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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
4
The Chicago News notes wigs and waves as modern fixes for baldness and style in women and men. It details natural-looking changes, cheap bangs for workers, and the fashion for curls, waves, and switches, warning against ratty hair and noting prices from three to fifteen dollars.
The piece details adder behavior and bite effects, noting deafness myths and near approach tolerance. It describes the snake's tail grip, the V-shaped head mark, two long teeth, and venom impact with pain, swelling, and slow healing. Remedies include oil and ammonia, with rare fatal cases cited from the London Daily News.
A Lincoln Nebraska barber who refused to share a colored man to a public service was fined 25 dollars plus costs totaling 73 dollars under the 1883 Equal Rights statute applying to hotels theaters restaurants and other public resorts.
A concise moral maxim notes that forbearance sustains the home and spiritual joy, promising domestic harmony by avoiding conflict and embracing restraint. The quote from Dr. Nichols frames patience as a path to paradise, removing thorny troubles from family life.
Barnes Greeley, nearly eighty, lives on a long family farm five miles west of Columbus Pennsylvania. The Erie County and Warren County resident is famed for eccentric kindness and strong anti whisky views. He once served as Horace Greeley’s traveling agent and editor on his staff, then returned to farm life preferring to be a king among hogs. He predicts a second childhood in fifteen years and death at one hundred, never married, last of the older Greeley line.
A Detroit Free Press piece retells humorous vignettes on street cars showing human nature in motion. Passengers and conductors are framed as social studies subjects with quirks about fashion, wallets, pride, and perception during daily rides.
A veteran Detroit dry goods merchant says shoplifting is rare in his store. He attributes it to orderly displays and a policy of caution and leniency, preferring to reprimand offenders over police action. He also dismisses the idea of rich kleptomania and insists most theft is detectable and manageable without courts.
A New York Sun item recalls General Sheridan escorting Charles F. MacLean to Berlin during the Franco Prussian War. Bismarck bought two village chairs for ten francs as mementos of a historic meeting with Napoleon the Little, while an officer later obtained the chairs for five francs, noting the meeting would be historical.
The Boston Globe notes 16 residents were millionaires in 1851. Appletons led with 1.5 million each, Samuel also 1.5 million, William 1 million plus 500000. Others include John Bryant, Ebenezer Francis, John L Gardner, Thomas Wigglesworth, Joshua Sears, Abbot Lawrence and Amos Lawrence, Long Tom Perkins, David Sears, Robert G Shaw, William Sturgis, John E Thayer, and John Welles. No lawyers reached millionaire status.
Damaged cotton bales opened in Washington DC were nearly hot enough to ignite. The finding suggests some shipboard fires at sea may originate from spontaneous combustion of damp cotton that was packed or compressed while moist.
A collection of short sayings and quotes on money, poetry, hospitality, fame, self love, and social behavior. The snippets reference figures such as Fuller, George MacDonald, Beecher, Blair, Goethe, Milton, Schiller, Angelo, and Goethe. The tone imitates a late nineteenth century newspaper digest of moral reflections and witticisms.
A Detroit Free Press quotation criticizes the American girl’s giggle as a sign of emptiness. It contrasts male restraint with female laughter, catalogs party chatter, and urges girls to stop giggling to avoid undermining their sense and credit.
A foreign contemporary reports the German navy uses a double India rubber diving dress with chest air valve and belt to trap air, worn with leaden soles and a dagger. Swimmers blow up mines or hostile craft, attaching an explosive charge and retreating before detonation. The dress was trialed at Kiel harbor on August 29.
In the Sunday School Times piece, numbers carry universal symbolism across cultures. Three represents the divine triad, four the world’s quarters, seven the sacred union of heavens and earth, and ten completeness. Twelve widens to divine provisions, with seventy signaling fullness in God’s plan. The article urges cautious interpretation of symbols.
In old days powder and rouge framed a gallant kiss that kept a lady’s hand immaculate. Today men kiss less and cleanliness matters more. A baby’s kiss is the truest joy, while adult kisses are often smoky and forceful. One woman quips women should know more about kisses than men who give them.
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