09 Jan 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1889
Page
1
The advertisement promotes a large Christmas gift line featuring Black and Colored Silks, Brocaded and Fancy Plushes, Henriettas of all grades, Dress Goods, Furs, Muffs and Boas, Umbrellas, Table Linens, Gloves, Silk Hosiery, Purses, Cloaks, Plush Coats, Lace Handkerchiefs, Shawls, Curtains, Underwear, Carpets, Rugs, and many other holiday articles. It emphasizes variety and utility for holiday shoppers.
A collage of humorous fragments from periodicals includes lines about babies chewing gum, inn digestion at hotels, milking cows on milkweed, and underdone cakes. Odd anecdotes feature a barbering bet about shaving whiskers after a lost election and a comic miscue near the leaning tower of Pisa. A Mount Holly tale ends with a cellar rescue and a Sunday school quip about being a Christian.
A lyrical meditation compares snowflakes to thoughts that fly and vanish unseen. The verses describe their rapid, fragile journey, falling without trace or prayer to alter their path, ending with a plea to guard the union signal and a brother’s fame as sacred.
M Quad recounts meeting Uncle Billy a stubborn Confederate veteran at Cullman. After prideful boasts and mock duels, the Yank defeats him in a surrender scene on a field near Chickamaug. Uncle Billy finally concedes and pledges friendship with the Union, ending twenty five years of resistance. The tale frames Civil War memories and guerrilla violence on the Kansas Missouri border.
Representative Rowell of Bloomington Illinois recounts how he and four brothers enlisted in 1861 and served in the Army of the Tennessee. Three in the Seventeenth Illinois and two in the Eighth Missouri, all mustered out sound. Only the youngest, then a teen, was briefly hospitalized. At Shiloh Mr Rowell acted as Captain. 22 of 48 in his company were killed or wounded, yet he and his brother were unscathed. All five brothers survive today.
At the National Encampment the Sons of Veterans gain recognition as an auxiliary organization to aid Memorial Day preparations. The piece contrasts aging inventors Joan L. Portter and John Ericsson with Captain A. B. Davis whose likeness to General Grant brings attention as he commands the revenue cutter Grant.
A collage of curious events: eggs with 28 yolks, a beer rumble in Cairo, an Indiana railroad hit, a Norwich diamond find in a Thanksgiving turkey, a Georgia economist with hair-made socks, and a Maine woman's descendant trivia. Also tales of animals, weather prophets, a lethal snake on a canoe, a Virginia West Virginia boundary wedding, a New York terrier pup pairing, and a striking coincidence family on Glade Mountain with a curse of October 14.
Railways consume over half the world’s iron while U S car wheels exceed two million tons annually. Santa Fe runs the longest sleeping car service San Diego to Chicago 2811 miles. Left-hand running spreads nationwide for better view ahead. Lehigh Valley equips twelve trains with telegraphic signaling. wrecking trains benefit. Southern Pacific claims 2495 mile through car service New Orleans to San Francisco with fastest through train at 22 mph. Daily, 40 000 to 50 000 people depart New York by rail. 40 to 50 million enter and leave yearly. New electric car brake by Edward Backus uses a galvanic battery for full control of all cars. Patent seeks 95 mph locomotive with rectangular boiler and rear cylinders. A device in cabs enables rear switch control via a shoe striking a crank to close or open switches remotely for safety.
Practical maxims on avoiding debt and deception. Emphasizes charity, self control, avoiding secrets, temper in family and tongue in public, and truthful speech. Advocates direct, honest work and warns against promises of easy money. Ends with a medical tip for cold relief using Arica and Oil Liniment rubbed on the chest.
The article recounts how famous poems were born under unique circumstances. Gray’s Elegy and Bryant’s Thanatopsis arose in reflective settings. Others like Cowper, General Lyle, and Brainerd crafted ballads and odes during moods, weather, or demands for copy. It notes Whittier’s Barbara Fritchie myth and Brete Harte’s The Heathen Chinee, born from chance editing finds.
The document catalogues bequests from several notable figures. The late Duchess of Galliera left large gifts to Paris institutions and the Pope. Rebecca F Robertson of New York endowed a home for the poor. Harriet M Pitman of Somerville gave multiple donations to Boston hospitals and women’s organizations. Evizane Tu Tasnor of Marion bequeathed funds to various missions, churches, and schools. Ruth M Leathe of Woburn left substantial gifts to local and mission causes and land for a city hall.
A compilation notes 1611 Bible translation, Danes in England, Jamestown cattle import, Lincoln's Secretary of State pick, Flemish linen in 1253, and turnpike origins. It recounts tea seeds to Japan, slave trade monopolies, tobacco's impact in New Zealand, a peculiar clock tale, and a tip about Jarrell’s Lake fishing near Cameron.
A notice touts Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed cure for consumption and related coughs. It claims instant cure, lists prices 50 cents and one dollar, with a trial size free, and notes availability through druggists.
A collection of humorous vignettes and mock dialogues on gender roles class missteps medical quacks and job hunting in a light regional voice. Interactions include a vow to fight a donkey insult a phrenologist beware of doctors a clerk shop talk and a reporter applicant negotiates pay versus experience.
A montage of domestic banter unfolds at a breakfast table. Conversations touch on marriage, bread, and pets while a local scholar muses on nature and solar power, interrupted by a playful quip about swill from Profundity’s wife.
A miscellany notes retired actress Genevieve Warp studying housekeeping. A California marriage of a Yuma squaw and a Chinaman is recorded in San Bernardino. Historic sewing machine patent by Thomas Saint, fencing tips, and curious uses of barrels. Remarks on railway carriages, dreams about teeth, and the virtues of ripe fruit including apples and grapes as digestible and nutritious.
A Chattanooga letter recounts John Howard Payne shielding Cherokees during their removal from North Georgia and East Tennessee. At Cross Plains near Dalton, Payne sang part of Home Sweet Home and impressed Sheriff Underwood, who then aided the Indians.
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