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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
3
A reflective column argues that women often bear serious burdens yet can possess a cheerful humor. It cites a club resignation over being interrupted and a Japanese curio hunter anecdote to show humor defuses tension. The piece suggests humor helps even in gravest matters.
A reflective piece urges couples to value family ties over independent travel and social clubs. It argues both spouses share responsibility for marital strain, calls husbands to involve wives in life, and stresses making partners integral to happiness at home.
The article recalls the long history of the Total Abstinence Movement and urges a renewed, parallel effort with liquor control. It argues temperance saves families, protects the young, and prevents suffering by keeping men from drinking and training boys to abstain.
President Roosevelt travels from San Francisco to Berkeley and Oakland, urging a stronger navy and Pacific trade, dedicating a Dewey monument, and observing naval reviews. He tours Mare Island and the Yosemite big tree country, camping amid snowstorm and praising the park’s wonders.
Reports from Kishineff describe a week of slaughter with 50 killed, 350 severely and 1,000 wounded as Jews face exclusion from trade and protection. Authorities are inactive and many homes are lost as violence spreads across Bessarabia amid government sanction fears. In Canada famine reports from Victoria note hunger in Kwangsu province with families subsisting on minimal food and children and women being sold to survive.
Mayor Low in New York City halted Mormon street preaching by revoking all permits issued to elders. Complaints triggered an investigation, leading to the denial and non issuance of future permits. The change affects several months of prior permit holders who had not disclosed their faith.
A giant gas and oil combination capitalized at 6 million dollars will be incorporated in Pennsylvania immediately. The venture includes 16 Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania concerns and will be known as the Pittsburg Gas and Oil Company.
Advices from Morocco report American missionaries have practically abandoned Mequinez due to a critical situation. No widespread anxiety is noted for missionaries in other locations.
Washington May 19 Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger ordered railway postal clerk Svend Schibsby of Kansas City to show cause why he should not be dismissed for trying to act as attorney for clerks in suits against the government for traveling expenses. The department argues the headquarters are the routes of runs not the clerk's residence. A Court of Claims case on traveling expenses is pending.
Philadelphia May 19 Cartoonist Charles Nelan replies to Gov Samuel Pennypacker who denied calling him an outcast regarding the Grady Salus libel bill. Nelan quotes the exchange and grills the governor over the logical leap and legal implications while defending his signing of the cartoon.
In Dublin at the Rotunda a crowd clashed as Gaelic league members opposed to greeting King Edward disrupted John Redmond’s speech. Chairs flew, injuries occurred, and John O Donnell was hurt before order returned and a fund resolution passed.
A Madrid dispatch reports that during a bullfight in Algeciras the amphitheatre collapsed, resulting in twelve deaths and forty injuries.
Thomas Anderson, recently released after ten years for burglary, went to his wife Ida Anderson's Brooklyn home and shot her after she refused to remarry. Police arrested him, and an hour later he was found dead at the station.
The Bridewell burying ground, now under English parliamentary action, holds Mme Creswell who died in Bridewell prison. She left $50 for a funeral sermon with a condition to speak only well of her, and the preacher replied by noting she was born Creswell, lived in Clerkenwell, and died in Bridewell.
Garnett Ark May 18 For 18 years Mrs Mary Dunlop suffered kidney trouble and found a remedy Dodd's Kidney Pills she praises to friends Others claim cures including a Mrs Garrett from Brazils Ind Cerebro Spinal trouble cured by the pills The piece also notes several unrelated sayings and ads including trains Chicago to California and Opium and Liquor Habits Cured by B M Woolley M D Atlanta
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