Western New York and Penna Rail Road Time Table 1889
A dated May 12 1889 timetable for the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad lists westward trains with multiple AM and PM departures from towns such as Foxburg Franklin Oil City Olean Salamanca and Warren. The dense schedule shows arrival and departure times across river and oil regions including Trinityville Hickory Tidioute and Kane with varied times and notes on Eastern Time.
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Foxburg
Oil City
Oleopolis
Saat
Eagle Rock
Tionesta
Hickory
Trunkeyville
Tidioute
Thompson’s
Kinneton
Warren
Kingua
Bradford
Kinzua
Corydon
Wolf Run
Quaker Bridge
Red House
Salamanca
Olean
Shear Introduces Large Dry Goods and Carpets Stock
Mr. Shear announces a new shipment from eastern markets featuring a wide wash goods section with ginghams seersuckers prints zephyrs latines chambrays and charlies. Notable values include 8c challies 15c latines 5c cre am seersuckers 32 inch tricot at 25c and 15c Jersey vests. claims largest local dry goods and carpets dealer and leadership in prices and assortments.
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Shear
Pennsylvania Rail Road timetable Warren to Erie 1889
Public notice lists May 12 1889 timetable for the Pennsylvania Railroad P and E Division. It details eastward trains from Warren to Sheffield St. Marys and Philadelphia with through sleeping cars, and westward trains from Erie to Warren including the Erie Mail and Erie Express. Also notes through trains from New York Philadelphia Washington Baltimore to Warren and the Kane and Sheffield connections.
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Sheffield Express
Sheffield
St. Mary’s
Erie
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Phila
Williamsport
Kane
Rape
Warren
Erie Mail
Warren Express
Oil Express
Erie Express
Trains Schedule Change on Sunday February 27
International timetable shows trains on the Dunkirk to Jamestown line with stations including Sinclairville Casadaga Ross Mill Falconer and Frewsburg. The schedule lists departures from 8:45 am to 11:47 pm with service adjusted by D Thayer General Assistant Supt and local station agents.
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Oo Louue
Casadaga
Sinclairville
Ross Mill
Falconer
A &Gw
Craig
Frewsburg
Fentonville
Ackley’s
Russellburg
N. Warren
Warren
Tr.e Ow
Jamestown
Ana Prauivre
D. Thayer
Gen’l Ass’t Supt
Agel
No3 No5 No7 Ar Pat PM PM 595
Fragmented numeric sequence and parenthetical notations without clear context or identifiable entities. The readable text resembles a partial ledger or scorecard fragment with dates and times but lacks coherent events, participants, or outcomes.
Lawyering Quip Sparks Courtroom Banter
A playful exchange between a lawyer and a doctor turns on wit about curing meat. The banter features the parodic jab about not curing ham and not trying a case of lard, reflecting a light courtroom humor moment.
Editorial We and Me in a Humorous Poem
A humorous verse by Frank Pemmon in Yankee Blade recalls courting a woman who ran an editorial desk in the Journal of Common Sense. The speaker confesses hopes of marriage only to learn the pronoun we referred to a professional partnership rather than romance.
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of Common Sense
Frank Pemmon
Yankee Blade
Bad for Blondes and Gas Dangers Across Sights
A scattered 19th century digest notes hair damage from natural gas and ammonia vapor on blonde hair, cautions about heat from gas with dry membranes affecting hearing, and lists varied science tidbits from Alabama to Austria. It mentions Oak finishes, plaster flooring, oil photography, aluminum bronze gun barrels, and large spectacle production in Southbridge.
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Nuverdorben
Paris
Austria
Southbridge
Mass
United States
Chicago Sanitary News
Board of Health
R. L. Weatherby
Ocean Cable Companies
A Story of a Good Woman Who Wanted to Be Loved Economically
The piece recalls a wealthy Scotch spinster who values financial security over romance, and a sweet but imprudent suitor who learns to measure affection by bank balance rather than gifts. A related auction note features a grand master painting of Andrew Jackson and a California paper jokes about Santa Cruz jail reforms.
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San Francisco Chronicle
California
Santa Cruz
Rural Beef and Hunger Encounter
A farmer's wife questions a tramp about why he leaves the steak while he asks for food. The tramp replies that he did not seek work but something to eat. The fragment suggests a scene of hardship and hunger in rural life.
One Day at a Time by Mrs. M. A. Kidder
Poem extols living one day at a time to avoid worry and sorrow. It contrasts hurried life with simple joys found in love and leisure, urging patience, contentment, and steady effort. The piece cites the New York Ledger as the source.
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Love
Ani
M. A. Kidder
N. Y. Ledger
Chinese Brick Tea Captures Far Eastern Trade Currents
Blackwood's Magazine notes brick tea from Hankew and Foo-Choo fuels Mongolian Manchurian economies, with 60,000,000 pounds moved overland in 1887 to Mongolia Siberia and Russia. The piece predicts railway expansion will cut overland costs, boosting demand for tea and other goods like coal near Beijing.
