Fashionable Fads and Oddities Dominate Summer Society
A miscellany of 1920s era vane trends includes women secret societies in Boston, parasol collecting, mourning paper styles, two fans fashion, and engagement rings showing birth month. France and England report seating at small tables, flowers and jewels in dress, and a slave-auction prank from Yalesville. Local nature oddities include a Hanover hen nesting, a rat in bread, a hawk attacking a child, a vegetarian jack rabbit, and a farmer using owls for pest control. A Sidney cow and a Waterville cat tale add rural curiosities.
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England
Donothy Tennant Stanley
Boston
Mme. Carnot
Theresa Fair
San Francisco
Paris
Yalesville
Village Improvement
Brooke
Leinster
Washington
Colorado
St. Louis
Sidney
Waterville
Grand Opening Rich Spring Novelties
Grand opening notice for D Sheaf announcing spring stock in dry goods carpets and more. Highlights include extensive carpet department with Cottage Hall Stair Ingram Tapestry Body Brussels Velvet Moquette lines, dress goods, embroideries, white goods, spring wraps cloaks and wash fabrics with emphasis on unbeatable prices.
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D. Sheaf’s
Hmaburg
Nainsook
Warren County Farmer's Club Meeting Notice
The Warren County Farmer's Club meets in Warren at the Court House on the last Saturday of each month at K. M. The president is W. B. Acocks with Willis Cowan as secretary and B. F. Morris as treasurer. All farmers are cordially invited to attend.
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Warren
Court House
K. M
W. B. Acocks
Willis Cowan
B. F. Morris
Orient Council
National Union
Laban Lodge
K. of H
Warren Commandery
K. T
Warren Lodge
Meath
Alien
Kossuth
Allen Block
Carroll Lope
A. O. of
Thej
Odd Fellows Hall
Warren Lopas
K. of P
K. of H. Hall
Conewango Lodge
G. T
Hoffman Block
Robert Blum Longe
Erie and Buffalo Rail Timetable Excerpt
A fragmented timetable lists arrivals and departures for trains including Erie Mail and Oil Express with times around morning to evening, noting routes between East and West and stops at Kane Ace Warren Ace Sheffield Ace and St Mary's, with Sunday entries and multiple Express lines.
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Erie Act
Shef
Warren
St.Mary’s .x
Oil Express
Erie Mail
Erie Ex
Kane Ace
Sheffield Ace
the Mail
Fragments of Wit and Maritime Fancy in a Quirky Bazaar
A collage of humorous vignettes from everyday life including a corned beef ordering gag, a newsboy quip, a census joke in Hannibal, playful father and daughter exchanges, a milk wagon misadventure in Bretrast Me, a waiter standoff over a five dollar bill, a sea captain’s overblown piano purchase description, and other lighthearted snippets.
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Imspano
Dr. Foote
Fritz
Hannibal
Tommy
Ethel
Kemp’s Balsam advertised as a trusted cough remedy
A local advertisement urges readers to try Kemp's Balsam for coughs and colds claiming 80 residents cured in recent years. It promotes its purity and effectiveness with large 50c and 1 dollar bottles and a free sample bottle offered at druggists.
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Kemp
Life Expectancy Gaps and Population Shifts Across Europe
The piece notes higher life expectancy in the United States than Europe, Ireland's population decline of about 50,000, and Ireland's mid-century peak of 8.25 million with a current estimate near 8.5 million. It also covers global theater fire losses, union activity, syndicates in Germany, tobacco consumption, and Italy duel statistics.
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Europe
England
Germany
Ireland
London Fire Brigade
United States
Austria
Great Britain
France
Russia
Belgium
Italy
Sweden
Denmark
Forum
Naples
Venice
Scientific specials reveal diphtheria risk from humans to cats
London findings suggest cats pick up diphtheria from people and may pass it to others. Other notes discuss phonograph use among Indian tribes, electric lighting for ship compasses, microbes hunting, homeopathy advances, spectroscope pollution tests, lithium detection in wells, and coco de mer discovery from Seychelles.
