Winter Time Table for Philadelphia and Erie Rail Road 1876
The notice lists winter schedule changes effective Sunday Nov 26 1876 for the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. It shows westbound and eastbound Erie Mail and Mail Fast connections with transfers at Warren Corry Kane and Erie, with times in Philadelphia time. General Superintendent William A Baldwin signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia & Erie
Erie Mail
Philadelphia
Warren
Corry
Erie
Erie Ace
Kane
Waarren
Kane Ace
Warre
Eas
Oil Creek
Allegheny River
R. Iin
WM. A. Baldwin
L. Supt
Town and County Officials Listing in Warren Area
A detailed roster lists burgess and town officers, clerks, assessors, and school directors alongside county roles. Names include Rowland, Noyes, Wood, Clark, Lewis, Davis, Greenland, Friday, Falconer, Spaulding, King, Marston, Nesmith, and others. County positions include congressman Egbert, state senator Stone, and various Warren area officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A., G. Egbert
Franklin
C. W. Stone
Warren
W. M. Lindsey
Lansing D. Wetmore
W.B. Acocks
Pittsfield
W. W. Connely
Deerfield
Henry Brace
Starling W. Waters
Church Services and Schedules Across Denominations
A listing of church leaders and weekly worship times includes Presbyterian services at 11 AM and 7 PM with Sabbath School. Episcopal services at 11 AM and 7 PM. Mission and Evangelical services. Lutheran services at 11 AM and 7 PM with a 3 PM English school. Scandinavian meetings on the first and third Sundays. Catholic Masses with Vespers and daily timings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian
W. A. Rankin
Episcopal
H.S. Getz
R. M. Warren
A. Rearick
F. C. H. Lampe
J. Mellander
Father de la Roque
Father Mullen
Rail schedule notes and local stations list
A fragment lists train numbers and times, with stations including Buffalo Erie Railway lines and local stops such as Abbott's Road Hamburg Water Valley Eden Valley North Collins Pine Valley Conewango Clear Creek and Creek. The note mentions a Monday effective timetable and line connections in a 1876 era table.
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Lyne
Buffalo
Erie R’y
June
Buffalo Creek
R’y
Limestone Ridge
wAbbott’s Road
Hamburgh
Water Valley
Eden Valley
den Centre
North Collins
Pine Valley
Nee Creek
Conewango
Clear Creek
Fraternal Lodges Meet Regularly in Local Block Holdings
A list of fraternal and Masonic groups meets in common locations across the town. No. 52 K. or H. Masonic and North Star Lodge No. 241 Masonic hold regular meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays respectively. Other groups include Occidental HRA No. 235, Conewango Lodge No. 259, Warren Lodge No. 339 I O O F, Kossuth Encampment No. 58 I O O F, Ogalala Tribe No. 11 C R M, with schedules posted for second Mondays, full moons, and other weekly evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laban Lonas
Burgess’ Block
Willis Cowan
A. Merrill
North Star Lopge
H. Noyes
Cornelius
Sec’y. Occidental H. R. A
Tuos
Keeloor
H. P. J. H. Spencer
Sec’y. Conewango Lodge
Johnson’s Exchange
J.J. Taylor
W.C. C. G. Pollock
Sec’y. Warren Lodge
Allen Block
J. M. Davidson
N. G
John Grindley
Sec’y. Kossuth
Johnson's Exchange
G. H. Ames
C. P
S. Burgess
H. A. Dunn
C. A. Waters
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Timetable Franklin Division
Historic timetable shows freight and passenger schedules for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Franklin Division with departure and arrival times between Oil City Franklin Stoneboro Hadley Amasa Jamestown Andover Jefferson and connections to Ashtabula Cleveland Erie Buffalo.
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Passeng
Oil City
Franklin
Hexerninzed
Stoneboro
Hadley
Amasa
Jameston
Andover
Jefferson
Ashtabula
Cleveland
Erie
Buffalo
Palace
Cincinnati
New York
Mansfield
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio
Ravenna
Cleveland & Pittsburg
Meadville
Union and Corry
Jamestown
Niagara Falls
Toledo
South
W. B. Shattuc
Gen. Pass’r Agt
D. Cooper
Poems and Essay Fragments On Love Sleigh Rides and Teaching
A composite prose and verse excerpt contrasts affectionate reflections on love and heaven with social commentary on sleighing traditions and parental care. It opens with Phoebe Cary style verse on love and heaven, then shifts to a long essay on sleighing customs and the proper teaching in schools, finishing with notes on active teaching and effort.
