
A 23 year old Lancashire mill hand undergraduates at Balliol College Oxford. He studied after factory hours with help from libraries and extension lectures. He passed Greek in eighteen months after starting to learn and, within six weeks of admission, won the Brackenbury history scholarship worth 400 dollars a year for four years. He now aims for an honors degree in history.
Misa Olafia Johansdottir president of Icelandic Woman's Temperance Union and leader among Icelandic women attends Worlds WCTU convention in Toronto. She traces strong political pull from prominent relatives, and aims to elevate Icelandic women to equality with men through temperance and rights advocacy.
A Wail From Idaho describes trustees publicly bewailing the inability to maintain enough schoolmarms as ranchmen miners and businessmen raid towns for new teachers and wives. The average teaching term lasts only about half a term before engagement or marriage, making it a Klondike for women seeking husbands and homes.
A Brockton shoe maker was fined $500 for permitting two women to work overtime beyond state limits. The workers claim equal right to earn extra money and have helped create this test case for the new phase of the woman’s rights question.
The article urges greater focus on clothing for the ill highlighting comfortable wrappers and dainty matinees as essential for comfort and dignity. It notes callers can embarrass a patient if attire is unsuitable and stresses caregivers must ensure proper dress for those under their charge.
A six hand high pony, just twenty four inches tall, is shown in Milan as the property of Marchese Carcano. The tiny horse gains fame for perfect symmetry and minute proportions. The owner touts miniature horses as efficient workers that eat little, with the pony costing about sixpence daily to maintain.
A British Indian crisis at the Khyber Pass brings attention to a man named the Mullah of Haddah. Haddah is cited as a true palindrome, contrasting with the famous palindrome Madam I’m Adam.
Hair used for hundreds of thousands of dolls in shop windows comes from Angora goats. An English syndicate controls the product worth $400000 annually. After preparation the hair is sent to Munich where girls make wigs.
It is gravely asserted that the sailing date of a popular ocean steamer from Boston was set for Friday. Many prospective travelers who wished to go to Europe in her refused to book passage for that trip, and the date was changed to Saturday.
The piece describes Withcall farm in the parish of Withcall on the Louth Lincoln line. It spans about 2 550 acres with 70 working horses, 2 000 sheep and 100 pigs. Three yards support operations, water supplied by a reservoir and donkey pump, and field work dominated by furrowed plows and steam cultivators. Average daily wage is 7s 3d for six days.
In April 1896 the 4th Ghoorkas were sent from Mandalay to Shillong where wet weather forced shelter in a granary that proved an Ahom temple. Priests resisted quartering but officers forced entry. Four Ahoms were found worshiping, a first sight for whites. The Ahom race, deemed descended from the god India, refuses contact with whites. They are described as apelike with long arms and tails and prehensile toes. An Ahom woman and her children were brought to Shillong for photography.
A collection of aphorisms about honesty effort and prudence. It cites that necessity spawns invention lies and suggests fairness be returned as you would be treated. It warns against relying on intention over action and the limit of persuasive tactics.
Practical guidance on treating cramps stomach pains and headaches with camphor essence and lemon tea. Advice for tired feet involves hot saltwater soak and rough towel rub. Recommends linen for bandages to avoid fibre irritation, noting linen fibers are rounded unlike cotton.
A display at the trans Mississippi exposition in Omaha features the Tom Thumb, claimed to be the smallest train in the world. Built by a non professional, the engine weighs 450 pounds and measures six feet seven and a half inches long with tender. The engine uses eight inch driving wheels and a 14%x2%% inch cylinder, pulling six observation cars with two children per car. Total train length reaches twenty nine feet and two hours of steam are stored in six gallons in the tender and five in the boiler.
The article discusses medieval leather use in the chivalric era, noting cuir bouilli as a common molded material. It highlights how helmets ornamented with leather impaired vision, with visors up making it hard to perceive foes from the side or rear. It suggests knights may have tilted necks awkwardly to see, leading to blunders in tourneys and fights.
Julia Hamilton, the bearded woman at the County Farm in Great Falls, Mont, died in poverty after eight years there. Born in Vermont, she reportedly married six times, with several husbands deserting her. A former suitor from Chicago discovered her beard on arrival. he married her briefly, then left. She had limited income, sometimes county aid, and was buried by the county after illness.
Conductor William Lorts recalls a near fatal wreck near Byers Colorado. He describes freeing a trapped woman beneath two seats as the chair car sank, using an axe and iron debris to pry the seats apart. They carried her to safety just as the car disappeared.
Queen Victoria learned a Scottish farmer bred superior collie dogs and requested one. The farmer sent two. At the castle he faced the queen who thanked him for the two dogs, and he replied in broad dialect chastising the praise as trivial.
Linton has saved and invested over $25 000 in two years. Jacquelin, a private in the French army, rides a dogcart between station and barracks while officers walk. Taylor, a Paris racing star, declines any race offer under $500, through his secretary.