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London
Berlin
Royal Botanic Society
Seychelles
Indian Ocean
Bonnie Little Maiden Spoiled Loneliness by Smile
Jaime Huntington writes of a neighbor’s daughter seen from an open window. A quiet, nostalgic scene in Detroit Free Press recalling a lassie with nut brown hair and a cherubic smile that brightens a somber day.
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Jaimee Huntington
Detroit Free Press
India's Enemies and the Native Population's Hardships
An American narrator recalls Indian dangers near Lucknow and Patna including cobras, crocodiles, and tigers. He details encounters with wildlife, wary natives, and the cost of hunting with English officers along the Ganges, noting high local casualty reports and risk to travelers.
A Mistake of Judgment in Public Life
A humorous quip notes Congressman Turner gave up the ice business to be a Representative and perhaps would have become a senator if he had stayed. A census question about family averages yields a wry answer about the husband being the small fraction over.
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Lucknow
India
Zoological Gardens
Bureau
Sahib
Turner
Texas
Odd Tales From Lima To Wall Street
A report from Lima, Queensland notes Acinro born with six toes on each foot, with study of hereditary trait. Influenza boosts beef companies profits as one declares a six percent dividend plus nineteen percent bonus. Lilienthal cites twenty three years of air wing trials and lifts 160 pounds with counterweight. A firm rents steamer chairs for a dollar across the ocean, with trays for meals, growing demand. Cincinnati hosts many French readers and a New York French daily with 150 subscribers. A St Helena physician tests a medicine, suffers blood poisoning, recovers after weeks. A Wall Street office uses a clothes wringer as a letter press, quickens copying with rubber rollers, attracting onlookers.
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Acinro
Lima
Lilienthal
Europe
Cincinnati
New York
St. Helena
Cal
San Francisco
Thery
Wall Street
Positive Remedy for Consumption Promised to Readers
Claimant T A Blocum M D offers a cure for consumption and promises to send two free bottles to readers who mail their express and P O addresses. He provides 181 Pearl Street, New York, as contact.
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Tas Eorron
P. O
T. A. Blocum
M. O
Pearl St
Praise for Colby Piano Company by Theo Pfaffin
Theo Pfaffin, a noted piano salesman and critic, praises the Colby Piano Co. style C mahogany piano for its fine tone and touch. The statement appears in a Chicago address dated January 6, 1890, highlighting Pfaffin's long involvement in the piano trade and his reputation.
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Colby
Colby Piano Company
Theodore Pfaffin
Curiaco CorracEr Oraan Co
State Street
Cuicago
Ill
Colby Piano Co
Erie
Pfaffin
Renowned Figures and Grand Plans Highlight This Week
The imperial Russian yacht project dwarfs the English royal vessel with space for two hundred. Prince Herselr Bismarck cherishes a war watch that halted a bullet in 1870. J. J. McElhone's dual-handed reporting amazed the National House. A Pasteur tribute album, led by Mrs Priestly, arrives in praise. Innocent III relics to be enshrined at the Lateran. W K Vanderbilt expands into gilt-edge investments, owning eighty percent of Coney Island's race-track stock and yielding a large dividend.
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Tur Emperor
Russia
Prince Herselr Bismarck
J. J. McElhone
National House of Representatives
England
M. Pasteur
Priestly
Lateran
Innocent III
W. K. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Coney Island
Grist for the Granger on Farm Yard and Field Tips
Practical advice for farmers including crop choices for poultry yards such as Hungarian grass, millet, and alfalfa. Emphasizes clean corn cribs, proper hay curing, timely feeds to boost egg production, weed control, pest deterrents, rolling fields before mowing, and early corn ear management to speed eating point. Also notes asparagus spread and manure use in family plots.
Improvement Promise of Cure by Burdock Blood Bitters
A testimonial style advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia. Mrs. G U White of Tuberg New York reports relief after two bottles and No longer needing medicine. W W Hamilton of Lock Haven Pennsylvania says six years of dyspepsia were cured after a second bottle.
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Tuberg
N. Y
W. W. Hamilton
Lock Haven
Drunkenness Cure Offered by Golden Specific
An advertisement promotes Dr Haines Golden Specific as a secret tea or coffee additive that cures drinking problems whether moderate or severe. It claims thousands have quit drinking without awareness, with no harm, and guarantees results from the Golden Specific Co in Cincinnati Ohio.
