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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1883
Page
3
A collage of vignettes from Warren includes social notes on summer fashion and leisure, civic events, and local business ads. The piece highlights fair weather optimism, a planned Fourth of July celebration, a lecture by Mrs. Senrietta Skelton, shop promotions, and multiple visits and travels of residents and dignitaries.
C Smith and Son announce hand turned button shoes in C and D widths made by Saller Lewin and Co Philadelphia and J J Byrnes Rochester plus Rey Reynolds Bros and Couch Wisner ladies shoes. Ecru Nottingham Lace Curtains offered at Bell Bros from 1 50 to 6 per pair. Boyington automatic folding bed and combined desk bed parlor ornament on display at N Green Sb Exchange Block. Lime Juice Soda Water featured by L G Noyes Druggist.
Our base ballists train for the Fourth and the Warrenites. Selected men will represent the city well and use opponents with courtesy. The Titusville villains may win or lose, but the Warren club promises a good reception.
J T Nelson calls for twenty five workers for the P E and BAR project. Apply to him on the road between Sheffield Junction and Kane. Year round employment offered with continual work.
Judge Brown and associates reviewed liquor license applications last week. Granted to M. Mead and many others across towns including Tidioute Sheffield Tiona Garfield Kinzua Sugar Grove. refusals list J Flacke Wilhelmus Smutz Shaeffer Eckardt Warren etc. one withdrawal J W Gray Warren.
Old saying praises wild strawberries for flavor and health while condemning cultivated types as tasteless and overgrown. Last week in Warren Hazeltine's and Towle's patches sold at 20 and 25 cents per quart, Erie fruit offered at various prices, Baltimore berries cheap at 15 cents.
Flourishing in Warren the Stand ard club forms and plans a Friday game against the Exchange. Exchange hopes for a warm rivalry with Titusville on July 4. They aim to debut uniforms before the Fourth. Exchange beat Jamestown 16 to 15 in eight innings last Thursday and anticipate better play in Jamestown.
The Fourth in Warren this year will feature powder, parade, eloquence, baseball, firemen's races and amusements. Everyone and their relatives are invited to attend. a partial programme appeared last week and full details will be published in the next issue.
Geared to Warren shoppers Geo Ball’s clothing store offers the largest stock and latest styles with guaranteed satisfaction. From collar buttons to summer suits the shop promises low prices and early access to summer novelties in neckwear hats and caps. Call to learn more.
Readers are invited to try imported cigars at the drug store of L G Noyes and to inspect undertakings goods clothing and 24 hour service offers. A Mary who had that little lamb is noted with teeth whitened by TEABERRY and T H Nevin Co paints offered with a three year guarantee.
June 18 minutes outline complaints about nuisances on private properties near Thomas Keelor and A S Dalrymple, with health committee referred. Reports cover sidewalks, pound-master appointments, hydrant gates, signal lanterns, and possible fire bell. special police for factories proposed. Natural gas piping rights debated. bridge matters with Glade township. bond collection for glycerine violation. police resignation accepted. $100 Niagara hose appropriation. Dunkirk railroad safety inquiry. wood structures ban on Liberty and adjoining streets. adjournment.
A reflection on how pictures open the soul to other scenes and relieve loneliness. The Warren studio of W. A. Greaves offers the finest engravings and photographs in the country, inviting patrons to call and examine the collection.
A message from Harris C Mayer to No 10 Union School pupils in Brunswick New Brunswick dated June 19 1885. He mentions safe arrival in New Brunswick references to Jerry the News Boy Margery Flinn and Margery’s summer to Erie and a playful exchange about papers and travel. He asks students to enjoy vacation and notes his own subscription as a friend.
From Warren to Ithaca New York June 18 1883 reports a stormy day across central New York. The Cornell Alumni election for a Trustee drew fierce competition between Gluck and Halsey with five candidates on the first ballot. Gluck won 88 votes in the final tally after absentees’ ballots were excluded, defeating Halsey who had 49. Gluck, a Buffalo attorney, succeeds Halsey the associate editor of the New York Times. The floods injure crops and rain floods the hills between Seneca and Cayuga lakes.
The Grand Circus Royal and English Menagerie toured Meadville on May 16 drawing thousands despite sixteen days of rain. The parade impressed, animals and riders appeared in strong form, and the ring exhibit offered many features new to local circusgoers.
