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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
4
The article outlines etiquette for wedding guests and brides regarding calls, card leaving timelines, and change of address notices. It covers returning calls, acceptable visit lengths, handling illness or death in the family, and avoiding overlong lingering by guests, with anecdotes about social norms.
A Dutch village decree bans drying undergarments along public roads or near railways to prevent moral corruption. First offense carries a heavy fine and second offense imprisonment.
Short figures should avoid fluffy furs and use vertical braids on coats to minimize bulk. Tall figures are guided toward double breasted styles with wide revers to draw attention across the shoulders rather than up to the chin.
The article recalls Capt Philo McGiffin a naval fighter of the Yalu with a lifelong longing for action under the American flag. After stints in the Western town he sought combat in China only to perish in the Yalu campaign, lamenting not serving beneath the Stars and Stripes.
The Willet's Point fort on Long Island mounts new 8 inch rifles on disappearing carriages. Guns fire in 3 to 4 seconds with aim assisted by a plotted chart of the Sound. Projectiles weigh 575 pounds and can pierce fourteen inch steel armor at two miles. The 10 inch rifles weigh thirty tons and operate by hydraulic power.
The Old Maid Assurance Corporation Limited issues policies to single women that guarantee a lifelong pension if the holder remains unmarried at age forty.
Navy minds differ on torpedo boats versus destroyers. John Pratt notes British preference for destroyers with 32 knots, dual torpedo tubes and multiple guns. The Fame class, 208–210 feet long, 272 tons, carries two 18 inch torpedoes and five 6 pounder guns with a 56 crew.
Belgian swindlers paste transparent paper over postage stamps to mask postmarks. The underlying stamp remains uncancelled, undermining postal cancellation and evading revenue safeguards.
The consistory is postponed to early March to align with the Pope's twentieth anniversary of his nomination. In St Peter's ceremonies will mark the event as the Pope recalls a childhood omen when a peasant woman wished he would become a Pope, a wish his mother urged long ago.
A humorously academic exchange has the Dean quipping to a young man that puppies cannot see until they are eight days old after the student admits only a week of university membership. The witty clash highlights campus wit and tradition.
A countryman visits a western newspaper to place a death notice. He balks at the rate of two dollars per inch, claiming his relative stood six feet three inches, implying the length would be too costly.
The Navy Department ordered fifty six millimetre rapid fire guns from Colt. Eight arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for inspection. the weapon fires 200 shots a minute, can be operated by one man, and may sweep a battleship deck in ten minutes.
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