05 Mar 1878
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1878
Page
1
An OCR filled list shows a train timetable with arrival and departure times to many stations including Dunkirk, Fredonia, Sinclairville, Falconer, Frewsburg, Warren, Pittsfield, and others. The fragmentary data includes times from early morning to night with several inconsistencies and missing labels.
The Franklin Division timetable shows arrival and departure times from Franklin to Erie and Buffalo with connections at Stoneboro to New Castle and Franklin trains. Notable stops include Raymilton Stoneboro Amusa Jameston Andover Jefferson Ashtabula and Erie reaching Buffalo. Superintendent C MciINTIRE oversees operations.
The timetable lists trains eastward from Cincinnati through Dayton Springfield Urbana Marion Galion Mansfield Ravenna Warren Greenville Meadville Union City Jameston Salamanca Buffalo and other stations with No. 12 No. 6 and No. 8 services, showing departure and arrival times, station sequence, and routes to New York Boston Chicago Cleveland and St Louis.
Burgess C H Noyes W C Rowland E G Wood James Clark Jr Wim Lewis A J Davis P Greenland G L Friday P J Falconer M Spaulding Clerk Rk Ph King Assessor J P Marston School Directors Benjamin Nesmith R P King Thomas Keelor J Wells F Henry George Ensworth Justices of the Peace D J Hodges D W C James Constable John McPherson Jr Notaries Public D J Ball C H Noyes H E Brown O F Hoffman Ozro Nesmith Auditors Geo P Orr Geo N Parmlee E F Hodges
A compiled roster lists officials serving Warren area and surrounding towns. Names include Congressman L F Watson State Senator C W Stone Assemblyman W M Lindsey President Judge Lansing D Wetmore Associate Judges W B Acocks W W Connery Sheriff Henry Brace Prothonotary Starling W Waters Register Recorder W J Alexander County Treasurer T F Barnes County Commissioners M Dunham E R Wheelock J B Jennings Co Surveyor Geo O Cornelius Coroner Sterling Green District Attorney Wm Schuur Auditors E A Spencer FE Barnes G C James County Superintendent N R Thompson
A composite column features Longfellow quotes on the Two Rivers and a satirical Advice to Ministers. The verse contemplates Yesterday and Tomorrow as watercourses while a later public notice mocks missionary preaching with provocative home and church conduct guidance.
A listing of multiple faith congregations with their pastors service times and Sabbath School hours. Barvist Presbyterian Episcopal and other denominations including Lutheran Evangelical Scandinavian Catholic present on Sundays with morning and evening services and mid day classes where noted.
Listings show LABAN LODGE No. 52 K of H meets every other Monday at K of H Hall opposite Carver House with J E Berkstresser as Dictator and A Merrill as Reporter. CARROLL LODGE No. 102 A O of U W meets Wednesdays in Ss Burgess store with ER L Coates as M W C and A Waters as Recorder. Norvin Star Loose No. 241 A Y M meets Wednesdays on or before full moon with G L Friday as W M and Wo Borne as Secretary. OccidentAL H R A CHAPTER No. 285 holds regular communications second Monday monthly led by R Henderson as H P and Wo Borne as Secretary. Conewango Lodge No. 250 I O G T meets Mondays at Johnson's Exchange with Cornelius as W C and Falconer as Secretary. Warren Lodge No. 339 I O O F meets Tuesdays in Allen Block with D W Brodyead as N G and J J Taylor as Secretary. Kossuth Encampment No. 98 I C O F P meets second and fourth Thursdays at Johnson's Exchange with G H Ames as C P.
Sunday at the White House featured a Sabbath hymn service with President Hayes Mrs Hayes and leaders like General Sherman and Senator Ferry. Dr. Wheeler notes the quiet integrity of Hayes private life and the hour ends with uplifting Christian song. A brief literary quip closes the piece with a tavern-like exchange.
Special correspondence notes the January 11, 1878 through run of the Olean Bradford and Warren line. The trial train, led by Marcus Hulings engine, covers ten miles to Derrick City with officials aboard to map curves and grades. The route offers scenic views of Red Rock, Foster Brook Valley, and Allegheny River from Point Lookout.
The writer visited Menlo Park New Jersey on Saturday to interview Prof. Thomas A. Edson inventor of automatic telegraph quadruplex and sextaplex dispatches the carbon telephone and the speaking phonograph He demonstrated a mouthpiece and tin foil cylinder that record voice as perforations and replay it with timing and intonation He claimed no electricity is used and predicted $100 price for the finest model He noted wax figures and Patti arias could be reproduced as matrixes and sold for future playback.
A long collection of jokes, aphorisms, and anecdotal quips from various voices including Josh Billings Kingston Freeman and Detroit Free Press. The items cover manners humor about spouses mothers and social mores with playful puns and moral twists.
A Portland Press communication argues water applied at the fire’s bottom is more effective than pouring on top. For small fires, a gallon at the base suffices, while on windward sides water at the bed of coals under the draft ends flames faster.
A husband who avoids his wife's ill humour by silence is told he fears his wife. He replies the fear is not of her but the noise it makes.
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