Warren Mail July 30 1878 Local notices and events
News and notices from Warren include club matches between Warren and Jamestown, forthcoming Painters and Barbers ball game, a Niagara Falls excursion report, a church fair, post office rulings on unmailable items, and local business updates. It notes railroad travel, local personalities, and ongoing town developments such as the new engine house and a clothing store sale.
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Marx
Mai
Warren
Titusville Herald
Warren and Star
Schnur
Rowland
Jamestown Club
Warren Club
Erie Observer
George Ball & Co
North Warren
Post Office Department
Niagara Falls
The
Falls
Tionesta
Tidioute
Irvineton
Falconers
Buffalo
N.Y. Central
J. E. Hadley
J. D. Bristol
Leader Gasoline Stove Introduced In Cleveland Market
Jamieson & Co. sell Leader Gasoline Stove in Warren via Gasoline Stove Company of Cleveland. Stove runs on gasoline, regulated heat, no noise dirt smoke or ashes, no chimney or kindling, fits small families at five to six cents daily. It handles cooking, broiling, baking and ironing faster and cheaper than coal or wood fires. See at Jamieson’s and other local outlets. Oysters fresh and cheap at F D Conet’s Restaurant Old Exchange with meals served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gasoline Stove Company
Cleveland
Jamieson & Co
Warren
Jamieson
Poor farmer sells wheat cheap and loses big
The poem tells of a farmer too poor to buy a paper or join the Grange who sells wheat for a dollar when prices were higher by a quarter. A neighbor warns him groceries are down, but rising corn later would have offset losses. He ends up poorer, taking two papers this year.
Social notes from Warren area gatherings and arrivals
Local column lists guests such as Clarence Arey of Buffalo and Mrs. G. E. Seager of Randolph visiting Warren. Officers appointed at the Warren Base Ball Association and social events including a Dime Sociable at Judge Scofield’s. A trio of locals report fishing exploits and a camp near Sulphur Spring. An attempted robbery scare ends with the party returning home unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Clarence Arey
Buffalo
Chas. E. Beecher
G. E. Seager
Randolph
N. Y
Danforth
Wm. McKean
The
Erie Gazette
T. W. McNett
John F. Davis
Kate
Anna Crosby
Jamestown
Willis B. Benedict
Enterprise
Point Chautauqua
Edna Ruland
Shamburg
N. I. P.S. Club
Capital Club
Judge Scofield
Cary Beecher
Mamie Beecher
Mary Churchill
Minnie Gemmill
Jackson Run Road
Cary
Dime Sociables Promised by H. B. N. I. P. S. Club
A mysterious club titled N. I. P. S. 1878 invites attendees to a dime sociable at Hon. G. W. Scofield’s home on Thursday August 1 at 8 p m. No refreshments, guests entertain themselves, and each attendee contributes one dime to the Library Current Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Scofield
N T
Mesmerism entertainments draw modest crowds in Roscoe Hall
Prof J Reynolds staged mesmeric lectures at Roscoe Hall on Thursday Friday and Saturday. He demonstrated control over subjects with physical and mental feats from four to seven volunteers each night. A sizable audience, including many ladies, watched stunts such as sitting on stoves and handling symbolic props while the professor plans to tour Warren soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Reynolds
Roscoe Hall
Erie
Warren
Singer Manufacturing opens branch opposite Hazeltine & Davis
The Singer Manu factory opens a Warren Pennsylvania branch opposite Hazeltine and Davis drug store offering machines on monthly payments. Satisfaction guaranteed. Agents wanted. C Coox, Manager. May 1878.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singer Manufactory
Hazeltine & Davis
C. Coox
Warren, Pa
May
Good Templars Excursion to Point Chautauqua Details
The Good Templars held a large excursion to Point Chautauqua last Thursday with about 300 people in six cars led by G W Brown of Youngsville. The group faced delays when the Griffith steamer left Jamestown with another party, extending the trip and maring the outing. The Point’s development includes a 110 acre chartered area with a grand hotel, a rotund Tabernacle, extensive verandas, and planned 500 rooms. the project costs at least 30000 and features a central pavilion and dining hall. From nearby Jamestown the party returned by 10 pm, lamenting the detentions but praising the site’s potential as a resort destination. The issue also mentions local notices, post office dead letters, store ads, and election registration reminders.
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Good Templars
Point Chautauqua
G. W. Brown
Youngsville
Warren
Titusville
North Warren
Jamestown
Griffith
Brown
Fair Point
Association
National Baptist Association
Tabernacle
Union
John the Baptist
J. H. Miller
Baptist Church
Mayville
N. Y
County paper worth its cost over city edition says Potter Enterprise
A Potter County example argues a county paper proves valuable despite higher price. A man chose a city paper at one dollar over the Enterprise at 1.75 per year, missing June term dates and wasting time and money. He saved one day but spent more than three years of Enterprise to cover the error.
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Potter Enterprise
Potter County
Coudersport
Sugar Grove Union School hires Gunning for coming year
The Sugar Grove Independent reports Prof O. J. Gunning formerly of Columbus graded school has been hired by the Directors to teach the Sugar Grove Union School for the next year and will begin the Tuition Term August 20. Gunning is well recommended and a successful year is expected. Also employed for the Winter Term are Miss Thayer and Miss Comstock, former Intermediate and Primary teachers.
