28 Jan 1873
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1873
Page
1
A distressed mother recalls three lost children to poverty and hunger while pleading for aid and medical care for her surviving baby. She condemns strikes and alcohol, laments her hardship, and asks for milk and medicine for the ill child.
Old Casper returns home with his worn family, while Madge dreams of a future with Charley the locomotive engineer. A reckless moment saves many by Madge’s brave self sacrifce, though it costs her dearly. The crowd honors her, and Charley offers a cottage deed to seal their bond.
The text outlines simple one room houses built of brick or stone with thick walls and high foundations. It notes sparse furnishings, sand floors, and sleeping arrangements with beds stacked in tiers. It describes agriculture with wheat rye and barley, exports to Germany and Britain, and large herds of cattle sheep geese and ducks.
A pithy saying notes the late finder may secure a worm by buying chestnuts instead. The quip implies caution and thrift in securing rewards, using a rural or fablelike tone.
Poem-like reflection argues against perpetual worry over incurable ills and imagined blunders. It urges making use of time with steady acceptance rather than sighs and regret, suggesting that chronic fretting worsens the path we tread.
The census shows many nationalities in the United States including Greenlanders Swedes Norwegians Germans and Irish with millions born abroad and many living near major cities. It also lists occupations and counts for diverse professions amid notes on presidential fortunes from Washington to Grant with varied levels of wealth across administrations.
The article advises tying a slice of fat salt pork with flannel around the neck for ordinary sore throat, hourly salt water gargles, vinegar and salt gargles if very sore, and a chlorate gargle mixed with cold water every three hours. It claims the chlorate solution cures cankered sore throat in about nineteen of twenty cases.
A neighboring city hosts a factory bearing the sign Smith Manufacturing Company revealing the origin of local Smith family names and business ties.
A Caldwell Ohio correspondent claims Noble County has no dram shops after the Adair Liquor Law was strictly enforced. He cites fines and imprisonments for sellers, large damages in suits by wives, a nearly empty jail, and no criminal cases for two years. He notes the Marietta and Pittsburgh railroad passes through twenty towns with no dram shops and no fatal accidents cited along its route.
A Washington letter to the Chicago Inter Ocean claims Grant disregards ceremonial norms by traveling without attendants, visiting at will, and speaking informally with lawmakers. It contrasts old school deference with his bold, independent style and praises his administrative mind and role in advancing enterprise and national progress.
A collection of humorous and pithy aphorisms on marriage, temper, wisdom, and daily life. It includes quips about gratitude, winter habits, shoes, a mosqueto, and gender roles, concluding with marital advice about choosing a wife based on calico that washes.
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