17 Jun 1879
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1879
Page
1
The text outlines subscriber obligations including continued payment if no notice is given, publisher rights to send papers until charges are paid, responsibility for uncollected papers, and duties when moving. It notes that failing to take a paper or remove it constitutes prima facie evidence of fraud.
Timetables show arrival and departure times for Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RY No 18 and connections. Stations listed include Ashtabula Andover Jamestown Franklin Oil City with various times and statuses like Arrive Dep and M A M.
A ceremonial ode praising a sacrificed life for liberty and justice. The speaker urges the departed to continue the struggle beyond death, leaving behind all earthly ease to serve mankind. It extols duty over personal gain, urging the soul to triumph in holy tasks, to free the captive and strike at falsehood.
Timetable fragment describes best route from Buffalo to Pittsburg and Titusville with connections west, noting time card changes effective May 11, 1879. Mentions no car changes between Buffalo and Pittsburg or Buffalo and Titusville and that sleeping cars run on all night trains.
Trains No. 12 No. 6 depart Cincinnati at 1:15 am with a network toward New York and Buffalo. No. 3 and 12 run on the main line daily with Palace Sleeping Coaches on trains 1 2 3 12 between Cincinnati and New York and Hotel Coaches on trains 3 12 Mansfield and New York daily. Connections at Mansfield Ravenna Meadville Jamestown and Corry for oil regions and Buffalo Niagara Falls. No stop over on local tickets. passengers must buy to first stop then re-purchase to destination.
Prof J T Edwards of Chamberlain Institute delivers a graduation address at Warren Union School arguing education should develop physical mental and moral powers for universal culture. He contrasts ancient and modern schooling and warns against superficial views of American education while urging genuine teacher quality and broad linguistic and scientific cultivation.
A dense critique urges deeper culture over rote facts. It defends critical thinking, warns against wealth chasing, and calls teachers to develop mind body and moral powers, inspiring self reliance tempered by humility and reverence for tradition.
A negro preacher describes hell as ice cold where the wicked freeze for eternity. He explains his fear of telling the people more, saying if hell were warm some old rheumatic folks would rush toward the first frost.
The saying likens women to watches charming but hard to manage once set, noting aging as a factor. The remark frames female beauty and temperament with a measured, period voice.
An 19th century style ad proclaims the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum tetter and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and sells at 25 cents per box by A W Morck and Co.
Col Ingersoll reflected on Congress and Democratic strategy after his brother Col Robert G Ingersoll attended services in Washington D C The account notes Decoration Day ceremonies Arlington National Cemetery and Mrs Hayes wreath moment The piece closes with Col Ingersoll delivering a moving tribute to his brother and a charge against party opposition.
A reporter recalls a Washington Wayne County tale of Bill Dean a cheeky practical joker who challenged a deaf hunter. The hunter mishears asking for Richmond and points to a hole claiming two of them hid there provoking the famous punchline the woods is full of em.
A playful incident at a recent gathering ends with a joker holding a strand of hair before a party member and claiming it is his wife's. He adds he found the hair on another gentleman's coat, prompting a comic tableau as the crowd reacts and the victim feigns offense.
A New Haven Register item describes a youth who blocked a street hose at the nozzle and blew with his mouth, releasing pressure that sent water through the nozzle. He recalls feeling as if his brain were water soaked, and he sat fifty feet away in shock.
A famed London physician visiting a lady finds her reading Shakespeare. He quips about patience on monuments versus patients, and she retorts that patients lie under monuments, not on them, drawing a sharp witticism in the exchange.
A brief dialogue features Sidney Stith and a dull companion admiring a stick claimed to have traveled globally. Sidney dismisses the boast, calling the object merely a stick despite its travel tale.
An old bachelor who hated literary women asked an author if she could illuminate kissing. She replied archly that she could but preferred it in the dark.
An 1878 Detroit letter praises Dr M M Fenner Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic and Improved Cough Honey. The note claims rapid relief for whooping cough, colds, fever and ague, headaches, liver issues, skin eruptions, nerve debility, and chronic conditions. It endorses multiple products as cures and urges dealer sales.
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