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Russia
London
Odessa
Mongolia
Manchuria
Siberia
Pekin
Great Wall
Hankew
Yang-Tse-Kiang
Foo-Choo
Min
Tien-Tsin
Kalgan
Great Britain
Blackwood
Boarder’s comforts curtailed as house mistress seizes provisions
A Boston Cor, N O Picayune note recalls last week when a boarder enjoying a ten pound turkey and seasonal luxuries faced removal of provisions by the mistress. An advertisement for a light cook or chamber maid appeared day before yesterday by Miss Bridget O Houlihan, suggesting she is not to wed the young man presently and must seek employment.
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Shamokin
Paris
San Francisco
Napa
Cal
PunapeLrnta
Johnstown
Collins Graves
Terre Havre
Jason
Armstrong County
Persia
Cahokia
America
St. Augustine
Santa Fe
Caruanine Schmiot
Wichita
Kan
Germany
Portland
Ore
Jennie Moore
Apia
Harrison
Pennsylvania
Clearfield
Lewisburg
Bridget O ° Houlihan
Boston Cor
N. O. Picayune
Simon Cameron
Flossie
Kate
Mamma
The Silent Member of My Household Visit Ends the Mystery
A Boston household encounters a fat Irish visitor who reveals her son has been secretly living in the spare attic for six months while the servant aided by conniving kept him fed. The dramatic scene ends with the son gone and a half eaten meal left behind.
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Bridget O’houlihan
Barbaric Ling Chi Execution Described by Naval Officer
A British naval officer recounted witnessing Ling Chi executions in Canton, detailing the torture method and sequence of cuts ending with beheading. The report notes the brutal scene observed from a Canton rooftop and describes the victims’ suffering and lack of response. A secondary note describes a bride in wedding garments and a mother sealing the oven to silence gossip.
Delicate Wife Described By Farmer Hawbuck
A farmer, Hawbuck, boasts about his wife who milks seventeen cows and feeds twenty men before six, claiming she is delicate and pale rather than robust, provoking amused debate among listeners.
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Hawbuck
Gossip Quips Stirred By Quick-Witted Exchange
A playful exchange between Smith and Jones centers on a wife described as a Vassar graduate. Smith asks about her languages, Jones replies she speaks only one, but it's a “rustler,” prompting light humor.
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Smith
Jones
Vassar
Memory Powers of Chicago Meat King Philip Armour
Philip Armour, the Chicago meat king, credits much of his success to a superb memory. He reportedly keeps vast business details in his head, recalls dates and events, and never forgets a person’s face or name. The trait is natural but carefully cultivated.
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Philip Armour
Chicago
A Woman's Discovery of a Cure in County
A Shelby county woman named Mrs. Luther Lutz endured seven years of illness with tuberculosis like symptoms. After coughing for three months and near death, she started Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and slept through the night after the first dose. One bottle reportedly cured her dramatically, per W. C. Hamrick & Co. and Morck Drug Store offer.
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Dr. King
Luther Lutz
W. C. Hamrick & Co
Shelby, NC
Morck Drug Store
Nonsense and witty quips from a 1900s press montage
A collection of humorous snippets and quotes from various publications featuring puns about nails, cooks in Ecuador, last words of women, a lynching remark, undertaker bills, a coal man’s song, typewriter talk, baseball in Terre Haute, a sleepwalker anecdote, and a final light postcard joke about a man asking for ten cents for car fare.
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Terre Haute Express
Philadelphia Press
Charles
Mabel
Philadelphia Inquirer
Miscellaneous Humorous Scribbles and Quips From A Paper
A collection of witticisms and brief anecdotes ranging from social quips about fashion and vanity to jokes about lawyers, photographers, and judges. Includes wordplay on names, playful notes about the drug trade, and short vignettes such as a mother discussing marriage with her daughter and a Berlin courtroom anecdote.
Lane’s Family Medicine advertised for free trials
The notice promotes Lane’s Family Medicine discovered by Dr Silas Lane in the Rocky Mountains. It claims cures for blood liver and kidney diseases and constipation and complexion improvements. It targets 100 men to call on druggists for a free trial package, with a large size package priced at 50 cents and endorsements including that children like it. Wild oats should be well thrashed.
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Lane
Silas Lane
Rocky Mountains
An Educational Incident in a Classroom Exchange
A schoolgirl, speaking aloud to parse the phrase He kissed me, reluctantly explains grammar. She notes pronounness and tense amid blushes as the teacher guides the lesson.
Typewriter Tradeoffs and Engagement Jests in a Quip
A light exchange about swapping a typewriter for improvements ends with a merchant jokingly saying he is engaged to someone else. The brief dialogue showcases witty banter in a retail setting and hints at playful social remarks.
