29 Jan 1890
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1890
Page
1
The store announces a January sale to clear stock from January 7 to January 25 1890. It offers lowest prices on buttons hosiery gloves corsets white goods and embroideries and will refund rail fare for customers spending 10 or more. The promotion aims to attract trade in Warren County with substantial discounts and new stock arrivals.
The Warren County Agricultural Association meets in Warren at the Court House on the last Saturday of each month at 1 P.M. Presidents, S. H. Evans. Secretary, Willis 'owan. Treasurer, W. B. Acocks. All farmers are invited. The excerpt also includes a tribute to Henry W Grady and various unrelated notes and advertisements.
A fragmented timetable lists train routes and times for Philadelphia and Erie, Eastern Standard, including Express and Mail services to destinations such as St Marys and Dunkirk. It shows arrival and departure times across multiple lines and notes Sunday schedules and connections to New York and Pittsburgh regions.
A collage of jokes from a late 19th or early 20th century column. A New York hackman dies on his box, two women chat across a fence while hanging clothes, and a range of quips about umbrellas, heaven, coffee, and suitors.
Prof Lounsbury notes the first Locksley Hall mirrored 19th century aspirations amid French revolution fervor and rapid scientific progress. He describes the period as optimistic with steam electricity and science reshaping society while the poem crystallized vague future ideas into clear form. The piece also marks the 175th anniversary of Cold Spring Wrestlerien Church in New Jersey.
A vintage ad claim traces Castoria’s role from childhood to motherhood, noting a mother’s habit of giving Castoria to her children. The lines suggest a long standing trust in the product across generations and life stages.
A poem by David Kallander from America extols Allie as a beacon of happiness. Her smile clears clouds and paints rainbow colors while evoking pure innocence like a lily of the valley. The speaker admires her, feeling a fluttering heart unseen.
A historical chronicle recalls odd deaths from minor mishaps. A widow sues a baker after a pin in a Bath bun. a knitting needle wounds a actress. a wasp in a swallow leads to death. a fish in a net suffocates a man. a cat death at Oxford. beer flood at a London brewery. coaches crushed at Waltham Cross. horses and guards perish in a Glasgow to Polmont run.
In February 1807 near Monk's Heath a Liverpool mail coach team reacted to fox-hounds by chasing the hounds for hours. A blood-mare stayed with the whipper-in as the fox led them round a ring-fence and to ground, then returned to the inn and completed the ride back to Congleton that evening in high spirits.
A vintage miscellany blends a polite social obligation with travel memories. The piece argues that courtesy requires mutual greeting across social gaps, then shifts to vivid scenes from Martinique describing Grande Anse, tropical gardens, surf, wind, and a night by the sapphire sea as recounted by Lafcadio Hearn in Harper's Magazine.
A Contemporary Review depicts the Pope as a gracious intellectual figure who starts with mass and mass, receives about six visitors from bishops to ambassadors daily, speaks French Latin and Italian, and maintains a frugal diet. He works with papers until dinner, walks in the Vatican gardens, and ends with rosary prayers as aides stay late in study and prayer for the church.
Spectator reports Sir Edwin Watkins of the Metropolitan Railway Company offered land near London to lay a two mile line for a water rail system. Carriages glide on a water film between skate and rail, promising a hundred mile per hour travel that could turn England toward rapid national accessibility and reshape Surrey’s landscape.
In Winfarthing parish two oaks, the Winfarthing Oak and a slightly smaller tree, were measured by Robert Marsham in 1744 and again in 1874. The largest grew from 88 feet 7 inches to 40 feet in circumference while the smaller stayed at 30 feet, showing one tree gained 17 inches over 180 years and the other remained unchanged.
A January 1834 mystery of Miss J a young beauty who wrote the Duke of Wellington seeking spiritual guidance and even marriage. Seventeen years of letters and a guarded diary reveal a courteous but challenged exchange spread with religious fervor and lofty but impossible ambitions.
General van der Smissen used stationed photographers to audit maneuvers and found many soldiers neglected instructions. Rifles lacked attached cartridge pouches and ropes across the ford were missing, risking wet gear and unsafe crossings, sparking talk of photographers becoming a Belgian Thomas Atkins.
A collection of household hints and cooking ideas inspired by late 19th and early 20th century guidance. Tips cover threading a sewing machine in dim light, sausage toast recipes, rat deterrents with whitewash, custard crumb pudding, plant care against draughts, brown bread methods, and a seafood watch for beefsteak servement.
Colonel H. G. Prout surveys peoples in the equatorial Nile provinces noting Baris and Madis as tall, handsome groups with elaborate dress and body painting. He describes weaponry including spears bows and arrows, warns poisons are likely exaggerated, and praises courage and skill of fighters alongside the warrior Makraka.
An elderly man on a elevated car analyzes reading habits of newspaper users. He notes multiple fold styles from half to full length, observes that folds reflect character, and contrasts the refined reader who folds neatly with the shiftless reader who scrambles a rag bag.
The Widow Gibbs sues for breach of promise damages of 15000 in a six month old case funded by the court house ring. Widow testified the proposer asked to marry on February 21, 1887, then jail records showed the accused was a prisoner, discrediting the claim. The paper notes the widow as a tool of the ring and reports a mocked response.
The Detroit Free Press reports Pete Shu, 54 years 8 months 14 days old, was attacked in front of the post office on May 21 with a cavalry saber over an editorial on Czarist policy toward Turkey. He died after injuries. his doctor bill and funeral expenses were paid. The piece notes the victim slept well and Death loves a shining mark.
A mythic tale from the Atlanta Constitution recounts an angel who, unable to find a pure white flower, weeps and his crystal tears birth a lily. God blesses the flower to grow worldwide, reminding readers of divine purity whenever they see a white lily.
The crescent began as a Christian symbol in Constantinople and the eastern Roman provinces. Turks adopted it after 1453 following the conquest of Constantinople, despite Koran prohibitions on images in religious practice. The shift remains an oddity without a fully explained reason.
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