Warren Mail and Philadelphia Press Offer
The Warren Mail renews a two-paper deal with the Philadelphia Press at 1.75 dollars for one year in advance. The Press is described as a premier Republican journal with national and daily news. The Mail pledges full local coverage of town, county and neighborhood. Liberal terms for local clubs. Begin now.
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Mai
Philadelphia Press
United States
Warren County
Court of Common Pleas
Warren
Seneca Oil
Mead Township
Warren Co
Philadelphia & Erie
John Siffin
J. K Palmer
M. Ruslander
R. B. Stone
Ruslander
Stone
Mead Town
Mooney & Griffin
J. W. Porter
J. M. Topper
H. G. Tinker
J. A. Ritchey
Congress convenes with party slate for House leadership
Carlisle Kentucky and Clark Missouri faced no Democratic opposition for Speaker and Clerk positions. Old officers largely re-elected except Doorkeeper Donaldson Tennessee, ousted by Hurt Mississippi. Breckenridge Blount fought over it then reconciled. Reed Maine backed by Republicans for Speaker and Pherson Pennsylvania for Clerk. Senate swore in new members except Faulkner West Virginia. committee assignments issued. Both chambers adjourn after seat drawing and message delay.
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Carlisle
Kentucky
Clark
Missouri
Donaldson
Tennessee
Hurt
Mississippi
Breckenridge
Blount
Reed
Maine
Pherson
Pennsylvania
Senate
Faulkner
West Virginia
Case
House
P Dent
The Dynamite Gun Tests Near New York
Experiments using pneumatic dynamite near New York show ten shells of fifty pounds each fired in ten minutes two seconds with six of the shells hitting within six yards of a target edge. A heavier charge achieved a two and a half mile range with lower initial pressure.
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New York
Sadi Carnot Elected France President After Crisis
France ended a political crisis as Congress elected M. Sadi Carnot president. Republicans united against monarchical groups and Bonapartists, who failed to gain support. Final tally showed Carnot 616 votes, Sais sier 186, Ferry 11, de Freycinet 5, Appert 5, Pyat 1.
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France
Grevy
M. Sadi-Carnot
Gen. Saussier
M. Ferry
M. de Freycinet
Gen. Appert
M. Pyat
Ledger to Adopt Cash System on New Year
The Ledger announces a cash only policy starting January 1. Renewals will not be accepted unless prepaid, and subscribers with over a year in arrears will be dropped and turned over for collection. The note targets chronic deadbeats who previously dodged payments.
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First National Bank of Warren
Jeff Davis revival gains steam in the South
The passage notes growing support for Jefferson Davis amid revival fervor. It reports Texas naming a county Jeff Davis and Fayetteville Mississippi organizing Jeff Davis Volunteers to be armed and equipped by the state using federal surplus.
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Jeff Davis
South
Texas
Fayetteville
Miss
New York Court Grants Briser Sharpe New Trial
The Court of Appeals of New York overturns the prior ruling and orders a new trial for Briser Sharpe. He is released on $40,000 bail as judges fault the earlier trial, amid public pressure and questions of judicial bias toward the accused.
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Briser Sharpe
Court of Appeals of
New York
Sharpe
Magnificent ticket praised for Hawley and Harrison
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat Republican views the ticket as magnificent with Joseph R Hawley from Connecticut for President and Benjamin W Harrison from Indiana for Vice President, asking why it wouldn’t be a winning choice.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Benjamin W Harrison
Indiana
Prohibitionists Endorsement Sparks Democratic Paper Praise
The Kansas City Times gushes over Prohibitionists from New York calling them allies in business. Jupee Gorpvon of Philadelphia challenges Brooks law section 27 as unconstitutional, deeming it a misdemeanor to supply liquor to a minor if not in the liquor trade.
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Kansas City Times
New York
Jupee Gorpvon
Philadelphia
Congressman Scott Sells Race Horses Landmark Humor
A report notes Congressman Scott preparing to sell his race horses sparking talk he is a statesman among horse jockeys and a horse jockey among statesmen. It recalls George William Curtis praising the Bible tea pot spelling book and bath tub as civilizing pioneers.
