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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1913
Page
8
Frank B. Lyon former doorkeeper of the house of representatives died suddenly at Cuba New York last week of apoplexy. He had seemed in good health and attended a town hall meeting that day. His wife and daughters heard cries at dawn and he died before a doctor arrived. He was 50 years old.
Leon L. Gannon aged 30 and Minnie M. Parrish aged 15 wed Tuesday afternoon in Batavia at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. Samuel J. Clarkson officiating. Town Clerk Coupland notes the bride as the youngest licensee issued.
The body of 17 year old Mrs. Irving Button was found with a bullet wound in the head at her Westfield New York home last week. Her husband and a Galeton Pennsylvania guest Mrs Loucks were taken into custody by coroner direction Coroner Secor.
Meteoric showers of exceptional brilliancy were observed across Western New York on Sunday night, appearing from the northeast and shooting to the southeast, accompanied by a vivid aurora borealis display.
Patrick Dailfy of Hill Street Hornell choked while eating a wiener in the Bank cafe and died before aid could reach him. He was 50, a well known tailor, husband and father of three. Coroner Barron of Addison notified.
George R. Oberholzer a Erie weather forecaster and Glennis H. Meehan died when their iceboat struck a waterworks post on Presque Isle bay at 75 mph. The third man George Final was badly hurt but may not recover. Meehan had just finished a new ice boat aimed at records.
William Twiman previously spared for sanity review is now deemed sane and to be executed at Auburn during the week of March 27, after he killed a deputy sheriff in Monroe County. National Guard was deployed with a cannon to capture him.
Governor Sulzer favors abolition arguing life imprisonment without pardon or commutation would deter crime. He agrees with Col. Joseph F. Scott, state prisons superintendent, who last year urged replacing electrocution with life imprisonment in capital cases.
Perry Elwood aged 60 and Miss Margaret Wilson wed in Ada Ohio after a 30 plus year courtship. Elwood delayed marriage to support aged parents until their deaths recently.
Mrs Grover Cleveland and Thomas Jex Preston Jr were married at 10 30 Monday morning by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University in Prospect the executive residence of the university at Princeton New Jersey.
A local report notes a melodramatic exchange about marriage, referencing a wife and sister claims in a Portland or Houston post style item. The fragment hints at a dispute over engagements and a possible assault framing.
The article recounts renowned authors like Dickens Tennyson Carlyle Hugo Campbell Gray and explains their meticulous demands on punctuation and proofs. It notes Dickens and Carlyle’s combative rigor, Campbell’s drive for exact commas, Hugo’s multiple proofs, and Gray’s comma decision that shaped a famous line.
The article reflects on historical leaders whose deaths altered history and then shifts to a detailed account by C. H. Claudy of buoy maintenance. It explains how whistling buoys operate, the mechanism behind their sound, and the dangerous process of replacing old buoys with new ones aboard tender vessels.
The passage recalls a German child gifted a toy guillotine for Christmas in 1798. Goethe tells his mother in Frankfurt to send such a toy to a boy friend. Mme Goethe replies she will not buy or tolerate the infamous instrument of slaughter.
A Pittsburgh Post excerpt quotes a bride recalling her awakening to marriage. The woman notes her husband’s need to return to work after limited social outings to support both partners, a realization that surprises and shapes their shared life.
A humorous exchange quoted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows Ethel admitting she let a handsome Italian count kiss her because she cannot speak Italian. The brief caption illustrates social dialogue reflecting language barriers.
A judge terms a person’s affection all consuming as one partner feeds on the other’s words looks and smiles, describing the level of passion in a quoted exchange.
In a London Opinion snippet a man asks who loses and a character replies that only a threepenny bit was ready to pay for carrying a bag. The exchange features a light quarrel over a small coin and a colloquial tone.
A brief reflection notes that courage seems simple when the adversary is armed with hollow ammunition. The line uses stark imagery to compare fear and bravado, implying risk is nullified when the foe cannot inflict harm.
The Kansas City Star outlines Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis theory from Plato and Solon through Diodorus Siculus. It links a submerged Atlantic plateau near the Azores to a once vast landmass, claiming Atlanteans seeded civilizations in Egypt Europe and the Americas and inspired the biblical deluge myth.
A line from Kate Gannett Wells emphasizes enduring worth beyond hardship, suggesting resilience in the face of poverty ugliness illness and social rejection.
Hearing of the Roosevelt-Cole bill before joint New York Senate and Assembly agricultural committees drew 400 commission merchants farmers and growers to Albany. The panel decided to drop bonding and 48 hour purchaser naming provisions while pledging favorable reporting. Merchants jeered an amendment making farmers liable for misrepresented goods.
An Oma coast country scene describes date palm groves stretching sixty miles long and two miles wide in Bah tinah with about half a billion trees in Wadi Semail and Rostock. Water access supports widespread cultivation and an estimate of four million trees across the region.
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