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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1875
Page
3
An old ad promotes Royal Baking Powder at seven pounds with full weight guarantee and 50 cents per pound, plus Royal Celery Salt bottled for sale. The fragment hints at a grocery or drugstore listing with branded items and pricing.
A list of canned fruits vegetables and related preserves including peaches pears pineapples strawberries corn beans peas mushrooms tomatoes pumpkin and condensed milk with prices and packaging notes such as quart and pound sizes and glass jar packaging. Also mentions honey in comb strained and pure honey in glass jars with price.
A garbled advertisement fragment references extra white drips syrup and extra molasses with scattered product names. The legible bits suggest a small grocery listing or promotion but lack clear details, quantities, or brand context.
New crop teas listed with varieties including Young Hyson Choicest Japan Gun Powder Oolong and uncolored teas. several grades priced per pound and described as very fine in airtight cans.
Fragmentary OCR notes list a crushed and granulated yellow substance with a date of Friday February 15 1875. No clear event or entity names.
McNett & Son offer furniture and undertAKing services. George Ball sells clothing at No 7 Keystone Block. McDaniels & Ronne promote shirts and suits. Robt H Johnson sells a bass drum. Gregnlund Bros relocate to near Episcopal Church for furniture undertak ing needs. Scrip Hat and Cap Store opposite Suspension Bridge advertises Roman scrip. Ask what this means for details.
Various local items describe Lent observations and sermons, rail upgrades, frozen Chautauqua Lake sleighing, and incidents from Mead township to Ridgway including fires, wrecks, bankruptcies, and a new Methodist church dedication with large donations.
The passage portrays a grieving father and grieving children after a death. It describes the household dimming with sorrow as light and love fade from the home. The mood is somber and reflective on loss.
The dry goods firm of D M Gross & Co ends. Mr Kopf retires and D M Gross & Brother will continue the business. Mr Gross, a trusted Warren dealer, promises ample stock, fair prices, and adherence to high standards from Parmliee & Henry heritage.
A reader criticizes Mr Noyes for labeling women as dead weights and argues that many men rely on wives and mothers. The writer vows to publish names and expose hypocrisy, noting admiration for certain parts of a lecture but condemning the overall message and urging publication to feel better.
Drawn for March term of Court listing grand jurors and traverse jurors by townships including Warren Conewango Eldred Freehold Deerfield Sugar Grove South West Pine Grove Pittsfield Farmington Glade Limestone Traverse jurors list names and residences. Also notes old friend departure and a sample letter from January 1875 and card prices in Waterford and Warren.
The jail project under Sheriff Davis as part of the Marcel term of Court features a three story brick structure with stone trim and a 72 foot south tower. Interior rooms include a dining room kitchen parlor sitting room four upper bedrooms and six cells per floor. Cost to date 17818.32 with total projected at 20000 or more funded by county finances.
A Friday Union School Hall event on Something about Warren featured a well written presentation with humor and insight. It covered early settlement and pioneer hardships, early newspapers, and Warren’s future. It noted a voter debate among local bachelors and announced an upcoming lecture by Lt. Lehnar on Humors of the Law.
The long cold snap tests the old residents as temperatures plummet from 12 to 26 degrees below zero. Water pipes freeze, cellars ice over, and travel against the wind proves nearly impossible.
The Warren Sangerbund Society plans its fourth annual masquerade ball on Monday evening March 1 at Roscoe Hall. Only masked dancers admitted. Tickets: maskers $1.50 spectators 50 cents children 25 cents. Sales at Geo Ball's and A Weiss' clothing stores. An outdoor procession is planned for 2 30 PM.
The four day trial before Judge Trunkey in Franklin concluded with a $32,349.52 verdict for Piffs Brown Schnur and Clark Noyes against Defts. The suit cost the County about $2000. The article notes snow disruption and a local political caucus forming a ticket for various town offices.
A long formal inquiry into charges against Mr. Sunderland, Superintendent of Construction for the Hospital for the Insane at Warren, ends with a unanimous report vindicating his integrity and ability. The accuser failed to prove any misdoing, and the commissioners attribute the charges to ignorance prejudice or malice.
The page records pupils not absent or tardy for February with group totals by number and lists. It ends with a note that Dr Sloan will give the next lecture in the physiology course next Wednesday afternoon February 17 at 3 oclock.
A Saturday caucus denounces ring politics and plans a Monday Republican meeting to nominate a people’s ticket. The proposed slate includes Burgess FE P Eldred Constable M W Hull Town Council M Spaulding EP Wood WC Rowland School Directors Z Gemmill Isaac Lacy Assessor Lon Morrison Inspector of Election AJ Davis Judge of Election SB Davis. Retiring members are Stone Clark and James Nesmith Wells and B Nesmith.
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