20 Mar 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1889
Page
1
Domestic and Dress Goods Departments White Goods Linens and Housekeeping Goods Woolen Department Gloves and Horsery Underwear Laces and Trimmings Ribbons Buttons itemized for sale in a historic department store catalog with various textile and garment categories.
Timetables show the Sheffield Express arriving 3:10 AM and the St Marys Express arriving 12:30 PM daily except Sunday. The AU Express reaches Sheffield 12:55 PM and the Erie Mall connects Sunbury to major cities with through Pullman sleeping and coaches to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Kane Accommodation runs daily except Sunday to Kane, 9:16 PM.
Readable traces show a series of times and partial identifiers with no clear event or context. The fragment includes times like 9:03 am 9:23 am 9:34 am and references such as Lozi and 9200 a but lacks cohesive narrative or verifiable facts.
Fragmented OCR lists multiple stations including Oil City Parker Foxburg Tionesta Warren and Kinzua with a series of AM PM time stamps and numbers, suggesting a regional rail or bus schedule. The data shows arrival and departure times across towns like Warren, Oil City, Franklin and Foxburg, though many items are garbled.
A trunk near Hanna Indiana yielded a stone jar with Spanish coins worth 200 dollars. Amule of Jersey City walked a Hackensack bridge with four inch ties. Montpelier Indiana gas follows tides with six hours min and max daily. Tacoma Washington workers found counterfeit silver dollars in a Larche box via steam shovel. In California Kentucky a brick house worth about 2500 dollars was stolen piece by piece. Near Astor Florida a seven foot live alligator emerged from a swamp tree. A Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania will directs no mourning at funeral with horse drawn bier and no clergy.
A collection of witty aphorisms about women and society notes in a light satirical voice. The piece touches on temper, marriage expenditures, fashion, domestic tasks, and literary allusions, including references to an old man fearing doctors and a quip about Bob Burdette and Night Thoughts.
Fragmentary text hints at someone enforcing rules and a chance to overturn, with references to learning and fools. The piece appears as isolated phrases lacking clear event or entities.
Rev. Daniel Dorchester discusses quaint and curious colonial habits and daily life. He contrasts past and present, notes harsh conditions, simple food, early housing, town meetings, and the evolution of table manners and worship practices in early New England.
A man visited a jeweler to buy a diamond ring on installment for his girlfriend. She confessed four broken engagements and paste diamonds from previous suitors, prompting him to cancel the purchase and plan to give her plain candy instead.
An Oneida firm kept young alligators in a store window. One disappeared each night until only one remained. A Maltese cat watched the window and then entered, toppled the gator into a corner and devoured it, swallowing large chunks.
Christian Register argues that women suffer taxation without representation and must be granted political rights on the basis of justice. The piece compares abolition of slavery to granting women equal suffrage, urges viewing voting as a sacred duty, and cites education and temperance as duties that benefit the state and families. It praises Boston’s example of orderly participation by women.
A Christian Union piece urges intelligent wage-earning women to help less fortunate peers. It questions class barriers among workers and calls for mutual duty, empathy, and action rather than elitism, urging wage earners to share resources and support those in need.
In 1882 a women’s higher education association formed to win admission to Columbia College. A 1400 name petition urged trustees to open lectures and exams to qualified women. Barnard supported the memorial while Potter Fish and Dix opposed. Dix later chaired a committee for a special women’s course. The push led to a post graduate department plan and extended research doctorates.
A collage of quotations argues for women's voting rights, noting Emerson and Jones accusations, praise for suffrage efforts in Cincinnati and Massachusetts, and calls to treat denial of women's rights as a broader human rights issue. The piece contends women should participate in public affairs and governance.
Edward Harrigan recounts how managers obtain stage costumes from immigrants and traders. He describes buying Italian outfits on Mulberry Street, sourcing from second-hand dealers, and enlisting an Irishman for a show by staging a faux work task that ends with a gift of his clothes.
Charles Dudley Warner argues a link between bluegrass limestone regions and social life including beauty, health, and manners. He cites a "blue-grass girl" as a distinctive regional type, noting geology and culture together shape character and appeal. The piece frames a humorous yet observational essay from Harper's Magazine.
Advice from Clothier and Furnisher on preserving wool flannel. Keep skin clean to reduce dirt, brush garments to remove grime, allow sun and air to ventilate wool, and avoid frequent washing as moisture should be used sparingly to prevent shrinkage.
A collage of quips and witticisms from Harper’s Bazaar, Exchange, Time, Texas Tiltings, Jewelers Weekly, Tailor and America. Jests range from political barbs to family anecdotes, including a Parisite remark, a clock joke, and a boy’s school record twist.
The text explains how serfs in Russia were allotted land, working three days for their masters and three days for themselves, with one day free. Masters commonly demanded more, and the three day norm aimed to sustain workers but was rarely enforced, revealing the oppressive system and its economic logic.
A vintage notice praises Electric Bitters as a transformative tonic restoring health after illness. It claims relief for kidney, liver, and stomach ailments of any duration and notes bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar at Morck Drug Store.
An Irishman recalls a deceased friend with a wry quip about living till tomorrow. The Taunton Gazette notes both a humorously fatalism and a nod to the American aborigines who used the Indian file though lacking modern tools.
The proprietor claims thousands of bottles are sold yearly and credits Kemp's Balsam with curing coughs throat and lung troubles. Readers are urged to try a free trial bottle at druggists with large sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar for home use.
The Journal of Education poses a paradoxical inquiry asking if a person smiles as serenely in school as they do in sociable settings and whether eating while asleep equals eating while awake, cited by Oil City Blizzard.
A brief note suggests that in cases of hard cold the quickest relief comes from rubbing Arnica and Oil Liniment on the chest and throat to ease breathing.
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