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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1850
Page
1
The passage urges teaching children to love God and all that is lovely, including nature and family. It stresses fostering warm hearts and ardent affections to bind the family, declaring religion to be love toward God and toward others.
Gro. F. Dinsmoor argues for general education and library access to strengthen democracy. He compares voters to school inspectors, urges elective judiciary reform, and supports establishing school libraries and normal schools while avoiding tax hikes. He stresses reading access to informed action and cites history and political economy as vital.
A man from Bethany on a visit to friends encounters a crouching lion near a rock while seeking an antelope. Heat, fear, and a stubborn lion keep him trapped for days. He loses his toes but is rescued by a passerby.
A well dressed stranger visits a prosperous jeweller and shows a large diamond ring. The jeweller doubts the stone is real and, after tests, becomes convinced it is genuine. He buys the ring for three thousand pounds with a certificate, only to discover the stone was a paste imitation substituted at sale.
Miss Flanders and Miss Chipman, neighbors in Philadelphia, dispute clothes drying in a shared court. A blue garment incident escalated with soap and a six foot pole, tumbling Miss Flanders into a warm tub. Both women were fined 200 to keep the peace.
A reflective sermon contrasts the transient, hollow joys of earth with the eternal home in heaven. It urges readers to cherish heart bonds, beware cold duty, and seek compassionate love while pilgrims move toward the better portion beyond this world.
Philadelphia North American reports the ship John Calvin recently departed the Thames toward San Francisco with over a hundred passengers including merchants and mechanics. Sir Henry Huntly, former Prince Edward Island governor, sailed with thirty miners aboard. Cargo lists include houses shops warehouses and tents plus a large assortment of British goods. The note adds a humorous street scam and a juror’s fire alarm incident from the Troy Budget as unrelated curiosities.
A kirk elders meeting argued where to place a warming stove for Sundays. An elder finally urged the pulpit be warmed, calling it the cauldest place in the kirk. Also, Thos Bennett, longtime Fourteenth Ward Station House doorman, died after finger cut while handling glass touched by blood from a postmortem of an unknown man.
The editor reports Sheboygan men as more single than other towns and notes coal discoveries on Barclay's Mountain in Weathmoreland county near the Pennsylvania line with veins of eight and five feet. A road through Storey’s farm could unlock a wealth mine. Also Spain grows cotton on Guadalquivir banks and may match American quality, urging wider cultivation prompted by Don Felix Rivas’s Madrid speech.
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