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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
3
A Surplus of furs drives wide pre Christmas discounts from neck pieces to full coats. Listings include Brook Mink Jap Mink gray squirrel sable coney and more with sale prices from 95 cents to 149.00. Featured items include pony skin coats lustre seal coats and varied muff and collar options.
A local ad lists traveling cases at 6.00, purses 1.25 and 2.50, manicure sets 3.00, coat hangers in pigskin cases 2.50, library sets 1.25 and 1.75, flasks 0.98 and 1.25, clothes brushes 2.00 and 2.25, collar bags 1.25 and 1.50, military brushes 1.25 to 5.00.
The ad offers portable gas lamps for 4.98 with original values of 7 to 8. The lamps are presented as higher quality than typical 7 to 8 lamps and come in satin brass with stained glass domes and first quality burners and mantles. An even dozen remain from an assortment of 19.
A Boston Post summary notes that modern St Bernards are mongrels descended from Wallis shepherd and Great Dane types with a Spanish mastiff. Despite railway aid, males still perform rescues in heavy snow with helpers carrying provisions, and older dogs train their young.
Professor Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893 solves a Babylonian puzzle from fragments of agate rings. A dream reveals an Assyrian priest guiding him to fit three pieces cut from a votive cylinder to form a continuous description.
Montaigne argues knowledge is powerful but wasted if the mind or heart is tainted. A clear sight may reveal good, yet corrupt action follows when virtue is not practiced. Knowledge must be used, otherwise it decays into failure.
A Paris artist in revolutionary times avoided execution by proving a gun had rust rather than powder on its inner barrel. He told a friend he preferred being shot to being bored, a remark echoed by his disdain for the era's tedium.
An old retainer describes Wordsworth pacing a terrace and composing while muttering bum and buming. Dorothy Wordsworth copied lines as he walked, though the witness doubts much sense or purpose in the verses. The account labels the process as a likely aid to poetic creation.
A busy round of visits and travel is noted in Warren and nearby towns. Residents and visitors from Kane, Buffalo, Youngsville, Sugar Grove, Franklin, and Elm Street are seen with friends in Warren, Kane, and Butler as holidays approach. Members of the J. J. Mahan and Mahan families travel to attend state events, while several guests stay with local residents in Warren and Kane.
Robert Heath of Fredonia motor man for Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction was seriously injured at Forsyth crossing of Lake Shore tracks near Westfield. He fell about 25 feet from a bridge while repairing the work car and was taken to Chautauqua sanitarium in serious condition. Dr H Ralph Wiltse attends as doctors fear possible back injury or fractured vertebrae.
A fire at George Michel’s LeRoy New York livery burned twelve of thirteen horses and damaged a hearse valued around 1500 dollars. The blaze started in the rear barn and spread to the second story, destroying rigs, harnesses, hay and oats as nightwatchman Seth Morehouse alerted rescue efforts. The cause remains a mystery.
General Henry M. Baker filed Mary Baker Eddy will in Concord probate court showing two wills from 1901 and 1905. Papers include settlements with George W. Glover $70,000 and heirs’ trust rise to $174,000, Ebenezer Foster $47,000, Mother Church Boston to receive bulk of fortune, with Augusta Stetson of New York bequeathed the Crown of Diamonds. Estate value possibly up to $2.6 million.
Mabel B Speares 25 daughter of former Auburn Fire Commissioner Speares died after drinking carbolic acid at Spencer Fouk home Spencer N Y Coroner Dr E Smith Fleming states suicide by carbolic acid with melancholia as cause She had shown months of illness and left behind a mother and sister Mrs W B Clark of Aurelius
At the Livingston Poultry Association meeting at the Wadsworth Library Genesee N Y the group voted to hold the second annual poultry show in Genesee January 17 18 and 19 Lewis G Stapley was elected secretary replacing James Colt who has moved from Geneseo Entry blanks and information can be obtained from Stapley The show aims to be one of the largest in the region drawing county residents and state exhibitors.
The Ontario County Fruit Growers association held its annual meeting in Canandaigua filling the United States court room. Cornell and Geneva station experts spoke along with local practitioners. Officers elected include President A B Katkamier Farming ton Vice President John A Page Seneca Secretary Frank E E Ruper Seneca Treasurer C R White Ionia Executive committee W C Buell East Bloomfield Frank Salisbury Phelps K E Calman fopewell.
J. V. W. Rossiter vice president of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and longtime financial adviser died at his home 23 Sanford Avenue Wyckoff, L I at 8 o clock Sunday morning.
About 150 Rocky Boy band members abandon the Blackfeet reservation near Helena Montana claiming government failures on land allotment and rations while Rocky Boy with 50 followers stays behind. Little Bear's Creek band joins near Havre to endure winter.
Albany December 15 Attorney General Edward B O Malley argued the state position in the Court of Appeals over Fulton Light Heat and Power company s $356 000 damages award for land taken for the barge canal The AG contends title ends at the bank and water rights were not compensable He argues canals privilege for industry and commerce never ripens into a vested right and that water use was granted to property owners only to facilitate construction of the canal by the state.
Cambridge on December 15 reports Colonel Roosevelt delivering the No bel lecture on Applied Ethics in Memorial Hall. The Larders theater venue was packed and the audience rose with cheers and waved handkerchiefs as Roosevelt appeared.
In Washington on December 15 the senate confirmed George E. Roberts of Iowa for director of the mint in executive session. Numerous nominations for postmasters and minor officers were also approved.
A brief note on curtains from Country Life in America praises sash curtains hung in two sets with rings or without. It argues two-tier drapery is prettier and more versatile, allowing light to be controlled from above or below, and notes lower curtain helps keep the shade in place.
Ennius and Montcalm demonstrated precocious language talent as toddlers translating Greek and Latin. Ennius read Greek and Hebrew by age six and showed wide knowledge in arithmetic and geography before dying before eight.
Air flights on heavy machines and wireless telegrams mark progress while Dr King’s New Discovery promises life saving relief for coughs colds grippe asthma croup bronchitis hemorrhages hay fever and whooping cough. A Asheville North Carolina reader reports it cured an obstinate cough after other remedies failed. Free trial bottle offered with guaranteed druggist approval.
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