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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1875
Page
3
An agent promotes Royal Baking Powder as the best now in use with guarantee of full weight. The offer lists 2 pounds or more at 50 cents per pound and Royal Celery Salt sold in 25 cent and 50 cent bottles.
A historical grocery ad lists canned items with reduced prices including Pineapple 29 cents, strawberries 50 cents, corn 25 cents, King Beans three pounds, tomatoes 3 pounds, peaches 21 ounces, Bartlett pears, green peas, pumpkin and mushrooms. Condensed milk 30 cents, honey sold in glass jars $1.25, watermarked as strictly pure.
An advertisement lists multiple tea varieties including Young Hyson Good Japan Gun Powder Oolong and other choicest blends. The copy promotes airtight can packaging and encourages readers to try the selections priced by the pound.
Crumbled gram of fertilizer product listing grades and dates with a March 1 1875 note. Names vague and partially legible. Indicates grading and packaging details for agricultural salt or powder goods.
A series of notices list lost jewelry a mink boa and rewards for returning items to First National Bank and Main Office. Other ads promote George Ball clothing McDaniels Ronne gloves collars hair goods and Scrip Hat and Cap Store near Suspension Bridge with "Roman Scrip" promotions and low prices.
A compact listing of ministers and worship times for Glade Valley North Warren Meritopist Presbyterian Episcopal Evangelical Lutheran Catholic and Scandinavian congregations. Weekly prayer meetings and Sabbath School timings are included for each denomination with specific service hours.
Erie weather and Lent observances. Washington birthday parade noted. Shown are community events from Union City to Jamestown, including advertisements, court, theater, and school items. Fire at Emporium. Meade and Warren news cover sickness, temperance, and infrastructure. Also reports on hotels, mills, and new businesses in Youngsville and surrounding towns.
In the National Temperance Advocate for February the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling targets Express Agents handling liquor money C O D from local option counties as violating the law. The writer argues that delivery of prohibited goods by any party, including Express Companies, is illegal if not allowed by law, viewing such deliveries as evasion and a genuine violation.
A report on Schuur's lecture last Friday evening notes a blend of wit and nonsense with merit and demerit. The crowd laughed and blushed as the performance offered original drollery and practical tips for public speaking, though delivery and audibility at the back drew critique. Receipts totaled $50 and the next lecture by Supt. Sutherland is set for two weeks hence, on the subject of Boys.
Two young Union School pupils, John and Sadie, submit humorous phonetic essays on the toad and coal sore. John describes a tame toad catching flies with a long tongue and a somber gaze. Sadie writes of coal sores, their appearance and persistence, with rustic dialect and self deprecating humor.
A Warren Burgess letter praises Alf Burnett for entertaining the Youthful Metropolis while urging compliments to the City Fathers. The piece notes a new Congress stamp tax rule changes bank checks and drafts two cents, extending tax liability to time drafts and receipts.
Prizes were awarded to James Kitchen and Miss Kate Berry of the Academic Department and to Charles Babbitt and Miss Nellie Morrison of room No. 7 for the best essays on Intemperance. Extracts will be read Friday with first prize for best style subject and delivery. Closing exercises begin Friday at two o clock.
Thomas Falconer Esq late solicitor and accountant of Inverness died at his Kinermony farm on the Spey after a paralysis attack. Born 1803 he rose to high office including Auditor for Inverness and Nairn counties Highland Railway Co and Banffshire Road Trustee. His death ends a long era of professional and civic service and he is mourned across Scotland and in Chautauqua County New York.
On Wednesday, Squire Morrison filed papers to admit a 26 year old son of John Gilson to the Dixmont insane asylum. The affected man, living near South West township town line, has a family and a hereditary history of insanity with religious excitation cited as a trigger.
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