Beit Bros announces a shipment of two hundred extra wide Hamburg Embroideries priced at 25 cents per yard. The store promises an extreme bargain and urges customers not to miss the opportunity.
T H Nevin and Co guarantee white lead and ready mixed paint offered for sale by L G Noyes.
The New Orleans Minstrels will perform at Roscoe Hall Monday evening July 2. The troupe is praised by papers across the country with Ithaca Journal calling their Ithaca show clean meritorious and well received. The group blends music and humor with respectful stage conduct and broad audience appeal.
Reader urged to try Harpers Bazaar Patterns with full descriptions in every pattern. Advertisement lists Harper's Bazar publications and agents in Warren Pennsylvania. Also features Johnson Steereip piano organs and farm equipment at bottom prices. A personal testimonial from 1951 endorses Dr Day's Liver Pills from Guy's Mills, Pennsylvania.
Clarion county reports the locust arrival and a flurry of notices including McKean Post G A R muster in Smethport, Titusville Battery reorganization rumors, Rev D H Wheeler to become Allegheny College president, and the Jamestown store closure with asset transfer. Also notes on Ridgway Advocate upgrades and local deaths and sales.
Fanny Irvine writes about the sleepless restless brothers Morck who charm Warren belles with smooth talk and dances like schottische polka and waltz. The poem warns they will face consequences as time reveals their faults and seeks rest with age and sleep.
County correspondence reports a severe Monday wind storm tearing down trees and a tank roof. The piece also records local الاجتماعية milestones including students, graduates, and lectures at Allegheny college, alongside burglaries at Samuel Hines’s dwelling and calls for greater home protection.
Visitors throng the cottages at Allegheny Springs where Mr and Mrs J 8 Culbertson host their daughter's family Mrs Y H L Cotten and their son Charlie who just finished at Chickering Institute Cincinnati. Arch ie Cul bertson youngest son of W C Cul bertson died at Franklin College NY at about eighteen. his remains were taken to Girard PA for interment. June 22 1883.
The report covers migration of O J Gunning from Kinzua to Lottsville, many candidates active, Clark and Quackenbush busy in cooper shops supplying dairymen, road repairs ongoing, Warren Co Pomona Grange held a large two day meeting, and McNett Co selling chairs at 2.75 per set.
Hon. C. W. Mackey of Venango denies any candidacy for Auditor General while his Pittsburgh railroads deal interests are noted. The piece surveys line consolidations, schedule quirks, ballast work on the Pennsylvania system, and humorous rail naming abbreviations. It cites excursion catalogs, a Lake Shore conductor, and a jab at traveling editors bundled with the Pennsylvania Editorial Association junket.
Jacob Keller the Tailor advertises a large stock of imported and domestic cloths in Spring and Summer styles. He offers dress and business suits, a Spring overcoat, and fitted pants with low prices and guaranteed fit. His rooms are on the second floor at Second and Liberty streets.
N Wendlebee announces the largest and best stocked stock of fine wall paper ever brought into Warren. Prices will be the lowest possible. Liberty street store employs five experienced paper hangers ready to do all kinds of paper hanging and painting in the highest style. Examine goods and compare prices.
Warren Pa June 23 1853 notice lists unclaimed letters for residents including Matilda C Anderson August Lundqvist Gustaf Bigelow Esther Laforest Cora Braley Mrs Ida Mears Martha Ek J G Mead Billie Brown Cornelius McCarthy F Miller Byron Carrier Frank A Carlson Annie Ohlson Erika Peterson Emma Dill Daniel Dill Addie Ryan J Hath Gooch Swanson Henry Swanson Anna Wood John Ritchel Co Lesh Dennis Wisholls James In calling for letters please give date of advertising.
An advertisement touts High Rock Spring water as superior for dyspepsia constipation torpid liver and related digestive diseases. It recommends a single glass before breakfast and notes availability from first class druggists with orders to the High Rock Spring Company Saratoga Springs NY and L G Noyes Warren PA.
It is a clear vegetable hair restorer that frees the head of dandruff, restores gray hair to natural color, and promotes new growth where hair has fallen. Unlike preparations containing sulfur, sugar of lead, or nitrate of silver, it does not harm health. Hair becomes glossy brown in days. ask your druggist. Smith, Kline & Co. and Hall & Ruckel, New York, wholesale agents.
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