Fate of Newspaper Borrowers
A satirical tale warns readers of the dangers of sharing newspapers. It recounts Stubbs lending to Brown spreading diseases through shared sheets, causing multiple deaths in the Brown household, including a wife, children, and relatives, illustrating a moral against borrowing.
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Stubbs
The Great Secret of Eating Just Enough
An elderly man recalls learning to eat for health not excess. He describes giving up overeating after early mistakes, discovering limits, restoring appetite, and choosing to live by digestion rather than hunger. He warns that eating too much burdens digestion and invites disease, stressing self vigilance on quantity.
Mark Twain in a Mood of Chronic Melancholy
Cor related piece describes Mark Twain as perpetually gloomy despite wit and humor. It notes his unpaid debts of luck, high earnings from books and theatre, failed London lectures, and disdain for places he leaves. The Chicago Tribune report paints him as misanthropic yet loved for causing laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Scheherezade
London
Tom Hood
Momus
Chicago Tribune
Blue Glass Science Oddity Report Sparks Laughs
A South Brookville man tested blue glass on a bologna link and reported odd reactions. In minutes, a mysterious phrase appeared, the cat returned to normal, and then perched on the wood-house roof calling for its sweetheart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonian
South Brookville
Sirloin and Porter House steak origins stories
The piece discusses whether the tale of Sir Loin knighted by Charles II is true and favors surloin as the likely origin. It then offers Porter house as a probable name derivation from a New York hotelier named Porter who served tenderloin-containing sirloin steaks, a practice quickly copied across the city.
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Charles the Second
England
St. George
New York
New England
Porter
Porter-house
Miss Anthony's Truth-Telling Spirit Highlighted
The Brooklyn Argus notes Miss Anthony displays steadfast honesty and disdain for liars. It observes her resilience as she grows from girlhood, recognizing widespread deception in the human race and pondering moral aspirations.
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Miss Anthony
Brooklyn Argus
Dosing Habits and Fashion Notes in Harper's Bazaar
A critical view of amateur dosing criticizes widespread use of tonics and patent medicines for insomnia mood and digestion. The piece contrasts physician care with self treatment and warns of long term harm while noting fashion trends and spring styles affecting women’s attire from undergarments to hairstyles and accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Bazar
Whipped by Wife Sparks Odd Debate in Papers
A Boston paper asks why men recoil at a wife whipping but laugh at a husband whipped by his wife. The Courier-Journal counters that if all husbands were whipped, the stock of rawhides would be exhausted in twenty four hours.
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Boswell
Johnson
Niagara
Boston
Strauss
Courier-Journal
Promenade in Erie Street Prompts Curious Bow Incident
A young woman, described as homely yet stylish, promenades along Erie Street and drops a red bow with a gold pin. She ignores it, then pays a boy ten cents to retrieve the bow, provoking surprise from bystanders who note her pride rather than vanity. The anecdote appears in the Cleveland Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Street
Prospect Street
Bolivar Street
Cleveland Herald
Pennsylvania Centennial Buildings Sold to City
Nearly all state buildings at the centennial exhibition have been disposed of. The Pennsylvania building will be presented to Philadelphia on Governor Hartranft's recommendation to repeal the sale requirement in the original act. If most structures stay, Fairmount Park may hold a small village.
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von Moschzisker
Celia Logan
Paris
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Hariranft
Fairmount Park
Midas
Longfellow
Vinnie Ream
Justice Waite
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pap” Folsom
Columbia
Ashtabula
Boston
New York City
Cuty
Miss Neilson
Chicago Staats-Zeitung
Pittsburg Post
Greenwood
Pittsburg
Diptheria
Rocky Mountain
John Gilpin
Cowper
Shakespeare
Dickens
Canada
Beecher
West
Minnesota
New England
Waite
Governor Hayes
H. M. Field
Fannie
Scott Russell
Gov. Hayes
Cambridge Law School
Cornell University
Moody and Sankey Refuse Miracles Over Unpaid Subscriptions
An account recalls a tense inquiry room scene where Moody pressed a man who confessed beating a newspaper publisher out of three years of subscriptions. The evangelist said miracles were not promised and suggested settling dues with compound interest, paying three more years in advance, to gain entry under the canvass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moody
Sankey
Boston Bulletin
Humorous exchange on courting and farewell spellings
A man recalls his fiancée saying goodbye with "by by" before marriage and jokes that after marriage she still says the same phrase, this time with a different spelling. A friend notes the playful mishearing reveals a simple linguistic quirk rather than a real change.
