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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
4
A local paper promotes its daily coverage of community life from marriages to crops and meetings and offers a year of newspaper delivery for two cents a week as a Christmas gift to a former resident, suggesting the Mail will write the letter for you.
The refusal of livery strikers last Friday to permit hearses or mourners to accompany a body to the cemetery led to bodies being taken in ordinary wagons. Striker threats deterred relatives from visiting cemeteries, a disgraceful scene in the United States, a "free country."
Eight dollars a day is said to be the lowest price at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, and from that figure charges run up to 2 percent. It is not necessary to add that there are cheaper hotels in New York, yet the Waldorf does sufficient business to furnish employment for 1512 persons.
The Atlanta Constitution urges the Democratic party against obstruction in the Panama Canal issue while noting Admiral Schley’s firm presidential stance. The column also reports on November’s cold spell, leap year upcoming, Victor Herbert’s NY orchestra plan, December weather, and holiday shopping items such as calendars and Christmas cards.
A New York dispatch notes stockholders receive checks for the year’s final dividend totaling 12 million dollars. The payout is 1.24 cents per share, up two cents from last year, lifting annual dividends to 44 percent or 44 million dollars. John D Rockefeller reportedly holds about 33 percent of Standard Oil stock with earnings around 15 million dollars this year.
The Postoffice Department urges rural free delivery patrons to press road supervisors to keep highways passable so carriers can deliver reliably in all weather. Snow drift clearing by patrons is advised. carriers should not be expected to break severe snow. Typhoid fever hits Pittsburgh with 30 cases, sparking concern over water supply and council action. A New York preacher critiques Adam and Eve as fiction, with rival quips from Atlanta Journal. Unmarried men argue love versus peace in matrimony theme. Fair Christmas presents at C Schwing's Jewelry Store.
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