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Congressman Scott
George William Curtis
Nast Declares He Won’t Support Blaine Under Any Circumstances
The Mugwump Nast states firm opposition to supporting Blaine in all circumstances. This political stance signals a sharp split within local endorsements and reflects persistent factional divisions ahead of the vote.
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Tos. Nast
Blaine
Emotions Wear Away Brain Power Says 19th Century Scholar
An essay discusses how worry and passion exhaust intellect more than hard work. Anxiety and love are cited as key causes of brain disorders, while eight hours of work are deemed sufficient to prevent nervous fatigue and irritability. The piece contrasts emotional strain with sustained genius in figures like Gladstone.
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Byron
Gladstone
D. W. A. Hammond
State COW Liawee on canvass and Republican majority
State politician State COW Liawee argues the Republican majority is gratifying and credits the Liquor and Personal Liberty leagues for any close result. He contends temperance legislation did not cost the State and urges Republicans to maintain a high temperance standard for victory.
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Liawee
State Committee
New York
New York Tribune
High license versus prohibition analyzed by The New York Times
The Times weighs liquor policy, arguing high license could curb saloons and fund public costs if enforceable, while prohibition fosters law evasion and may not reduce drinking, concluding the fraud lies in failing to achieve its aim rather than the other proposal.
Davis faults defeat of Leeds Maloney as liquor issue sign
Lieut. Gov. Davis in Philadelphia apologized for the defeats of Mr. Leeds and Mr. Maloney for Sheriff and Controller. He argued the large State ticket majority confirms Republicans stand on liquor and predicts a Republican Legislature next session.
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Davis
Philadelphia
Leeds
Maloney
Grover Cleveland Brown Bread Receipt Facsimile
The New York World prints a facsimile of Mrs. Grover Cleveland’s handwritten receipt for brown bread. The piece raises whether she can make it with one hand or two, leaving readers in suspense.
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New York World
Grover Cleveland
High license praised as step in right direction
A local editor argues Chicago has an eighteen mile saloon frontage and would have more without high license, praising the policy as a helpful measure in controlling liquor establishments.
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Chicaco
Arrow
Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Endorsed
Mobile resident N H Frohlichstein endorses Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption after relief from bronchitis and catarrh. He also praises Electric Bitters and Dr King's New Life Pills and notes the product is sold with a positive guarantee with trial bottles at Merck Drug Store.
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N. H. Frohlichstein
Mobile
Ala
Dr. King
Merck Drug
Cash for rags sale notice at Johnson's Exchange
Rost H Johnson advertises cash paid for rags free from rubbish papers old rubber shoes and metals during the season. Items accepted at his room Johnson's Exchange.
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Johnson’s Exchange
Rost
H. Johnson
Personal and Otherwise and Other Tales
Jay Gould’s income listed at 1000 per hour. Generals Grant’s tomb draws crowds on Thanksgiving Day. Clara Louise Kellogg at 45 enjoys wedding bliss. her 28-year-old husband ponders. Waite, 71, plans to keep working. Postal clerks on rails face a foolish order delaying mail. Open winter prophets hide in holes out West. Waterloo Iowa records 38 degrees below zero on November 28, the coldest for the season, amid a coal famine and sharp frost.
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Gen. Grant
Clara Louise Kellogg
Youngstown
Atlanta
Philo. Record
Waite
Waterloo
Iowa
Jack Frost
Temperance Tax Opinion Supports Whisky Duty
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meeting endorses maintaining the whisky tax. It argues the tax reduces consumption, funds government revenue, and supports prohibitory laws, while allowing no harm to state authority. The New York Independent notes the stance as favorable to temperance aims.
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Naal Christian Temperance Union
Congress
New York Independent
Fostoria Extinguishes Major Cygnet Oil Gusher
From Fostoria Ohio November 30 dispatch reports the Cygnet station well near the city mouth. A cap of heavy weight lowered by a crane smothered the blaze after a week long flame. The Buckeye Pipe Line Co well was flowing about 6000 to 7000 barrels daily.
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Fostoria
Ohio
Cygnet Station
Ohio Territory
Buckeye Pipe Line Co
Facts for Farmers and the Farmer’s Code
A compact set of farming proverbs and ethics stressing stable care, shelter, and economy. It urges prudent barn maintenance, humane animal treatment, crop rotation, manure saving, and feeding efficiency. It also elevates the farmer’s son to moral responsibility as a man reflecting divine image in dealings with people, animals, and community.
