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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1895
Page
1
A July sequence of world events spans battles in Cuba and Spain, insurrectionary activity in Cuba, floods, cyclones, fires, and earthquakes across North America Europe and Asia. Reports cover court cases, political upsets, labor strikes, political resignations, notable deaths, and weather disasters affecting towns and industries.
New York July 15 money on call quoted 11/4 to 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper 3 to 3 1/4 percent. Sterling bank bills around £4.994 for demand and $4.895 for 60 days. Various rates for government bonds, flour, rye, corn, oats, hay, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, and potatoes listed with multiple regional and grain market figures. Prices cover wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye flour, and regional produce markets.
A collage of brief quips and exchanges from old papers. Jokes touch crime, banter, sermons on bicycles, and social jabs. Notable gibes include a deputy and warden dialogue about punishment and a bicycle thief jailed.
A political skit hinges on a nomination battle with a rival calling the nominee Gasbag while the other insists it will be Gasbag or nobody. The exchanges appear in Tribune and Record clips.
A quarrel quoted from Texas Siftings shows one man calling another an ignominous ass. The accused answers with a lawyer and a libel suit threat while offering fifty cents to settle, leading to a stubborn demand for compensation.
Conversational passage notes a playful dispute about kissing and a mustache. The exchange centers on a mother, a daughter, and a man named George in a domestic scene. The tone is humorous and domestic.
A collection of quick humor lines from old papers including a doctor punchline about a grass widow with hay fever and a quip in Life and Puck. The gag sequence plays on widow and wife wordplay, with archival captions from Oakland Times and In These Days.
Topic for the week from the Christian Endeavor notes urges a clean life rooted in regeneration. It argues that without a purified heart nothing can yield a clean life and that God’s word, not human reform, provides the true path. study and practice of scripture are essential.
A misnamed trio of churches divided by We, Us and Our unite under the Christian Endeavor angel. They remove fences and signs and invite all believers to Christ, holding prayers together and later running joint outdoor services. The three churches flourish thereafter with renewed unity.
Thomas Coke LL D born in Wales in 1747 studied at Jesus College Oxford joined Wesley in 1776 and became superintendent of Methodists in America ordained in Baltimore in 1784. Francis Asbury elected to the same office but left episcopal duties early. Coke funded missions in India and West Indies and died at sea in 1814 with six preachers.
In Boston the Rev E L Clark D D presided over a moving Good Friday service delivering an uplifting prayer. The sermon included lines seeking sustenance from Thy dear Son during Gethsemane and closing with phrases invoking Jesus for lasting joy rest and peace.
The Methodist League in Chattanooga Baptist union in Baltimore and Christian Endeavor in Boston have met and adjourned. The gatherings create lasting impact as local societies resume work, with planning, speaking, praying, singing and shouting leading to deeper consecration and better service in many efforts. Money and toil were not wasted.
Camp meetings have evolved with League day and Bi ple conferences. They yield good results, with new ideas, quicker zeal, deeper devotion, and recreation of spirit, mind, and body from these gatherings.
Quote by Godet on humanity as a vessel for God describing growth with filling and enlargement.
A trolley accident leaves Frank Townsend dead and Conductor Graham in frail condition. Other victims remain stable. In Nicaragua news, British subjects expelled from Bluefields claim over 1,000,000 dollars in damages from the Nicaraguan government.
Thad muses on rulers of India and distant lands whose orders echo fate. The dream of exploration is deemed vain and the speaker asks if life is a dream, if the world is like shadows, and where the dreamer may awaken.
A compact Romantic poem contemplating nature and love as interlinked forces. The speaker argues that all things mingle and kiss in harmony and asks why union should not apply to lovers as well. The verses use vivid elemental imagery to praise intimate connection.
A reflective poem fragment depicts a speaker addressing the sea about life love and death. The sea responds with a repeated refrain of infinity and mystery, pondering what lasts beyond human ties and voyages. The dialogue alternates between human longing and oceanic meditation.
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