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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1883
Page
4
The paper announces second class mail circulation in Warren Pa. and instructs subscribers to check the date opposite each address. It requests concise, newsy communications from all areas, requires factual reporting, bans anonymous articles, and asks writers to send their names even if not published.
Poem contemplates nighttime dreams and childhood innocence with dreamy imagery of angels guarding a sleeping child. It contrasts moonlit, serene visions with the coming of age and sorrowful awakenings, urging one to dream while possible. The verses emphasize memory, hope, and the transient nature of youth.
The New York legislature passed and the governor signed a bill offering a 25 cent abatement for highway taxes if homeowners plant four trees on their property near the road the year before. Trees must be forest shade or fruit or ornamental varieties with minimum spacings of seventy feet for elms and forty feet for other trees. The measure aims to beautify highways and foster tree planting on private land, countering long-standing deforestation trends. The piece urges Pennsylvania lawmakers to adopt a similar approach.
Tur telegraph poles are being removed in Chicago to comply with a city ordinance requiring wires to be underground after May 1. The street improvement elicits favorable comment and prompts questions about wider adoption. The Chicago News warns veterans about government impostors seeking funds, calling them swindlers.
Houghton Mifflin & Co of Boston will publish Thurlow Weed’s Autobiography soon. The work will cover New York and national political history and Weed’s intimate relations with officials. Gen Winfield Scott praised a passage about Weed’s first New York entry. Publication will be by subscription with active agent demand expected.
Wells Seay Paste promotes chairs sold by L G Noyze Druggist and McNett Co. at 2.75 per set with local merchant backing.
High Rock Spring Water promoted as a cathartic and alterative for dyspepsia constipation and liver diseases. Recommends one glass before breakfast and notes availability through High Rock Spring Company in Saratoga Springs N Y and L G Noyes in Warren Pa.
An 1869 case of scrofula details severe disfigurement and collapse. After trying many doctors, Anna Adams credits Dr. Fenner of Fredonia with Blood and Liver Remedy and Nervetonic for a full recovery over thirteen years, claiming restored health and strength. The ad promotes circulars and other Fenner remedies available from dealers.
Dr Dudley A Sargent outlines bathing rules from his Union gymnasium talk in Boston. He favors warm baths with soap twice weekly, daily cool sponge baths, and tepid water after exercise. He warns against overbathing, recommends avoiding tub baths for cleanliness only, and notes skin disorders can result from too much soap.
Demorest's Monthly argues silver production last year in the United States neared 50 million dollars while gold fell to under 30 million, noting a worldwide trend toward gold as the value unit. The piece warns of credit tightening for debtors and workers, predicting a future silver rehabilitation with fixed gold-silver ratio to renew prosperity.
The London Times compares Bismarck and American ambassadors, praising Americans as capable diplomats with keen observation. It notes Bismarck’s thorough reporting from the Diet and his role as a premier informant for Berlin, highlighting his efficiency in ferreting out authors of articles and questionable government ties.
The Mountain Evangelist writes from New York to his home paper Stanford Kentucky praising Mrs. Theodore Tilton. He visits her Brooklyn boarding house and describes her as refined yet aged by trials. He notes her inner peace and asks to accompany her at judgment.
James Humphrey of Wallace town riding home toward Aldborough nearly froze in a recent storm. He describe feeling his tongue stiffen and arms freeze, heart nearly stopping, then a warming glow as he found shelter. He sped toward warmth, saw the woods blur past, and faded into a deep sleep until revived by vigorous treatment.
A visitor to Cairo describes a bride being received in a lavish, old fashioned Turkish interior. The new wife, crying and tired, is arranged in pink satin with diamond jewelry while relatives in modern dress hover around her. The scene blends splendor and constraint as guests observe a rite she did not seek.
A Virginia boarding house landlady refuses a debtor who insulted her butter from the North. She notes her butter travels far and insists no man who insults her butter may stay. She ousts the offending boarder for flirting with her daughter and abusing her husband.
A Rome Sentinel writer proposes teaching the multiplication table to twenty by twenty to ease scholar arithmetic and endorses factoring numbers as a major time saving technique.
Demorest's Monthly argues floods across the Ohio and Mississippi valleys show forest loss worsens flood and drought cycles. It urges Congress to fund inland waterways, levees, dams, and reservoirs now, until planted forests mature, to protect towns like Cincinnati and Louisville.
A man visits a village jewelry store after a seven mile walk to settle a quarrel with his wife over eight day clocks. The clerk sides with the wife, and the man jokes he will keep the sister-in-law's death news to himself to gain the upper hand. The Tall tale ends with a punchline about getting even.
The Boston Traveller recounts Alexander I. Stephens saying on March 6, 1859, he would not see Washington again until he returned as a prisoner of war. The steamer down the Potomac hid the Capitol dome and he later appeared in Washington aged and paroled from Fort Warren.
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