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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1878
Page
2
The document lists local government roles including Burgess C. H. Noyes and W. C. Rowland with a group of trustees clerks assessors and school directors. It names Justices of the Peace constables notaries public and auditors among the town’s appointed officers.
Congressmen L. F. Watson Warren Pa State Senator C. W. Stone Warren Pa Assemblyman W. M. Lindsey Warren Pa President Judge Lansing D. Wetmore Warren Pa Associate Judges W. B. Acocks Pittsfield Pa W. W. Connely Deerfield Pa Sheriff Henry Brace Warren Pa Prothonotary Starling W. Waters Warren Pa Register Recorder W J Alexander Warren Pa Treasurer T E Barnes Warren Pa County Commissioners M Dunham Enterprise ER Wheelock Sugar Grove J B Jennings Tidioute Pa Co Surveyor Geo O Cornelius Warren Pa District Attorney Wm Schuur Warren Pa County Auditors E A Spencer Columbus U F Barnes Sheffield G C James Warren Pa County Superintendent N RK Thompson Sugar Grove Pa.
The church listings show weekly and weekend services for Baptists Presbyterians Episcopalians Methodists Evangelicals Lutherans Scandinavian and Catholic congregations. Each denomination includes appointed pastors service times and Sabbath or Sunday School schedules.
A listing of fraternal societies with meeting nights and locations: Laban Lodge No. 52 and Carroll Lodge No. 102 hold sessions in lodges near Carver House and over Ss. Burgess' store respectively. Occidental HRA Chapter No. 235 convenes on the second Monday. Conewango Lodge No. 259 meets Mondays at Johnson's Exchange. Warren Lodge No. 339 I O O F meets Tuesdays in Allen Block. Kossuth Encampment No. 58 I O O F meets on the second and fourth Thursdays. officers named include Berkstresser, Merrile, Waters, Horne, Ames, and Taylor.
A poem by J G Holland, published in Scribner's, tells of a weary pilgrim in Judea who longs for rest and heaven. An angel directs him to earn the palm by completing his earthly duties, then the pilgrim resumes his journey toward a life of duty and endurance.
A compilation of prophecies dating before 1853 cites two hundred year cycles and a 1876 flare of Balkan unrest, linking a cross and crescent omen to conflicts in Herzegovina and Servia. It recalls Mother Shipton's 1488/1641 verses predicting distant wonders and political shifts toward 1881.
The advertisement argues nerves suffer from underlying bodily cleansing needs and touts Dr. M M Fenner Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic as a combined treatment. A testimonial from A Henry of Freponta New York claims three bottles restored health and calm. The note closes with a camp meeting quip about an “ebon-knees” remark.
The article outlines the White House staffing under President Hayes, noting a dozen clerks plus a large personal staff. Key figures include private secretary W. K. Rodgers at 3250 dollars annually, assistant secretary Pruden at 2250, and two executive clerks at 2000 each, with several clerks detailed from other departments and five messengers.
A satirical list urges parishioners to undermine a minister by slighting duties and mocking sermons. It counsels skipping meetings, highlighting faults, withholding support, and manipulating perceptions to ruin a minister’s usefulness. The piece ends urging readers to avoid these practices and to help one another.
In changing weather conditions children and adults suffer from neglected colds. The ad claims Boschee’s German Syrup prevents serious sickness and death with three or four doses, citing consumption pneumonia and throat or lung diseases. Sample bottles are 10c, regular 75c, sold by Morek & Co and Hazeltine & Davis.
In West Brookfield Vermont an elaborate surprise party crashes into the home of Mr and Mrs Sawyer a Methodist minister and his wife and their son Master Sawyer. Cake furniture and a chilly scene follow as revelers fling jam and jelly on the carpet and sing What Shall the Harvest Be. The boy ferries water to ice the walk while stocky guests tumble about. The raid ends with planned gifts for the Sawyers and a pledge for a Foreign Missionary Society life membership.
Dr Baker says city women are stronger healthier and better dressed than country women noting better diets concerts baths and refined fashion. He praises New York and European women as finest in physique and grace while reporting a decline in old dress folly and loose corsets. The dialogue ends with a humorous window scene and a man blaming a flattened key.
A long catalog of 19th century fashion guidance covers colors, fabrics, accessories, and silhouettes. Moss green and sky blue dominate, velvet capes and chapeaux trend, and new trims like beaded embroideries and Chatelaine bows appear. It also urges early economic and moral guidance, urging girls to learn trades and self-reliance.
A jumble of quips on marriage, insurance, fashion, politics, and society from a late 19th century page. Bits reference poets, lawyers, flirtations, and daily life with playful irony, including a toast tale and light social observations from Vassar graduates and a Cincinnati society reporter.
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