23 Mar 1875
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1875
Page
1
A nostalgic meditation on grandmothers guiding youths, summer days, schooldays, and family scenes. The piece blends childhood vignettes with reflections on aging, friendship, and the passing of time, recalling games, school pranks, and the long arc from youth to twilight. It also notes curiosities from current events and a mosaic of small town observations.
Passenger list shows Boston travelers using Wagner sleeping cars on the Atlantic express from Rochester to Boston with no car changes at Albany and no changes between Buffalo and New York. Trains run five minutes fast versus Warren time, with listed departure and arrival times for Dunkirk Fredonia Falconer's A G W Cross Frewsburg Fentonville Russelburg Warren Irvington Youngsville Garland Titusville and Pittsfield.
Readable timetable fragment shows routes from Pittsburg Ar through Kittanning and Bradys Bend to Caesar Emienton Franklin Oil City and Buffalo with an arrival around 7 20 AM and multiple station stops listed.
The article extols home life as training ground for childhood virtues and stresses that parental guidance shapes character. It urges fathers and mothers to model kindness, the golden rule, and patient teaching, declaring motherhood a noble key to forming a Christian, humane citizen.
A reflective piece celebrates home as a place of love and comfort where hearts unite and daily life gains joy. It contrasts ideal households with flawed ones, warning that weak foundations lead to discord, vice, and sorrow, urging love as the sole enduring basis.
The text analyzes mirth as arising from sudden shifts in events and social slips. It cites clergymen, doctors, jurists, and ministers, noting how humor emerges from unexpected turns, awkward speech, and public blunders. Laughter is seen as unifying, medicine-like, and sometimes irrepressible.
Instructions describe skinning a bird, cleaning feathers, preserving the skin with arsenic solution, wiring the neck and feet, replacing eyes with artificial ones, and mounting on a perch. Emphasis on cleanliness, patience, and careful assembly to achieve a good finished product.
A Nevada ranch on the Carson River keeps twenty six camels, mostly Washoe bred, with nine or ten imports earlier in the century. Now twenty four sturdy animals flourish, fed on desert shrubs, used to haul salt to mills sixty miles east, some capable of carrying a thousand pounds. A dressmaker's apprentice mentions a cross eyed lover with bias looks.
Detroit Free Press reports a Ninth Avenue family scene where a neighbor boy and Claudius Brasser stage a mock kidnapping with a mask and clothesline. The prank escalates, rifles and a musket appear, a man is chased, and a dramatic window raid ends with a police response and the Brasser couple quarreling over the incident.
A exhortation on living for others, urging duty and responsibility in daily life. The speaker argues happiness comes from contributing to others and improving the world, warning against selfish living and stressing noble deeds and shared progress.
A Louisiana lawyer sick with an obscure illness suspected arsenic poisoning from wallpaper. A sample from his bedroom contained arsenic two grains per square foot. After antidotes, symptoms vanished. The report cites Dr J P Barnum analysis and credits prompt treatment with a full recovery. The piece also notes miners in Stoneboro accepting a 15 cent per ton coal deduction and DC demographics showing 7,000 more women than men.
A reflective ode on the mother’s dignity, urging respect for aged mothers. It praises a mother’s trials, fidelity, and enduring love, contrasting it with the fading of youth and the fleeting nature of life. It ends with a plea to the son to honor the mother while she remains.
The Boston Journal notes Mr. Blaine’s lengthy tenure as Speaker, comparing him with historic holders of the office. It lists twenty seven predecessors starting with F. A. Muhlenberg and ending with Schuyler Colfax, and notes peers with equal or longer service such as Henry Clay, Andrew Stevenson, Nathaniel Macon, and Colfax.
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