22 May 1888
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1888
Page
1
AXCHANGE HOTEL on Water Street Warren Pa promotes new building and furniture with travels to all trains. Proprietor Geo H Leonhart invites travelers and solicits trial.
A lively period piece describes the opening of David Sheaf’s Spring stock with new textiles, curtains, lace, ribbons, and wraps, touting bargains and full stock. The excerpt shifts to a social scene where Maud Dunbar hosts guests and navigates romance as Mannheim’s mysterious gloom and a burglar scare unfold within the country house.
Warren County Agricultural Association meets in Warren at the Court House on the last Saturday of each month at 1 P M Willis serves as President Chas Lott is Secretary Cowan is Treasurer and W B Acocks is listed. All farmers are invited to attend the meetings.
Schedule fragment shows trains on the Philadelphia and Erie line with eastern standard times. References to arrivals at Erie Warren Ridge Ox Oil Express Erie Mail and Shef Ex Kane Ace follow, with departure and connection notes and scattered times including 9 00 am 1 58 pm 5 25 pm and 7 45 am.
Train times list West and East bound departures and arrivals with connections to Buffalo Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburgh and Peregonal routes. Sunday departures include 8:56 am and 4 28 pm express services with various stopping patterns and transfer points.
Burgess Rankin and Rev. W A Rankin lead town offices with C Smith and J G Brown among council and constable roles. Clerks, surveyor, school directors, justices named including Geo B Smith, Geo C Hamilton, Jas Clark, Chas Dinsmoor and A J Hazeltine.
In a breezy country-house scene at Castle Stuart, Maud and Lilian Dunbar host a party before a gun shooting weekend. They tease Alec Douglas, joke about Lilian’s looks and espieglerie, and list arriving guests including Bill Horne Captain Richmond and Moses Mannheim’s nephew Reginald while money, reputation, and impending gambling losses loom.
A nostalgic verse portraits a mother's bedtime scene withkids in a nursery. The speaker bids a gentle good night to Flossie and the narrator’s pretty child as dreams begin and shadows fade. God guide thee until morn.
A speaker reflects on death as a calm crossing to a familiar, loved country beyond. The poem envisions heaven as near, where friends and family wait, making death no sting and the grave a victory uncrossed by fear. The speaker imagines reunion on a shore where happiness surpasses present longing.
James Whitcomb Riley laments the sudden absence of a child named Wesley. The poem contrasts noisy memories with the stillness that follows, depicting the house and farm as changed. The speaker recalls routine sounds, the clock, rooster, cattle, and neighbors, aching for the boy’s return.
A report details Victoria's crown weighing about three pounds with silver bands encrusted by precious stones. The front features a Maltese cross with a large sapphire and a heart shaped ruby once owned by Black Prince. It includes two $10,000 center diamonds and four $50,000 diamonds, pearls worth $4,000, and clusters of emeralds rubies sapphires and pearls totaling $555,000. The crown is lined with blue velvet and trimmed with ermine.
Measurements of Roman coffins show average heights around five feet five inches while ancient armor suggests taller English aristocracy over five centuries. Twenty five British Museum mummies yield male height sixty one inches and female fifty five. Cleopatra’s mummy stands about fifty four inches. An Egyptian king mummy measures fifty two inches. Maria Mitchell, 70, astronomer at Vassar, has eight comet discoveries and a Danish gold medal, plus three LL D degrees.
Costiveness is blamed as the main disease, with Dr Henry Baxter's Man Drake Bitters advertised to cure it. The product is touted as a remedy, with a warranty on every bottle.
The Mail Job Office offers complete printing supplies with presses, papers, envelopes, and skilled printers for first class job printing at low prices. Blanks of all kinds are kept on hand or printed to order and circulation is second class at Warren. Communications must be brief and newsy with the writer's name.
A collage of brief jokes and quips from various papers notes social manners, misprints, and humorous exchanges. It cites lines about marriage, time, signs and manners, including a protracted set on the faith cure and the professor's belief, with a mix of lighted-lamp humor and religious overtones.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for liver and kidney issues. It claims benefits for pimples boils salt rheum malaria headaches constipation and indigestion with guaranteed satisfaction or money back. Sold at Morck Drug Store for 50 cents or 1 per bottle.
An advertisement urges people to treat lingering coughs with Kemp's Balsam. It promises a cure with a positive guarantee and offers trial sizes free, priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
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