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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
1
A poetic exhortation urges inner struggle as the true battlefield. The speaker calls for self mastery over fear and doubt, framing victory as conquest of the self rather than external conflict. The lines emphasize inner guidance, resilience, and personal victory.
A damaged OCR fragment shows time stamps 11 20 pm 12 26 pm 11 37 om 12 35 pm and refers to an overseer or superintendent with partial age details. The text is illegible and lacks clear context or event.
Train times and arrival schedules listed for the River Division routes from Pittsburg to Oil City and Eastward, with stations including Parker Foxburg Franklin and Tionesta. The timetable shows AM and PM departures and arrivals across numerous stops, indicating a detailed multi-line schedule for travelers and operators.
The listing names Burgess August and newly listed town officers including Morek Jr. and P. J. Bayer with positions such as Clerk J. A. Schofield Constable A S Dalrymple and Surveyor Geo C Hamilton. Also named are School Directors Chas Dinsmoor F M Knapp James Clark W J Alexander W D Hinckley Wm D McLaren and Justices of the Peace Geo O Cornelius J F McPherson.
A full slate appears for Warren County with names and positions including Congressman L F Watson State Senator O C Allen Assembly C C Thompson President Judge W D Brown Associate Judges J T Barker and C C Merritt Sheriff Henry Fuelihart Prothonotary D A Arird Register and Recorder S H Briggs Treasurer Geo F Yates County CommissionersPhil N Robinson Joseph Clinton H T Russell Clerk C H Meacham Surveyor D F A Wheelock Coroner Dr F W Whitcomb District Attorney J W Dunkle Auditors O J Gunning A E Pelton Thomas Mooney and H M Putnam plus other posts in Warren Pa and surrounding towns such as Bear Lake Grand Valley Scofield Sheffield Lottsville and Stoneham.
A fragment shows timetable listings for multiple trains including Erie, Buffalo, Dunkirk, and Pittsburgh lines. Entries mention departure and arrival times such as Erie Acc 7:45 am and Kane 8:05 pm with Sunday notes and various express services.
The notice catalogs weekly service times and Sabbath school for Presbyterians Methodists Episcopal Baptists Lutherans Evangelicals Scandinavians Swedes Swedish Methodists Catholics and a YMCA gathering. It lists pastors, morning and evening services Sabbath school times and weekly meetings for each group.
Reports describe the three platforms on the Eiffel Tower able to hold ten thousand visitors and explain ascent times via stairs or elevator. Other items note Paris women smoking tea cigarettes and broader European social unrest, with Germany easing press restrictions on socialist demonstrations.
A survey of notable bridges across Europe and America notes details such as Coalbrookdale’s first cast iron bridge of 1779 over the Severn, the Tur covered bridge at Pavia, Havre de Grace’s Susquehanna span, Holy Trinity at Florence and the Rialto in Venice. It covers lengths, materials, dates, and notable features including Niagara’s steel cantilever and the new London Bridge.
William Demuth recalls a March encounter with a wounded five prong buck near Job’s Bridge Sullivan County Pa The deer with a broken right fore leg tormented him as he dodged between trees and a stump finally blasting him into a snow drift The buck toppled in the crust and was later killed by Demuth’s son after the hunter reached home This Chicago Journal item relays a close escape and humane end to the animal.
A magazine description explains a parlor trick titled “Who Wears the Ring” that needs only a pencil and paper. Six steps encode the ring holder’s identity into a final number, revealing the person, hand, finger, and joint. The method uses simple arithmetic and predefined hand and joint labels.
A description from Scribner's Magazine outlines the New York to Chicago mail train with five cars plus express and baggage cars. The letter car, 50 feet, handles mail pouches via a mail catcher, while four other cars carry papers and packages. Seven clerks manage duties across regions including Dakota, Montana, New York, Illinois, Ohio, California, and Michigan with annual salaries from 900 to 1300 dollars.
A list of ten practical household reminders from the Pharmaceutical Record. Topics include reusing spoiled milk with soda, delaying salt in milk dishes, chilling sour meat to sweeten, boiling water to lift stains, tomatoes removing ink, turpentine for whitening, starch with gum arabic, beeswax and salt to renew rusty irons, blue ointment with kerosene as a bedbug remedy, and kerosene softening water-damaged boots.
An oculist notes about one in ten public school children wears glasses due to heavy study. He warns hereditary eye weakness and urges earlier study times and proper habits to avoid glasses. He stresses balanced education and says glasses can be a disfigurement for some.
An article extols bees as industrious workers, detailing their anatomy, flight, and honey making. It compares drones to political figures, outlines hive roles, sentinel guards, and the queen’s egg-laying duties, with humor about police-like behavior and hive social structure.
The blood orange is a sweet orange variety first raised by Spanish gardeners in the Philippine Islands Manila. It later drew high European prices for bearing trees. Now supplies come mainly from Malta with careful cultivation. A grafting myth with pomegranate has no basis.
A Russian analyst explains a tea test to distinguish genuine from adulterated tea. Shaken cold water colors strongly dyed tea differently, then boiling and cooling reveals that pure tea turns milky due to tannic acid while fake tea stays clear as it lacks tannic acid. Detroit Free Press reports.
Mrs Frank Leslie, who writes letters to the Journal, holds a diamond studded silver badge of the Order of Bolivar given by the Venezuelan President for promoting art and literature. England and Wales show 25 857 certified places of worship on register at 1888 end, up 630 that year.
A long unlikely friendship between two former regiment mates ended in a dramatic gesture. After a Christmas card exchange spanning thirty years, a wife uncovered the card and a note about a bankruptcy, prompting a £1000 check from the benefactor who had recently become rich. The olive branch token is now kept as a cherished memento.
The article notes that well drained land yields earlier crops while damp soil delays sprouting. It emphasizes thorough drainage as essential for timely harvest and farm productivity.
The Mail announces a full range of printing services including envelopes and legal blanks, with skilled pressmen for first class results and low prices. It notes second class circulation in Warren and asks for brief, newsy communications from all over the county and country. Writers must include their name.
A New York Mail and Express excerpt discusses nitro glycerine handlers in the oil country. An observer recalls a fearless, jovial crew despite the constant danger and notes one man’s nervous nights at home, with a coroner’s jury confirming fatal remains from an accident.
A peddler claims Kansas City outdoes Chicago in wealth and real estate, noting fast trains to New York and selling soap for one dollar a cake. The housekeeper dismisses the claims, while a passerby shows interest in two cakes.
In a Chicago street car a man gripped the strap as it lurched. He bumped a passenger, provoking an exclamation from a woman nearby. He retorted about her carelessness before apologizing to his wife, amid a brief clash of words and humor.
A woman near death from consumption reads about Dr King s New Discovery on wrapping paper and uses a sample bottle then a full bottle to recover. She gains weight from under seventy pounds to about 140 pounds and improves rapidly. Send a stamp to W H Cole, druggist, Fort Smith for fuller particulars and trial bottles at Morck Drug Store.
A promotional notice offers 100 men free trial packages of Lane's Family Medicine discovered by Dr. Silas Lane in the Rocky Mountains. It claims cures for blood liver and kidney diseases and constipation with a 50 cent large size package available at all druggists along with a plug for tailor made corsets at Patterson's.
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