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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1885
Page
4
A Harper's Weekly poem celebrates aging with defiant optimism. It argues that as years pass and faces fade, the heart can stay young by hope and doing good. The verse urges resilience, kindness, and living with purpose despite time and memory.
The article discusses how handwriting and nail shape reflect temperament and skill across occupations. It cites poets, musicians, mathematicians, diplomats, and Chinese nail length, noting long nails and graceful script signal ardor, while small nails and angular writing imply precision or rigidity. It mentions fashion’s influence and exotic practices in various cultures.
A quirky anecdote recounts a phrenologist predicting shine as a revivalist and marriage to a tall blonde with a nervous temperament. The exchange escalates as the analyst demands a dollar for a chart, and the narrator retorts with a witty challenge before the investigator departs after a chair strike.
A Bridgeport World excerpt profiles Joe Harrison a colorful Lake Wauramaug fisherman living on milk for forty five days. He boasts no solid food, sleeps eight hours, and works hard hauling worms, mending tackle, and fishing while city visitors seek his advice and flavorsome milk only diet.
Dr. Clifford Allbutt warns London specialization is eroding overall medical value. He cites a lung specialist who would defer general health care to another physician, praising the lung expert yet criticizing the refusal to treat broader health issues. The note ends with a remark that the hand organ is banished from Pittsburg.
A New York visitor laments Cape Cod fisher villages where young women show striking beauty yet soon fade. He links perpetual sea-suspense to premature aging, and notes many men are away at sea. The piece foresees more bigamous marriages and mocks divorce as impractical within fisher families.
A narrator recalls the Saratoga manicure frenzy with lengthy sessions and bold signage overwhelming riders. A Newport style story recounts a green suitor misreading a tender hand in the hotel shadow. Two New York World court notes caution against bigamy and denied divorce.
In San Francisco a pair of sisters sneak cigarettes into their home after dinner. They sit by the fire in defiant mood awaiting punishment, then their father unexpectedly approves the act, leaving them crestfallen and admitting defeat.
A discussion on fashion hair dyes, notably the Mme Angel product, and how golden straw color spreads via advertisements. The piece notes potential brittleness from dye and suggests observing actual hair color changes rather than trusting mere cosmetic claims.
A humorous Harper's Magazine sketch titled The Drawer recounts brief anecdotes of a Kentucky born St Louis man in Montreal perplexed by a cigar brand name, a railway conductor fearing derailment, and a Methodist preacher losing his teeth to comic effect, all illustrating vanity and human folly.
The New York Sun reports three Esquiman dogs on the Bear were confined in a Brooklyn ice house while two Newfoundland dogs, left on deck, suffered heat. Prince the large Newfoundland jumped overboard and drowned, seen as death by own action. sailors compare to Ensign Harlow's Esquimal dogs.
Messrs. Miller and Lux, once poor twenty years ago, now valued at 8 to 10 million dollars. They manage about 90,000 head of cattle and 115,000 head of sheep, slaughtering 6,000 sheep monthly. Their holdings include a 1 million dollar irrigating canal, 300 miles of fences, 600000 acres in California, 10000 acres in Nebraska, and 15000 acres of alfalfa grass.
A collection of rural tips including stacking hay to save barn space, soap and kerosene trunk washes to deter borers, tobacco dust for lamb ticks, bells on sheep for protection, and broad advice on horse training. Additional items cover roadside apple trees, pear grafting, pyrethrum powder for insects, wood ash treatments for apples, and egg packing in kegs with dried earth for winter storage.
The piece touts Peruna as the leading remedy for general debility and dyspepsia. It cites testimonials from S S Goudy of Mascillon Ohio Adolph Bakhaus Co Springfield and Mrs G W Needham Newtonville Ohio praising renewed energy and health after using Peruna.
The store touts the lowest prices in Warren county on a large stock of new holiday novelties. It highlights cloaks bought cash from manufacturers at reduced costs, plus children and misses garments, carpets, comforters, wool blankets, horse blankets, and extensive underwear lines offered at deep discounts before Christmas.
In Pawtucket a ladies organized a dime supper where men pay ten cents per spoken word. One guest refused to speak, surviving the interrogation by staying silent, eating the feast, and finally writing on a slate that he was deaf and dumb. The scene unfolds as others try tricks to draw him into chatter.
M Thomasi Crudelli argues cholera prevention is impossible by quarantines cordons or fumigation and urges sanitary reform as the true safeguard. He proposes disinfecting sick clothing with mercurial chloride or, better and cheaper, cremation of contaminated items to curb disease spread.
Dr Fenner s Kidney and Back-ache Cure praised by Rev A J Merchant Frank E Percival Mrs James Fuller and others for relief from kidney disease dropsy heart disease female weakness and rheumatism. Claims cure of kidney and urinary ailments with broad success statements.
The notice advertises a specialty in job printing at the Main office. It lists Good Flour priced at 70c and $1.00 per sack, offered by Geo. P. Orr & Co.
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