Varied Clippings Reflect 19th Century Wit and News
A collage of notes on Midas myths, public figures like Longfellow and Justice Waite, rail and postal topics, poetry excerpts, and local curiosities. It mentions Pennsylvanias railroad profits, New York salaries, and a series of social and legal tidbits with multiple named people and places.
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En. Cowan
P. W. Murray
Hickory Streets
Merck & Co’s
James Cale
Wargn
Allen's
WM. D. Brown
Suspension Bridge
William Schnur
Onice
MKS
8Polum & CO
Calleb Mics v. Sluruus & CO
Ovel
Messness
Ledding la Bullia
Puolograph
Jomny
J. W. Agrelius
Limpire
Youngsville
Dividily
I. H. Humphrey
Mine
Kaprtt
F. Hoffman
Second Street
Warren Savings Dank
Wilbur & Miles
Merck’s Jewelry Cos
W. We. Wien
M., Miles
D.I. Ball
Wm. Messner
Carver House
J. H. Mitchell, & Co
Lycoming
Niagara, Fire Association
Penn
Willie Seufeld
Post Villie
J. H. Mitchell
Willis A. Mitchell
J. Hodges
Willie Water Street
Messner & Trushel
Sextus Keller
Smith’s
Johnson & Lindsey
Warren Pa
P. Johnson
Ww. M. Lindsey
WM. V. Hazeltine
Liberty Street
Scofield & Hooker's
Junius R. Clark
Chas. H. Noyes
Clark & Noyes
Allen & Thompson
Tidioute
Warren County
Central Block
Ga. W. Alle
C. Thompson
Brown & Stone
Chelicare
First National Bank
H. BE. Brown
R. Brown, Co
W. Stone
H. E. Brown
Johson’s Exchange
Johnson, White & Co
Robert Johnson
ER. M. Pierce
FFICK
Wet Tal
Warren, PA
Moschzisker
S&s
Express
J. F. Wells & Co
Spencer & Ballymore
Ball & Levy
Merchant Tailors
Doslers
Michigan Street
Geo, Ball & Co
Pennsylvania Rail Road
Philadelphia & Erie R. Kk. Division
Local Directory
Register & Recorder
W. J. Alexander
Rob’t E. Miller
M., Dunham
Enterprise
E.R. Wheelock
Sugar Grove
J.B. Jennings
Sterling Green
Kinzua
Wmn. Schnur
E. A. Spencer
Columbus
T. FE. Barnes
Sheffield
G. C. James
N. RK. Thompson
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Titusville
Grand Valle
Garland
Irvington
Russelburg
Pentonville
Frewsburg
A & G W Cros
Falconer’s
Fredonia
Buffalto
East Buffalo
N.Y
Anes
Vanes
Peers
Yoo
Rte A
UT Pitts
O. C
A & G W Cross
Fentonville
Youngsvill
Grand Valley
Waver
Cc. A. Clute
T. Bishop
Lesove
R. R
P. C. Doyle
R. Dennison
Sec
North Warren
Lake Shore
Michigan
Souther
R’y. Ranklin
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
Salamanca
Jamestown Corry
Union City
Greenville
Javenna
Akron
Ashland
Measfield
Galion
Marion
Urbana
Springfield
Dayton
Louisville
Louis
Ins
Geo. H. McIntire
Dunninnati
Aveeepringfield
oHrbana
Galton
Warren Greenville
Union City Corry
Hornellsville
Kilmira
Binghamton
Grand Rapids
Indiana
R. R. Ca
Citizens Savings Bank
M. Waters
Robert Dennison
S. P. Johnson
F. Henry
H. A. Jamieson
J. R. Clark
E. B. Eldred
A. Hertzel
G. N. Parmiee
WM. Kitchen
C. Smith
S. Keller
Ur‘onchool
Hickory Street
W. ©. Rowland. Warren
Song OF
Phoebe Cary
Brown
W. A. Cronnt
Mark
Sirloin and Porter-House
West End
Norristown Herald
Carlisle
J. P. Hassler
W. H. Beetem
Carlisle Deposit Bank
Hassler
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