06 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1885
Page
1
A bitter lyric condemns a man buried beneath a shroud for courting praise from sycophants. The speaker brushes aside critics and calls the dead man a boxful of earth, lampooning his prior arrogance and hollow ideals.
A lengthy narrative describes travelers and locals at a resort in Auvergne Chatel-Guion with a visiting father and daughter, a nervous tremor in the father, and a tale of a presumed burial that ends in a specter and a shocking confession. The scene shifts between anecdotes, jokes, and a haunting recollection of a murdered valet and a revived heirloom.
L G Noyes guarantees relief for cough cold croup or lung complaint using Acker’s English Remedy or offers a full refund. To decide whether to cough a 25 cent bottle of Has Cough Cure is advertised. Ask Johnson Siegfried.
The ad promotes Pure Baking Powder at 35 cents per pound mixed by Hazeltine Mixer and sold by Johnson & Siegfried of Warren Pa. It touts Blodgett's Balm as the greatest remedy for acute diseases, Acker's Blood Elixir with money back guarantee, and Hus Cough Cure at 25 cents.
A summer memory from St. Nicholas details three oclock matinees by orioles robins and linnets observed from a south-facing bedroom window. The birds perform a six stanza hymn of praise followed by a grand concert and a shorter juvenile chorus, ending with dawn thrush calls.
The piece contrasts frogs and catfish to personify neatness and slovenliness. It praises the bullfrog for immaculate shirt bosoms and steady manners while lampooning the catfish as untidy and prone to slobbering and cannibal appetite. The narrator cites Mr. Bobsail and Mr. Brittlerash as humorous examples.
A Chinese leper escaped custody with nine teen companions bound for Oceanic. He hid under a building and boarded the Selon. The last twenty pests face the same fate as lepers sent to Canton two years ago, when a barge bound for the leper colony allegedly caused mass deaths. Wild dogs in sections of Georgia are described as ravenous as wolves.
Stanley Hall argues for in-depth, home and street life studies of children to supplement classroom theories. He notes the need for personal contact with youth, advocates life books, and contrasts growth based pedagogy with fixed curricula, highlighting early progress in child study.
A note on early education praising play over premature schooling and a New York Star Man About Town anecdote recounting an amateur earthquake encounter at High Bridge and the couple whose romance was sparked by the tremor as a marriage proposal followed.
Writers in the Critic discuss forming a pronoun by truncating “that” to “tha” and “one” to “on” and joining letters to yield “then” as a proposed gender neutral pronoun. The article notes this concept and draws attention to the idea.
A court held that a kiss by Dr. Gledhill to Mrs. Henry William Pitt provides no legal consideration for a promissory note. Henry William Pitt cannot recover the £5, with interest, as the kiss lacks recognizable monetary value, leaving open whether the rule applies to all kisses or only to those of Mrs. Henry William.
The United States consumes about three times more paint than any other country, reflecting heavy building and manufacturing activity, with implications for industry demand and environmental considerations.
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