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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1916
Page
4
A narrator recalls a child’s nightly questions revealing curiosity about letters and words. The boy asks why the alphabet uses T and explores parental identity in a sleepy dawn moment. The verse captures playful, searching wonder in a parent child dynamic.
A Royal Geographical Society piece in Kensington Gore houses a wooden fetish with mica eyes. Nails driven into the figure serve two purposes: to gain favors by petition or to harm an enemy, with fees paid to the fetish man. Unlike wax effigies, the nails bind the god to the petitioner’s wishes.
The piece argues for calm, thoughtful debate over raucous talk at the general store. It notes a shift from joshin' to careful discussion, urging wise, cautious opinions before any conclusions are declared. The column ends with a question about abolishing the death penalty while basses sing.
The Franklin Evening News lists nearby places where alcohol may be obtained after Crawford county becomes dry. The towns named include Shippenville Foxburg Tioga Warren Erie New Castle Butler and Corry.
Edward R Allen of Warren seeks the Republican nomination for member of Congress from the twenty eighth district subject to voters in the primaries on May 16 1916.
John Siggins Jr announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Member of Assembly. Primary election to be held May 16, 1916 in Warren Pennsylvania.
A reader recounts a transformation in marriage, noting earlier idealizing of a spouse and realizing true happiness comes from tender service and shared support. The speaker describes shifting from fantasy to a patient, steady love built on companionship and mutual respect.
A woman recalls how the daily routine with her husband deepened their love. Small acts, shared rituals, and mutual care replace chilly remarks with affection and trust, shaping a durable, quiet happiness.
The United States declines to mint 2,000,000 twenty five centime pieces for France citing neutrality and risk of converting blanks into munitions. Philadelphia Mint chief notes blanks could become weapons and emphasizes similar refusals to Russia. Meanwhile Cuba and South American orders push ahead with U S coinage to replace wartime disruption in Europe.
A fragmentary meditation on tomorrow as a test of readiness. The piece recalls a child waking a mother with questions about tomorrow and ends with a warning that tomorrow may never arrive if we wait to act today.
Eleven applications for liquor licenses were filed on Saturday with Prothonotary Davis three weeks before the March 20 license court. The group includes one wholesaler and eight Oil City retailers, one Sugarcreek township brewery, and one Franklin and one Emlenton retailer. Only attorney Pp. A. Wilbert of Oil City represented the applicants. three petitioners filed without lawyers. Opponents vow stronger contest than before.
Mail Printing Co offers a full line of legal blanks for sale including Landlord's Warrants.
The Rockefeller Foundation invites physicians worldwide to report outcomes of chaulmoogra oil mixture used against leprosy. Dr. Victor G. Heiser left for his post after preparing a bulletin and a New York Medical Journal article noting apparent cures and signs of arrested disease in a 1914–1915 patient series.
A German scientist states that a water particle evaporates from the ocean, condenses back, returns in ten days, then remains in the cycle for 3,460 years before another evaporation. The assertion blends rapid cycling with an extremely long residence time in the system.
The vampire is the dead body that remains in a half life in the grave and feeds on the living’s blood. Belief is strongest in White Russia and Ukraine with reach to Poland Servia and other regions. Vampires lack shadows and never eat or drink while pale teeth mark their visits.
In 1527 Charles de Bourbon high constable of France died while leading troops that sacked Rome. At King Francis I's court in Paris on July 26 1527 Bourbon failed to appear after being declared condemned with goods to the crown and his palace doors painted yellow.
Farm and Home notes how lamb teeth grow and change with age. By about one year the middle pair on the lower jaw becomes permanent. At two years the adjacent pairs replace. By three and four years the remaining teeth are replaced in sequence, revealing age.
In a Richmond Times-Dispatch reading, a friend of Jinks faced financial trouble and asked for help. Jinks offered aid but was let down as the friend took the assistance without repayment.
The Washington Star notes that the dove, often seen as a symbol of peace, is actually a combative creature that spends much of its day fighting.
The Baltimore American notes a widower who recently remarried was deeply affected by his first wife’s death. His renewed devotion and visible sorrow drew community sympathy as he moved forward with a new marriage.
The Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader notes a local housewife sought seeds from a congressman and used the remaining peas to make pea soup, highlighting her thrifty approach in the neighborhood.
An eastern paper features a mothers department titled Frocks and Frills. The old man quips that papers should also run a fathers department called Shocks and Bills, as noted in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A satirical exchange about a wife selling for three dollars in Sumatra appears in a humor piece. The Akron YMCA bulletin invites young men to spend Sunday there, framing the venue as a social option.
A whimsical list notes what famous figures never did or experienced, including Mazeppa not riding a jitney, Cleopatra not wearing an ankle watch, Noah not joining the navy league, Henry VIII not facing a breach of promise suit, Shakespeare not seeing Chaplin, Napoleon not hearing Bryan, and Jonny Lind not singing Tipperary.
The editor of this paper expresses disillusionment with the poultry business. He notes eggs are scarce and prices high, compares a chicken strike to a ground hog sighting, and recounts his son Billy being sent to a 16 day chicken pox isolation while leasing out his son Robert on shares. The piece conveys financial concerns and skepticism about profitability.
Duff, the Snow-Street Commissioner, has a force clearing streets in the business district. Wagons haul snow to a convenient spot where it is burned or disposed of by other means. The Warren Mirror notes few citizens knew of a municipal snow incinerator.
Count Louis de la Tremoille led the transporting of fourteen French cannons across the Apennines with Swiss help and royal rewards. The ascent and descent demanded rope work and careful gunner supervision, and no lives were lost. The feat impressed Charles VIII as the guns reached the Taro riverbank.
A Warren Pennsylvania firm advertises mailing name and address printing on 100 envelopes for 50 cents cash with every order. The terse notice urges readers to place orders now.
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