22 May 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1889
Page
1
A lengthy account criticizes women in a tribe as deceitful and ruthless, claiming they exploit men, torture enemies, and foster perpetual suspicion on reservations. The piece asserts dangerous social conditioning from infancy and praises male warriors’ prowess in woodcraft. It follows with various fashion and domestic tips from Betsey Temper in Housekeeper and light joke items.
A garbled OCR fragment shows a sequence of clock times such as 11 29 pm 11 26 pm 11 37, with odd characters and misordered numerals, suggesting corrupted time data rather than a coherent event or notice.
NY reports mixed grain and flour prices with steady exchange and varied futures. Chicago and Cleveland show softer wheat and corn tones with steady hogs and cattle, while Philadelphia lists wool prices by grade and region.
Comic exchanges reveal courting phrases and expenses from chocolate creams to piano jokes. A Iowa woman riffs on a ballot box invention, wishing a voter be untamperable, while a mother quips about a $5 hair-pin holder found cheap later.
A poem from Household by Adelaide G Bennett warns to mentor with tenderness and truth as a girl grows. It cautions that a stranger may later enter and steal what you once cherished, urging mothers to keep watch as the daughter nests at home.
A speculative essay exploring how small events and chance moments shape major life outcomes. It cites examples from personal fortunes to historical turning points, noting that seemingly trivial happenings can steer careers, marriages, wars, and nations, often beyond prediction.
A critique denounces sour, unsocial people who blame the world for their misfortune. The writer argues adversity does not excuse rudeness, urging self-reflection and renewed social duty, faith, hope, and charity as remedies.
Rules for family harmony urge cheerful view of events and gentle responses. Count to ten before anger, rejoice for others, learn temper of each person, seek soft words, put self last in pleasures, and aid the afflicted with kindness. Acknowledge own faults before judging others in daily life.
Fashion notes describe jackets worn over dresses without redingotes, edge piping and gilt braid details, Directoire revers, Empire belt styles, and capes in green, drab, brown, or gray with contrasting piping. Also mentions vest exposure, applique work, and feather braid edges. A second piece warns about plum curculio control and swine management practices, stressing jar the fruit and avoid pasturing hogs in good condition.
Instructions describe plowing and manuring a plot with poultry droppings prior to sowing onions. The bed is prepared with careful depth and spacing before setting out seed or sets to ensure proper germination and growth.
Frank Leslie's Weekly describes a Norfolk Street bakery where Grand Rabbi Joseph oversees hand made matze with strict purity. Sixty workers, careful flour sourcing from West Nyack, and a daylight process ensure quality as two men mix, and women roll and bake creating flat dough stamped with diamonds. Prices reach eleven to twelve cents a pound for matze, higher for holy men’s supply before Passover.
A House wife describes rose cultivation in Ghazepore, British India where rose bushes yield oil through repeated distillation. Twenty thousand roses produce a rupee weight of oil, sold for fifty dollars, with most commercial varieties diluted with sandalwood or salad oils.
A collage of quirky lines and mock conversations spans a missionary tale in Burma to Theosophical musings. Jokes about hawk eyed grocers, young lovers, and aristocratic umbrellas mingle with comic banter among editors and officials.
A playful medley of culinary quips cites a medical writer on herring for sleep, eggs as beef, and a French cook pounding bootleg into tender meat. It jokes about muskrat, bone waste, overcooked truffles, green pickles, and war as a misnamed ice cream menagerie, reflecting humorous fringe beliefs.
A woman near death from consumption recovers after using Dr. King’s New Discovery. She read about a sample on a wrapping paper, tried the remedy, and improved from under seventy pounds to a robust 140 pounds. Fort Smith druggist W. H. Cole promotes trial bottles at Morck Drug Store, with fuller particulars via stamp request.
An advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Price 25 cents per box and sold at the Merck Drug Store. A clock is very different from a man. When it strikes it weue Fight on working. Syracuse Herald.
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