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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
1
A pair of verse fragments explore religion and social performance. Gilder's poem questions worldly reform and divine presence, while Lincoln humorously depicts a family preparing to host a minister, balancing hospitality with hidden tensions and moral doubt. The piece uses dialect and domestic scenes to lampoon religious etiquette.
A poetic excerpt extols the United States as a glorious land with vast landscapes and abundant natural riches. Ella Wheeler Wilcox frames patriotism and personal ideals, contrasting virtuous nurturing with sensual imagery, within an excerpt from Smart Set.
A child described with red tangled hair loud voice freckles and a missing front tooth resembles a comic picture from head to toe yet his mother calls him darling when she tucks him into bed. The contrast highlights family affection amid playful critique in a tender domestic scene.
Headlines recount Boxer outrages in Manchuria with mass killings and rail sabotage. Li Hung Chang departs Canton for a viceroyalty amid warnings from Britain and France, while foreign forces clash with Chinese and Russians. Western powers seek peace as Beijing ministers safe. Washington notes hopeful telegrams.
A French Mediterranean fleet trialed a hexagonal formation with one ship at each vertex and the admiral’s vessel at center. Each ship is 400 yards from the next, bows aligned with the voyage, and a reserve lies to the side for excess ships with torpedo boats. Fewer signals are claimed.
F M Spawn a 19 year old school teacher from Alto Pass Illinois ate and drank in one evening beyond normal capacity. He consumed a can of tomatoes peas sardines seven glasses of soda water and two quarts of temperance drinks after his regular supper. This feat joins other similar astonishing achievements noted by his acquaintances.
In a fog bound Irish channel collision, Cunard liner Campania struck the Liverpool bark Embleton, cutting her in two. Embleton sank at once. seven crew were saved while about eleven, including the captain, are believed drowned. Campania limped to Liverpool five and a half hours late.
A collision Saturday evening outside Belfast Lough between the steamers Dromedary and Alligator killed five passengers and left many more seriously injured. About 600 people were aboard. amputations were reported as necessary in several cases. Dreaded drownings were feared as rescue efforts began.
Philadelphia report details Senator Boies Penrose's Washington trip to work with President McKinley and cabinet on China crisis. Nathan Scott predicts GOP gains in the West and Midwest, opening campaign Aug 15 to 20. Merrick appointed naval officer. Holland sworn as U S attorney.
Harrisburg reports Col James M Guffey of Pennsylvania joins Bryan national committee exec suite and spearheads a fusion drive to win Pennsylvania’s legislature and perhaps a U S Senate seat. The piece contrasts sound money Democrats with Bryanites and predicts a Republican front to defeat fusion amid 1896 currency debates.
American athletes had dominated earlier days but were largely shut out in yesterday’s handicapped events. Of nine events only one first place was won, with four seconds and five thirds, signaling a drop in American success at the Paris exposition games.
A fire in Buffalo at dawn totally destroyed the Eastern elevator on the Buffalo river. The blaze caused an estimated loss of about 600000 dollars. The structure held roughly 300000 bushels of grain at the time.
Official report says last week 200 insurgents killed and 130 surrendered or captured in Manila area. One hundred rifles seized. Twelve Americans killed and eleven wounded.
Vancouver dispatch states the Duke of Connaught's Own battalions are ordered to the salmon fisheries strike area and a clash is anticipated as authorities move to quell the dispute.
SYRACUSE July 25. Hon. Rufus T. Peck of Cortland former assemblyman and county Republican leader died in Auburn yesterday.
Money on call stands at 14 1 percent. Prime mercantile paper quoted 4 4 percent. Sterling exchange shows actual bankers' bills at 487 for demand and 4.83 for sixty days, with posted rates 4.84 to 4.86. Commercial bills 34.83 percent, silver certificates 614 124c, bar silver 61 1 4 c, and Mexican dollars at 48 c.
The report lists weekly Chicago market quotes for flour, rye, buckwheat, cornmeal, wheat, corn, oats, pork, hay, butter, cheese, and eggs. Prices vary by grade and region with fob afloat or c i f New York terms noted, including Minnesota patents at 4.85 and Minneapolis dairy quotes.
Buffalo July 24 1900 report lists wheat oats corn flour butter cheese potatoes with prices. East Buffalo live stock market covers cattle sheep and hogs with price ranges for export steers fat heifers cows bulls hogs and fancy selections.
No. 1 timothy loose 16.50 per unit No 8 15 16 baled hay prime 15 16 No. 2 412 13 No 1 per ton light 14 50
Utica on July 23 reports cheese sales of 100 lots of 7.78 boxes large at 8 1/2 cents and small at 9 1/2 to 9 3/4 cents. Butter sales totaled 22 packages at 19 1/4 cents and 120 packages at 20 cents.
July 2 report from Little Falls shows cheese sales totaling 81 lots of 5 835 boxes with large cheese at 8 percent and small cheese at 8 percent. Butter sales list 27 packages of dairy at 18 to 19 cents per pound.
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