Royal Baking Powder and Celery Salt Advertised
Advertisers tout Royal Baking Powder as guaranteed full weight for 2 pounds and Tam agent is Powder. Also promoted are Royal Celery Salt sold in 25¢ and 50¢ bottles.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1875
Page
3
Advertisers tout Royal Baking Powder as guaranteed full weight for 2 pounds and Tam agent is Powder. Also promoted are Royal Celery Salt sold in 25¢ and 50¢ bottles.
A fragmented shopping list shows Rh Cans and Peaches Bartlett Pears Pineapple Strawberries Baltimore Corn Sugar Corn String Beans Green Peas Pumpkin Tomatoes Mushrooms Condensed Mil Honey in Comb Honey Strained in 1 qt jars and 1 lb jars described as strictly pure. Referenced items include various canned goods and produce typical of a market catalog.
Readable lines describe various tea types including Good Young Hyson Fine Young Hyson Finest Young Hyson Choicest Young Hyson Good Oolong and Japan teas. Mentions boxed storage and small lots with emphasis on quality and selection. No dates or places provided.
Readable fragment shows sugar pricing terms from January 25 1875 including Standard A Perth 11 cents crushed extra fine 10, granulated 9, powdered 12. The entry lists various sugar product grades with small serif style abbreviations and ledger style numbering.
Notices advertise coal on payment terms from Davidson and Harmon in Warren Pennsylvania dated January 25 1875. A closing out sale by D M Gross and Co promotes cash only purchases and dissolution of partnership while urging debtors to settle. Various ads promote dry goods shirts furniture and hats and caps with prices and store relocations and promotions for Robt H Johnson Greenland Bros McDaniels Ronne and Roman Scrip.
A dense column of Warren and surrounding towns news covers hotel activity, lumber trade, measles in Jamestown, fires in Parker City with $16 000 loss, auctions, new businesses, religious revivals, lectures, social events, and local commerce. Included are rail and bridge notes, society updates, and community entertainments for early 1875.
The Warren Mail summarizes an 1875 New York Christian Advocate piece affirming the temperance cause remains strong with new strength and momentum. It notes Boston’s Tremont Temple gathering with Dr. Miner Rev. Whittaker and John B. Gough, plans for Sea Cliff encampment, plus Pittsburgh mayoral admonitions to police to avoid saloons. It reprints the Warren Woman's Christian Temperance Union constitution and officers, and ends with a critique of “Cheap Papers” and sensational yet shallow information.
Col Augustus F Allen of Jamestown dies at his home January 20 1875 after a long spinal disease that affected his brain. Wealthy and popular he led in Jamestown and Chautauqua County politics. His death triggers a new congressional election. he was born September 13 1813 in Brattleboro Vermont and came to Jamestown in 1817. His wife and children were abroad, Alfred Allen among them, and Mrs Allen and son were en route home at the time of his death.
J W Bain a car inspector for the P and E road at Irvington Pa was crushed when a box car moved while workers were under it. McDonald of the Empire line suffered a crushed leg. A jury empaneled by J P Ed W Marsh found Bain’s death accidental and blamed the Empire Line for lacking signals.
Asa Th. Barnes of Sheffield died suddenly of pleurisy on the 21st at age 58. He was buried Sunday by the Warren Odd Fellows Lodge which chartered a special car for about 40 attendees. Barnes was a longtime active resident and his funeral was largely attended. Rev. J. H. Stoney preached the sermon.
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