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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
7
An optician in Canal Street argues color glare and urban design harm sight. He urges parks and wide avenues to rest the eye and preserve vision, citing long vistas as essential for eye health and reducing need for spectacles.
A sick man’s wife confronts a doctor with a claim the patient has stomach trouble. The dispenser blames water quality, but the wife insists the man has not tasted water in ten years, accusing him of a waterless diet as the Daily News notes.
Chicago once hosted a plank road system extending into the countryside as a rival to railroads. In 1847 the city had this lone institution, which time later erased from memory as rail transport dominated.
A meditation on the sublime seen from lofty heights and skies. The author contrasts misty mountain approaches with clear cloudscapes and recalls Dickens Kingsley and Briggs, praising ascent as a path to contemplation and awe.
Poem celebrates the birthday of Old Glory with drums and fife while urging readers to join the noise and fun. It notes the long history of liberty and the fathers who fought and bled, framing tyranny as dead and the flag as precious.
The poem laments the loud Fourth of July celebrations from dawn to daybreak. Citizens and pets react to fireworks as children shout and crackers pop, while preparatory chaos fills lawns and streets amid patriotic display.
Poem excerpts celebrate Independence Day with lines praising the flag and liberty. Attributed to Helen Whitney Clark from Journal of Agriculture, followed by a second poem urging ascent from valley to hills by Margaret W. Dana in Chicago Evening Post.
A poem excerpt asserts personal dominion over nature and wealth through belief and effort. It envisions rivers, willows, cedars, gold, caves, seas, and universes as accessible to the speaker who reads a truth implied by creation. The tone is confident and visionary about mastery and meaning.
The poem recalls a mother’s gentleness and a child’s shout as a speaker imagines loving voices. S. E. Kiser notes the longing to return to a mother in a Chicago Record-Herald poem.
Poem by S8. E. Kiser extols the brave blue uniforms both in regular soldiers and those who toil in silence away from battle. It honors steadfast duty and shared courage across distances and roles.
A poet muses that every rose has its thorn and every thorn has its rose, reflecting on paradoxes of growth and risk in nature. The verse nods to enduring truths about beauty and pain.
A six-span Pennsylvania trestle at New Brunswick New Jersey was shifted 141% feet in 1 minute 48 seconds, with the complete alignment in 2 minutes 55 seconds. Eight stationary engines aided the move while crowds watched from riverbanks and boats. A 67 car freight later crossed the new alignment with no delay.
Thomas Edison, after a wild cross country ride in a gasoline car with E. E. Britton, says he is working on a storage battery device to power a machine that could beat the wind. He claims plans are drawn but cannot be made public. The trip ended when the car hit an iron bar near Paterson. Mrs. Edison and their daughter rode as well. He believes an electric auto could go extremely fast but prefers not to ride himself.
United States minister to Brazil William Page Bryan cabled the State Department that rubber abundance in upper Amazon country tempts workers yet its climate and terrain pose deadly risks. He reports mortality at two lives per ton exported and warns even brief expeditions threaten lives for those unused to the equatorial heat.
The czar Nicholas II dismisses his minister of war and foreign affairs without offering any reason, noting that as czar he need not explain his actions. The Chicago Record-Herald comments on the prerogative.
New York reports flour firm and grain prices rising with No 2 red wheat at 85 1 4 cents and corn at 65 4 cents. Cleveland shows flour patents at 4 00 to 4 20 and cattle to 6 50 with hogs around 7 40 to 7 90. East Buffalo notes prime cattle at 7 65 to 7 75 and heavy hogs at 7 75 to 7 90.
An old ad style clipping mentions a Georgetown man with a bare lip and a parrot, then pivots to claims for Allen's Foot-Ease curing painful feet and aiding shoe fit. It includes a generic medicine endorsement for Piso’s Cure for Consumption and a short ad signature from John F. Boyer in Trinity Springs, Ind., dated February 15, 1900.
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