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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1904
Page
3
A Chicago writer argues schools must adapt beyond books to fit boys. He cites a recovering boy in a home with lathe play, bulldog antics, and family dynamics as evidence that play, manual training, and playgrounds sustain health and learning. Public playgrounds and hands on work enrich urban youth.
An old observation states that improving the poor without education fails long term. Camp experience helps youths choose a lawful path, teaching respect for law. The Junior republic program is praised as practical for slum youth, shaping citizens and defending patriotism amid contempt for law.
A writer claims smoking can be harm free with careful rules. The article lists eight precautions including using mild tobacco not re lighting extinguished cigarettes and avoiding rooms with tobacco fumes. It recommends pipe smoking at home with long stems or a nargileh.
St Petersburg reports no news on explorer Baron Toll since May 1902. An Imperial Academy of Sciences search continues with multiple relief parties including Lieut Kolchak and Lieut Kolenak scouring Bennett Island area. Toll left documents indicating a southward turn on November 8, 1902.
William Fleming of Crofton Penssylvania was arrested at the Columbian Rope Co. factory in Auburn New York on burglary charges with suspected conspiracy. A hotel baggage search revealed a letter from a St Louis firm directing him to obtain plant details and blueprints, plus draftsmen tools and documents on numerous rope factories.
In Columbus on March 7 the Anti-Saloon league risks overconfidence as the Brannock ward option bill nears a house vote. With 56 votes required, Democrats may caucus to oppose and complicate passage, given possible Republican support and a strong liquor lobby effort ahead of a committee report expected Thursday.
President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt joined Justice Brewer Senator Dolliver and the British ambassador at St Johns Episcopal Church for the 100th anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Dr Daniel C Gilman of the American Bible Society presided, noting 250 million Bibles circulated worldwide.
A blaze at the Savoie residence in Black River killed three sons of Mrs. Louis Savoie and left a fourth severely burned. Joseph, 26, Thaddeus, 14, and John, 12, perished in the flames while Akphie escaped by jumping from a window but is seriously injured.
At a March 7 celebration for Robert Emmet the Irish Nationalists in St Louis passed resolutions supporting Russia in its war with Japan and expressing sympathy for Christian Russia against the so called pagan horde.
The Susquehanna Gorge near Port Deposit weakened after 36 hours of pressure. Tracks of the Port Deposit and Columbia railroad along the east bank are submerged for three miles and North Main street runs as a roaring waterway. Homes between tracks and street have been evacuated and filled with several feet of water.
Seven years ago I built a combined hotbed cold frame and winter storage pit. The design uses a door instead of a sash for storage access and allows full use without disturbing the covering. It includes posts 5x6 inches, a 4x4 ridgepole, 2x4 rafters, dead air spaces, and portable walls for moving dirt or crops.
L A Goodman warns that climate favors orcharding but sub soil decides profitability. He urges testing across the land to find loess or gravelly shale sub soils, noting iron-rich districts color fruit and enhance quality. Select a porous fertile sub soil or relocate to where it exists.
In Portland municipal court a woman claimed her drunkenness was a bid to break in new shoes and test ice on the sidewalk. Judge Hill smiled and sentenced her to 30 days in jail.
The advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap with Cuticura Ointment as a great skin cure. It claims to preserve and beautify the skin, cleanse the scalp, stop hair loss, soften hands, treat baby rashes and irritations, and serve many antiseptic toilet and nursery uses.
A Chicago Tribune item notes locals discussing Flow becoming organist and the church quartet gathering. Parishioners remark he flirts and adapts to the role with ease, signaling a lighthearted community change.
An advertisement touts Moravian Barley and Speltz for hog and cattle fattening across Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, and beyond. It highlights Salzer’s Billion Dollar Grass Teosinte, Earliest Cane, 60 Day Outs, and 100 other farm seeds, offering catalogs by mail for 10 cents in stamps.
A vintage advertisement extols teosinte and billion dollar grass as premier fodder plants with high yields per acre. It promotes Victoria rape and offers a 10 cent stamp request to John A. Salter Seed Co. for catalogs and seed samples, ending with a moral note on envy.
An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to stop coughs and colds at 25 cents. The page also quotes Lavater and Johnson on hypocrisy and a testimonial note from N W Samuel, Ocean Grove New Jersey, dated February 17 1900. A June Tint Butter Color claim is made about market butter.
Mrs URA Exons of Walkerville Ontario writes of long ovarian trouble and discharge ending after weeks of using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims operation avoidance and renewed health and urges other women to write for guidance. A $5000 forfeit note accompanies the testimonial.
An exchange notes charcoal improves foliage and flowers in parlor and conservatory plants. Use lumps for pot drainage or pulverize into soil at one part charcoal to sixteen parts soil to keep soil sweet and impart vigor to both foliage and blooms.
Farmers and horse dealers are urged to save horse hides from slaughtered or dying stock as they hold market value. Farm sized hides free of blemishes are bringing from three to three dollars and a quarter in Milwaukee markets.
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