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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
7
A collage of verses and notices features poems about spring and May from Frederick Boyd Stevenson and Washington Star, plus a humorous botany class rant by Leigh Sowers aged 15 from St. Nicholas. The pieces reflect seasonal themes and school life with playful tone.
Poem expresses patriotic devotion to the homeland. The speaker vows protection and praise for his native land, denouncing those who insult it and claiming shared glory and duty. The piece emphasizes beauty, care, and honor as core values of national fidelity.
A poetic tribute by F. L. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution extols pale queens, hidden honey bees, and brides of Love as simple sisters of the Light. The verse mourns tolling and spinning in scented gardens, contrasting earthly toil with a dream divine.
A compact poem crediting Frank Dempster Sherman from Youth's Companion. It links beginnings to great outcomes, noting forests, oceans, and vessels as nature and industry rise from small origins. The piece culminates with the line about the humble manger and the World’s Hope, presenting a moral arc in concise couplets.
A Yonkers Statesman verse tells of a theater moment where a towering twelve inch hat blocks the view. The speaker notes the bonnet causes a cough and a smiling reaction as the woman reveals hair taller than the hat. The poem then transitions to a Boston Budg:st lyric about spring twilight and renewal.
An editor describes crafting twelve chick coops from discarded packing boxes to save money. He outlines cutting the box ends to form a sloped roof, adding ventilation gaps, a front board with slats, and hinged doors where possible to create affordable, functional coops.
The article describes early portable hen coops built from rough lumber with roofing felt, open fronts, and battened joints. Coops were moved to fresh spots every few days and sprayed with gasoline to control pests. Chick survival rose as hens free-ranged after six weeks, returning nightly for shelter, with floors removed during use.
The piece advises lime for eggshell formation and constant access to greens for laying hens. It recommends restricting water for young ducks, using fresh earth as a cheap farm soil enhancer, and keeping hatchable eggs cool and turned. It also urges establishing a poultry area with family cooperation to ensure labor and results.
An incubator keeps eggs from rotting and enables early hatchings without brood hens. Modern machines run self regulated within one to two degrees, maintaining 102 to 104 degrees with moisture ventilation and heat adjustments per manufacturer. Following directions yields high hatch rates from strong germs in fertile eggs.
The Health Department of New York seized cheap baking powder sold in department stores after samples showed it to be an alum powder mainly composed of alum and pulverized rock. Several thousand pounds were destroyed at the offal dock. High quality cream of tartar brands are safer and more economical.
Margaret Donnelly, the only woman reportedly running an elevator in New York, describes her five months on the job at the Margaret Fahnestock training school for nurses. She and assistant Katie O Connor operate the car, noting nurses and visitors fear when doors slam and rope is pulled, yet she insists on safety and hopes more women take up the profession.
The Department of Agriculture reports foreign trade in farm products for fiscal year 1901 valued at 952 million dollars, the highest on record, up over 100 million from 1900. Imports fell to 392 million, about 28 million less than 1900, leaving a large export surplus of 560 million.
Nine young women meet weekly at the Central Park Riding Academy in New York City led by Mrs. L. C. Mohlmann. The class includes Miss E. E. Willard Miss J. Mohlmann Miss Julia Trowbridge Miss E. Van Buren Miss Raymond Miss Arnold Miss Stephenson Miss Hyde and Miss Robinson. They have adopted divided skirts and sweaters and plan vaulting and rough riding feats.
Price ranges for flour and wheat in New York and Cleveland, with corn oats and hay values. Livestock include cattle steers and cows, sheep and lambs, and hogs in Toledo East Buffalo East Liberty with varying prices, shows regional market activity.
Fred Tieman and Miss Rosa Beard were en route to marry near Evansville Indiana when a horse stumbled in a pond swollen by rain. The groom held the horse’s nose while freeing the animal and the couple clung to the horse’s tail to swim to safety. Wedding postponed to recover.
The C M and St Paul Railway offers multiple Chicago to St Paul Minneapolis routes. The main line carries the Pioneer Limited and Government Fast Mail, with six or seven secondary lines offering direct coach and sleeping car service through Illinois Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota. Routes pass Lake Region Wisconsin Dells scenery and Mississippi river views, with town visits along the Northwest. Attending teachers for the National Educational Convention in Minneapolis can choose routes for both going and returning trips.
A judge comments on women, noting women grasp pattern details like dotted lines and punched holes yet struggle with railway maps and timetables. He cites a stereotype about education and perception as a critique of female understanding.
Ask To-Day for Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen aching and tired feet. Cures discomfort and is sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Free sample sent to A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy New York.
A jumble of 1900 era notices offers tips on politeness and behavior, cures for coughs and cold, and face dye products. It touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar while quoting proverbs and brief remarks from newspapers.
A letter from Major T. H. Mars of the First Wisconsin Cavalry praises Peruna for curing kidney catarrh after years of illness. Other testimonials from John Vance of Hartford City and J Brake of Petrolea cite rapid improvement from Peruna and Manalin. The ad claims Peruna fights the disease by addressing root catarrh and invites readers to seek gratis advice from Dr. Hartman.
Col Sam Reed breakfasts at Delmonico's and asks for a fanciful French menu joke. He requests Eggs blushin like Aurora and breeches in royal fashion with velvet sauce, plus a stew of good Christians and a mouthful of ladies. The waiter rebukes the odd order but then agrees the dishes are ready in two minutes.
The first promoter proposed raising capital stock to 1 billion dollars and, when questioned about difficulty, the second promoter replied that increasing it would be easy by simply typing more keys on the prospectus.
A Chicago Daily News remark points out that many men adopt ready made opinions as readily as ready made clothes, highlighting social conformity in public discourse and attire.
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