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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1912
Page
4
A vintage advert promises a Princeton piano free for 30 days with no money down. Readers are urged to choose a style from the catalog and then pay a small daily amount, claiming a lifetime ownership after a brief down payment and low weekly cost.
Through the years approval plan the W F Frederick Piano Company promotes a one third savings on any Princeton piano. A month of use is offered free with freight and transfer bills covered, with exchange at fall value within one year and a paid up receipt if the purchaser dies during the contract.
Justice Von Moschizisker declares placing stickers over a candidate name on a primary ballot illegal. The Allegheny county court ruling favoring John R. Rogers for committeeman is reversed, and G. Elwood is declared elected.
The piece argues memory and attentiveness peak October to January while summer dulls. sleep improves under high air pressure and electrical activity. heat peaks worsen work. It rejects winter decay notions and notes seven year cycles of love desire, citing Goethe and others as examples.
Richard Henry Dana Jr famed for international law and the sea book To Years Before the Mast faced a London post rejection after Massachusetts political intrigue led by Ben Butler. President Grant refused withdrawal, declaring Massachusetts responsible if Dana failed. The episode haunted Dana and highlighted national divides in 1876.
A humorous Burdette poem questions historic figures and events not invoked to justify round the clock beer access. It parodies the idea that freedom supports a Sunday concert garden with brass horns and beer kegs as a political right, asserting no such clause exists.
An Oil City man touring New York read tales of vast nightly cab loot and hired taxis to hunt riches. He found only the ticking clock meter as his prize, while an exchange page adds a playful sugar metaphor contrasting men and women.
A grocer and a housekeeper debate the value of an erg, claiming one erg equals a whole day’s work for one hen. The woman balks at thirty eight cents a dozen, noting it is over three cents per egg.
Grace Gould of Woman's Home Companion outlines common menswear missteps. She advises against calling evening coats swallow tails or dress coats and notes the term waistcoat is obsolete for evening wear. The Tuxedo is now dinner jacket, and white ties with dinner jackets are discouraged.
Dialog from a column notes a young man’s instinctive respect for women, treating them with delicacy. The scene mentions a granddaughter aged 18 and her remark that he is horribly bashful, as quoted in Four Leaf Clover.
Circular 144 from the U S Department of Agriculture notes hickory bark beetles as the main cause of widespread dying trees. It urges practical autumn to spring protection methods to save shade trees and valued wood products.
Dialogue fragment features a father forbidding his daughter to leave the house and a suitor replying with a sharp retort about consequences. The exchange hints at a mounting conflict over the daughter’s actions and the suitor’s defiant stance.
Poignant verse laments the pain of social judgment and the hurt of unkind looks toward an unattractive spouse. The narrator frames the experience as a personal burden and a commentary on superficial standards.
Five men break a horse in Act I then enter the animal in a race in Act II. In Act II7 the horse breaks five men as the Cincinnati Enquirer reports the event with vivid, sensational racing drama.
Farmer Corntassel explains Josh does not play football. He says John leads the mob and wrecks opry houses after the game, a vigorous performer blamed for unrest following the match.
A humorous exchange features a poet explaining a poem was written to pay a board bill. The editor of a high brow magazine questions the poem’s seriousness, revealing the pragmatic motive behind the verse.
Indications point to Hon. Peter M. Speer of Oil City facing no opposition for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Twenty-eighth District covering Venango Mercer Warren Forest and Elk counties. With two Assembly seats up this year W F Whitman of Plum Township and John A Cram of Oil City have announced as Republican candidates. Dr F W Brown of Franklin is mentioned as a possible third but has not confirmed plans. Delegates to the Republican convention may feature J J Desmond and Harry K Daugherty with other figures like Benjamin Jarrett and Al Henlein also named in district chatter. Democratic contenders include Captain William Hasson of Oil City and John P Hines of Stoneboro as Harmon supporters amid a Taft leaning Republican base. The district hosts a conference with Vance C McCormick and James L Blakslee to map anti-Guffey activity. The state convention in Harrisburg is set for May 1 to nominate statewide and national candidates.
Siam maintains a small corps of women police known as the Amazon Guard who serve as gatekeepers at Bangkok's Women's Palace. They shadow visitors and keep watch to prevent mischief and improper relations with royal wives and concubines. Recruitment is difficult due to hard work and low pay.
The Youth's Companion reports that in 1906 Mr. Carnegie donated funds to the University of Aberdeen for deserving boys with no debt, only honor as repayment. Last year 87,500 was returned and 50 students partially or fully repaid. next year 2,000 is to be repaid.
Petitions for national and state convention delegates must be signed by at least ten qualified electors and filed with the County Commissioners by March 23. In multi county districts, petitions filed in each county. Venango County has two delegates to the state convention. Republican County Chairman Williams reports Colonel John Ewing of Kittanning as a candidate for Congressman at Large and notes support for slackwatering the Allegheny River to its headwaters.
The Berks county Republican organization urges M. A. Guerst of Reading to run for State Treasurer, invoking party support in Franklin News.
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