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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1890
Page
4
Palliser and Co describe a west facing single family design with a wide front veranda, a two story layout, four large second floor chambers, ample closets, a kitchen pantry with ice access, a connecting dining room, a parlor, and open fireplaces. Cost estimated at 3000 dollars with practical features and simple exterior.
A periodical excerpt discusses celery selection, blanching, and serving methods with concern for waste. It promotes home garden use, describes plating trends, and urges choosing best stalks, plus tips on transplanting, mulching, and strawberry cultivation, including planting patterns and fertilization.
A fashion ethics piece argues for comfort and natural lines over rigid styles and bustles. It criticizes stiff shirts and beards in men, praises freedom of movement, and notes Oscar Wilde’s daring ideas while predicting future changes in apparel.
A husband boasts about an hour and a half on the rowing machine while his wife complains of shoveling snow. He dismisses the job, suggesting a tramp do it instead, in a humorous Munsey's Weekly vignette.
A proverb about avoiding arrogance in business urges humility over seeking fame. It notes less competition when choosing modest aims and warns that the flashy route is overdone and risky. The quotation frames virtue as a practical path to success.
Tommy babysits a calf at his grandpa's farm while Billy fetches nails. The calf escapes through a hole, Tommy chases it and climbs into a churn, accidentally entangling himself. Grandpa arrives as the churn traps him. neighbors laugh, and Tommy admits he watched the calf but claims he did.
In spring the lilac buds and horse chestnut begin to unfold with astonishing folds and forms. Mother Nature packs leaves and blossoms as neatly as a shopkeeper, showing how nourishment stored underground feeds waking foliage. The article notes crocus and daffodil roots storing food, the rapid growth of flower stems, and nature as a careful mother guarding all her children.
The article outlines making a small Leyden battery using two lead plates in a glass jar with sulfuric acid and water, filled paste cups, and a copper wire. It explains charging directions with copper sulfate cells or a dynamo, consistent charging direction, and notes that several cells power small motors and coils and store electricity after thorough charging.
A toy called The Escaping Captive uses a paper manikin and a marble to produce a rolling illusion. The piece then shifts to a historical aside about how oysters were eaten in ancient and early modern times, mentioning sugar on oysters, vinegar, honey coatings, and feats of appetite by Savarin and La Gourmande, ending with a quip from a schoolroom remark.
Mr S B Strout of Conecuh County Alabama sends an illustration and method for restraining a kicking cow. He reports decades of successful use with a simple quiet application that has never failed.
A mail order offer showcases an extensive range of all wool imported suitings 38 to 40 inches wide in stripes plaids and mixtures at 50 cents. Also 40 inch imported plaids 40 cents and 50 inch Scotch cheviots 50 cents. Includes bourettes challis ginghams and Latines with multiple price points and a spring fashion journal available by mailing name on a card.
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