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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1859
Page
1
A poem praising a wife as the world’s treasure and heaven on earth. The speaker urges cherishing the wife’s smile and treasuring her above all, calling her Asa and describing her as the source of life and joy.
An elderly narrator recalls a vivid railway tale of speed and danger. A locomotive engineer recounts a fatal accident near a cottage child, the mother's breakdown, and his vow to quit trains, contrasting human nerve with the iron monster. A later item describes Mana Loa lava pouring into the sea with epic, fiery destruction.
A gentle man tells his neighbor he bought a barrel of flour for a poor woman. The neighbor jokes about charity and asks whom he has made happy this time. The man answers simply My wife.
A Union Adventure in Algeria describes a tense scene where the narrator awakes to a possible lion near the tent. After considering escape or fire, a lion drags a body into view as the narrator shoots at the creature, striking the body but failing to dislodge its hold on the Arab named Hamed.
A long description mixes dramatic animal encounter with notes on literary figures. It recounts a hunter fending off a lion, then shifts to a New York correspondent’s portrait gallery of Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Beecher, and others, contrasting looks with intellect and listing British writers’ appearances. It ends with a cow story and a vivid account of Zouaves in Italian service.
The Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Stage Company reports its first mail and passenger run reaching Leavenworth after about twenty days, with stations and bridges now forming to cut travel to fourteen or fifteen days. Reported are severe hardships on emigrants via Smoky Hill, including starvation and deaths. a starving man was found near Whiteside County, Illinois, and several brothers reportedly died during the trek. News notes frost damage extending from Auburn New York to Columbus Ohio, with lakeside and Ohio River areas least affected.
A Dubuque Times recounts a grim tale of lynching linked to bogus letter-writers at Cherry Creek. It cites Mason Clark tied to a brutal death, Ezra Allen shot, and others executed for fake gold rumors. The piece criticizes public hunger for sympathy and social violence.
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