23 Jul 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1872
Page
1
Under you cloud in cool shelter the speaker toils in heat while the happy herd rests in noon shade. He calls Nature a kind mother and begs her to breathe cooling airs and spread her wings so he may share shade with her humbler child.
Lieut. Calderwood visits his sister as Paul Forbes pursues wealth through clairvoyance and dreams. After meeting the seeress at No. 81 Poplar St, Paul receives a mysterious puzzle, turns to mathematics, and blossoms into a topographical engineer with a ten year post in the Territory.
The Stokes case shows lawyers prize a seat on the jury in New York, while Indiana enacted a law making it a misdemeanor to seek jury panel positions, signaling a change in attitude toward jury service.
From 1858 to 1866 Bennett Pieters was a well known city figure linked to Red Jacket Bitters. He hosted lavish suppers at the Sherman House and spent freely. After a 1867 patent clash over rival Red Cloud Bitters, a court ruled independently originated bitters, undermining Pieters. He drifted into debt and drink, joined the army in 1869, and faded from prominence.
The Territorial Enterprise argues for terse telegraph style to replace long syntax. It notes editors already condense and cites examples like has assessmented or convidented as clearer forms. The piece predicts widespread adoption and cites efficiency over grammar.
Argument favors beards beyond appearance noting dust filtration and cooling by evaporation. Cites explorers Moffat and Livingstone and says beards protect against sun heat and harsh weather, improving comfort and fever risk.
A Chicago female graduate wrote and recited an essay arguing the futility of writing speech and the supremacy of silent thought and action. The paradox of her performing the essay suggests a pointed critique of self imposed restraint.
An 1866 secret first marriage ends in deceit, extortion and a botched divorce. A Washington law student and a society belle conceal vows, while a Western appointment and rich rival press for control. A New York divorce seals a cruel deceit and public outrage. The case entwines cabinet circles and political intrigue.
A new Indiana law taking effect July 1 imposes fines on anyone who seeks a juror position, declaring such actions contempt of court. The statute targets individuals attempting to be jurors and imposes penalties accordingly.
A traveler describes Buenos Ayres as a crowded port city with narrow streets, iron‑grilled windows, and etiquette in sidewalk yielding. He details hotel life, local butter methods, tambo refreshment yards, and the popular yerba mate tea, noting social norms and gender roles.
A reflective essay traces the Pope basket tale of the weeping willow to Japan and questions how legends grow. It notes basket willow uses and hints that many popular stories about trees and origins may be apocryphal, urging caution in accepting folklore.
Edith Gray recalls a neighbor's visit selling a cow and a mother's generous hospitality. The father refuses to undercut the seller, instead offering food and modest help, illustrating a lifelong lesson in mercy and charity toward the poor.
In the San Joaquin Valley a grain patch 35 miles long and 8 miles wide covers 179 200 acres. The average yield is 16 bushels per acre, totaling 2 867 200 bushels or 86 015 tons.
A Western college professor strict about hats confronts frontier laxity. After a malevolent sequence involving Mr. G from St. Paul and Captain K from Wisconsin, hot water showers the fallen head of the hapless administrator. He soon returns to class with a humbled, nearly unstarched demeanor.
The New Iberia Sugar Bowl notes Attakapas has many aged residents. On Messrs Charpentier and Como's plantation near Pattersonville an elderly Frenchman aged 92 walks 150 miles to Vermillionville and back. He, with a centenarian African couple and an old preacher, illustrates the era’s aging population and the planter’s care.
Saturday Review laments a grotesque proposal to mummy Mazzini’s remains as a future monument. It questions the taste and dignity of preserving bodies and contrasts with relics of saints, imagining a national Valhalla where actual heroes’ corpses are displayed in Westminster Abbey and Parliament approaches.
A wandering show featuring a single performer and a bear tours Indiana, drawing curious crowds in small towns and farms as it tours the countryside.
A range of short notes from illness and possible disfigurement to life-saving pipe rescues, sensational tales, odd inventions, and social observances. Highlights include Empress Eugenie ill, a Melrose well rescue, Texas cemetery closure by women, nitroglycerin fishing tricks, and a new Hartford deaf school method showing rapid speech gains.
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