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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1875
Page
3
An advertisement for the Royal Baking Powder boasting reliability and fair weight. It lists a price of 90 cents per pound for orders of two pounds or more and promotes Royal Celery Salt in 25 cent and 9?e bottles.
A fragmented list shows canned peaches pears pineapple corn sugar corn beans tomatoes green peas pumpkin mushrooms and condensed milk along with honey strained into glass jars and other preserves priced at $1.25 per quart or similar. The text appears as an old newspaper ad or notice with incomplete items and misspellings.
The note lists price references or product terms such as Fxtar Drips per gallon, White Drips, Choice Brrce, Extra N O Molasses, and Extra P R Molasses suggesting a catalog or ad snippet with assorted items and abbreviations.
Advertises fresh tea crops with several grades of Young Hyson including Finest and Choicest, plus Choice Japan and Gun Powder. Mentions Oolong options and uncolored tea packed in airtight cans. Encourages customers to try these selections.
Fragmented OCR text shows commodity terms like granulated standard A sugar and crushed items with prices and weights, but reading is incomplete. It likely reflects a historic grocery or market catalog snippet with shorthand measurements and per unit pricing.
George Ball sells clothing at No 7 Keystone Block Warren Pa for a good fitting shirt call Mc Daniels Ronne’s. Robt H Johnson inquiries. Greenland Bros moved furniture and Undertaking Rooms to new Store next to Episcopal Church serving old customers new ones with first class goods at low prices. Scrip Hat and Cap Store opposite Suspension Bridge. Romans Scrip and McDaniels Ronne advertise gloves hosiery underwear collars and neckties with price promotions.
A serialized listing shows weekly and Sunday services for United Brethren Presbyterian Methodist Episcopal Evangelical Lutheran Catholic Episcopalian Scandinavian and other congregations. Each denomination names its pastor service times Sabbath School and other notes for Glade Valley North Warren and nearby areas.
Debt of Corry listed at 156 258.27 with local notes on court and politics. Reports cover Meadsville and Warren area revivals, jail corrections, succession of officials, a ball, emigration plans, stock and lumber reports, and weather effects on daily life in 19th century Erie and Chautauqua counties.
Senator Fenton returned home briefly to attend the funeral of his mother Mrs George W Fenton in Carroll aged 84 years 6 months. Her life of usefulness and kindness was marked by a long family lineage with ties to Connecticut and Warren Pennsylvania and by a son who became Governor and another in the U S Senate.
Corry City teachers accept an invitation to a Union Institute meeting on March 12 and 13 at Union School room 8. The program will feature music and drawing basics with on blackboard drawing, following a successful earlier session in Columbus.
The Union School wrapped its winter term with a one week vacation followed by a large hall program in Sebow hall. Prof. Miller and staff organized an orderly display featuring songs, recitations, German selections, and prize essays on temperance. The event highlighted strong student effort, modern chemistry tools, and a two hour entertainment with choir pieces, dialogues, and gymnastics. Notable participants included Principal A. B. Miller and German teacher Prof. R. B. Bogisch with multiple rooms contributing acts and prizes awarded to Charles Babbitt Nellie Morrison Kate Berry and others.
Deputy Supreme Dictator F M Lockwood organized a Knights of Honor lodge in the Red Men's hall on March 4 with charter members A E Goodrich W A Shoff W E Smith Dr D V Stranahan Laban Hazeltine Monroe Hall F Barnhart Robert MacKay W P Lightner H M Meacham Gee P Orr H W Lane A Merrill P J Byer L G Noyes J C Wells J H Bowman Henry Hunter Officers elected include Past Dictator A E Goodrich Dictator Laban Hazeltine Vice Dictator J H Bowman Assistant Dictator Monroe Hall Reporter W P Lightner Financial Reporter P J Byer Treasurer J Wells Sentinel Henry Hunter Guide A Merrill. The order is growing rapidly with lodges in Meadville Union City Corry Jamestown and a new one planned for Youngsville.
Mrs Winchester of Hamilton County Nebraska daughter of Judge Holson formerly of this county visited last week seeking aid for grasshopper victims. A court house meeting raised forty dollars cash and thirty five dollars in clothing. Further donations left at R K Russell will be forwarded promptly.
Judge Wetmore and associates wrapped up a crowded March Court session marked by numerous liquor cases under local option laws. Several defendants, including Nesmith and White, faced fines and suspensions while the grand jury condemned jail and hospital conditions at Rouse Hospital and Warren County facilities.
The 1875 council met March 1 at Sill and Spencer's office with ten members present. They adopted minutes, reported insurance on steamer and building, approved bills, and dissolved the old council. Elected officers, organized committees, and arranged for street, water, gas, and engine operations for the year. The News noted ice on the river delayed suspension bridge fears with families relocating to the depot.
The narrator describes William son of John of Schnar, famed speaker, who speaks in the School Hall claiming to be foretold by the prophet Charles. crowds gather astonished by his words while he endures torment and the people rebuke lawyers for burden bearing.
The Titusville Courier reports Capt. Mackey found a hound in his field on a snow crust with a dead fox beside it. The dog limped with bleeding feet from a long chase. A Hartstown man claimed the hound, estimating the foxhound ran at least two hundred miles before the dog was recovered. Also postponed was John A. Hantz’s murder case to the May term.
The Warren Presbyterian congregation, debt free and capable, contemplates a pipe organ to enhance music. A trustees meeting at Mr Henrys invites male members to discuss the organ, parsonage, and other matters, urging participation and harmonious action.
A reunion of soldiers of 1512 convened in Meadville on February 22. The attendees included dozens of men across Crawford and Mercer counties with ages ranging from 74 to 92, including James McGuire 82 Summit Israel Berlin 82 Wayne John McEntire 81 East Fallow theld and others from Woodcock Meadville Saegertown Summit and Sheakleyville.
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