Mail Office Offers Wide Range of Printing Services
The mail job office boasts a full supply of paper cards envelopes and skilled printers ready for first class job printing at low prices. Blanks of all kinds available on hand or to order with circulation as a second class paper at Warren P O. Submissions welcome but anonymous pieces will not be published and writers must include their name.
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Mai
Warren P.O
Electric Bitters Praised by Doctors and Druggists
W D Sult of Bippus Indiana testifies Electric Bitters relief in rheumatism after six bottles. Abraham Hare of Bellville Ohio calls it best selling medicine in twenty years. Many others endorse the remedy for liver kidney and blood issues. Only fifty cents a bottle at Morck Drug Store.
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W. D. Sult
Bippus
Ind
Abraham Hare
Bellville
Ohio
Morck
Lane's Family Medicine Free Trial Claim Debated
More than sixty people reportedly evacuated their homes yesterday to seek a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine. The sales pitch promises rapid relief for bad blood liver and kidney issues constipation headaches and unsightly complexions with a large 50 cent sample touted by praising ladies.
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Lane
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ER Cowan & CO
ER Cowan
W.cowan
D.cowan
Warren County
M J. Walkerman
Qneida Market
Liberty Street
Clow House
L. Agnew
Market and
Second Sts
A. Schofield
Exchange Block
Warren, Pa
J. A. Love
Warren, Penna
Short Streets
Engage
J. W. Clements
Water and
Liberty Streets
A ©. McAlpine
Third St
M E. Church
J W. Dunele
F. R. Scott
R. John Hepburn
Liberty St
Third
East Sts
W . Trunkey
Attorney AT Law
Judge Scofield
W W. Freeman
Hazeltine
W. Stone
E. Rice
A. F. Bole
Wright Block
Centre Street
Corry, Pa
Bowman& Bole
A . F. McPherson
Hickory Sts
Clark
Verback Block
Ww. N. Yates
L. G. Noyes’ Drug Store
Warren Savings Bank
W. A. Greaves
S* Muel T. Neill
Exchange
Crawfer
Forest
Venango
H. J. Muse
Johnson’s Exchange
KR & Cable
Attorneys AT Law
Water Street
Scofield Block
C. Dinsmoor
JAS. Cable
Etmore, Noyes & Hinckley
Second Street
W. D. Hinckley
L. D. Wetmore
G. H. Noyes
W.D. Hinckley
BA & Thompson
Beaty Block
D. I. Ball
Notary Public
Ilbur & Schnur
LAW
Front Street
W. Wilbur
WM. Schnur
Johnson's Exchange
Story
P. Johnson
W. M. Windsey
T. C. Parmlee
Citizens National Bank
Myron Waters
Francis Henry
David L. Gerould
Cashier
M. Waters
Johnson
F Henry
H. A. Jamieson
V. Davis
W. D. Brown
A. Hertszel
Geo
N. Parmlee
A. T. Scofield
U.S
Chamberlain Institute and Female College
Randolph, N
Chautauqua Lake
N. Eng. Conservatory
Commercial College
J. T. Edwards
Aaa
Singer
Auguste
Maino
Western
Penna
R.R
River Division
Gatchell
Suapt
J. A. Fellows
Pass
Buffalo
N. Y
D. Shear
Traveler's Directory
R. R
P. & E. Division
Rps
J.R. Wood
Dunkirk, Allig
Tray Valley
Pittsburg
IME
Owe J Ackhsod
Kvineton Youngsvill -Pittefeld
A. Clute
L.T. B
Warre
RiTam
N, Pa
Warren & Farnsworth Valley R
Garfield
Vandergrift
Dunham's Mill
Clarendon Corwen
Underwood's
McCalmont
Wood’s Mill
East Branch Junction
Junction
East Branch
Underwood’s
INS
Ridgway
Hrie
Waunergri‘t
Garteiu
Dunham’s Mill
A. D. Wood
Tionesta Valley A. BR. Co
North
Tionesta Valley
Farnsworth
Tiona
Markham
Jerry Crary
Geer
Philip Bysecker
Hoffman Block
Market Street
Judlow House
Pitcher’s Castoria
Royal Aking Powder Co
Wall St
Carters
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
Simmel
Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Science and Industry
Andrew Jackson
Boston
Heaven
Earth
Journal of Chemistry
Fannie Macaulay
Brighton
England
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Murat
Luisa Marchesa Rasponi
Ravenna
Italy
Napoleon I
Bassett
United States Senate
E. B. Ball
George Washington
Pension
John Wanamaker
Jenkin Town
Stanley Brown
Mollie Garfield
Duke of Westminster
Miss Breckinridge
Kentucky
China
Hong Kong
Canton
F. G. Carper
Cleveland
Nail
Yonkers Statesman
Ecuador
Drake’s Magazine
Journal of Education
Boston Beacon
Dullard
Lowell
Evarts
Raceland
Silas
Elizabeth
New York Sun
Berlin
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