19 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1878
Page
1
A garbled OCR segment shows a sequence of times and initials like No.3 No. 1 and C. A. with scattered 2:45 pm 9:00 am 2:59 pm 9:17 am 3:00 pm 9:22 am. The readout includes multiple timestamps across a day and initials, but no coherent event or full context to define a clear news item or action.
Town Council members W C Rowland E G Wood James Clark Jr Wm Lewis A J Davis P Greenland G L Friday P J Falconer M Spaulding Clerk R P King Assessor J P Marston School Directors Benjamin Nesmith R P King Thomas Keelor J F Wells F Henry George Ensworth Justices of the Peace D J Hodges D Ww.c. James Constable John F McPherson Jr Notaries Public D I Ball C H Noyes Hn E Brown O F Hoffman Ozro Nesmith Auditors Geo P Orr Geo N Parmlee E F Hodges.
A detailed roster of local government officers includes Congressman L. F. Watson of Warren and multiple district positions. Names cover state and county roles such as State Senator C. W. Stone, Assemblyman W. M. Lindsey, Sheriff Henry Brace, Prothonotary Starling W. Waters, Treasurer T. E. Barnes, and County Commissioners M. Dunham, E. R. Wheelock, J. B. Jennings, among others.
A listing of sermon times and Sabbath School for multiple faiths. Presbyterian Episcopal Methodist Evangelical Lutheran Scandinavian and Catholic churches show service hours on Sunday mornings and evenings with Sabbath School times and special notes. Some entries include first and third Sunday schedules and occasional English services.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway timetable shows trains 41 and 2 with arrival and departure times 4:40 and 6:00 PM and 5:17 and 6:20 respectively. It notes connections at Stoneboro with the New Castle and Franklin Railroad under H McIntire, superintendent.
Trains lastward listed on the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad timetable adopted December 30 1877. Departures and arrivals shown for stations including Cincinnati Dayton Springfield Urbana Marion Mansfield Ashland Akron Kent Ravenna Warren Greenville Meadville Jamestown Buffalo Elmira Binghamton New York Boston and Union City with No 17 No 6 No 8 and No 3 services and times across multiple stops from 9.5 pm to 11.59 pm and into the next day.
Laban Lodge No 52 K of H meets every other Monday in K of H Hall. Carroll Lodge No 102 AOUW meets every Wednesday above Burgess store. North Star Lodge No 241 AYM meets Wednesday on or before full moon. Omnip Dental H R A Chapter No 235 holds regular meetings second Monday. Conewango Lodge No 250 IOGT meets Mondays in Johnson's Exchange. Warren Lodge No 339 IOOF meets Tuesdays in Allen Block. Kossath Encampment No 98 IOCF meets second and fourth Thursdays in Johnson's Exchange.
A poem lamenting overwork and sleep deprivation urges rest to sustain effort and longevity. It counsels balancing toil with pause, warning that ceaseless pace harms body and life as one travels toward a final rest. It emphasizes the value of rest before grand achievement.
Aunt Polly recalls Malindy Dike who pursued wealth through Doctor Pettigrew, marries him for money, then endures jealousy and a strange coffin purchase. Pettigrew outlives her, keeping the coffin she bought for him as a grim joke, while Malindy’s fate unfolds with her husband's long life and her own decline.
A Northern Sun report warns that lists of farmers and workers are bought and sold by canvassers who copy from county records. Patent medicine firms in Indianapolis claim four million names, while a flood of addresses circulates in cities. Dealers in lotteries, quack remedies, and fake adverts prey on taxpayers, urging wary dealings with unknown sellers.
Comley's Biographical Encyclopedia highlights self made men who break with partisanship and tradition. It cites Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo NY as a distinguished medical figure and notes his Family Remedies and The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser as widely known works.
The article traces the origins of common nursery rhymes from the sixteenth to the late seventeenth century. It cites Sing a Song of Sixpence as 16th century, Three Blind Mice from a 1690 music book, Frog and the Mouse licensed 1580, Three Children Sliding on the Ice 1633, London Bridge is Broken Down of great antiquity, Girls and Boys Come Out to Play and Lucy Locket lost her Pocket dating to Charles II, Pussy Cat Pussy Cat to Queen Elizabeth I, Little Jack Horner older than the 17th century, and The Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket tied to James II.
A Chicago Herald tale recounts a Michigan wife alarming her drunk husband with blisters after a night of heavy drinking. The man endures painful head and limb blistering, fears apoplexy, and vows not to blister again, yet survives without further attacks.
In a Washington hotel corridor a peg legged Union veteran, hailed for losing limbs in the Civil War, confronts a drunken Southern congressman who uses insulting slurs. The officer strikes the offender with a punch, seizes his cane, and bystanders separate the scene as the Congress member is subdued.
A compact devotional note lists arithmetic metaphors drawn from scripture. It pairs faith with virtue knowledge temperance patience godliness brotherly kindness and charity, and cites biblical verses for addition subtraction multiplication division and the rule of three with brief quotations.
A playful extrapolation estimates global tobacco use at 4 billion pounds, then imagines a two inch diameter tobacco serpent circling the earth thirty times, chocolate tablet piles rivaling Mykerinos, and snuff blown over oceans threatening Liliputian states.
German Syrup tested by widespread distribution with 2,400,000 free bottles. Druggists nationwide recommend it for consumption asthma croup and other throat lung diseases. Sample bottles 10 cents regular 75 cents three bottles relieve. Sold by Haseltine Davis and Morek Co.
W S Dunn, a Kansas City merchant, cabling urgent news of his wife's critical condition, funded a special "death flight" train from Topeka to Pueblo and on to Manitou Springs. The relay reached Manitou just as she neared death, with speeds averaging about 35 mph and peaking at 50 mph, claimed as the fastest Plains to Rockies crossing on the line.
A columnist outlines four essential traits boys should internalize: truthfulness above all, purity in thought and life, unselfishness with politeness and justice, and self-reliance with industriousness. Learning these makes any future knowledge supplementary to a sound character, then the rest follows.
An elderly Chili farmer pursues his fishing son after misplacing him. At the stream the boy calmly shouts Ive got a bite prompting the father to ease his anger as the perch is hauled in. The moment reveals a chip off the old block in both sport and temperament.
A collection of pithy, humorous observations on aging habits honesty and human behavior. The quips touch on marriage age patience courtship enthusiasm and self discipline with a folksy tone and playful moral undercurrent.
The finest stock of mouldings for frames and all kinds of pictures can be found very cheap at Will Smith's shop.
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