19 Mar 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1872
Page
1
A Victorian style poem follows Janey, growing from seamstress to Lady Jane, as she longs for Alexis at sea. The verse traces her garden bower, courting, and fading dreams, contrasting rural home with distant ocean and memory of a beloved sailor.
A Reverend Beecher passage extols a housekeeper as coordinating all tasks of a family and argues that a woman works at all hours with endless duties from dawn to night. It contrasts a man's scheduled trade with a woman's all encompassing labor and laments lack of appreciation from husbands.
A reader questions whether men are to blame for female fashion folly and explains that women dress to attract mates but men judge wives by more than display. The piece argues that serious men view costly dress with suspicion and question affordability of a wife who costs far more than a modest income.
In a tall tale from the Rocky Mountains, Jared Abrams renounces Chatham street and is adopted by a Shoshoni toting a nose like an owl. He marries Yellow Cloud, plans to flee, sets sail on a river raft, finds a groceries mound, survives a grizzly visit, buries his father, and launches a fresh cash stream in retail and later wholesale.
Charles Dickens delighted in the London Zoological Gardens per Mr Fields in Yesterdays with Authors. He knew the animals well and spoke with hippos, monkeys, tigers, and snakes, charming keepers and creatures alike with his tactful, loyal presence.
In 1869 the Elector of Darmstadt issued a warning ahead of a total solar eclipse. He ordered cattle kept indoors, ample fodder provided, stalls secured, wells covered, and cellars guarded to prevent atmospheric infection during the event. The edict notes eclipses can trigger whooping cough epilepsy paralysis fever and other illnesses.
Henry Ward Beecher recalls primitive sleds and the playful rush of a snowbound schoolyard. Boys race on simple barrel and board runners, move to fancy sleds, avoid dangers, and laugh at mishaps as sisters and a cousin ride along.
A freshman bullies the lean Doctor Caldwell of UC by a night campus encounter. The student aims to thrash him, mistakes the professor for another, but the doctor uses skill and force to win a decisive beating. The youth pleads, mistaking the doctor for Smith, and is taught a sharp lesson in humility.
A Queensburgh farmer ignited a twenty acre yellow pine fallow to prevent fire spread. The central blaze formed a rotating whirlwind that moved rapidly, uprooting small trees, stripping branches, and wringing bark while roaring like thunder for five to ten minutes within the burn area.
Historian notes Napoleon’s 1812 Moscow entry and ensuing Russian city burnings. Accounts describe fires spreading from Kremlin shops on September 15 and 16, towers flashing balloons, roaring flames, collapsing buildings, torches by Count Rostopchin, and vast losses of about £30 million sterling.
The Krupp iron works at Essen cover about eight square miles with a vast under roof area. Ten thousand workers toil under military-like discipline. The plant houses forty-nine hammers including twenty-five ton and fifty ton heads. the largest hammer weighs fifty tons with a massive foundation. Four steam cranes handle loads up to two hundred tons. In 1866 the works produced sixty-one thousand tons of steel.
A meditation on youth and virtue comparing delicate beauty to purity of character. Once touched and defiled, youth’s innocence cannot be restored, and crime leaves an imprint that cannot be erased though forgiveness may follow. The piece laments irreversible loss tied to early wrongdoing.
Paris correspondent Spiridion of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette notes stylish dress persists amid empire-era fashion, while many wealthy have been ruined. Manufacturers report declined orders as workmen stop work, shops close daily, and rents arrears rise. Medical men cite severe distress among lower classes including families of the dead imprisoned or banished adherents of La Commune.
A dog led watchmen to a woman and child found insensible on the Nova Scotia coast near Sable Island. The child died while the woman, wife of Captain Fletcher of the Lillie Parker from Swansea, England, survived to tell the tale. The dog also survived after the wreck.
Health notes promote warmth rest and cleanliness as the best all round cure. Keep the body in a sixty degree or cooler room with fresh air and open doors. Rest sleep and gentle nourishment aid recovery, while a clean sick chamber prevents contagion and speeds healing.
A vast fire debris mass in a River Street cellar melts nine thousand stoves into one massive clinker. Despite weeks of hammering by two large pile drivers, the debris remains stubborn, delaying rebuilding as Chicago contends with lingering clinker problems.
A country clergyman complained to Dr. Routh that he received five pounds for preaching a sermon at Oxford. The doctor retorted that he would not have preached that sermon for fifty pounds.
A Philadelphia and Erie line night telegraph operator, sleepy but alert, uses a coal scuttle alarm to wake himself when trains pass. The device drops after a cord through the door keyhole is snagged by a passing engine, startling both operator and Erie policemen. A second operator, thirty miles away, asks the inventor how to know a train passes, receiving the curt reply that he can’t grant rights to use the patent.
George William Curtis portrays a bleak scene of solitary country life where persistent poverty drives hard labor, limited joy, and exhausted spouses. The piece links daily drudgery to a rise in cases of insanity among farmers, contrasting toil with nature's quiet rhythms.
Mr. McCormick introduces a Congressional bill to curb indiscriminate buffalo slaughter on the Western plains. The author urges swift passage despite enforcement challenges, arguing the widespread slaughter threatens extinction of the species and wastes vital food sources along plains routes.
In Paris born Montaland admires Fisk and his property while he jokes that a marble house is his country seat, alongside a grand estate. He then reveals the Central Park grounds and a sheepfold as his pet, finally admitting the marble palace belongs to Mr. Gould.
A society to curb the exposure of children to bare arms shoulders and legs in Boston is planned, aimed at countering maternal vanity that tolerates such display.
The report notes Delaware peach crop at about half a full yield,St Louis lawyers in black gowns seek court dignity, plus libel damages for Spencer Bell. It covers a range from royal servants in England to temperance restaurants in Hartford and a moralizing nod to Americanization of oysters in England.
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