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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
7
Train schedule lines show halts and arrival times for the Clean Oil City Division in Pennsylvania. Times listed include 9 13 a m 9 50 a m and 6 07 p m 7 36 p m with morning and afternoon stops across north and south routes.
Daily except Sunday timetable fragment shows four times at 8 54 a m 10 49 a m 4 45 p m 8 20 p m with the note Daily except Sunday indicating limited service days
Street railway timetable details multiple routes with hourly and half hourly departures from waiting rooms and end points. It lists Main Line Westbound departures, Grade Run and P and E station times, Conewango avenue service, Warren Sheffield routes, Clarendon pass times, express car schedules, special Warren runs, Jamestown service, and late-night first and last cars with arrival times.
Long roster of state national and local offices with names and districts. Includes Governor Tener Lieutenant Governor Reynolds Attorney General Dodd Auditor General Sisson Treasurer Wright and health education and jail officials across Warren County with duties and ward assignments.
Certificate No a 68 for thirty three shares of stock held by L. M. Ridelsperger is lost. The holder must notify Worth Oil & Gas Co within thirty days or a new certificate will be issued to Ridelsperger or assigns. Warren, Pa. June 4, 1912.
Wheat No 2 hard winter 1.20 and a quarter. Oats Standard f o b 61 cents. Pork Mess 20.50 to 21.00. Butter Creamery extras 27.5 to 28 cents. Eggs state and Pennsylvania white new laid 23 to 24 cents. Potatoes state per bag 2.59 to 3.00. Maine 3.00 to 3.25.
Buffalo notes daily quotations for wheat and corn with No 2 white at 1.18 and No 3 yellow corn at 0.82. Oats No 2 white at 0.57 and No 3 white at 0.56. Butter Creamery Western tubs at 28 cents, state fair to good 23 to 24 cents. Potatoes white fancy at 1.35 per bushel.
Prime steers sold around 8.90 with weights 1200 to 1400 pounds and 7.25 to 8.25 for other steer classes. Fat cows brought 6.25 to 7.00, heifers 7.50 to 8.25, bulls 1.80 to 7.25, and veals about 9.50. Spring lambs topped 58.00, mixed sheep 4.25 to 5.00. Hogs ranged 7.49 to 7.90 for Yorkers and io hogs, 7.15 to 7.25 for pigs.
Product listing shows Buffalo hay market quotes with No 2 on track at 27 dollars, No 3 timothy at 25 dollars and 26 dollars, indicating price tiers for farm feeds.
The article explains that a child on Saturn would be aged three years quickly because Saturn’s year equals about 30 Earth years. It notes Saturn’s distance from the sun at 879 million miles, causing longer orbital time to complete a revolution.
William Allen White tells the Southwestern Lumbermen at Kansas City that preserving home town trade safeguards American institutions. He argues mail order houses centralize retail and threaten small towns, urging support for local commerce to keep neighborliness, shared values, and economic balance alive.
A writer on civic beauty argues that insect eating birds are less plentiful in cities but conditions improve. He defends the English sparrow as an underrated insect eater and criticizes biased opinions, noting its value alongside the robin and urging urban cat banishment to protect birds.
Chief Engineer Goodrich of the bureau of incumbrances proposes double decking Forty second Street between Fifth and Lexington Avenue. The plan aims to separate traffic and double street capacity amid growing tall office buildings. Downtown streets already grimly congested as modern towers rise.
A new three way valve in the feed water line between the injector and boiler was tested by the Missouri Pacific at Ewing avenue shops in St. Louis. The system uses a 50 foot cam hose on a reel under the running board and a standard steam hose for service. Fire chiefs and railroad officials pronounced the device a ready and ingenious aid for rapid response to blazes on locomotives.
The piece traces railroad dispatching from 1866 when conductors used limited telegraph for coordination to the rise of trained train despatchers and the shift from daylight to night operations as traffic grew. It notes initial reliance on conductors and enginemen, later adding operators to handle Morse code.
The plan uses a 6,000 gallon water tank on a yard engine. At a fire in the yards the switchman would detach the hose from the reel and attach it to the feed water pipe valve, with the engineer starting the injector and the fireman opening the hose connection, enabling a rapid spray on the blaze.
The Yreka California line links Yreka to Montague, under eight miles, with two engines two freight and two passenger cars and profitable results 24104 passengers 3269 net 555 surplus in 1910. The Otis line in the Catskills serves Otis Summit six miles with one locomotive two passenger and two baggage cars earning 7051 last year. Adirondack and St Lawrence line Hermon to De Kalb Junction three and a half miles carried 18416 passengers despite uneven fortunes under St Lawrence Pyrites control.
The notice credits an American engineer and contractor for pioneering rapid rail construction. It cites a 613 miles of main track and 1200 feet of siding laid in one day on the Baro Kana railway in northern Nigeria, noting British engineers supervised the work and highlighting efficiency lessons for other countries.
The Oak Park Citizens' Club executive committee creates a bureau listing all vacant village lots for rent as flower gardens. The goal is to transform weed patches into attractive, flowering spaces.
A New York World dispatch from Newton Kansas reports engine No 1461 of the Santa Fe arriving from the east pulling No 3 and being moved to the round house when a fine Rhode Island red hen was found perched on the pony trucks just behind the pilot. Engineer McNeil says he encountered a flock of chickens near Peabody about 30 miles away.
The article notes a shift toward outsourcing to the operator to save salaries for de patchers. It adds that except where telephone despatching is used, expertise in telegraphy remains essential for securing a train despatcher’s position.
In a shore speech H A Mudge president of the Rock Island railroad contends a man’s commercial value reflects his earning capacity. He cites 83 33 monthly or 1000 yearly as capitalized at 2000 at 4 percent. He urges employers to raise personal capitalization by improving food body and mind through productive work.
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad formed a 600 member safety committee to report dangers from protruding arms to unprotected openings. Their findings reduced deaths by 17 and injuries by 2,144 among yards and shops workers.
Arthur W. Thompson, general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, rode a heavy freight engine in Cumberland division. An engineer shouted slang about “warming” the engine and “slipping some chow” to it, while Thompson asked for a translation and the engineer explained the coded railroad slang.
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