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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1890
Page
3
Bradford Era notes prime matters from Warren with oil price talk and local items. It records primary campaigns and upcoming holidays, local business notices, real estate activity, a park tree planting, and Decoration Day arrangements by Eben N. Ford Post. It mentions a West End policeman hire, shop cleanups, and firemen planning a summer parade after debt payoff.
Warren directors decided last week to build an eight room schoolhouse for primary pupils in the upper town near East street. A location committee of Clark Alexander and Hinckley considers East and Third streets corner sites. The union building remains until the new wing completes and will then be partly removed.
Elizabeth Mingle, 58, of Warren, disappeared from East and Fifth streets and was found drowned in Conewango Creek near the mill race headgates last Saturday morning May 3. Coroner Dr Peirce and a jury ruled death by her own action. she is survived by daughter Eva and is the widow of John Mingle.
Groceries of all kinds at Trushél and Co Glade offered as a model store with savings. Geo S Davis Drug Store advertised prescriptions carefully compounded and fresh drugs of all descriptions.
Judge R Brown seen walking about town last week Dr M W Ball has taken a hospital post in Philadelphia Hon W H Shortt of Youngsville visited on Marih Tuesday Mrs T Keeler went to Lagertown to care for son Alexis who is ill Bert Love dies in Minneapolis wife and three children buried at Jamestown N Y April Several Warren Attorneys at Supreme Court Philadelphia including D I Ball C Dinsmoor W W Wilbur W E Rice C H Noyes J W Dunkle and 8 T Neill Bishop Whitehead to visit Episcopal Church next Sunday for Confirmation and Holy Communion He will also visit Kane May 8 Clarendon May Friday and Youngsville May Saturday H M Putnam chosen Warren County Superintendent of Schools no opposition uniform textbooks policy salary remains 1200
Home talent troupe presented Nevada or the Lost Mine at Library Hall last Thursday for the C M B A. T J Burke starred as Nevada with strong support from John Brew and J W Lytle. The performance drew praise for humor pathos and natural acting and a Clarendon repeat proved successful. Next up Little Lord Fauntleroy staged by Mr French’s Broadway Company with Clara Louise Kellogg in concert and opera to follow.
Warren Pa May 5 1890 council meeting notes include sprinkling payment to Peter Holmes 15 dollars and appointment of F B Strickland as West End policeman at 50 dollars monthly. petitions for sewers on East Fifth Fifth and High streets. sewer bids and ads authorized. Police chief reports 81 arrests April 30 1890 with 68 vagrancy and 12 drunkenness. fines 24 dollars. Various bills paid including hose, gas lighting, street work and prisoner bread.
Although not yet officially opened, Allegheny Sulphur Springs hosts Willard White and family and Mrs. Waters with children at the Waters cottage. Mrs. Wilkins and others from Clarendon join guests. An improved grounds and bowling alley, lawn tennis court, and outdoor amenities await guests. Proprieties: J A Culbertson & Son Irvine Warren Co Pa.
A meeting of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association of Warren County will be held in G A R Hall at Warren on Tuesday May 13 1890. All persons interested are cordially invited to be present.
James Colton Wells died about 3 am Saturday May 3 after a long illness. Born February 11 1839 in Richford New York he became general superintendent and partner at Struthers Wells Co. Iron Works Warren Pennsylvania shaping engines boilers and car wheels. He leaves a daughter Alice Milburn and wife Harriet Warriner cared for him to the end. Funeral held Tuesday with widespread attendance. resolutions of respect by Struthers Wells Co. employees praise his industry kindness and vision.
Postal inquiries for a State Normal school catalogue. Grapes planted along Chautauqua Lake. Pennsylvania has 387 Masonic lodges with 39 735 members, up over 1 000 in a year. Allegheny Valley railroad records no passenger fatalities in fifteen years. Irvine W C T U disbands over policy differences. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society met in Washington D C with Mrs J A Neil of Titusville representing Erie Presbytery. April oil report: Wells drilling 603 rigs up and building 400 wells completed 556 production 8 056 dry holes 97 vs March 523 wells 7 879 barrels 88 dry holes. Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds door to door sellers of home produce exempt from peddler laws. Fire losses at S Garfield’s hotel Youngsville settled. Garfield $350, Gregory $500. insurers represented. Warren steamer message shows fright. Youngsville deserves its own fire apparatus. In Franklin a dry goods store sent a spool by wheel-barrow delivery down Liberty Street to a residence, clerks assisted by a strong cheap boy. a grand convoy arrival for the queenly purchaser.
