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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1901
Page
2
A weekly digest summarizes home and foreign items across politics industry society and notable happenings. It presents concise notes on events at home and abroad, emphasizing political and industrial developments and personal items within seven days.
A series of deadly incidents reported across the U S includes Robert Cooke Charles Swisher and Charley Scott killed by lightning at Arthur Illinois Fred Fearheim of Pacific Junction Texas killed his wife daughter and himself in a heat sparked spree.
Gen Daniel Butterfield dies at his country home near Poughkeepsie New York aged seventy Frederick S Williams founder publisher of the Lafayette Indiana Sun day Times dies aged fifty three Robert Folger Westcott New York founder of his express company dies suddenly at Richfield Springs New York Ex Congressman Simon J Schermerhorn dies at his home Rotterdam New York aged seventy three Samuel T Cushing brigadier general United States army retired formerly commissary general of subsistence dies in Washington Henry King Elkins Chicago commercial pioneer and son of revolutionary soldiers dies at eighty three.
A long expected manifesto by Lord Rosebery to the British Liberals conveys no clear path for party survival. Evacuations in Peking plan set for August 14, marking a notable anniversary.
Andrew Carnegie proposes a $50,000 endowment for a Portsmouth Ohio public library. The note appears among minor items summarizing varied 19th century politics and society across nations.
At Troy about 200 collar cutters walk out over apprenticeship disputes as some Lehigh Valley railroad machinists return individually after a two month strike. Fires in Colorado blamed on drought. New York garment workers claim 50,000 on strike. Adder torpedo boat launched at Elizabethport. Steel casting plant in Sharon hit by strike tied to machinist imports. Delaware Lackawanna workers back at old wages after eight weeks. Berlin banker Salo Rawicz dies by poison amid Leipziger bank failures. Santa Paula mayor Hugh O’Hara shot, likely fatally.
Bradstreet's reports fear drought and strikes but markets advance with optimism. Steel and coal labor actions cause a major but temporary slowdown while rainfall varies by region. machinists strike deteriorates. In Wichita, F R Smith from Bonham Texas dies after a train robbery near Choctaw route, bodies moved to Oklahoma City with wife and daughter aboard.
El Reno Oklahoma reports 92 599 homeseekers received slips for a chance in the drawing when registration booths closed. The entry pool includes numerous applicants from the region seeking homeseekers benefits.
A Louisiana fisherman on the Illinois river boasted a seven pound catch to his wife who answered with a joke of her own. She claimed a ten pound catch that “isn’t a beauty” and that it “looks like you.”
A string of quoted lines from Philadelphia Press and Baltimore American reflects reader banter and humorous exchanges about weather fashion and ice cream. The playful snippets capture everyday banter rather than a single focused event or news item.
In New York and other regions on July 23 prices for flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs and cattle show varied figures. Western hogs bring 6.15 to 6.25, calves fetch 6.50 to 7.00, and lambs reach 3.00 to 5.50 in several markets.
A humorous exchange quotes an innkeeper and Silas after hunters depart. The innkeeper asks if there is room for goods, including beer whisky and guns. Silas confirms loading but forgot to include the guns, sparking a casual exchange about the missing items.
The Cunarder captain allegedly forced a skin gambler to surrender his winnings. The gambler, citing unfair discrimination, notes many steamboat gamblers risk money after disembarking due to lack of newspaper awareness.
A Washington Star quip notes the long delay since a graduation essay was read and the advice on governing has not been acted upon. J Cumrox comments on the discouraging pace of government response as Ethel listens.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a universal remedy from headaches to cancer. It claims the product cleanses the bowels naturally with easy movements, costs 10 cents to start, and warns to beware of imitations.
In a Detroit Free Press exchange, Jones asks what one would do if a burglar alarm sounded at night. Brown responds that in darkness it would take time to locate shoes and a pistol, allowing the burglar to escape.
Do your feet ache and burn. Allen's Foot-Ease powder claims to make tight shoes fit better and to cure corns itching swelling hot sore sweating feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. 25 cents. Sample sent free. Ad dress Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A Washington Post remark notes a full grown man who robs a bird's nest is not in the same category as a boy, calling the man an ornithologist.
An old advertisement touts Hoxsie's Croup Cure as a diphtheria preventive with no nausea and a price of 50 cents. A dated editorial note laments a girl sighing for a career while her mother handles housework.
Advertisement notes Piso's Cure for Consumption as an infallible remedy for coughs and colds from N. W. Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900.
A London Pick-Me story presents a sharp exchange where a wife laments feeling misled about her husband’s intelligence and he retorts that the realization could have come before the marriage. The brief sketch highlights quick, humorous wordplay.
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