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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1897
Page
1
In Warren Pennsylvania Dr Urban G Mease proclaims a thirty year medical practice offering cures for diseases of the rectum goiter obesity and morphine or opium habit. He claims treatments avoid pain and surgery using new processes cataphoric galvanism and electrolysis and invites free consultation.
District and County officers listing includes Member of Congress Charles W. Stone Senator Charles M. Shortt Assembly E W Parshall President Judge Charles H Noyes Associate Judges J H Sandstrom Z T Weaver Prothonotary George F Yates Register and Recorder Wm McCray Sheriff D M Howard Treasurer M A Myers Cony Commissioners J F Rounce W J Mead H M Preston Commissioners Clerk Fred B Jackson District Attorney C A Peterson Co Supt Schools H M Putnam Jury Commissioners W A Clark GC D Olney Coroner Dr W S Peirce County Auditors E C Alien H J Bassett Geo P Orr County Surveyor D F Wheelock
The document names town leadership including President John Masterson and a slate of councilors leads and clerks. It lists Clerk D A Arird Treasurer A J Hazeltine Justices H S Perry and C H Meacham and other officials plus four ward constables. School Directors include D I Ball, Lucie C Richards, W D McLaren and others.
Readable sale list of affordable fabrics and linens including muslin, gingham, prints, cambric, and dress fabrics with prices. Also covers white spreads, table linens, napkins, damask, towels, lace curtains, lingerie, and a large selection of hosiery, underwear, parasols, umbrellas, and carpets with discounted prices and a 10 day sale period.
The piece compares American and English road wheels with weights 20–24 pounds and 24–30 pounds, notes a May to September racing season and a Texas to Maine continent ride, plus 300 races and 600 riders. It cites the LAW national meet in Philadelphia in August, cut to four days, with three racing days and one day of entertainment.
The Deutsche Zeitung reports Mexico has had 55 rulers since 1821 with four executed, one poisoned, four murdered and seven killed in battle. It notes other items on briar root sources, an Omaha silver palace, Paris hippodrome plans, a Quebec cantilever bridge idea, Genoa tramways, and Genoa’s steep hillside rail.
William L. Strong, 70, remains the city’s longest serving mayor among 62 holders since 1665 and is noted for vitality despite age. The piece also mentions painter George D. M. Piexcto crafting portraits of Lyman J. Gage and three for President McKinley, who wears a silk hat and frock coat.
The text advises preventing clinker buildup on linings and in the ashpan, thoroughly raking the fire with a poker, keeping the firebox full at night, avoiding the eghaker, and using the poker to maintain airflow. It also instructs to rake ashes to form a solid mass for good drafts and to polish the stove lids after removing grease by heating and turning them.
Rev W J Yates discusses pride as a ruinous vice in the Epworth League lesson for June 20. He warns pride blinds judgment, harms friendships, and invites disaster, citing Louis Napoleon as a modern example, then urges humility as the path to greatness and respect.
The piece contrasts humility gained through divine contemplation with pride bound to self comparison. It notes recent Babylonia clay tablets, highlighting Americans like Dr Goucher and Professor R W Rogers, and urges Leaguers to study early human history and Genesis context.
The text presents a dense archaic or poetic fragment with religious overtones. It references a divine or fated care and contrasts life, sorrow, and moral struggle, ending with a hopeful expectation of right taking root as darkness settles.
Professor Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe, reported seeing visions of people he cared about. Mrs Field recalls an 1840s anecdote from The Review of Reviews describing how Stowe entered his wife’s room while she supposedly was away, observed quietly, and exclaimed, I thought it was one of my visions.
Rev. H. Doyle delivers a June week message for Christian Endeavor on the theme of universal brotherhood and the duty to help others. The sermon cites Genesis and New Testament verses to argue that all people are brothers in Christ and that the strong must aid the weak in all walks of life. Bible readings accompany the sermon, including Deut, Prov, Matt, Luke, Rom, I Cor, Col, II Cor, Gal, II Pet.
The old idea tied salvation to self rather than service to others. Now the aim emphasizes earning salvation by loyally helping others to Jesus Christ, reflecting Jesus who came to minister not be served.
Rev. Joseph Tracey reflects on Christmas blending the ordinary and extraordinary, noting a reverent estimation of God's mercies that overwhelms the religious soul. He laments the fire rekindled by the conviction that life gains meaning through our relation to God and His relation to us, made actual in the word become flesh.
Color blindness is a congenital defect and incurable. A color blind person must accept limitations. tests detect the condition by repeatedly presenting colors and confusion colors to prevent right guesses by chance. Scientific tests need not require naming colors or millinery knowledge.
A telemeter uses a three foot arm with a telescope and gradation scale to measure distance. An adjustable vernier, horizon glass, and 45 degree index glass angle enable reflection of the image to the horizon glass and calculation of distance from the known base line.
An American assistant at a notable event in a marquis grounds boasts a huge tet record. Two birds competed, one crippled, the other fierce. The American wagered twenty thousand to a pinch of snuff and won.
The piece notes Sarah Bernhardt favored warm milk and water, with no wine. Be erbohm Tree’s daughter christened at St Marguerite’s Westminster, godmother the Duchess of Portland, godfathers Lord Granby and Lord Rowton. Queen Victoria near her diamond jubilee is in excellent health aside from eyesight and rheumatism. Women’s Vegetarian Union in London pursues vegetable dress from boots to note paper to spare kid calf and sheep.
The article lists Frank R. Stockton with A Story-Teller's Pack, Henry Artemus’s Tris and Trixy, Benson’s Greek life serial, Pierre Loti appealing for hospital ships funds, and a two volume Tennyson life to press. A London book sale notes a Keats first edition autographed to Wadsworth sold for 230 dollars unseen.
England’s Grand Lodge of Good Templars paraded in full regalia from London to Brighton in a 100 strong procession. Gerard Wallop is named secretary of the British National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. M. Levassor, a pioneer in horseless carriages, has died at 55. Patti discusses Longfellow and Dickens, while Dr. Nansen receives the Challenger expedition reports in fifty volumes from the British government.
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