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Sugar Grove
O. J. Gunning
Columbus Graded School
Sugar Grove Union School
Gunning
Thayer
Comstock
Postoffice Names and County Alignments in New York and Nearby Areas
The Olean Times notes postal boundaries and office names for several towns. Pine Valley NY uses South Dayton in Cattaraugus county while Pine Valley postoffice sits in Chemung county. Aurora NY uses East Aurora with the Aurora postoffice in Cayuga county. Eldred on the Buffalo New York and Philadelphia Railroad is Alleghany Bridge in Pa. Red Rock letters should carry McKean county, with Red Rock post office in Luzerne county. Kendall near Bradford uses Kendall Creek post office. Kendall post office is in Beaver county.
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Pine Valley
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Dayton
Chemung County
Aurora
Erie County
East
Cayuga County
Eldred
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia
Alleghany Bridge
Red Rock
Oil regions buzz with wells, fires, and growth across counties
The Corry pail factory is not to be started again. The oil regions show busy activity with test wells over 350 feet deep in Lottsville, 400 plus cottages at Fair Point, and ongoing rail and pipeline use. Fires threaten Irvington's Junction House and National Hotel, while McKean and Titusville areas report growth, disputes, and ambitious endowment plans amid oil driven change.
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Corry
Lottsville
Fair Point
Point Chautauqua
Dewittville
Undertakers Claim To Reform Local Death Chamber Obscenity
The piece extols McNett & Son Undertakers for introducing refined methods to remove grim paraphernalia from funeral processions and death chambers. It argues practical reform and professional practice are demanded by the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNett & Son
Producers' Union plan sparks unified oil country optimism
In Bradford and elsewhere producers rally behind a Union plan to centralize sales and press for unity against the Standard. Bradford producers sign the agreement to sell all production through one agency, seen as a stepping stone to success, with full effort urged though results are not immediate. Also notice from Warren County Agricultural Society offering a Silver Cup for best dairy cow with milk weighed mid June and August and butter exhibited at the Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Producers’ Union
Bradford
Derrick
Norice
Union Agricultural Society of Warren Co
D. B. Janner
Sugar Grove
Squirrels, Wool, and Weather News From Pennsylvania
State laws bar shooting squirrels before September first while wool sales are projected to circulate over two million dollars among Pennsylvania farmers. Cold weather spurs bilious fever in parts of the state as merchants keep ice water at doors. A Erie county farmer strips to his shirt in the heat while cradling grain. The will of Dr. Ayer leaves a $100,000 share to his business-rights brother. The question of Glauber being a person or place is noted. A 2000 hive barge in the Mississippi aims to stay amid flowers for honey. Lincoln as a title is widely used in American history in Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition plans to reopen Sunday. The seaboard pipeline route from Monterey to Baltimore is 230 miles, linking oil regions and reaching Curtis’ Creek.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Erie County
Dr. Ayer
Frederick
Glauber
Amsterdam
Mississippi
Lincoln
Seaboard
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Monterey
Indiana
Cambria Counties
Allegheny
Middle Pennsylvania
South Mountain Ranges
Middle Maryland
Westminster
Reistertown
Curtis’ Creek
Baltimore
New York
Ambiguous historic grain and produce listing
A fragmented 19th century uitobuf style listing shows items like flour sacks Amber Flour White Wheat Flour sac Corn Meal Chop Feed Bran Middlings Oats Oil Meal Potatoes Beans Onions Butter Cheese and notes a correction by C P Henry. The readable text lacks complete sentences or quantities.
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C. P. Henry
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Warren Mail
Home Matters
Hamburg
Hunter’s
Stove
F. D. Conet’s
Old Exchange
O. H. Hunter & Son’s
Singer
E. C. Coox
R. H. Johnson
Brookston Tannery
Brookston, Forest Co
Wrightsville Notes
Parker
O.C. Messenger
Jerry Laquay
Mr. Sperry
P. Wright
Webster Abbot
Albert Martin
Our Place
Emma Garfield
Ephraim Wright
St. Petersburg
Mr. Riley and Son
Ernest Trask
Kinnear
Allan
Freehold, Pa
Venango Spectator
F. P. Brewer
Westfield
Chautauqua
Drake
Junction House
National Hotel
Irvington
Jackson Run
Conewango
Estella Noyes
Conneautville
Equitable Pipe Line Company
Masons
Clarion County
Mercer
McKean County
Philadelphia and Erie
W. J. Chichester
Presbyterian Church
Cape May
Lafayette
Hulings
Kane
Kinzua Creek
State and General News
Semis Deseapefr
McNett
Pring OF
A. Weiss
Carver House
Warren Co
Albert Wise
A. W. Morck & Co
Morck
A.W. Morck & CO
Corner Water
Hickory Streets
F.H. Wyman
Orris Hall
Carver
N. B
Sean Water Streets
Conewangoree
Davidson & Grindley
WM. Kitchen
C. Smith
McFadden
Hannah
John McFadden
Warren Retail Markets
Johnson
Te & Co
Peache
Rio
Salt
Java
Eereen
Chromotype Copying CO
U.S
Canadas
C. H. Morgan
Hilip Byseker
Second St
Variety Hall
Ale
Mr. Yseker
Guy C. Irvine
P. Byseker
A. A. Davis & Co
Borders
School & Blank Books
A.A. Davis & CO
Struthers
Iron Works
Struthers, Wells & CO
Will Smith
ARES
Warren Pa
S. Burgess
Vj Holesale
Irvine Woolen Factory
George Hinton
J. K. Ronne
Allen
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