W. C. T. U. notes discuss license refusals in Pittsburg rural districts, Supreme Court dicta on interstate liquor, lectures in Warren, and social events. Items praise campaigns, Mother’s meetings, and the state bulletin’s reach. Also listed are local promotions for groceries, cigars, cures, and a hedge of large timber-land investments by the Hortons with rail and bark interests.
Be fully prepared for long journeys with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a preventive travel aid. It claims to ease sea sickness malaria cramps and colic from bad food and water while aiding digestion and reducing nervousness and constipation. It also purportedly aids rheumatism kidney trouble and insomnia and improves appetite.
A May 3 1890 meeting of Ralph Clapp Post 509 G A R Grand Valley Pa adopted condolences for William B Gifford. The post mourns his death and extends sympathy to his family. Charter draped for sixty days and resolutions to be entered in post minutes and published in two leading papers.
Loomers and Warner's corsets advertise prices from 50c to 2.00 with names like No 125 and No 101. Breezer at 58c, Mikado at 50c. Sold by Kertcher & Co. at 424 Water Street. Crystalized cherries and fruits at Goodrich & Fehlman. Toilet and fancy articles at Gro. S. Davis' Drug Store.
The Warren store under A. Weiss signs a large, updated inventory of serviceable and fashionable clothing for spring and summer. It highlights mens and boys wear, summer suits, and ready savings, inviting customers to shop the newly refitted shop just below the Carver House.
Piano dealer announces agency for Steinway Behr Lohmer Haines Bros and Ivers Pond uprights with pianos from 250 dollars to higher prices. Mrs J W Kirchen Warren Pa offers pianos by mail or in person. Also advertises eight horses ponies harness sleighs and carts for sale with four to six months time on approved notes. Wiesbaden preserved fruits advertised by Goodrich Fehlman.
Crown Acme Oil featured alongside Fine Layer Figs advertised at Goodrich and Fehlman’s. The listing highlights product availability and local shop participation with no further details.
I have a good supply of Domestic and Wilson Sewing Machines for sale cheap for cash or on easy payments. Call before buying elsewhere to save money. Office and residence 112 East Water Street Warren Pa. F A Conswell Warren Pa. Shaeighs Sterling Java and fancy Roasted Rio Coffees at Nesmith and Knupps.
Warren merchants publish a heavy promotions note offering a full line of spring apparel at dramatically reduced prices. The ad emphasizes value, guarantees one hundred cents value per dollar, and lists Wooparp & Lesser as tailors and clothiers with shoe lines by C P Northrop and Burt's references. It also promotes health and lifestyle items and names Max Klein as a liquor purveyor with claimed pure products.
George Ball has purchased the building we occupy and as our lease ends we offer our entire stock of clothing hats caps trunks and valises at below cost commencing Saturday May 3. Our stock worth $30 000 includes men boys and children clothing. Nothing reserved everything goes especial inducements for country stores cash or approved security.
Fe. Clemons announces a 400 ton stock of clear ice for Warren and Glade customers. When exhausted, additional supply will be shipped from Canada. An ice wagon will make daily town trips. Leave orders at Ruhlman's Store.
In Glade on April 29 1890 Edward N Unruh of New York and Alice B Irvine of Warren were married by Rev A W Ryan at the bride’s home. In Tidioute on May 5 1890 Orange K Owens of Glade and Mattie A Cohell of Tidioute were married by Rev D A Steadman at the bride’s father’s residence.
The query contrasts the Maru newspaper's level of local reporting with that of county papers. It seeks analysis of coverage breadth, community focus, and detail in reporting by comparing how stories about residents, events, and local institutions appear across the titles and pages.
C P Northrop's shoe store serves as headquarters for the best and most fashionable footwear for ladies gentlemen and children, inviting shoppers to explore their curated collections.
Rost. H. Johnson offers cash for rags free of rubbish papers and old rubber shoes and metals through the season at Johnson's Exchange. Customer may find the room of sale contact in Rost. H. Johnson.
A confidential adviser recommends Kemp's Balsam for coughs and colds this year. The ad claims the medicine uses only pure ingredients and invites readers to hold the bottle to the light to inspect its brightness, noting prices of 50 cents and one dollar with a free sample offered.
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