A Valuable Medical Treatise Almanac 1888 Edition
Hostetter's Almanac 1888 edition is ready and free through druggists across the United States Mexico and the Western Hemisphere. The annual medical treatise blends health advice with reading and calendar data and is produced by Hostetter & Co. of Pittsburgh. A two cent stamp requests mailed copies for those unable to obtain one locally.
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Sterling Medical Annual
Hostetter’s Almanac
United States
Mexico
Hostetter
Essrs
Hostetter & Co
Pittsburgh
War ren House barn opens to serve public stalls hay and oats
L A Sturdevant opened the War ren House barn last week offering hay and oats at standard rates. He promises to spare no pains to please customers and invites calls for service.
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L. A. Sturdevant
Warren House
Republicans urged to subscribe to Mail and Phila Weekly Press
Propaganda notice urging every Republican to subscribe to the Mail and Philadelphia Weekly Press for the price of 1.75 dollars. It promotes party alignment and ongoing political messaging through the newspaper.
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Mail
Phila
Temperance Union seeks larger role and funds
The Pennsylvania W C T U reports 16 500 members and top state gain but critiques funding stance on national work. It urges salaried state officers, vows to double membership, and notes the planned Temperance Temple in Chicago funded by gifts stocks and bonds. Warren county delegates praised at Nashville convention.
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Pennsylvania
Minneapolis
Lewisburg
Warren County
Temperance
Chicago
Matilda B. Carse
Nashville
Miss Willard
James G. Blaine
Senator Harris
Jay Gould
Russell Sage
Carse
Israel
Rome
Europe
Internal Revenue
Board of Directors
Warren, Warren Co
Com- Po
GEO
P. Orr
Fred Moorck
Sec
U. Lsotf
I. C. Pershing
Joseph Clinton
F. Watson
R. Richardson
W. J. Alexander
Citizens National Bank of
Warren
Wm. D. Brown
P. J
Mary Jane Damon
Edwin Muzzy
Warren County Hardware Co
A Thompson
John Siil
D. H. Siggins
Singer Manufacturing Co
Alex. Anderson
John Triskett
Marshall Packard
Warren Borough
L. I. Geer
D. L. Newbold
Jas. Leighty
Erick Youngquist
Penna
R. R. Co
Phila. & Erie Railroad
C. W. Clark
White & Million
Noah F. Clark
Sterling Green
Henry Fogles
M. B. Dunham
Christian Johnson
Stanton & Wright
W. H. Verback
Danville Nail Man’s Co
Schellhammer & Lesser
Wm. J
Postmaster Appointed in Sandusky Ohio
George Daniel named postmaster at Sandusky Ohio amid a sweep of local postings. Reads like a municipal notice among a series of national briefs spanning rioting in Quebec to mine discoveries in Wisconsin and labor unrest in Milwaukee.
Spring Creek notes boom and community events
Derrick started last Monday and a gusher is anticipated as Spring Creek booms. Neighbors of J O Deming celebrated with a surprise house gathering and a new rocking chair, then attended a Grange hall dance. Several residents travel for funerals and school starts, while local commerce and roads face harsh winter conditions.
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Spring Creek
J. O. Deming
Grange Hall
N. P. Cummings
Villa
Wellington
Johnson
West Spring Creek
Jennie Mudge
Wrightsville
Dev
Erie railroad president returns after inspection tour
John King of the Erie railroad and several prominent directors and capitalists have completed an inspection tour of the line. He reports the past year brought improvements to boost tonnage and passenger safety, with new side-track facilities to speed handling of trains and freight.
