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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1894
Page
1
A Moslem from Malacca objects that the Bible is too holy to study, saying that if learned, one could not cheat or lie or succeed in business. Local Christian Endeavor meetings announced for May 13 94 list leaders from Evangelical Presbyterian Baptist and Miss Cleland.
Reports detail Coxey and Browne's Washington arrests on unlawful assemblage as crowds clash with police. Other items note tariff clashes in Senate, Supreme Court on interstate commerce tax, Hatton obituary, and a wave of disasters and political shifts across North America and Europe.
A collection of maxims from the Atchison Globe criticizing lending, dependency, and social change. It notes that quiet men attract imitators, loans breed more debt, and some refuse to be exploited. It questions shifting views on death and justice, and laments lost traditional domestic roles.
A list of home uses for lemon juice covers bee stings hair loss scalp care and nail whitening with glycerin and lemon juice by night and gloves by day. The article notes last year’s freight movement totaling 749,331,860 tons and mentions a four foot Maltese cross on Big Four freight cars and state railway developments in Missouri with a new map showing lines and county populations.
Bradstreet’s reports general merchandise movement is slow with spring trade finished. Fall orders lag and coal strike riots in Cleveland and Mesaba heighten gloom. Wheat prices near record lows, pork lard stable, rice sugar and coal affected, iron firmer. US and European wheat stocks shrink. US business failures drop to 179 this week.
Major General Herbert reports to the minister that fourteen French Canadian regiments are hopelessly inefficient. The men lack English, officers refuse English instruction, and uniforms are tatters. He urges striking them from the roll, but the government resists to avoid hurting the Conservative party vote.
The German emperor sent 16000 marks to Berlin Geographical Society to cover costs of publishing Greenland expedition scientific results, a two year project. In Utica New York on May 8 a seven year old boy, Joseph Hensler, drowned playing on the Erie canal bank. his body was recovered half an hour later.
New York May 7 money at 1 percent prime mercantile paper 3 5 percent sterling exchange actual bank bills 4 834 4 89 for demand and 4 8734 4 8736 for 60 days posted rates 4 8834 4 90 commercial bills 4 8614 4 864 government bonds United States dis reg 1 13 do 4s coup 1 14 do ds 54c railroad bonds Pacific 6s of 95 1 20 bar silver 64 65c.
Market report lists flour types with prices from New York mills and Minnesota lines, including patents and winter grades. Rye flour and cornmeal prices, barley and wheat spot sales, oats options, hay, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, and potatoes with regional references and bid ranges.
Wheat prices No 1 hard 63 4 No 1 northern 68 7 No 2 red 59c No 1 white 62c Corn No 2 yellow 43 14c No 2 41 14c No 3 40 14c Oats No 2 white 40c No 2 mixed 38 1 2c Flour spring best patent per bbl 9 4 2 10 grades 21 75 2 Winter best family 3 25 3 50 Graham 3 00 3 50 Butter state creamery 17a c western ww Cheese fancy full cream 14 c choice 8 10c Skims 24 4 Eggs state 11 12c western southern 11 1 4c
The great Cleveland Convention opens on Wednesday July 11 at 7 30 P M with fifteen meetings in Cleveland's fifteen largest churches. Speakers include Anthony Comstock Frances J Barnes John Harry Barrows P S Henson H C Farrar D D President William R Harper Chas A Dickinson and I M Alden Pansy. Gov McKinley will deliver the welcome for Ohio Thursday morning July 12.
A new Christian Endeavor Society is organized at First Presbyterian Church in Garland, Garland County. Warren attendees bound for the Cleveland Convention include Rev. J. W. Smith, Miss Katherine Messner, and Miss Nellie H. Horton, with others planning to go if possible.
Topic for the week beginning May 13 with Rev 8S H Doyle on bearing burdens from Galatians 6 1 5. The speaker outlines two burden types heavy life burdens from sin and adversity and personal burdens from self examination. It argues for vicarious burden bearing to help others and personal burden bearing with Christ offering relief to the sin burdened souls. Bible readings listed.
The article notes a rule forbidding wearing a Christian Endeavor badge on a uniform and a law preventing passengers from speaking to crew members on duty. A quartermaster recalls seeing a passenger with the pin and wishing to greet him. It suggests asking any quartermaster about onboard Endeavorers to send messages of fellowship and prayer.
A Kentucky Endeavorer reflects on a precocious ten year old who has joined the Junior Endeavor society and committed to its pledge. She reads deeply, rises early to study, and leads family prayers, potentially guiding a skeptical father and aging grandparents toward Christian example.
The article notes a six denomination union in Socorro New Mexico under the Christian Endeavor system. Scotland reports 43 registered societies with others unregistered, and Denver has expanded from one society six years ago to fifty three. Reformed church juniors in Philmont New York are active with meetings socials a baseball team for boys and croquet for girls.
A satirical piece labels townsfolk as croakers both dead and alive, mocking pessimists who complain about progress. It describes their habit of shunning advertising, avoiding credit for others, and preferring to wait for others to lead while offering little help themselves.
Public schools use bankbooks and weekly deposits from a cent upward to instill saving habits. Students, both girls and boys, learn deposit and withdrawal procedures with a local national bank acting as custodian and paying semiannual interest.
The article argues local papers attract town trade and influence prosperity. It says papers bias toward their home towns and require fair patronage by local merchants to serve the town best. It urges liberality in advertising to boost local interests.
The Medical News argues that future coal energy, delivered as electricity to urban centers, will reduce smoke and pollutants. It says sanitized energy will cut deleterious gases and bulky fuels, extend life expectancy, and improve living conditions.
An ancient record notes an emperor held higher rank than kings. It also mentions melinite poisoning its creators over time. It states that individuals around 80 have succumbed to croup, and hiccough outbreaks can sweep communities as an epidemic. It adds Europe uses about a million matches every 12 minutes.
A nameless city woman wanders the market with sorrow in sight as a child lies dead in her bare home. She remains impassive and continues her routine selling wares for bread while grief clings to her like Niobe. Julia C. R. Dorr.
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