16 Jul 1890
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1890
Page
1
Grand opening notice touts dry goods carpets and accessories at D Shears. The carpet department is busy with Cottage Hall Stair Ingram tapestries Brussels velvet and moquette carpets in latest designs. Dress goods embroideries and laces, spring wraps and cloaks offer wide selections at unbeatable prices.
The meeting notices invite all farmers to attend in Warren at the Court House on the last Saturday of each month in the afternoon. President W. B. Acocks and treasurer B. F. Morris are named, with Willis Cowan as an officer.
A fragmented timetable lists arrivals and departures for multiple lines including Eastern Standard West East routes, Erie, Oil Express, Warren, St Marys, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley, and Pittsburgh. It notes Sunday listings with several express and mail connections and various arrival and departure times ranging from morning to evening across several cities.
Canada runs a large home cheese trade with exports of 9 100 021 pounds in 1883 0. A new disease photo electric ophthalmia is linked to prolonged electric light exposure. Northwest flax plantings exceed a million acres producing 18 000 000 bushels seed. Hop vine eyed as paper pulp substitute. Australia leads in wool exports at 251 000 000 pounds. Phonograph proposed as cash register for accounting. Electrical tanning yields 17 percent stronger leather. Tomex Cincinnati makes ultra thin gold leaf from 21 000 dollars yearly. Boston 1796 manufactures include rum sugar beer sailcloth and more. Water tight sound capture via water telephone patent improves resilience to density pressure. London shows a camera to photograph water droplet formation. Sweden finds steel rails with carbon above four percent break in winter. three percent preferred in cold climates. European North American fish catch totals 150 000 tons equating to 42 000 000 sheep by weight and 9 000 000 in nourishing power. Electric motors spread with massage applications in Louisville Kentucky as a doctor adapts one for steady rhythmic operation.
Louisville lodges prepare a grand St John’s day celebration in Central Park with invites to orphans. New York Grand Lodge reelects John J. Gorman amid Cerneauism controversy. A $25,000 prize fund and 15,000 in uniform plus 50,000 in line expected for a Chicago triennial parade. Minnesota reports 1,212 membership gain and $126,910 lodge revenue.
The supreme governing body of the order will convene in Washington next week with 28 proposed measures on the agenda. The group reports strong presence in the Middle and Western states and rapid growth elsewhere, as members anticipate the annual session.
A fragment of verse by Mariton Lisle published in Inter Ocean recalls youthful summers and joyous energy. The refrain pom pull away marks a longing for lively days and bright mirth amid toil and sadness.
A castle of science and crime unfolds as a police surgeon fingerprints arsenic in a murdered wife case. Joe Johnson’s brother plots to frame a deadly accident using a nitro glycerine fuse. The professor confronts a murderous scheme amid a stormy night and a grim countdown.
A dramatic narrative recounts a murder confession, a sabotaged trap, and a boy who saves himself and others by disabling a nitro glycerine fuse after a midnight incident. The escaped prisoner dies by hanging. his brother wounds himself to escape justice. Then a historian notes Rev Thomas Hooker’s quarter hour sermon followed by a longer later discourse.
A French single fluid battery by M Pollak uses zinc and copper with sulphate of copper, charging continuously and powering lamps from accumulators. Prof Elihu Thomson predicts electricity replacing steam on major railroads and possible speeds up to 150 miles per hour. The Edinburgh Chemical Industry meeting notes phosphorus manufacture from phosphate of lime and bone ash use fading, with varying phosphorus amounts in matches.
A parade of foreign tidbits covers lavish schemes and oddities. Butter consumption in London tops a hundred million pounds yearly while a Mohammande chef governs Queen Victoria’s table. Plans in Chili to buy Krupp batteries, canal projects at Brussels, and a Berlin statue duel mingle with a belt of mischief about a Brahmin marriage and Meissonier’s 1814 painting. An Exeter Hall episode shows a late Duchess and a Wake up Mary chorus. Bengal police warn travelers against poisoning schemes at stations and wells along the Eastern Bengal railway system.
In a Chicago Tribune aside a father grills his daughter about a frequent caller Grigson. He jokes the trend will become regular while a child asks what matinee means and is corrected that it is a French word for an amateur performance.
Scientific Americans identify the southwestern Persian coast along the gulf as the hottest area on earth. For forty days in July and August temperatures stayed above 100 degrees at night and up to 128 in the afternoon. At Babrin water is scarce, yet locals survive on springs rising from the gulf bottom more than a mile offshore.
A clipped exchange shows two riders in a carriage as one asks to hurry home. The other insists on an old horse, noting they are seven miles from home and travel only three miles an hour.
A promotional notice offers 100 men a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine discovered by Dr. Silas Lane in the Rocky Mountains. It claims to cure blood liver and kidney diseases and to aid constipation and complexion. Large 50 cent packages available at all druggists.
Theo Pfaffin, a respected piano salesman, praises Colby Piano Company's new style C mahogany piano noting its splendid tone and touch. The testimonial appears in Chicago’s Corrage Organ Co. catalog at 223 State Street Cureaco Illinois, dated January 6, 1890, with a sales offer of 50 cents until after the November election.
A Ladies' Home Journal vignette praises the oldest daughter for planning a cheerful, well run gathering. She creates a welcoming, tasteful setting with organized seating, plates, and music, guiding guests through a pleasant orderly evening without fuss.
An advertisement touts Dr Haines Golden Specific as a universal liquor cure. It claims a faster permanent cure when added to tea or coffee without the drinker’s knowledge, with thousands reportedly helped and guaranteed safety. Address for circulars is Golden Specific Co., 185 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Mall will publish letters from all parts of the county and country if brief and properly signed. Anonymous submissions will not be published.
A collection of domestic guidance covering washing walls with soap suds and pumice, savory oatmeal with butter, warmed over beef with vegetables, clearing soup stock with egg, Creole chicken with parsley, onions and rice, baked sliced potatoes, and a warm salt bath remedy for travel fatigue with violet or lavender rub, as cited by The Household and N Y Tribune.
This Jennese Miller Magazine piece traces the evolution from dinner to luncheon as a distinct social meal for women. It notes elaborate ten course lunches, flowered menus, and fashionable attire while men stay away, and warns against tittle-tattle and personal scolding at the table.
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