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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1872
Page
1
A didactic verse urging guardians to discipline a child's tongue eyes and ears. It warns against prying and evil words, stressing the duty to protect the soul from sin through mindful speech, sight, and listening as they grow.
John Reynolds and Lina, a once loving couple, learn that luxury wears away at love. His dream of a Martinsville style Stanley farm gives way to a richer life when Lina’s hidden musical gifts and a NY trip awaken a shared vision. They transform their home, embrace books and craft, and grow wealth through farming, charity, and practical innovation.
The Detroit Post weighs cross border smuggling into Detroit with women as the majority offenders. Observers note demure travelers frequently carry trinkets and tea, with some being searched and found storing tea, raisins, candies, fruit, crackers, citrons, and canned meats during departures from Canada.
A San Francisco Chronicle report presents Constantine Mitkiewicz, claiming to be the third son of Count John Mitkiewicz, as affianced to a Massachusetts heiress valued at about two million dollars. He alleges blackmailers seek to ruin him, recounts past scandal in New York society, and says nineteen Atlantic crossings were needed to visit his American fiancée. The heiress’s father reportedly consents to a nine month marriage window.
Dr Hall condemns instantly leaping from bed arguing children up to eighteen deserve ten hours sleep with a gradual wake up. Fifteen to twenty minutes of gentle stretching aids circulation, preventing fatigue and a sudden heart strain from sudden rising. Also note: pop corn becomes a luxury in England as a Gale sburg firm ships forty barrels to London.
The piece contrasts how democracy lifts men toward practical work while women face heightened fashion and leisure. It argues dress marks social subjection and emulation, cites rising costs of women's attire, and notes a tension between true womanhood and fashionable aspiration amid societal shifts. It also recounts a Washington scandal of a Tennessean gambler’s marriage deception and a resulting $4,000 verdict for Mrs Putnam.
During Johnson’s presidency a wealthy bachelor named Davis, an Indian agent from Tennessee, charmed many society ladies in Washington but chose to court a middle aged widow, Mrs. Putnam, for a Tennessee home. As he returned home to attend to business, the couple exchanged letters awaiting a future wedding.
The Apportionment Bill passed by Congress allocates 283 representatives with state by state fractions. It notes seventeen states receive seats on average fractions and fourteen states miss representatives due to unrepresented fractions, while Oregon and Nevada gain one seat each. The overall ratio is lower than in prior decades, reflecting a 6 percent rise in population over the decade and the impact on national Capitol size.
A translated reminiscence recounts Maelzel and Mouret displaying the automaton in Amsterdam before the king. Mouret feigns fever to delay the 12:30 start until 2000 francs are paid, Maelzel pays, and the king’s minister loses as the machine wins both games. Further exploits include travels in Europe and a Baltimore crowd exposing a hidden operator, prompting a fire scare during a rival magician’s demonstration.
A Milwaukee hotel wedding unfolds at the Newhall House when Rev Father Doherty facilitates a rushed marriage between Fanny Cary a hotel waitress, and Desmond a Kenosha acquaintance. The ceremony occurs by four pm and the couple depart for Fox Lake. Desmond reportedly owns about 40000 dollars in Fox Lake property.
The account paints a village of forty or fifty houses housing about one thousand people and two thousand dogs. Most dogs are wolfish. one civilized cur barks at the narrator. Homes resemble Lapland or Esquimaux structures, with cedar plank houses dug into the earth. Interior layouts center on ground fires, with smoke vents above, sleeping areas along the sides, and stores of dried salmon and potatoes. Women adornments include soot, red paint, and large lip plugs. Salmons’ aroma pervades living spaces. crows and ravens are sacred. The community subsists mainly on fish and traps, with a solitary white trapper near Cook’s Inlet who walked alone for three weeks after abandoning Sitka.
A Washington correspondent mocks civil service rules with a fictitious exam about Caspian rivers geysers and Gibraltar shadows. Walk Under the Ground butts heads with Spotted Tail on a camp dispute, ending in a fatal knife wound and a rapid change of Brule leadership.
A Drogheda MP Mr Connolly faced a petty theft tale after a one penny Wind soap square vanished from his London lodging. A detective traced it to a housemaid, yet the magistrate refused to hear the charge. In County Court the jury awarded the plaintiff 50 dollars plus costs, prompting jests about soap and election bribes.
The Cor. London Society advises that a future wife should be judged by household taste at home rather than party scenes. It urges viewing love as a winter activity, stresses parental guidance, and argues parents err in overemphasizing money. It favors early engagement or marriage when a young man shows purpose and ability to improve his prospects.
Mrs. John Ballantyne, newly married to Edinburgh’s beauty, later recounts how she tried to ignore Sir Walter Scott at dinner. Polite lords coaxed her into laughter when spoons vanished from use during a formal meal. A witty exchange ended with a gift of spoons. Scott, moved by James Ballantyne’s reading, wept as he heard the Lay of the Last Minstrel and cried out for memory.
The elderly statesman Thiers, seventy two, lives in a small obscure apartment with a camp-bed as his sleep space. He rises at five each morning, codes his private business before dawn, and maintains a strict daily rhythm including a fixed eight o’clock dinner and wine once daily. He works from nine to noon and then meets visitors, preferring to write his own letters and rarely tolerating public attention.
A brook of items notes a Napoleon hair sold for 100 dollars in London, vaccination fashion in Berlin Wisconsin, a Cedar Rapids farmer training elk, and a Chicago fire panorama exhibit. It reports a Kansas widower remarrying after a burial, Nabob Cravat neckwear, and a crest on visiting cards. Other items describe a Londonshire potatoes gift, a Salem instance of profane language at a wedding, and a Maine born woman with a long mustache.
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