10 Mar 1904
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1904
Page
1
Warren items report weather and road conditions with maple sugar notes and new business openings. Local deaths and illnesses contrast with upcoming theater shows and school board actions as Warren residents share travel, weddings, and Grange activities.
At a regular town meeting on Monday night the year’s business closed and a new year began. S A Waters replaced Capt Slater in the Second Ward. Lemmon and Ralph Cousins filled the Seventh Ward seats with K T Beck absent. All officers were re elected for another year. Barricades were ordered at both ends of the Third Street swing bridge to stop crossing. The borough attorney authority to settle the Lynch case for 1000 was approved after the death of a boy who fell from the suspension bridge. Several ordinances were introduced and passed on first reading.
Sheriff Brown delivered two more inmates Tuesday, two Italians from Clarendon charged with carrying concealed weapons and resisting an officer. E D CLaP traveled through Warren and Tiona en route to Neodesha Kansas to serve as Assistant Auditor for Prairie Oil and Gas Co. He spent six years with National Transit Co. in Oil City and anticipates health benefits from the change. Grand Records of the A C U W New York State show membership drop near eight thousand in 1803 due to rate increases. Council room needs ventilator as fresh air is scarce and tobacco smoke is excessive. A comparison of qualities and prices will take you to Smiley's.
Obituaries recall Christian Smith, lifelong Warren merchant and former Warren Postmaster, with details on his birth in 1823, family, business partners, church life, and funeral. The section lists many other local deaths from March 1904 including Brown, Crater, Porter, Anderson, Paine, Cady, Stengel, Fisher, Crute, Toby, Garfield, Schwing, Lauffer, Hamilton, Butler, Palm, and Traub, with brief burial info and locations.
In March 1904 announcements list a daughter for Mr. and Mrs Denis Smith Barry on March 38. A son is reported for Mr. and Mrs W B Anne on March 4, and another son is born to Mr. and Mrs R A Walters on March 8.
A collection of aphorisms on love silence mercy and honesty from a Chicago Tribune column. The verses touch on martyrdom luck and moral wisdom noting mercy to the guilty can harm the innocent and that hunger can be the gateway to imagined heaven.
For sale a 95 acre farm located about half a mile east of Russell Pennsylvania. Includes a nearly new house, good barn and outbuildings, an orchard, a water well, a small stream running through pasture, timber and wood supply, and pine shade in a finely located site. Inquiries to W. V. Hopes, Russell, Pa.
Mrs. L. Casemere opens a dyeing and cleaning shop at 1914 Fourth Street offering repairing and pressing with neat work and reasonable charges.
The Mail Office displays latest engraved stationery fashions with samples and current prices. Prominent display highlights include various styles and finishes for formal correspondence and personal use.
Special excursions offered on the Erie Railroad on the first and third Tuesdays each month through April 19. One way and road trip tickets available to destinations in the West South and Southwest at greatly reduced rates. Inquiries directed to any Erie agent or to F H Garfield D P A Jamestown NY.
A boastful ad urges readers that Smiley's Grocery offers fresh and pure goods and the latest culinary novelties. It promises good quality at cheap prices, inviting shoppers to save by choosing Smiley's.
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