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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
4
Editorial urges residents to tidy back yards along with front yards to boost curb appeal. It argues neat rear spaces reflect civic pride, influence neighbors to improve, and transform even modest streets into smart, upscale looks.
W Kee Maxwell writes from Judge about Miranda’s vote and daily life. He notes she shows no whiskers or activism and remains focused on home duties and family, while he feels a quiet pride in her as his equal despite the vote.
A satirical verse folds religious phrasing around car trouble and repair woes. The speaker laments endless mechanical toil and repair needs, mentioning tires, patches, blows, and towing up hills. The tone mocks fear and burden while invoking a quixotic faith in the vehicle.
An aged Civil War horse named War Horse still lives near Horzeheads New York owned by veteran P A McIntosh. The horse bears the mark J C 1865 on its hip and remains capable of daily tasks, with estimates placing its age well over fifty.
The Rev. E M Evans writes a pointed rebuke to a Rochester liquor firm amid Iowa saloon closures. He links alcohol to poverty and ruined lives, cites the Neal Institute and Keeley establishment, and threatens not to order more whiskey while condemning the business world’s complicity. He rails against personal liberty versus public harm and ends with a stark call to “cut out the red eye.”
The verse attacks mail order shopping that drains town commerce. It targets Kersmith and Rickshaw for selling wax, eggs, carpet tacks, and other goods shipped from afar while praising local stores for employing clerks, funding roads, schools, and street maintenance. It urges residents to support Elizabeth’s streets and the village pump.
The European war is likely to elevate corn meal as a staple, raising prices in American markets. Americans may shift to corn meal for affordability, transforming cornfields into wealth once the conflict ends, while corn meal remains cheaper than wheat flour.
The Jones Bros three ring circus comes to town tomorrow May 7 featuring trained animals from monkeys to elephants, high jumping horses, acrobats, equilibrist feats and a novel dancing act by young women. A mile long parade at 10 a m opens the event praised for grandeur and family appeal.
The speaker recalls a family farm transformed by modern methods with gas engines autoref fittings silos and a telephone. Labor shifts to graduates as Dad runs a high tech operation with engineers firemen chauffeurs and a sanitary pneumatic milk maid. Livestock includes Jersey cattle Duroc hogs Southdown sheep and Plymouth Rock chickens.
A satirical提pose applies Billy Sunday conversational methods to church ceremonies. Dialogues mock christening, marriage, ushering, plate passing, and Sunday School rituals with exaggerated lines. The piece skewers earnest religiosity through humorous infant naming, officiant banter, and crowd behavior.
Thomas Cannon, a famed pie eater from Sparta Illinois, was found insane and committed to the State Asylum at Anna after an inquiry by Judge Schwert. He reportedly consumed fifteen pies, soup, cheese sandwiches and four bottles of soda in one meal.
The landlady sues high earning actress Mary Pickford and her mother for 111.44 claiming their dog damaged tapestries and hardwood floors in Warren County. The article notes other local items including a May 26 road improvement day and church news from Evansville Indiana. Dr Hamilton A Hymes recovers from a neck carbuncle and will preach on Is there a Hell.
Freeport Illinois Chief of Police advises that if women wish to feed tramps they should do so outside. The notice frames feeding as an issue of public order and decorum.
Dairymen note Hinman Milking Machine progress as a four page color ad in Farmers shows 600 owners, explaining one cow per unit operation and simple design with two moving parts. W. M. Vallentine of Irvine promotes Warren county sales to dairy farmers.
Appeals from many states listed in the Philadelphia Press indicate continued westward retention of the Liberty Bell with locations spanning Colorado Utah Nevada Idaho and California among others. The notice enumerates cities including Denver Grand Junction Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle and Portland.
Harrisburg May 5 The seven workmen compensation bills were re reported as committed from the senate committee on corporations by Senator Crew Fayette They have been read the first time They will be read a second time tomorrow and then recommitted A hearing will be granted next Thursday afternoon for comments The bills will be amended in committee and brought out next week for final passage Other measures reported include the second regiment Panama exposition participation employment bureau in labor and industry employment agency regulation and juvenile court law changes
Harrisburg May 5 The Alden Coal Company appealed to the Supreme Court from the Dauphin County Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the anthracite coal tax.
Snow fell in Leechburg Pennsylvania last night marking the first May snowfall in seven years. The light fall melted quickly as residents observed the unusual spring disturbance.
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