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Haines
Golden Specific Co
Race Street
Cincinnati, O
Tides of Opportunity and Preparation for Fortune
The piece argues that fortune favors the prepared bold worker who seizes opportunities at the right moment. It contrasts the active, diligent Micawber-like figure with idle dreamers, stressing that success comes when character, labor, and readiness meet opportunity, especially after financial panics and in revival periods.
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Baltimore Sun
Water as a universal remedy noted in Woman's Magazine
An article argues water should be a top remedial agent in emergencies. It cites hot water applications for croup, toothache, colic, sore throats, and injuries, plus tepid water as an emetic and hot water as a cathartic. It stresses proper hydration for infants and reduced nursing frequency to prevent fever and digestive issues.
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Woman’s Magazine
Master George and Uncle Tom in a comical exchange
Dialogue captures a master pressing his lazy servant George with three days of inactivity. Uncle Tom laments workload and lack of time. A humorous aside from Munsey’s Weekly and a cartoonish scene of a boy being kicked while umpiring a ball game.
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Master George
Uncle Tom
Mass
Geouge
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Warren County
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Washington, D.C
U. S. Supreme Court
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Army and Navy
Customs, Navigation and Internal Revenue
J. B. Agnew
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D. J. A. Partridge
Market Street
Fee, Reed
Waters’ Block
Rown Stone & Rick
First National Bank
Warren, Pa
R. Brown
W. Stone
Lliam H. Allen
Allenblock
Corner Second and
Liberty Bts
R. John Hepburn
Liberty St
Ilbur & Schnur
Hazeltine Building
W. W
WM. Schnur
Insmoor, Cable & Peterson
Attorneys AT Law
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C. Dinsmoor
Jas, Cable
C.A. Peterson
Arren
Thos. W. Arird
Water and
Liberty Streets
M J. Walkerman
Liberty Street
R. J. A. Love
Schaeffer Block
Warren, Penna
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Water Streets
McAlpine
Third St
M E. Church
J W. Dunkle
Postotiles
W G. Trunkey
Attorney AT Law
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W. Freeman
Hazeltione
A F. Bole
Wright Block
Centre Street
Corry, Pa
Bowman & Bole
Joan F. McPherson
Hickory Sts
Eer D. Clark
Verback Block
W V.N. Yates
L. G. Noyes’ Drug Store
Warren Savings Bank
W. A. Greaves
T. Neill
Exchange Block
Crawford, Forest
Yenango
H. J. Muse
Johnson's Exchange
Second Hoor
Etmore
Myes & Hinckley
Second Street
W.D. Hinckley
L. D. Wetmore
D. H. Noyes
P. Johnson
W. M. Uindsey
T. C. Farmlee
Morck Bro
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Optician
J.K. Ronne
Kory Street
J. Dante
Variety Hall
Hanover
Penn
Rocal Directory
Warren County Farmer’s Club
Railroad Guide
Philadelphia & Erie
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Buffalo
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Eastern Standard
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L. F. Watson
W.P. Nutting
Phil
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Scofield
Joseph Clinton
Sheffield
H. T. Russell
Russell
C. H. Meacham
Leroy, Strong
Kinzua
W.S. Peirce
J. W. Dunkle
Warren, Co
O. J. Gunning
A. E. Pelton
Lottsville
Thomas Mooney
Stoneham
H. M. Putnam
Sir A. M
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Bradford
Dunkirk
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R. A. Love
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Gray Medicine Co
Siegfried & Co
Cor Second
Liberty Sts
OCAL
IA Nursery Company
Rochester, N. 'Y
Ma&jy
Pat
Pert
Carters
Carter
Borane
Goa
Gamal Br
Huron &J
Sheboygan, Wis
H. A. Kuenbe
Mark
Aia
Weekles Co
Baltimore, Ma
His Eyes
Locked
INTO
Mine
Patna
Ganges
Bengalee
Mogador
Castor
Mary
Warren P.O
Micawber
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