Grand Sale Offers Everything In Stock
A local advertisement touts a complete stock sale with no reserves and the claim of the lowest prices ever in the area. Dry goods and carpets are highlighted as nearly given away to attract buyers.
31 Jul 1888
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1888
Page
1
A local advertisement touts a complete stock sale with no reserves and the claim of the lowest prices ever in the area. Dry goods and carpets are highlighted as nearly given away to attract buyers.
Sizable schedule fragment lists trains and times for Erie Lines with stations including St Marys Kane Buffalo Dunkirk and Pittsburgh. It notes arrivals departures and express services across WEST EAST NORTH SOUTH directions with varied morning and evening slots.
The notice lists various churchs and pastors with service times. Presbyterian Holmes at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sabbath school. Baptist Coulston at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sabbath school. Episcopal Ryan at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sabbath school. Lutheran Doerr at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sunday school. Evangelical Shannon at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sabbath school. Scandinavian Johnson at 10 AM and 7 PM with Sunday school. Catholic De La Roque and Berbigier with Masses, catechism, and vespers. Y M C A meeting for young men at Hoffman Block Saturdays 4 to 6.
A reflective poem recalls childhood scenes the cow stall pig pen and hard labor with wood and beans. The speaker laments failed buckets and a well incident before triumph with a stubborn bucket finally rising. The tone is nostalgic and vivid with rural details.
A Broadway tobacconist notes rising demand for green or fresh cigars, explaining the term means non dried by age. The piece traces origins in England among visitors used to Cuba’s moist stock and cites methods to judge cigars by sight, touch, smell, and taste.
Grace Manton and Captain Harding aboard the Cornwall bound for Cuba endure a perilous dive to recover a lost gold locket after he descends among rocks. The captain is saved, revealed alive, and Grace confesses her love. The couple marry weeks later in Havana.
A Philadelphia Record article surveys Xcanhakan in Yucatan with its vast labor force and primitive farming. It describes scant mechanization, reliance on machetes and hammocks, and an improvised threshing structure where Indians beat corn by hand under hammock-lined borders.
The San Francisco Daily argues Illinois landlords imitate Irish rack renting, letting farms on long leases with tenant improvements recouped in higher rents. It warns widespread estate holds threaten American institutions as land concentrates, urging measures against foreign and tenant-dominated ownership to preserve democracy.
Dr William C Prince argues that English and European inns are overrated while New England farmers wives produce superior meals. He claims America leads in meat, fish, game, vegetables and fruits and calls the idealized old English inn a fiction. He also criticizes Parisian dining and calls French cooking overrated.
A guest asks about a listed extra weathervane priced at four dollars. The hotelkeeper quips that the wind direction service costs one dollar per day and adds there is no money in it. This exchange comes from a Bits humor snippet.
Local store advertises discounted canned goods at C R Henrys with limited sales and bargain prices highlighted.
In Europe a wife suspects her husband of infidelity with a hotel maid. After her purse goes missing, the husband insists the maid stole nothing. Returning home, the husband reveals the purse intact with two extra dollars and an American half-dollar, quelling the flirtation now and ending the suspicion.
In Table Talk Mrs Gadabout jokes that her husband resembles the letter q because he and u are always together. Mrs Lovematch replies that J should think the same, noting her husband is like q in having little to do yet never succeeding.
Uncle Rastus boasts of taking brain food to aid memory, claiming it rapidly works. He recalls owing 75 cents for over a year and notes the price would leave nothing to buy a codfish, describing the discovery with humorous flair.
A lively piece of music draws listeners to clap along and move their feet, delivering a compelling rhythm that energizes crowds and inspires steady footwork.
A miscellany notes Lord Wolseley’s lecturing absence, Miss Gosh as Watsontown’s beauty, British cycling experiments, a 120 member bicycle club, and westward rail lines over Missouri. Casually shifts to stories of Jay Gould, a bevy of curiosities in Anderson and Beaver Falls, a two tune pianist in Hawkinsville, and Mrs. Roberts’ marriage talks with the Earl of Arran. Also cited are frost histories, Mikado reforms, Dismal Swamp thoughts, and quirks of clocks, swords, parks, and watchmaking.
An advertised medicine Baxter's Mandrake Bitters claims to cure digestion heart burn costiveness and malaria. The price is twenty five cents per bottle with endorsements from B F Morris and N C Allen. The notice also mentions a clearance sale of Spring suits by Gro Ba.
A poem argues against free trade proposals by naming wool, cotton, flax, and other goods. It critiques tariff cuts by Cleveland and Mills and warns that free trade harms workers, farms, and industry. The verse laments England payments and evaporating domestic commerce.
A collage of quips and maxims, from kind talk to riches, manners, and humor. Notable lines reference Wisdon in etiquette, satire on society, and anecdotes from Miss Passay to Mrs. Farley, with sharp witticisms about schooling, cooking, and mortality.
Mr. L. H. Rogers of Sherman New York reports storing fodder in a common mow without airtight walls for two years. He says silos are unnecessary if fed corn whole though thick seeding caused few ears. Cattle sheep lambs pigs and poultry fed this winter show good condition with no acid taste in fodder.
Two young boys aged three and six were lost for two days in the Shenandoah mountains near Virginia. They were found asleep in dry leaves under rocks, with the older boy undressing the younger to make a makeshift bed. A tin water bucket accompanied them during their wanderings.
Mrs Blunt questions the dressmaker about exorbitant dill pricing while the dressmaker jokes she has no head for figures. Mr B comments that fittings force figures to adapt to dresses, not vice versa, in a light exchange from the Boston Transcript.
Mr W H Morgan of Lake City Florida, a merchant, suffered a severe cold leading toward consumption. After trying various remedies he improved with Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption, using about six bottles and remaining well. Trial bottle free at Morck Drug Store.
An old advertisement quotes B. Morris of N C Allen urging immediate use of Henry and Johnson's Arnica and Oil liniment to prevent crippling after a misstep. The line stresses quick action to avoid permanent injury.
A brief notice urges every Republican to obtain the Mailand Phila Weekly for news and value. The ad promotes the periodical at a price of L765.
The Mail Job Office offers presses and paper supplies for all job printing with low prices and guaranteed quality. Legal blanks are available and can be printed to order. Readers are invited to send brief newsy communications with names for publication.
An uptown resident challenged a tax collector by refusing to pay school taxes claiming no children to educate. The collector replied that the School Board is not responsible for her lack of offspring, leaving the tax unpaid as the door slammed.
Maud and her father argue over political parties in the parlor. He labels the Mugwumps and declares no third party should exist, while Maud counters that a third party is a nuisance. He withdraws from the discussion after naming the Mugwump.
A harsh editorial musters against aggressive rumor mongers, urging Christians to ostracize those who spread curses and bitterness about others and to regard them as nuisances and pests to be shunned.
A humor piece notes Italian railroad workers reduced shovel length by an inch to protest pay cuts of 10 cents a day. They avoided striking, explaining the longer job lasts longer and the boss gains less dirt. The quip: the Italian is no fool, he won’t strike.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as the best in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter and chapped hands. It claims to cure piles with money refunded if not satisfied. Price four quarters to sixpence per box at Morck DrugStore.
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