11 Mar 1879
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1879
Page
1
The notice lists arrival times on the Pittsburg and Dunkirk route with northbound and southbound segments. It notes multiple times including 9:19am 5:40am and 12:06pm 11:svam with directions west of Warren and eastward trips. It also mentions no mail east of Warren on the Accommodation line and signs off with C. Allen P. M.
The document lists Burgess Miles town council members and officers including clerk K. P. King assessor J. P. Marston school directors Benjamin Nesmith R. P. King Thomas Keelor J. F. Wells F. Henry George Ensworth justices of the peace D J Hodges D W C James constable John F McPherson Jr notaries public D I Ball C H Noyes H E Brown O F Hoffman Ozro Nesmith auditors Geo P Orr Geo N Parmiee E K F Hodges.
Officials named include Congressman L F Watson Warren. State Senator J W Lee Franklin. Assemblyman J B White Youngsville. President Judge Lansing D Wetmore Warren. Others: judges W B Acocks Pittsfield and W W Connely Deerfield. Sheriff Henry Brace Warren. Prothonotary Starling W Waters Warren. Register & Recorder A W Jackson Warren. Treasurer T E Barnes Warren. County Commissioners Benj Ellis Sugar Grove Jas Roy Warren W H Maultby Sidrew. Surveyor D F A Wheelock Lottsville. Coroner Sterling Green Kinzua. District Attorney C C Thompson Tidioute. Auditors Critt Marsh Corydon N F Wright Freehold W W Kembie Tidioute. County Superintendent N R Thompson Sugar Grove.
The notice lists multiple congregations with pastors and service times. Baptist Rev H H Leamy holds services at 11 AM and 7:30 PM with Sabbath school at 10 AM. Presbyterian Rev W A Rankin preaches 11 AM and 7:30 PM with Sabbath school at 12:30 PM. Episcopal Rev H S Getz offers 1 PM and 7:30 PM services, Sabbath school 12:30 PM. Methodist Rev R M Warren offers 1 PM and 7:30 PM with Sabbath school 12:30 PM. Evangelical Rev B L Miller services 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM, Sabbath school 9:30 AM. Scandinavian services on first and third Sundays 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM by Rev J Mellander. Catholic Rev Father De La Roque assisted by Rev Father Mullen with Masses 9:30 and 10:30 AM and Vespers at 4 PM.
A lyrical scene where the March wind rattles old leaves as Franca voices a playful command to call flowers and birds. She pledges gentleness despite wind’s noise, promising to blow softly for shy violets and softly again for blossoms while aiding water-bound men on the hill.
Poem presents Lent as spiritual fast beyond abstaining from meat. True fasting means easing the hungry, resisting strife and hate, and purifying the heart. It reframes bodily fasting as inward discipline to starve sin and show a grieving, cleansed life.
Regular meetings for multiple lodges and posts are listed with dates and locations. Entries include Mutual Protective Association House Council No 41 K of H Copeland Post 125 A G R Ossular communications for North Star and Occidental chapters with meeting days.
A Cheyenne bound emigrant loses his savings after a theft on a passenger train. Charitable travelers raise over 250 dollars for him. A well dressed stranger returns 500 in gold to steal back 250, then vanishes at Oakland. The bank shortchanges the bearer with fifty tens instead.
Lancaster hunter A C Kepler recalls a forest chase with a six-pronged buck that leapt and dodged bullets. He describes a near miss, a neck ball, and the startled buck landing beside him before a final shot ended the chase. He notes public reactions to accidents and a quip about being handcuffed to the sheriff.
A sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage at Brooklyn Tabernacle on February 16 outlines four pivotal life moments for young men. Choosing a vocation, establishing a household, handling wealth, and enduring first sorrows test faith and require divine guidance to avoid ruin.
A Franklin correspondent questions describing a bridegroom’s attire and offers an example detailing a dark coat with lappets and rear skirt, a low cut waistcoat, white linen bosom, detachable collar, dark trousers, black shoes, parting hair, and studs. The piece ends noting this is how a groom should appear at his moment of happiness.
The wife files for divorce claiming her husband had no dash or figure and was of bad form and poor type. She says he lived up to no rule and was out of quoia and could not impose on her any longer.
A Victorian era advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a cure for colds fevers and lung trouble claiming rising death rates and that 950000 bottles sold last year with no failures. It urges readers to use the syrup to avoid doctor bills and severe illness.
A St. Paul Globe reader debunks the romance around Mark Twain and his supposed Albany of Langdon Olivia tale. The letter asserts no Langdon on the Quaker City voyage, clarifies Charley Langdon and Olivia Langdon details, and jokes about how the affair was conducted and settled in Elmira with a simple wedding. It distances Twain from sensational fiction and notes the Innocents Abroad remains widely read.
A Pioneer Press correspondent details the Northern Pacific crossing the Missouri with a locomotive on ice. Gen Rosser leads the engineering crew, testing ice strength with 50 tons of earth and 12 foot rails, proving a historic, if frigid, railway feat on the river.
A newspaper excerpt recalls a Rhode Island legislative proposal to translate Latin legal terms for the public. Mr Updike argues that people fear the law not what they understand, citing a tale of a man who fled when told a capias satisfaciendum rather than a writ.
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