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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1896
Page
4
An overview notes African tribes and other cultures showing deep musical interest. It mentions the Kaffirs as advanced in music and poetry with strong rhythm, Pan pipes in marshlands, drums flutes and fife evolving from primitive instruments, and comparisons with Australian bushmen and Native Americans.
Practical household hints cover rekindling a dying fire with small sticks, dusting with a damp and dry cloth, removing paint with hot water and a flannel, restoring color to faded fabrics with ammonia and toroform, and using ripe tomatoes to lift stains from skin and white cloth. Also includes a note on pet canaries and heat effects on milk glass, plus making violet perfume from arrowroot alcohol.
A summary of how patents are treated in the United States Canada and Great Britain and Germany. It notes reissues to correct liberal claims and that US patents under a year may be patented in Canada. Canada refuses patents if US patents are over a year old and Britain imposes annual taxes. US citizens may file partial invention claims for protection. The German patent office rigorously checks novelty and prior public use.
A fragmentary page blends aphorisms from Chapin Burke Anon Colton and Bulwer with folk weather lore. It includes sayings about duty and virtue and many old adages predicting weather from actions and seasonal signs, such as frost after Katy Did and almanac indicators.
A meteorite weighing about 250 pounds struck near a town 12 miles from Atchison Kansas at about 11 PM. It traveled east to west leaving a 500 yard luminous tail and plowed a 20 foot groove before half burying. Found fragments suggest iron ore. specimens will go to the University of Lawrence.
Rosa Caudill daughter of ex Senator W J Caudill narrowly escaped death after vault doors at Barboursville Kentucky locked while her friend J H Byerly closed the vault. Caudill left with a train approaching and the combination failed while Byerly fled. Miss Caudill, unconscious, is slowly recovering under physicians care.
Police exposed a major bank robbery plot at the First National Bank of Los Angeles as criminals bored a 102 foot tunnel from a nearby street under several banks. The gang aimed to breach the steel vault. five to six men were involved, with James K. Stevens the only arrest reported so far.
Thomas Richards of Alliance Ohio reports a meteorite incident after a heavy storm. A bright flash and hissing sound shook his porch and windows, followed by a ground shaking concussion. He unearthed a nine pound spheroid meteorite of hard meteoric iron within four feet of his house. Local scientists classify the aerolite as meteoric iron.
The piece argues against free coinage, citing that silver's world value is around 69 cents per ounce and the dollar’s silver content is about 54 cents. It lists bets predicting prices won’t hit one dollar per ounce within a year, will fall after passage, stay below 80 cents in six to twelve months, and that the dollar won’t reach 75 percent of gold value within a year. It concludes with encouragement to find takers to recoup losses through bets.
The New York Post notes widespread Democratic repudiation of Bryan and his platform. Leaders and businessmen across the country announce they'll vote Republican, citing honor and livelihoods at stake. Voters align against the ticket not just McKinley and Hobart, but repudiation itself.
Jersey City News denounces the platform as harmful beyond the silver plank. It warns against bond issuance limits, note powers for banks, and mob violence licensing. It rails at life tenure opposition, calls Altgeld a dictator, and warns voters about what supporting him would entail.
The Boston Herald urges support for the Republican presidential ticket, calling currency security the paramount issue. It pledges sincere backing for McKinley as the candidate to ensure monetary stability in the ongoing campaign.
The Boston Globe states it will not support Candidate Bryan and does not approve of his platform. It argues that a calm discussion of the financial question shows the greatest good for the greatest number rests with the gold standard until international agreement changes silver status.
The Louisville Post calls the Democratic convention a mournful spectacle and urges every citizen to vow never to let political incompetents seize control of the U S government. The message also praises Billy Bryan as a gift to the world from Egypt or Darkest Illinois.
The text argues for establishing two Republican headquarters aligning with allied Democrats, likening western silver barons to old English barons who controlled the king and set up a youth for their purposes, to profit and influence.
Ex Mayor Hopkins of Chicago repudiates both Peoria and Chicago tickets and resigns from Illinois Democratic state central committee as Populist infighting reportedly begins.
Secretaries Carlisle Olney Herbert and Morton and Ambassador Bayard with many Democrats oppose the Chicago ticket. The Kansas law allowing divorces for a quarter century is declared ineffective, tangling families and property and prompting calls for voter change.
A flavored editorial argues the Democratic convention reflects populism and potential revolution. It then explains the 1834 mint act on bullion coinage, the 1873 repeal, and the historical gold to silver value ratio, noting silver’s current limited circulation to keep parity with gold.
A misread Westminster Gazette item claimed Indiana Dunkards moving to North Dakota formed a model colony of tipplers. In fact the Dunkers or Dunkards, a German Protestant sect nicknamed Dippers, are a religious group known as The Brethren and do not drink alcohol.
The Chicago public library board reports for the year ending June 1 that 1 173 586 volumes were taken to homes from libraries and sub stations, the highest total worldwide. The system holds 217 203 volumes with 10 485 new accessions and 2 542 244 items in use, spurring plans for new reading rooms and more substations once funds and space permit.
George Lucas of Walton Indiana died after decades of fear and guilt over killing two Union soldiers, Byron and George Knight, home on leave in 1864. He believed the Knight brothers plotted against the government and fled mental torment for 30 years, terrified that their friends would seek his life.
Gardiner Maine resident Jesse Bartlett trains a dog to drown captured rats by carrying a water filled cage to a stream. The dog seized the cage while Bartlett was away and delivered it to the water late at night, completing the drowning act. The piece also notes ancient Chinese irrigation dating back thousands of years.
The article notes fewer than 2,000 people hold British orders of knighthood, roughly one in 28,000 of the population. This stat highlights the rarity and prestige of such honors.
Dry weather threatens hay yields and farmers are urged to plant millet or sowed corn to safeguard supplies. Oil of tar priced at 40 cents a quart to deter grubs and crows before planting. Store offers various seeds including clovers, grasses, peas, and Turnip Seed for sale.
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