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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1883
Page
4
A Christmas fable shows Dame Santa lamenting lost cheer and a drowned Santa in despair who rediscoveres meaning. He abandons hoarded gold after a revelatory flame of hope, returning to his attic to use wealth for good.
A guide to thrifty gifts for Christmas emphasizing goodwill over money. It suggests crafting small boxes, work-bags, blotting books, parasol needle-books, and work-baskets from common materials with detailed technique notes and decorative touches, encouraging children to make presents.
In the Burlington Hawkeye quotation a speaker notes that while one may invent, reform, or build fame, Tom Thumb faded from life with a modest burial after living a small life for fifty years, contrasted with the boastful hopes of greatness.
The passage shows Charley unable to decide on Clara's Christmas gift and, after Clara challenges him, he immediately offers himself as the present. The scene ends with Charley's decisive moment.
In a tense domestic scene, a man quietly boasts of lavish Christmas purchases bought on credit from slippers to gowns and gifts, while his wife reacts with shock and fear as the betrayal sinks in. The Detroit Postoa details a cold blooded undercurrent amid holiday preparations.
In Allegheny Cemetery a widow and widower, each mourning the other's loss, meet by chance and repeatedly cry together. Their shared sorrow softens into romance and they marry, uniting two grieving families in a quiet Pittsburgh moment.
Del Puente the baritone proclaims that women swoon for him and threaten New York society with a scandal if Mr. Abbey fails his contract. He boasts of forged lines and claims no knowledge of the writer while quipping about his own Valentine singing.
The passage notes inveterate smokers Carlyle and Bishop Burnet using pipes in thoughtful and humorous ways while writing. It highlights a rise in pipe sales over ten years and widespread manufacture in New York City. It adds that polishing meerschaum pipes provides profitable work for girls earning eight to ten dollars weekly.
A compact market vignette shows a wall street bull on one side and a bear on the other with a small lamb between, illustrating conflicted investor sentiment and a cautious tone in a brief financial sketch.
A man in a Woodward avenue storefront helps a poor mother and child by buying them a doll then is arrested for theft as he walks away. He proclaims he is giving a Christmas present to "poor folks" and tells the crowd to make someone glad on Christmas before being taken into custody.
An old fashioned storefront notice urges careful inspection of Fall and Winter stock. It claims full value for money, honesty, and square dealing, promising refunds on unsatisfactory purchases. Sole agents for Warren Co. and hawking the FLEXOR hat as the finest in the trade.
Walter A Wood enclosed gear mowing machines priced at 65 and 63, Meadow King mower at 60, Springtooth Harrow at 20, Oliver and Wiard plows, cultivators, rakes, drills, wagons, fencing, cement, paint, stoves, ranges, sewing machine and assorted hardware offered at low cash prices. Includes numerous tools for farmers and mechanics.
A catalog of Harper's Bazar Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly and Harper's Young Peep along with Harper's Franklin Square year 52 numbers. The entry notes the complete set of Harper titles and their publication year count as a bibliographic record.
In a tense exchange the old man probes the boy about futures trading in wheat. The boy resists, laughing at large sums and dismissing ideas of price moves and delivery, ending with a sharp rebuke about the father’s attire as he signals contempt for the lesson.
A spring in Shepherstown W V serves as an almost unfailing weather barometer. Its water level rises three to eight inches 24 to 48 hours before rain and falls once rain begins, especially before settled rains or heavy thunder storms. The spring sits 100 to 200 feet above the town run and is not connected to the river.
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