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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1886
Page
4
A playful verse from Good Housekeeping recounts a maid at a new cooking school as a divine goddess figure. The speaker fantasizes about confections and kisses, noting a coy exchange and promises of recipes next week, amid whimsical dialogue and mythic framing.
A Texas visitor draws scorn from local debutantes who plan to exclude her. Mr C. consoles and flirts with Miss X, prompting Miss Z to protest by inviting an altercation. Miss X defends herself, calls out St. Louis society, and Miss Z slaps her, ending with apologies and a hush-hush attempt to keep the tale out of papers.
A workman clearing timber from a retired Schuylkill River bridge found a hollowed log containing gold and silver coins including eagles half eagles silver dollars and quarters. The stash, wrapped in a stocking and hidden with a wooden cover, dates years back and its ownership is unsettled among the finder owner and county.
A merchant asks a clerk to copy a boastful debt note to many creditors. To save trouble the clerk lithographs the letter and sends it to the addresses listed, turning a simple action into a humorous misstep. The exchange underscores the impracticality of overreaching to impress creditors.
The article urges growing surplus potatoes for family use with early and late varieties, proper soil, drills over hills, clean culture, and careful rotation. It notes superior varieties resist rot and disease and warns against overmanuring. It also extols home flower gardening as a woman’s task, promoting beauty, economy, and timely cultivation for a happy home.
A dairy registry tracks milk yield in pounds per cow and per day week or year, with a ruled book showing cow names in the left column and daily morning and evening yields in fourteen columns. It advocates weighing milk, using cream gauges to estimate cream proportion, aiding selection of profitable cows and overall farm profits.
A brief note presents Miss Ella Lytle's essay on how flowers decorate the home. It hints at personal observations about plant arrangement, domestic aesthetics, and the role of floral color in interior spaces.
Instructions for growing plants in hanging baskets with clay porous pots proper framing, charcoal drainage mix, and sponge moisture regulation. Recommends ordinary garden soil, pine needle earth, leaf mould loam, and avoiding turf soil. Advises erect center plants to prevent crowding and notes suitability for drooping varieties near moist sites.
A Maine gentleman recounts a snowbound journey when locals urged a lecture. The speaker obliged and warmed a hall with an audience. A sturdy yeoman thanked him, saying his daughter on the train and that the car was theirs while the talk went on.
A Hindoo loom complete valued at 68 cents weaves shawls silks and muslins beyond our best apparatus. In Red Canon California a prospector gathered rabbit meat during a storm and, after cutting trees and painting ends black, rabbits leaped into holes and died. He earned 140 the first night.
A period ad highlights Walter A Wood Enclosed-gear Mowing Machine at 65 with an optional Reaper attachment, plus Walter Anson Wood version at 63 and Meadow King Mower at 60. It promotes related farming machinery, tools, stoves, and a NEW HARTFORD sewing machine at low cash prices.
IV stations listed include Warren Sheffield Gilson Barnes Hovers Donaldson Martin Brookston Chompson Effield Jur Foxburg Pittsburg.
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