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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1890
Page
3
Local items detail court actions, shop ads, weather notes, church meetings, and social events in Warren. Highlights include a court case for life insurance rebate, a Pennsylvania Gas Co project, new printing capacity for The Mat, and upcoming Village meetings on January 14 and February 11.
Col Watson and Secretary Shawkey left for Washington last Friday. A hubbub at Henry P Hunter's Tuesday morning. Judge R Brown in critical condition Wednesday morning. Mrs W M Lindsey improves Wednesday morning. Bert Wetmore travels to Virginia this week as his mother leaves next week and the Judge goes later. Miss Arnnet visits Akron, Ohio. M W Jamieson joins Struthers Wells & Co with no officer changes. Misses Grace Anna Stone and Miss Cooper leave for Wilson College. Dr Whitcomb and wife return from bridal tour, stay Warren Hotel. Artist Greaves to Kansas City for engagements. Miss Lenora Davis visits from Warren, Pa. Mrs L A Goodrich returns from Buffalo for eye treatment. Miss Anna Rockwell and Miss Clark leave for Vassar College. Miss Lucy Williams leaves for the same. Jas W Kitchen starts in Warren Savings Bank. Mrs J F Zuern recoveries and to join husband in Texas. John A Gross and D P Stanton acquire Rink furniture store and undertaking in Salamanca, N Y. Miss Mary A Scofield dies at 78. C M Shawkey spends time in Oil City hearing post office applicants. notes will be reported to Mr Watson. Blizzard.
The death of Richard Carey Beecher occurred last evening Tuesday January 7 about 11 o clock at the parents home Mr and Mrs M Beecher after a long illness described as consumption He was 29 years old No funeral time is known as his brother Charles has not been heard from The Mail extends sympathy to the bereaved family.
The Court House sees little change as Treasurer Yates hands office to new Treasurer Wm. P. Nutting who is sworn in and bonded. Nutting, a resident of Youngsville, plans daily commutes to Warren. New County Surveyor Leroy B. Strong also bonds and qualifies. Commissioners report no change in appointed officers. Auditors Gunnning Pelton and Mooney begin work, with results to be printed next month.
The Thos. E. Shea Co performs nightly this week starting tonight with The Marble Heart following Escaped from Sing Sing Monte Christo Devoted crowds will see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Life for a Life Orphan of Gen eva and The Stranglers of Paris Prices are 10 20 or 30 cents. The Old Homestead by Den Thompson comes next Tuesday with a strong company.
Fine layer figs and pineapple Edom and Neufchotel cheese are offered at Goodrich and Fehlman. Also available are shrimp lobsters deviled crabs and salmon.
A citizen urges Postmaster Love to speed mail distribution on the 10 o'clock train. The writer compares Love unfavorably to predecessor Alden, calling for extended hours and quicker delivery as a public duty. The letter emphasizes efficiency in serving business people and the public.
For sale state house and lot formerly occupied by H L Towle on High Street Warren Pennsylvania inquire on the premises.
Warren Borough council met with most members present. Actions included crosswalk petitions on Market Street and Water Street, a fire cart purchase, gas lamp concerns, water meter contract steps, and pending legal action against the Pennsylvania Gas Co. The Oil City Blizzard adds details of a December 31 Trinity M E Church wedding in Oil City with numerous dignitaries and a Warren couple's further plans.
The Pittsburg Dispatch, distributed in Warren, delivers leading news with extensive market reports and leased wire coverage. It emphasizes reliability, progressive policy, and a 50 000 Sunday circulation, offering literary sections and special columns like Cable Letters and Sporting and Business Reviews.
A historical notice lists names of ladies and gentlemen whose letters remain in the office and have not been called for after two weeks. It warns that all unclaimed letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Dated January 8, 1890, Warren, Pa.
W L Darina offers a direct Colby piano deal inviting buyers to Erie factory visits to verify manufacturing details. He states weekly Warren presence and will call on request to provide particulars, contrasting with middlemen and agent-made profit.
The January Century prints the next to last Life of Lincoln, with a graphic account of Lincoln's last day and assassination, chapter on the assassins fate, mourning pageant, a Johnson portrait, Ford's Theater box diagram, a playbill facsimile, funeral car and Springfield monument pictures, plus papers on Booth's pursuit and death and a full Jefferson Autobiography installment with anecdotes and illustrations.
A. Wirz of Warren Pennsylvania offers Santz billiard and pool tables with fixtures. Includes selection of tables and accessories for home game rooms and commercial spaces. Contact details provided for purchase and delivery arrangements.
The Harrisburg Telegraph laments a shortage of skilled seamstresses capable of plain sewing and alterations. It argues pay is strong and women are well fed, urging unemployed girls to train in cutting and fitting as dress fashions proliferate. A separate ad notes Hall's Hair Renewer for baldness and gray hair prevention.
