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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1875
Page
2
Governor Hartranft lauds state hospital policy and notes Warren Insane Hospital progress. Foundations, ventilation shafts, and lumber are in place with winter work planned. the facility is expected to be under roof by year end and fire proof with modern conveniences to relieve crowded wards at other state hospitals.
The Pitts Gazette surveys New Year implications for business, noting 1873 as a hard year with widespread pressure but less suffering than elsewhere. It sees bountiful fields, ongoing thrift, political shifts, and cautious optimism for a return to prosperity with spring. It mourns Gerrit Smith among a long list of notable deaths.
Last week’s session organized the Senate with Senator Cutler as President pro tem, Russell Errett re elected Clerk, and new transcribing clerks. In the House Samuel S. Patterson became Speaker, Adam Wolever Clerk, with Fay and Stowe filling key posts. The Democratic caucus for U S Senator to occur this week, with Wallace favored. The Hall remodels to seat 201 members. Schurz declines favors from Democrats, remaining Republican. Beaver Radical notes Republican readers urged to ponder recent cross ticket votes.
Workers at the Troy Bessemer steel works took a temporary twenty percent wage cut to help managers compete for markets. As orders increased, prices rose and the wage rate rose five percent above the usual level.
Gerrit Suir died in New York City leaving a modest burial in a plain black walnut casket. His family chose austerity to counter what they called foolish funeral extravagance and urged reflection on spending.
Gen Sullivan A Mere dith died in Buffalo on December 26. He served four years and four months in the late war, organized the 10th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers which he commanded, and was commissioned Colonel of the 56th Pennsylvania Regiment after three months by Governor Curtin. He organized Camp Curtin near Harrisburg and once commanded 20,000 men.
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania residents discuss a public library. An elder member initially supports it then jokes he thought it was a circus and withdraws his vote. He also continues to vote for General Jackson every four years.
A widow famed for impersonating Katie King during Holmes era séances in Philadelphia deceiving Robert Dale Owen and other credulous spiritualists. The remark Beware of vidders appears as a caution about fakery in mediums.
The fund in response to distress in Kansas and Nebraska is steadily increasing as communities across towns and cities respond nobly to the appeal.
The piece reports on Louisiana political strife during Reconstruction with the Returning Board clash, Kellogg supporters invoking federal troops, and debates over legality. It references Congressional testimony, General Sheridan’s remarks, and telegrams from New Orleans and Washington showing support for Sheridan’s stance against armed White League violence.
The House approved the Senate free banking and specie payments bill by 136 to 99 with no debate after a previous question call. It outlines free banking, greenback retirement to 300 million, silver coin replacement, and resumption of specie payments on January 1 1879.
The Pacific Hotel in Chicago, praised as a top property, was sold out under foreclosure. Linked to financier David A. Gage, the hotel originally cost over a million dollars but sold for 125 thousand.
Senator Chandler of Michigan and Senator Hamlin of Maine were renominated by their state legislatures. Mr. Sharon was nominated by the Nevada Legislature. A Patrons of Husbandry convention met in Williamsport Pennsylvania with about 1500 Grangers in attendance for a pleasant week.
The article notes the New York State law for compulsory education went into effect on the 1st of the month. It asks why a similar measure is not enacted in this state and mentions five to six hundred children reported as the last Charley Ross. It also reports wage reductions by the Pennsylvania Railroad for its shop and track workers, effective on the 1st.
The piece voices a Warren society leader praising women's temperance work against alcohol, urging prayer and law, recounting Conductor Bradley’s death, and condemning materialism. A Christmas Eve vignette contrasts poverty with wealth, urging Christian focus on Christ over money and calling for public virtue.
Philadelphia reports forty one public libraries while Columbia county Grangers form a fire insurance company. Centen nial buildings employ five thousand, Meadville touts cheap markets, soldiers monument planned at Coudersport, and Moonlight City plus Paradise Hill are new Butler county towns. Oil City pig cat friendship and Springboro child swallows a tin whistle. Peter Herdic builds one hundred houses in Williamsport. Hamburg farmer poisons rats finding a white rat. Howellsville cave near Chester county promises vast exploration. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern pays a 3.25 percent dividend.
The New York Tribune obituary outlines Gerrit Smith’s religious shift from Presbyterian roots to a “Religion of Nature” and “Rationalism” while preserving reverence for Jesus Christ. It notes his role in temperance, abolition, and local welfare, his wealth of about 700000 to 800000, and that his fortune largely centers in Oswego City with heirs Mrs. Miller and Greene Smith.
The report covers Irish language teaching in Joliet schools, Alaska’s government income since its acquisition, Postmaster General Jewell’s cost cuts and efficiency push, a favorable view of a finance bill’s free banking aspect, a Russian prince deemed insane and placed under guardianship, European dislike of potato bugs, continental efforts to bar pests, continued winter access to Yosemite Valley, and the Zurich Cremation Society planning a columbarium for urns as it nears 600 members.
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