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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1885
Page
4
In a wooded scene at a manor a girl named Eillen or Fillen captivates with beauty and virtue while a perilous intruder menaces a household. A bold young rescuer intervenes, subduing the man and praising the heroine’s courage as Molle Legue reassures her pupils and restores order.
In a dim dormitory a nurse and governess defend a house full of sleeping children as Prussian soldiers raid for hidden enemies. The bravely calm Madame Legue confronts the intruders, insisting no one else is inside while her pupils brace for danger.
A thermatologist shares farfetched heat stories to illustrate extreme temperatures. He recalls calibrations in China Calcutta Peru and Southern California with humorous anecdotes about servants, hens, and a lake that boils away. A passerby quips that he is a cool liar.
The Philadelphia Times reports that young men favor streetcar travel over walking, deeming knee-breeches unlikely for evening dress. Fashion notes expect wine or cherry dress coats, wider trousers with straight-ankle cuts, light morning coats, and bold fabrics like English plaids and matelasse.
The Dudley dynagraph car, now finished with automatic inspection, records track notes with twenty pens on a moving paper strip. It travels eight and eight tenths feet per mile, generating a clear report of track condition. The system uses fifteen gallons of blue ink per 100 miles to mark defects, and can identify rail manufacturer and rail age from readings. Other features include energy measurement at any journey point.
An extended critique of overloading students with new work and theory. A memory of learning shorthand shows the harm of rushing lessons and a call for gradual, paced instruction. Advocates include Eva D Kellogg and various education writers urging patience, short lessons, and attentive teaching.
The article argues teachers must adopt newer teaching approaches to raise student outcomes. It criticizes old ruts and endorses teachers as living souls who understand child needs, stimulate energy, and align with nature's plans. It poses self check questions on lesson value and educational principles.
A report from the Trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble Minded at South Boston argues that industrial education is a stage of intellectual education, not a separate realm. It cites shop work as elevating the mind through comparison, measurement, and design from tasks like farming and rug braiding.
Quotes from Superintendent Edward Smith and C F Spicer stress pupil character as the primary aim and link teacher quality to school success. The piece argues that regular pupil attendance is now the most urgent educational issue requiring serious attention from school boards and the public.
Eliza Baldwin a wealthy, reclusive resident of Lake Mahopac dies frozen in her home after years of hoarding and frugal living. Neighbors note her temper and estrangement from kin. A search after the funeral uncovers $75 in cash with likely more hidden, raising questions about hoarded assets.
In a Rockland Gazette exchange a man and woman banter about a deliberate act and a euphemistic “difference” between a shouting remark and dining room furniture. She points to his hat, labeling it a sideboard while calling his sigh bored. He dons the hat, and the gathering ends.
A $20 bet tied to doubling payments per Jackson margin in electoral votes spirals into astronomical sums. The offer promised 1 cent per vote for 1, 2, 4, 8 cents scaling with each additional Jackson advantage, risking billions or more as totals rose with larger majorities. The example bankrupts prominent men and rivals, including Goulds and Vanderbilts, under the rule.
A Western man who settled in New York after buying a $40,000 house on Thirty-sixth street two years ago laments the city as inhospitable. He notes no neighbors call, few visitors, and his daughters’ social circle failing to develop, despite a well connected block and local businessmen.
The supply preacher for Neversink Flats Hurleyville and Fallsburg Methodist churches in Sullivan County, Rev W P David leaves Philipsport at 3 30 each Sunday. He travels 21 miles to Neversink Flats for a 9 30 Sunday school then 11 30 service and an hour class meeting. He then goes 8 miles to Hurleyville for 2 30 preaching and a closing class meeting, then 4 miles to Fallsburgh for 7 30 service lasting until 9. He returns home 12 miles away about midnight. He earns 200 dollars a year as the circuit is in the wilds and the people cannot pay more.
Report notes oil tanks in the Pennsylvania region are uniformly 28 feet high with a diameter of 60 feet and priced at $8,000 each.
The article surveys farm practices such as water for dairy cows, trough design to keep feed clean, and safe treatments for bot flies on horses. It discusses rye in Florida groves, sun protection for fruit trees in the North, and milk yield economics. It also covers stable gutter design, forest damage costs, cooperative farming, and world mining height claims.
Beecher and Copeland advertise Walter A Wood enclosed gear mowing machines at 65 dollars with optional reaper attachment. Also promote W Anson Wood mower at 63, Meadow King mower at 60, Taylor springtooth harrow at 20, and dozens of farm implements including plows, cultivators, rakes, wagons, fencing, cement, paints, stoves, ranges, hardware and sewing machines, all at low cash prices for quick savings.
Dr Hartman’s firm touts Peruna and Manalin with letters from merchants and customers across Lewis County Ohio Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Testimonials claim dramatic health improvements and growing demand while referencing multiple named firms and towns including Vanceburg Waynesburg Cincinnati Wilmot St Marys Greenup Martinsburg and Columbus.
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