The Place to Buy Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods in Warren County under A Weiss has overhauled and refitted its premises. It boasts the largest stock of serviceable and fashionable clothing including winter suits and boys garments with a claim to saving customers money.
The January St Nicholas promises a virtual second Christmas issue with a selection of poems and stories. Notable pieces include Harriet Prescott Spafford’s The Yule-Log's Song and In the Tenement by Malcolm Douglas, plus Christmas on the Polly by Grace F. Coolidge and A New fashioned Christmas by Julie M. Lippmann. Helen P. Strong contributes The Little Buttonwood Man. The frontispiece by French depicts a child ready for a New Year.
New crop citron lemon and orange peel from Goodrich and Fehlman appears alongside Richardson and Robbin's plum pudding boned chicken and turkey. Rose and cracker jars from Goodrich and Fehlman. Latest styles ladies and gent's shoes just received at C P Norror Rop's.
Buy direct from headquarters for fresh Shell Oysters Clams and bulk Oysters plus winter apples and fruit confectionery cigars and tobacco at G W Snyder green grocery. Also Goodrich C P Northrop shoe store hawks fashion footwear for all ages and Merck Drug Store offers Dr Wilbur's Cough and Consumption Cure at 25c and 50c.
Corrected weekly by Goodrich and Fehlman listing prices from Warren dealers for farm produce and goods. Items include apples beans butter cheese evaporated apples eggs hams lard onions potatoes sugar tea coffee molasses rice kerosene etc with per unit rates and measures. The column mixes figures and illegible marks but preserves key price data and commodity names for local market reference.
Snakes killed in Forest and Clarion counties last week. Weather mild. Corry founder W H L Smith died in Boston after building Downer oil works. State Normal School Clarion opens winter term with higher attendance amid growing popularity. The Weekly Edictor Spartansburg Pa enters as exchange. Miss A A Walling editor. Col G M Cott resigns as Sons of Veterans commander. Lt Col McNulty to take over from Philadelphia. Weather similar to 1829 1830 Lancaster anecdote. Erie invested over 500000 in new buildings including Central school and churches. 300 building permits issued in 1889. Capitalists lease Sandy Lake land for 50 cottages and summer resort modeled on Chaudauf? weather. WCTU to meet in Philadelphia Jan 16 17 to draft constitution and form state organization. Gertrude Rapp dies at Economy aged 81. John Wirth paralyzed. O C V A A elects officers. thriving society. Chas Mackey down with grippe. ill in New York. Sale notice ends with chec-annual reduction sale January.
Summary of transactions for the week ending January 4 1890 listing transfers in towns including Warren Pittsfield Glade South West Clarendon and Sheffield. Names include Nesenson Townley Walbridge Lobdell Bloomfield Hue Leonhart Michaels and others with various cash values and valid considerations.
The column notes a quiet start to the new year after a mild Christmas in 1889 with locals visiting kin in Corry Jamestown and New Orleans. It lists local ads for subscriptions and groceries plus medical patent remedies and goods from Goodrich & Fehlman and Geo S. Davis Drug Store.
The top floor of the Government Printing Office houses the Specification Room where patent specifications and the Official Gazette are printed. A large force of 123 compositors works here, with 77 paid by the piece. From 1836 to 1865 patent numbers grew from under 10,000 to over 12,000 annually, with steady increases into the 1880s. The Library edition, a 3,551 page volume containing about 2,000 patents in a month, was completed last month as demand and room constraints rose. Mr. William R. Ramsey oversees the workshop, guiding it through rising workloads since its transfer to the Government Printing Office in 1867.
Local advert offering Do mestic and Wilson sewing machines at cheap cash prices or easy payments. Call or visit office and residence at 112 East Water Street, Warren, Pa. F A Cogswell, 29m6m Warren, Pa.
After fifteen years in business the firm continues in fire life and accident insurance for patrons until the millennial period, contingent on Brown Sequard's Elixir of Life proving effective. Also notes Joseph Sttu and Son and N Greenland listing goods for sale or rent at 331 Exchange Block with other notices about beds, liniments, rag and metal salvage, and lamp goods.
In Warren Pennsylvania at the Lutheran parsonage Daniel Schuler wed Rena Werle both of Warren. Also John Lind and Lydia Johnson both of Sugar Grove Pa married in Jamestown New York December 24 1889. George R Westfall and Elvira E Jones of Tidioute Pa wed in Jamestown on December 24 1889.
In Chandlers Valley Mrs Lars Samuelson aged 74 years 10 months and 4 days dies after chronic inflammation leaving a husband eight children twenty five grandchildren and one great grand child.
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