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New York, Lake Erie & Western
John King
Erie Railroad
New York Commercial Bulletin
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Warren Mail
New York Times
Pacific Mutual Accident Insurance Company
C. H. Meacuam, & Co
Tae Warren Man
Temperance Department
Swift
Ellen M. Watson
Warren Union
A. M.H
Keystone Clothing CO
Beecher & Copeland
Exchange
Joun Sill
Fred E
Sil
George Daniel
Sandusky
Nebraska Christian Endeavor Union
Lincoln
Montgomery
James B. Chess
Durango
Mex
Royal Centre
Canada
Cary Station
McBear County
Ill
Jordan Centre
Iowa County
Wisconsin
Quebec
Wilkesbarre
Christian Hemme
Culiacan
Eraclio Bernal
Lehigh Valley
Milwaukee
Pennsylvania Lines
Chicago & Alton
Grand Trunk
Vanderbilt Lines
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
Dubuque
la Crosse
Wis
Massachusetts
Cass County
Dakota
Fargo
Wendlin Zimmerman
Normal University of Lebanon
Insane
Oshkosh
Washington
Cincinnati
E. L. Harper
Fidelity National Bank
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Samuel Spencer
Parkersburg
Boston
Calumet
Hecla
John Coughlin
John Coughlin, the Associate of “Blinky” Morgan
Ravenna
Hulligan
Law and Order League
Atwood
Illinois
Garfield
Ezra B. Taylor
Foraker
Parker
Beecher
B. F. Jones
National Republican Committee
Denver
Colorado
Siberia
Evans
Scranton
Penn
New York Court of Agpedie
Jacob Sharp
Boodler Sharp
Union
Buffalo
Manchester
Limerick
Stephan Bailey
Berkley
South Carolina
Central
Youngsville
Thomas Halliday
Erie
Merce
Halliday
Effie Parker
James Davis
John Hull
Pittsfield
C. G. Herrick
Chautauqua
J. L. Babbitt
Grand Valley
D. A. Arird
S. C. Diefendorf
California
C. H. Gregory
Fairmount House
Fred Jackson
M. Beecher
Warren, Pa
Cashier
D. L. Gerould
Warren Savings Bank
A.J. Hazeltine
P. J. Trushel & Son
A. P. Trushel
P. J. Trushel
Glade
Julia A. Morrison
Corydon
Authenties
B. G. Morrison
Admr
Cornplanter
P. Q
Etters
Frank H. Gisselbrecht
Pleasant Township
Navy
James P. Dove
Betsey C. Clark
Columbus
Jones Smith
Columbus, Pa
Weekly Herald
Foreign Department
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
New York City
Yana Hall
Waghes & Reis
John L. Err
Night
MR. A. M. Palmer
Madison Square Theatre
Jim
Penman
L. G. Noyes
Farmington Coal CO
Leeper, Clarion
A Warren and
Sugar Grove Railroad
William D. Brown
First Methodist Episcopal Church
North Clarendon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley, Solicitors
Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church
United States of America
Chas. A. Peterson
Qhoen
Philip Bysecker
IRS
Hoffman Block
Market Street
Ludlow House
Carpenter
E. P. Carpenter Co
Brattleboro, Vt
D. G. Curtis
Sterling, Packard and
Alleger Organs
Ludlow, PA
First National Bank
L. D. Wetmore
England
Ireland
Scotland
National Line
Liverpool
Ueenstown
Antwerp
Hamburg
Bremen
Paris
Gothenburg
Christinia
Copenhagen
H. S. Thomas
Wood & Thomas
Third Street
Liberty
Warren, la
Macdka
C. P. Northrop
Kopf & Henry
T. 8
MESSNER _& CO
North Clarendon Premyearian Church
God
Presbyterian Church of the United States
W.D. Brown
J. W. Dunklie
R. A. Love
Sheriff's Office
Piso’s
WU LE
Citizens National Bank
Myron Waters
Francis Henry
David L. Gerould
M. Waters
P. Johnson
F. Henry
H. A. Jamieson
V. Davis
Wale Brown
A. Hertzel
N. Parmlee
A. T. Scofield
Transatcs
U.S
Mason & Hamlin
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
East 14Th St
Onion Square
Conewango Foundry
John T. Hill
C. Richardson
J. K. Ronne
Liberty Street
Boggs &Buhl
Federal St
Allegheny, PA
Struthers
Iron Works
Warren, Fa
Struthers, Wells &C
Oisdom
Parshall & Sill
E. W. Parshall
G. W. Sill
General Agents
James Broder
Bradford
Bradford, Pa
Megany Fields
Hickory St
Arren
J. Dannisr
Variety Hall
P. Duff & Sons
Pittsburg
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