24 Jul 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1889
Page
1
Mr. Shear showcases one of the best selected stocks of DRY GOODS AND CARPETS in this part of the State with a wide Wash Goods assortment. Highlights include Ginghams Seersuckers Prints Zephyrs Latines Chambrays Challies and a large selection. Prices feature Good Challies 8c Latines 15c 1000 yards Cream Seersuckers 5c 32 inch Tricot 25c and ladies ribbed Jersey vests 15c. Warren Pa.
Train notices list May 12 1889 departures from Warren for Sheffield St Marys Kane Erie and local routes. Through Erie Philadelphia Washington Baltimore connections with Pullman sleeping cars and coaches, daily except Sundays, times to Warren and intermediate stops. CHAS E PUGH general manager signs off.
A partial timetable lists various train times and notes officer names. It shows departure times from morning through night and mentions Gen' CLUTE and L.T. Bishop among railway staff.
Readable fragments of times and labels form a chaotic list. The sequence includes numbers and parenthetical markers, suggesting a damaged schedule or log with multiple entries and unclear context.
The provided OCR text lists times and codes such as PM and numbers like 30 1 Dy 4 49 6 55 4 44 6 50 but no complete events or names. It reads as a fragment of a schedule or log with unclear context and lacks identifiable persons or organizations.
Reports note Persia bans gray hair custom, Holland schools bar women, Egypt slave trade nearly extinct, and a London club manager jailed for stealing umbrellas. John Bright papers, Memorial Day in Mexico, Guadalupe island goats and tallow trade, Paris Exposition woes, and Pisa tower sold by lottery top a curious list of topics.
A survey of neckwear from ancient times to the 19th century notes collars of silver and brass on ancient necks, a German origin for the standing collar in 1218, luteended fashions, and noble figures such as G eneral Grant Blaine Cleveland Byron and Whittier. It traces collars from gorgets to various styles and social norms across centuries.
A compact collection of 19th century poems touching on love, beauty, courtship, and life’s ironies. Frank Dempster Sherman’s verse explores perception in love, plus rhymes on fishing and picnic courtship, and a series of reflective questions on unequal worldly gifts.
A collage of verse on love and endurance, city life and pastoral longing, with reflections on wealth, sorrow, and virtue. It includes social maxims about criticism, human nature, and a humorous baseball vignette with archaic phrasing and a political promotional line.
The Dover Post No 112 Delaware G A R claims veterans but accepts only those who have carried a gun. It numbers about 1200 men, led by Daniel O'Brien with officers including Charles Rhoades and John Henry McCarthy. The post originated as a joke among Internal Revenue clerks and grew into a social political force in the city.
John T. Norris, a former telegraph operator turned detective, once served as a spy delivering telegrams for Union forces near Petersburg. He later reunited with Ella De Hart, retrieved a long‑lost heirloom seal ring, and after solving the eight‑ring puzzle, returned the ring to the De Hart family, while Norris resumed his detective career in Springfield.
Assistant Secretary Bussey upholds rejection of Elizabeth Small's pension claim as dependent mother of Henry Small of Company F US Colored Troops. He rejects the idea that a slave son's labor constitutes family support under the pension statute, noting Congress did not intend to compensate for such indirect aid. Washington Letter.
A St Louis detective explains how photographs aid crime detection through a fixed facial region circled for scrutiny. He describes the ring technique, the mind’s eye, and how a rogues gallery description helps identify suspects like James Carroll, despite changes in hair and beard.
A collage of quips and jokes from several papers, including lines about artificial eyes, a lawyer dialogue, a dinner craving comic, a doctor’s tale, and a Sunday school recitation with a mischievous misquote.
A Glasgow Herald report cites a Turkish palace conspiracy and the sultan’s monogamy dilemma with a 300 wife harem. It notes immense civil costs, dowers paid to slave brides, and pressure from vested interests to maintain the imperial seraglio. An Albany man recounts two cows fighting and being separated.
The piece extols the ideal optimist as a transformed person shaped by adversity. It likens the optimist to refined metal, a Delphic seer, and a hid oasis whose trust in a universal law yields peace amid hardship. It frames optimism as a noble, almost prophetic stance.
Merck Drug Store reports a surge in trade from offering free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption. The remedy claims to cure coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases with a money back guarantee and a large bottle priced at $1.
An old advertisement claims Lane's Family Medicine, discovered by Dr Silas Lane in the Rockies, cures blood, liver and kidney diseases and clears skin. It touts benefits for constipation and children, sells large bottles for 50 cents, and urges calling 100 men to obtain a trial. Henry & Johnson's Amica Oil Liniment is also pitched as preventing cripples if used after a misstep.
The notice proclaims a complete assortment of type paper cards envelopes and skilled printers for first class job printing at low prices. It invites communications from all parts of the county and country with brief newsy submissions and requires authors to sign their names.
A collage of light quips and satire from periodical pages, featuring barb about law and health journals, jests on gentlemen and self made men, and humorous exchanges about cooking, sailing, singing, and marriage relations. Notable lines touch on vanity, pride, and social pretensions.
A writer cites Mrs. Papen diek on domestic life in 1788 noting a 2 pm or 3 pm dinner, modest tableware, few female servants, rooms stored away, and limited silver. Prices show mutton ten cents per pound, bread eight to ten cents, eggs six cents a dozen, wages eight guineas, washing done at home, with drinking after supper.
Prof A J Cook warns the elm pest Galeruca xanthomelaena endangers European elms and may attack American stock once the European beattle is damaged. He endorses London purple spray at one pound per 200 gallons, applied by force pumps to reach tall trees, urging municipal action to treat all affected trees immediately.
The passage extols Electric Bitters as a great alterative and tonic that restores health after sickness. It claims relief for kidney liver and stomach issues and notes sales at Morck Drug Store for 50c and 1 per bottle.
Over 60 people were forced to leave their homes yesterday to call for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine. The ad claims the remedy cures liver and kidney issues, constipation, headaches, and a bad complexion. Dated promotion notes praise from ladies and a large size at 50 cents.
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