Paris was stirred as President Faure drove with a nurse and baby in the seat normally occupied by his aide. It was learned his married daughter had just given birth to a son three weeks earlier.
The German government has enacted a precautionary measure to prevent poisoning by mandating round bottles for all drugs intended for internal use and hexagonal bottles for those used externally. The rule aims to reduce accidental ingestion and improve handling.
Dumont Clark the president of the American Exchange Bank of New York received as a gift a detailed silver miniature of the Bank of England. The model is a perfect facsimile in proportion and detail of the famous building.
The Queen has rewarded Sir Edward Bradford for his outstanding service as head of the metropolitan police. His calm leadership ensured public safety during the royal observance. Bradford’s left sleeve is empty from an 19th century tiger attack in India, where he saved his head by thrusting his arm into a tiger's jaws as comrades shot the animal.
Of the 260 stamps issued the values range from 1 cent up to 5 000 dollars. Five dollars is the highest value among regular stamps but a few special issues reach the 10 000 mark. Revenue stamps may represent five thousand dollars.
An advertisement extols Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female weakness and childbirth related issues. It praises its health benefits for the uterus, nerves, and pregnancy, and cites a testimonial from Edith Cain of Clinton Pa claiming recovery after two years of suffering. The copy also notes Dr. Pierce’s long tenure and that the medicine is sold by druggists.
A distant observation describes the Silver Thread as possibly the highest waterfall in the United States, plunging about 1800 feet along a near vertical descent into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The water from an unnamed stream amid Absaroka foothills cascades through a rugged canyon wall and appears like a silver thread from the south rim.
A New York tax case recounts how Erastus Corning Jr inherited about 12 million dollars twenty five years ago and spent it down to an 81 000 assessment. The Corning estate vanished due to lavish spending on lace Empress Eugenie estate start up gifts charities horses and a two million dollar farm. Parker Corning cannot pay the estate tax on bank stock.
White mice make interesting pets and thrive with care. Clean daily to avoid odor and gentle handling fosters tameness and amusement for children. They are lifted by the tail when unfamiliar, which can cause a bite. Pure albino with pink eyes.
A German naturalist reports experiments showing that during flight the birds’ feathers become positively charged while the white down becomes negatively charged, creating an electrical attraction that flattens and smooths the plumage even in strong wind.
A Great Northern apprentice learns a prank initiation that spirals through Hooley’s McVicker’s Bijou and Alhambra theaters. A wooden roller masquerades as the curtain key, carried by the novice and a helper across Chicago streets to a triumphant but short lived stage hand status.
A Chicago Times-Herald short item describes a woman seeking live nonpoisonous snakes to put in her drunk husband’s boots to force him to quit drinking. The bird store keeper agrees to fill the order and notes it is a test case with uncertain outcome.
Ww R Gourley of New Whatcom, ex immigration inspector, plans a new venture at Skaguay. He has bought the government snag boat Skagit and will convert it into a business block and hotel, steam heated, with leased lower rooms for a photograph gallery drug store barber shop restaurant cigar and tobacco stand physician's office and bakery. If residents depart Skaguay he will relocate elsewhere.
Dr Weir Mitchell spoke on self control in crises recounting a nurse who stayed calm when a patient mistook a bottle and cried poison. She swallowed the dose herself, fetched an emetic and a doctor, saving the patient. Treasury figures show US population over 77 million with an annual rise of 2 million. Census due in three years could push total past 80 million.
A Kansas man asks the post office department to update the postal directory and government envelopes by replacing Kans. with Kan. for the state of Kansas. The request aims to standardize the post office and government address abbreviations.
Rome letter notes King Humbert gives gifts to those denied subsidies, offering two main items a golden clock and a diamond brooch. His jeweler provides 500 clocks and 1000 brooches yearly. He avoids theaters except official events and calls life a daily political and official comedy.
The London Tablet reports Cardinal di Rende’s death leaves foreign cardinals at thirty one and Italians at thirty, the second time in twelve months this shift has occurred, a rare event not seen for many centuries.
The Birmingham pin factory, the world’s largest, produces 37 million pins daily. Combined with other factories, Europe would need 56 million pins each day for every fourth resident to use pins, given a 259 million population.
Time table in effect November 28 1897 for Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad shows daily and Sunday southbound and northbound departures from Dunkirk NY to Titusville with intermediate stops including Fredonia Sinclairville Falconer and Rochester. timetable lists arrival and transfer times at Syracuse Niagara Falls and New York.
On Sundays Train 5 departs Dunkirk at 3 30 PM reaching Falconer 4 43 PM Warren 5 35 PM and Titusville 6 55 PM. Train 2 morning and Train 4 afternoon connect at Falconer Junction with the N L E W Ry for all eastbound travel. Officials Moon Parry and Daniels announce the timetable and connections.
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