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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
4
A satirical take on a wealthy editor who prints lavish notices, wedding bids, obituaries, and society columns while profiting from readers. The piece mocks pageantry, consumerism, and printing culture as the town reacts with mixed admiration and outrage.
Government Bureau of Mines releases Bulletin 83 by Burrell Seibert and Oberfell on reducing waste of natural gas in oil mining through gasoline condensation. It outlines locating gas in oil sands, separating gas from oil, and returning condensed gas to drive pumps or pipelines, with casing head gas as a key source for recovery.
The report discusses gas that vents with oil from wells as waste and presents gas traps to separate gas and oil. It notes applications in California and Oklahoma, the use of casing-head gas for pump power, and challenges of transporting gas from fields while detailing related topics on drilling, waxy sediment, and gasoline production from natural gas.
A bell clapper struck Oliver Zerby in Okeene Oklahoma, killing him. Hopkins, Kentucky received a 420 pound burial for Chris Webler, with a three foot wide coffin. a special coffin had to be built. The York convocation debated liquor policy while church leaders debated prohibition. Galveston’s Charles Pertolina, a rat catcher, resigned after earning enough to buy a boat. In New York, Mortimer Thompson survived multiple life threatening incidents including a subway accident and a fall from a window in infancy.
A dialogue from the Boston Transcript presents a skeptical remark on human flaws and a parson's witty comeback about eyelids and ears. The exchange highlights ironic humor in a short back and forth.
Governor Brumbaugh urges all Pennsylvanians to observe May 26 as Good Roads Day by performing highway work or funding a laborer. The notice hints at a festive element with picnic groups and women serving food to make it a great day.
The average newspaper carries mail from many groups and individuals seeking free publicity. The accompanying letter assures readers are surely waiting for the conveyed information, even if they do not know it.
The Warren County Farm Bureau constitution establishes its name, object to assist Extension work and agricultural development, and defines voting membership for county residents or landowners at 25 cents. It sets officers as president, vice president, secretary, treasurer for one year, plus an executive committee with the county superintendent and six members. It outlines meetings, committees, order of business, finances, amendments, and voting requirements.
By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias issued from Warren County Court of Common Pleas, the property will be sold at the Court House in Warren Borough. The sale is conducted under legal process and will proceed as directed by the court.
Seized as the property of Katherine Damon and guardian ad litem for Llewellyn Rasey. The sale covers two tracts of land in Spring Creek and Sparta Townships with detailed bearings and distances, part of tract No 857 and 357, reserved royalty of one fourth of all petroleum. Sheriff Will G. Tate oversees the sale date May 18 20 27.
The Beaver Falls Tribune argues that repeated cleanup drives highlight the need for constant upkeep. It urges that cleanliness should be a daily winter and year round effort rather than a yearly rush to tidy.
A Western newspaper argues the trouble is foul times not hard times with excess gasoline, honk honk, and skirt and picture shows. It contrasts Americans with wealth gaps, noting the $600 crowd chasing the $1,200 crowd and the $1,200 crowd seeking the pace of the $2,400 group.
Insurance men conclude from mortality tables that a soldier has better odds of surviving a year of actual war than a civilian has of living from age twenty-five to thirty-six or from fifty to fifty-six or from sixty to sixty-three.
Germany records show Charles Martin and family staying on Fox Hill with Nat Holt while Francis Nichols works for John Youngs on the farm. Thomas Kain is sick. August Johnson runs a mill sawing logs. C. E. Johnson from Kennedy New York reads business here. H. R. Ellis runs a crating mill to fill orders. Charles Donelson contemplates moving to Ohio for work. G. H. Marsh of Warren was seen in the area conducting business.
Henry H. Bassett, Register, Warren Pa May 8 1915 announces that administrators guardians and executors have filed first final or distribution accounts for various estates. The Orphans Court will review on the first June day at 2 PM. The list covers Walter McKinney Alice Rogers Dori Haven minor children Frank Havens heirs George Ott James Hogan Irene Dey Mary Nelson Alma Johnson William McKinney and others with dates filed from Feb to May 1915.
Robert P. Skinner the American Consul General reports the British Board of Trade has purchased the cotton cargoes aboard the American steamers Southerner and Carolina detained by British authorities for some time.
The Cunard Company announced it will arrange and cover the expense of returning the identified American victims of the Lusitania disaster, bringing home the bodies to the United States.
Berlin and Vienna report Austro German forces advancing in the Carpathians with Russian retreats east of Dukla Pass and across the Wistoka River. Tarnow recaptured by Germans? Russians hold Dukla. Vienna says 100,000 Russian prisoners captured in Galicia as Italian front grows. German losses denied by French communique. Meuse Vosges areas show higher Allied gains.
Contestants are reminded to participate Saturday labeled Prosperity Day to take part in a promotion offering 50,000 votes. The event encourages engagement and outlines the reward for those joining the contest.
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