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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1889
Page
1
The Mail Job Office advertises complete printing facilities with presses, type, paper, cards, envelopes, and skilled printers for first class job printing at low prices. Blanks are stocked and prints can be made to order. Submissions from all areas are requested with name required for publication consideration.
Chronicle of diverse items notes the Sultan of Zanzibar's stance against slavery, a Greek population estimate, Ecuador restricting Chinese immigration, Brussels shooting grounds, a Nicaraguan city plan, Paris cruelty reforms, railway holidays in France, Britain’s freight costs, Mexican land rules for immigrants, Paris cremation tax, a hair trade from China, Paris World Fair outcomes, and literary verse interludes reflecting the era.
A recluse near London hides a coffin under his bed and keeps a tombstone on hand. In Wauregan Connecticut a man treed a monkey while squirrel hunting and another monkey was trapped nearby. A Mex ican maid burned a heap of love letters after her lover left her. A Montgomery Alabama woman reportedly hid her child to let relatives view it before burial. A London socialite wore diamond heels at a ball. An Arroyo Grande rancher showed a hundred pound onions and others brought a forty four pound cabbage and a nineteen pound carrot and a five foot beer cake weighing 154 pounds. A Russian famed for drinking champagne died and had cork lead papers used to make his coffin.
A New York World reprint urges fall as a peak time to improve rural home health. It stresses ventilated cellars, removal of decayed matter, and thorough disinfection with lime and copperas. It also advises sealing drains, filling standing water with dry earth, and using dry road dust as a purifier.
A disgusted bachelor laments a steam laundry that jokes at customers by returning worn or altered garments. He notes shirts with ruffles washed off, sleeves torn, and gloves mispaired, while the shop offers no explanation or charges. He vows to complain.
The Japan quince or Cydonia Japonica makes a striking hedge or border plant with dense bright scarlet blossoms arising atop the stems in early spring. It is hardy and vigorous, best pruned to three or four feet, spreads by root cuttings, and creates dramatic winter-to-spring color in lawns.
Grace Marvin overhears Ned Hastings and a friend discussing marriage and money power, revealing her own unlikely path to independence as a teacher. She reevaluates her hopes, realizing Hastings’s views conflict with her desire for self support, and faces a pivotal life decision as a new romance unfolds.
A collection of wry aphorisms and witticisms on love, society, economy, and city rivalries. Notes on manners, honesty, and appearances mix with quips about Chicago, New York, and the Louisiana lottery. The piece echoes a humorous, thoughtful column tone.
An advertisement claims the majority die from consumption and promotes Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed cure for coughs and lung illness. It states prices 50c and 1 dollar and offers a free trial size, sold by all druggists.
A Clay County Texas official testifies Electric Bitters cured his malaria and jaundice and saved his brother's life. A Kentucky resident echoes the claim, praising the remedy for malaria kidney liver and stomach disorders. Sold at Morck Drug Store for 50 cents and 1.00.
An old advertisement proclaims a universal salve for cuts, bruises, ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price listed as 25 cents per box and sold at Merch Drug Store. A joke about how we hear things follows with a classroom exchange.
Two men discuss what they would expect to find in heaven. One man hopes to see a woman who can pour out a half cup of tea on demand, something he says he never experiences in this world. Whose Mai are you reading?
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