Farmers Meeting Schedule in Warren Court House
Monthly meeting held on the last Saturday at 1 PM at Warren Court House chaired by President Chas. Lott with Willis Cowan as secretary and W. B. Acocks as treasurer. All farmers are invited to attend.
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Warren
Court House
Chas. Lott
Willis Cowan
W. B. Acocks
EzBen N. Forp Post
H. Hall
Warren E.A. U
United Workmen Hall
Laban Lodge
Carver House
Star Lopge
A.Y. M
Occidental H. R. A. Chapter
Warren Commandery
K. T
Warren Lodge
Allen Block
Kossuth
I.C.O.F
Carroll Lop
A. O
U. W
Warren Savings Bank
K. of P
U. W. Hall
Conewango Lodge
Shaffer Block
Warren Council
R. T
I. O
G. T
Robert Blum Lover
Letty Price Invades Willow Farm In Bright July Way
Letty Price a chic city girl arrives at Willow Farm to conquer quiet country life. She boasts of defeating her critics and inviting herself to stay while Miss Willow resists yet Letty presses on. Helen Kaye fears the aunt’s hardness and Letty’s self serving plans unfold.
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Letty Price
Willow Farm
Letty
Shoelace
Shoelace and Button’s
Willow
Hackmatack
Miss Price
Selina Richfield
Miss Richfield
East Brackton
Miss Willow
Helen Kaye
Helen
Aunt Willow
Craic
Mother Eve
Fortress Willow
Red Chamber
Dunkirk to Pittsburgh Express Schedule Fragment
Partial railroad timetable notes for Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad show multiple daily trains under Eastern Standard with north and southbound labels, arrival and departure times including 8 56 am and 11 55 am express, 4 55 pm express, 6 44 pm express, and Sunday 5 06 pm service listed.
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Buffalo
New York
Philadelphia
R. R
Eastern Standard
Dunkirk, Allegheny
Val
Pittsb’y R. R
Corry and Erie
Bradford
Dunkirk
D. A.ville
Oil City
D. A. Vv
Sugar Grove
Lander
Kinzua
Cornplanter
Corydon
Onoville
Doerr Lutheran Pastor Sunday School Services
Rev Ph Doerr leads Lutheran congregation with Sunday school at 9:30 AM and services at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Priest to deliver sermons and oversee youth program. Activities include scripture study and communal prayer at the church.
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Mrr
W. P. Bignell
A. W. Ryan
Episcopal
Wm. J. Coulston
Perry S. Allen
L. M. Boyer
N. G. Johnson
Father de la Roque
Father Berbigier
Letty Price Exiled From Aunt Willow After Red Chamber Scare
Letty Price schemes to pry into Aunt Willow estate and the locked Red Chamber. A dramatic confrontation ends with Letty ordered to leave and Nell Kaye rising in favor with Aunt Willow as the mystery deepens.
The Haunted Cave of the West Virginia Mountain People
A Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent recounts a strange West Virginia community near Cannelton, its nomadic cave dwellers and sects, and the eerie tale of Deacon Edom Smith, his wife Olga, a coffin on a stump, a hidden cavern tomb, and ghostly songs that linger in the haunted glen as the couple vanishes.
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Cannelton Mountain
Kanawa County
Charleston
W. Va
Cincinnati Enquirer
Brotherhood of Prayer
Church of God
Edowin Smith
Deacon Smith
Cype
Edom Smith
Olga
The Snapping Turtle Life History From March To August
A Scientific American summary explains the snapping turtle range from Canada to Ecuador, April to August nesting, egg digging with hind feet, and eggs 1 to 1.5 inches long. It notes hatchlings emerge mid June to August and head for water, plus human uses, feeding habits, and the two U S species Chelydra serpentina and Macrochelys lacertina with distinctive heads.
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Canada
Ecuador
Pacific
United States
de Kay
Schuylkill River
Philadelphia
Mississippi River
Gulf States
Scientific American
Marital Tales Of Adams And Han Cock In Connecticut
In Connecticut John Quincy Adams and John Han cock married two sisters, daughters of a Methodist clergyman. Mary’s banns prompted her father to offer a wedding sermon, and she chose a biblical text. The tale contrasts Margaret’s more frugal approach with her father eventually preaching for her as well, citing scriptural lines in a humorous account from Y Graphic.
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John Quincy Adams
John Hancock
Connecticut
John Quincey
Mary
Margaret
John
Pipes Return to the Street as Smoking Trend Reemerges
A Brooklyn Eagle report quotes Fulton Street tobacconist noting a revival of street pipe smoking. He recalls public backlash five years ago over opera night pipe use, says demand has grown with pipes marketed for street use, many carved bowls selling from 1 to 20 dollars, and claims a Meerschaum cigarette odor grows mild with age.
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Fulton Street
Academy of Music
Brooklyn Eagle
Kingston mule Responds to Dinner Horn Bray
At Kingston a mule knows the sound of the dinner horn and brays in response. The animal stops work when the horn blows, showing a stubborn instinct to rest rather than resume duties.
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Kingston
Vault contains forzen 1846 coffin in Indianapolis cemetery
In Greenlawn cemetery Indianapolis a vault holds several coffins forty years old. The sexton found the body of Mary A Mills who died in 1846. The body was petrified and after forty years the eyes were blue. Old residents recall her as a comely French girl.
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Greenlawn Cemetery
Indianapolis
Mary A. Mills
Discoverer of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania
The article recounts Nicholas Allen, who supposedly discovered anthracite in 1790 on Broad Mountain, Pennsylvania. He and his wife mined coal, attempted to market it in Philadelphia, failed after wagons wrecked and horses died, and Allen later buried his wife near the vein, then moved west and died at Tippecanoe.
