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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
6
A short lyric poem by Julia H. May from Chicago Advance lamenting the tangled skein of life. The speaker asks the Great Weaver to untangle faded colors and mend knotted threads before day ends.
In a dramatic family dispute, Frances Brookin challenges a conniving guardian and a scheming wife as a will grants her husband control only if she marries Raymond Holbin. Confession, jealousy, and a fatal truth surface as the elder man dies and Frances bears the burden of truth and revenge.
A schoolmistress faithful to the end clung to a baby as a cyclone wrecked a house on a bluff. Surviving briefly, she died with the child in her arms, having been ripped by wind and barbed wire yet shielding the infant.
A NY Press writer recalls a successful Broadway Ninth Street shopkeeper who retired after amassing a million dollars. He never wore a full colored shirt, preferring cuffs pinned to an undershirt and a collar attached to a dicky, yet remained a hospitable old Irish gentleman.
In Scotland a retired couple move to a town and buy an alarm clock for the husband’s long commute. They take in two young men as lodgers who also want to be woken early. That night the wife jokes that the clock should earn its keep by winding two more to wake the morning.
Dialogue excerpt from Meggendorfer Blaetter recalls a first meeting in a garden where sentiment is shelved. She asks if he remembers their meeting, he confirms but notes the moment cannot be changed.
The all around artist notes a fall rise in business from tourists returning with unmarked photographs. Many fail to identify originals due to hurried sightseeing and wholesale purchases. A cataloguer sorts and matches crude photos to restore order and boost both tourist satisfaction and income.
A Belgian traveler reported discovering a white skinned Amazon tribe in Peru and Brazil called the Lorenzo Indians. They tattoo less, wear minimal dress, live nomadically, and face decline from wars and hardship, with extinction feared if trends continue.
Yonkers statesman quotes a child in a humorous exchange about marriage and politeness emphasizing the need for speaking up in family matters. The playful dialogue contrasts parental guidance with future domestic life to highlight social expectations.
In the suburbs a coal dealer named Boggs is described as slow in paying, while a grocer affirms his cash is spotless. This exchange reflects tense local business relations and financial strains in the neighborhood.
The Walter Baker Company on the Neponset River in Dorchester, near Boston, traces its 121 year history from a wooden mill to a world leading cocoa and chocolate maker. It pledges quality, warns against fraud, and promotes La Belle Chocolatiere as its trusted trademark with Dorchester, Mass. as the place of manufacture. It offers a free recipe booklet to housekeepers sending name and address to 158 State Street Boston.
The British census data includes a tongue in cheek case where an emigrant claims diverse origins. He says his mother is Kaffir, his father Irish now naturalized American who served in the French army, and that he was born at sea between Yokohama and Colombo on a Spanish vessel. The official tally classed him as a Scotchman.
An Assiniboia district proclaims Western Canada offers homes with cheap land and growing towns. A Yorkton sender urges a friend near St Paul to move now for opportunities, noting abundant wheat and new districts in Saskatchewan and Assiniboia to be opened at low prices this summer. Government agents advertise details in the same paper.
The manager reviews an advertising man’s draft and urges replacing the word payment with credit to boost appeal. The exchange, captured in the Indianapolis Press, shows a focus on improving payment plan appeal.
An Atchison Globe snippet promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder with a free sample from Allen S. Olmsted in Leroy. It claims to cure chilblains sweating damp swelling aching feet and to ease new or tight shoes and to treat corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25e.
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