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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1910
Page
2
Condensed round up of the week’s top happenings from around the globe. Highlights include major political developments, economy shifts, and notable cultural events shaping international affairs.
A sprawling digest of early 20th century headlines notes Miss Marie Louise Logan wedding in New York to Henri de Sinecay of Belgium, the release of Typhoid Mary after three years in New York hospitals, and remarks by Postmaster General Hitchcock about quitting politics. It covers Roosevelt’s Nile voyage, a death in the Mills family line, Attorney Tillman’s grave condition, and a mix of crimes, disasters, and political shifts across the United States and abroad.
Senator Nelson Aldrich urged cutting federal costs by 300 million dollars yearly in a senate speech alleging government extravagance. The article notes a house safety bill expansion, streetcar strike unrest in Philadelphia with rioting and arson, a Cairo verdict on a mob shooting, European paraffin eye shipments halted by agricultural orders, and London's club women preferring the kiseru pipe.
In San Francisco a brutal title fight ended when Eddie Smith stopped Nelson in the fortieth round after Nelson endured a savage beating. Ad Wolgast dominated with sharp counters while Nelson, battered and barely standing, refused to quit before the halt.
Baltimore unions for conductors and trainmen fail to win higher wages from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad after three weeks of talks. President Daniel Willard rejects the demand and a system wide strike vote of about 8000 trainmen will be held in the next ten days, with results returned to this city.
Christian Science healers across New York Boston and Philadelphia raise treatment fees from 1 to 3 250 in Boston and Philadelphia with Mrs Eddy's December edict urging charges equal to reputable physicians in each locality.
The Baltimore Sun laments the roller towel as a relic of earlier days and mocks Kansas for banning it as immoral amid a wave of asepsis. It recalls printers and judges who used the towel for cleaning and jokes about its past ubiquity in inns and offices.
A library desk stacks new works on fireproofing for factory workers. The fireproofing plant by the river spurred purchases to support employees with practical texts in hardware perfumery and soap, woolens to follow if a mill opens.
An eminent physician notes that many people harbor recurring dreams of saving money, yet such aspirations offer little real aid. The piece illustrates common longing for a small weekly sum saved, contrasted with the ongoing financial grind.
A note on brief daily workouts focusing on energizing vital organs, not just muscle growth, as a path to better overall health through disciplined, active movement.
New York money on call eases to 2 3 4 percent with prime mercantile paper at 4 1 2 to 5 percent. Sterling exchange at 4 86 55 for demand. Grain and livestock prices listed for Cleveland Toledo Buffalo Pittsburgh and Chicago with varied prices on wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes hay cattle sheep and hogs.
Parents are urged to prevent infant skin problems by using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. The ad promises purified, beautified skin and warns against neglecting minor eruptions. Readers are directed to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. in Boston for a free 32 page Cuticura Book.
A Scotch preacher explains Jonah to a deaf old woman who sits at the pulpit foot. When he asks if a shark or swordfish swallowed Jonah, the audience listens as the old lady softly answers it was a whale, prompting the minister to rebuke her.
At Lord Thurlow’s busy Ormond Street house a struggling curate asks for a vacant living. The chancellor ridicules him until the young man says he has no lord to recommend him but the Lord of Hosts. The chancellor grants the living, remarking he has not heard from that lord before.
The Providence Journal argues against price increases forcing the poor to abandon modest recreations. It contends that even those of small means have a moral right to luxuries beyond bare essentials, and that higher costs should not erase modest pleasures that brighten daily life.
An Ohio woman describes severe heart trouble and nervous prostration tied to coffee use. After switching to Postum, she reports improved health, steadier nerves, no pain, and ability to do housework, claiming coffee caused her illness and Postum changed her life.
An old advertisement claims back pain comes from kidney inflammation and promotes Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure. It features a Boise Idaho user testimonial and lists Foster Milburn Co. contact details, urging purchase at 50 cents a box.
An old newspaper ad extols Perry Davis Painkiller as best for sideaches backaches and stitches. It urges readers to buy the large size as the cheapest option and notes availability at all druggists in 25c, 50c, and 5?0 bottles.
Cure guaranteed for itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Advertisement promises relief at 60 cents. Note mentions landlords and tenants viewing through same spectacles.
A Baltimore reader testifies four years of misery with irregularities and nervous symptoms improved after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims it treats displacements inflammation fibroid tumors and other female ailments and offers free guidance from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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