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Pennsylvania
Nicholas Allen
Allen
Rip van Winkle
Lake Champlain
Broad Mountain
Philadelphia
Schuylkill
Pottstown
Ailen
Harrison
Tippecanoe
Confectioner’s dog and horse share affectionate bond
A Pittsburg confectioner keeps a dog and a horse that are as fond of kissing each other as young married couples often seen at Nigura. The animals share a stall and are inseparable companions.
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Pittsburg
Nigura
A Hawk vs Owl Eating Habits Compare
A hawk plucks all feathers from its prey before consuming it while an owl swallows birds whole, including feathers and claws, revealing different feeding strategies in raptors.
Mail and Atlas Offer Promotes New Family Atlas
The Mail and Atlas announces ongoing subscription deals for the Mart and the new Family Atlas of the World at a low price of $2 in advance. The Atlas alone is valued at $2 and is claimed to be unavailable elsewhere in Warren county at these rates. Now is the best time to subscribe.
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Warren Mail
E. Cowan & CO
E. Cowan
Willis Cowan
Warren
Warren County
Sy C.shortlidge
Media
Philadelphia
Media Academy
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Swithin C. Shortlidge
A. M
Harvard Graduate
Penn’a
A. C. Bradley
Kate Castleton
Fred Hellen
Hellen & Hart
Tobogganing
Mestayer
M. A. Kennedy
Private Secretary” Company
Dion Boucicault
Boston
J. C. Roach
W. J. Scanlan
J. K. Emmetts
Standard Theatre
N. Y
Fritz
A Silent Adieu to Tears for the Living
In a quiet bier scene May Forney contemplates sorrow not for the dead but for the living. She voices that tears water life, not death, stressing the living’s strife and the serenity of one laid to rest. The poem contrasts restless toil with peaceful rest, underscoring a refusal to weep for the dead.
Secrets of glove making from lambskin to kid gloves
A detailed exposé on lambskin glove production reveals processing from skin nourishment using yolk to washing, dyeing, drying, and stiching. It explains quality controls, common defects, sizing patterns, and the shift from lambskin to high priced kid glove claims.
Unknown animal terrorizes hog owners in Anaheim Gazette
The Anaheim Gazette reports a strong, unfamiliar animal in the area that has killed or carried off several hogs. It reportedly took two hogs weighing about seventy and one hundred pounds, and later killed a 250 pound hog but did not fully remove it. A $100 bounty is offered for capture.
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Anaheim
Cal
The
Gazette
Pleasant Purgative Pellets Offer Gentle Relief
If waste pipes clog, disease can follow. children are kept away until fixed. The same occurs in the human body where poison builds up and hinders work. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets gently remove the cause and the effect vanishes. For sale by druggists.
Electric Bitters praised by druggists across states
W D Sult of Bippus endorses Electric Bitters as the best remedy with relief in every case and a rheumatism cure after six bottles. Abraham Hare of Bellville calls it the best selling medicine he has handled in 20 years. Thousands testify, claiming cures for liver and kidney ills and blood disorders at fifty cents a bottle, with Oneida Market lauding the product.
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W. D. Sult
Bippus
Ind
Abraham Hare
Bellville
Ohio
A. W. Morcks Drug Store
Oneida
Temperance Corner: W C T U and Social Purity Debate
A Washineron letter to the Independent argues the $400 raised at Miss Willard's lecture supports the W C T U's broader aims beyond liquor abolition. It notes social purity links to crime and poverty, praises increased age of consent, and defends women’s involvement while urging male inclusion in public issues aligned with God, Home, and Native Land.
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The
Independent
Supreme Court
Rumsellers
Department of Work
New York
Christian Union
Godeys Ladies Book March 1887 features “The Promise” plate
The March issue of Godey’s Ladies Book for 1887 is brighter and more attractive than its predecessors. The steel plate illustration titled The Promise is a gem. Black and colored fashions are strong, with designs pleasing to women. A new story, The Mauleverer Money, by Harriet Prescott Spofford, begins in this number.
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Godey
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Local physician touts Fenner remedies for wide range cures
An area doctor advertises using Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic to cleanse blood regulate functions and restore nerves while claiming rapid cough relief from Dr Fenner's Improved Cough Honey and swift pain relief from Dr Fenner's Golden Relief. Sold by local druggists and dealers including Gooprico & FruumMan.
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Dr. Fenner
Warren Union Holds Semiannual Meeting on Feb 17
Nearly all officers were re elected at the Tur Semi Annual Meeting of the Warren Union held February 17. Mrs. C M Snyder served as President with Mrs Eichenberg as Treasurer and Miss Beach as Secretary.
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Tur
Warren Union
C. M. Snyder
Eichenberg
Miss Beach
State Officers Call for March 6 Praise Meeting
A State officer asks the community to hold a Praise Meeting on March 6 as thanksgiving for the passage of the Amendment bill in the legislature.
Letter from Miss Willard Heads to Michigan Campaign
A Miss Willard letter states she is en route to take part in the Michigan campaign, signaling notable activist activity and involvement in regional political efforts.
The Stability of the Earth by Prof N S Shaler
Scribner for March presents Prof. N S Shaler’s analysis of the earth’s stability. He explains causes distribution and effects with emphasis on the likelihood of severe shocks in the United States and methods to prepare for and avoid danger. Photographs illustrate the topic and the Charleston earthquake effects.
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Scribner
N.S. Shaler
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W. W. Young
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Henry E. Hoyt
Zozo
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Clara Morris
Maggie Mitchell
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