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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1916
Page
6
A health tip promotes the inside bath by drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning before breakfast. It claims cleansing the stomach liver kidneys and bowels improves health and appearance, reducing indigestion and bilious attacks.
A grocery store touts customer satisfaction with low prices and prompt delivery. Telephone orders receive the same careful attention as in person service. Regular patrons recommend teas coffees and spices to friends.
An ad offers to print names and addresses on 100 envelopes for 50 cents cash with order. The notice invites customers to place orders for mail printing services.
Evidence before the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department shows one American firm dominates sisal grass from Yucatan Mexico. Officials pledge rapid action to break the combine as binder twine prices rise for U.S. farmers. Embargo on sisal exports preceded the shift, affecting independent growers.
A National Geographic Society bulletin notes cotton as Egypt’s foundation for prosperity under English rule. It highlights Nile delta cotton as premium, with irrigation expanding plots, freeing peasants, and attracting investment, while comparing Egyptian cotton to American Sea Island and upland varieties.
A man congratulates a lecturer on last night's talk, claiming he enjoyed it though he was not present. He reveals he bought tickets for his girlfriend’s father and mother who attended instead, explaining the miscommunication in a humorous exchange from the Chicago Herald.
Hari Chand of Punjab scorns American park life arguing young men waste time on love talk and park benches while America forges ahead in progress. He notes his own midwestern studies and plans to return to India, though he misses home.
Minneapolis on January 29 notes 1916 will be a leap year with fifty three Saturdays and pay days. The piece predicts leap year festivities, prolonged social Saturdays, more February 29 birthdays, and bachelors arming themselves, attributing the adjustment to Julius Caesar who reformed the calendar to align 862 days over four years.
Wood alcohol deaths contribute to Seattle tally after Washington state prohibits alcohol. Coroner records show seven total alcoholism fatalities since the dry law took effect, including four men who died from wood alcohol poisoning. A chronically addicted woman died unable to satisfy her liquor craving, and two men died from whisky overindulgence.
The United States Mint at San Francisco processed $357,000,000 in gold bullion and coins, with additional receipts from various sources. For last year, $219,869,505 worth of gold bullion passed over the counter, up $72,000,000 from 1914, per Superintendent T. W. H. Shanahan.
The German Steel Works association at its annual Berlin meeting announced steel block prices rising five to ten marks. Orders for Germany and neutral countries were said to be ample, with the works prepared to request longer delivery delays in many cases.
The Rev. James Empringham rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church Syracuse will become superintendent of the Metropolitan district of the Anti-Saloon League with headquarters in New York on February 1. This marks the first time a prominent Episcopal clergyman has joined the anti-saloon league.
Directors of Bethlehem Steel in New York City declare a first dividend of 30 a share on common stock, about 4,500,690 in total. The 7 percent preferred stock dividend is also declared, to be paid quarterly.
Price variations across 800 Pennsylvania counties show how crop quality, market access, and demand shape farmer returns. Turkeys sold up to 45 cents a pound dressed during holidays, with Lancaster County averaging 32 cents. potatoes, oats, rye, and hay show wide county differences, led by Cambria and Cameron in tops and Adams, Potter, Venango in lows.
A humorous dialogue reveals a young man named Smiley staying three nights in a row, nearly midnight departures prompting a father to suggest inviting him to stay with them. The daughter nudges the idea, noting the suitor’s bashful hesitation and anticipating his happiness.
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