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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1895
Page
1
Burgess James W Wiggins lists town leadership including Alden as President and A B Kehr John Humphrey H A Messenger Jas Brann L T Borchers John Masterson Joseph Hill along with Clerk D A Arird Treasurer A J Hazeltine Justices H S Perry and C H Meacham Collector W H Heck Attorney Wm Lehnar Engineer D F A Wheelock Constables by ward and School Directors led by Charles Dinsmoor with Drs Baker Freeman Ball King and others.
A sweeping weekly digest reports shootings at Altman Colorado where two miners die and town is besieged, Moore Baker linked to a double murder in Franklin Park New Jersey, medical and legal experts discuss effects of testimony in New York, and widespread war rumors plus political moves across states. It covers Cuba battles, New York bills, breading frost damage to crops, imperial shifts in Asia, and multiple local disasters and political shifts through May 21.
Money on call at 1 percent. Prime mercantile paper 234 44 per cent. Sterling exchange shows actual bank bills at 4.874 and 4.863 for demand and 60 days. Posted rates 4.870 4.8734 and 1.88. Commercial bills 4.854 4.8534. Railroads Pacific 63 of 95 at 1.70. Silver certificates 67.54 cents, sales 30,000. Silver 67.7 cents. Mexican documents quoted. Governments new 43 at 1.19 1.194.
New York May 20 market reports show flour prices across patent winter and spring grades, rye and buckwheat flours, corn meal, barley malt, and wheat spot and futures. The data lists Midwest and Minnesota sources, New York and Jersey regions, and varied bids for oats hay pork butter cheese eggs potatoes and dairy products.
Baron Fucus, Bavarian colonel, named president of the German Artillery Testing commission. Danomey’s Black Star knighthood recognized in France by King Toffa, successor to Behanzin. The British destroyer Sturgeon reached 29% knots on a measured mile but retests planned. Gen. Martinez Campos, 61, leads Spanish effort against Cuba after forty years in service. Count Gucciardi, Italian major, rode Verona to Pavia in 14 hours using two horses. Paris garrison mobilized at midnight with orders and armament ready for war.
A report notes the vast permutations of domino arrangements totaling 248 528 211 840 and cites the mathematical scope of the game.
Miss Brappon, the novelist, has lost her husband Mr John Maxwell who founded Temple Bar thirty five years ago. Manual Garcia, at ninety years, remains active as a singing teacher in London and appeared in opera in New York nearly seventy years ago. Winnie Davis’s new book The Veiled Doctor is with Harper and Bros in manuscript with no publication date. Paderewski shares honors in Paris with Dutch pianist M Zeldenrust who will visit America soon, critics compare him to Rubenstein. A magazine Carib will be published soon in Antigua, promising drama from the West Indies.
A Warren church column discusses Christian Endeavor meetings, a reception by Epworth League for Warren societies, and upcoming Union Service. It cites leaders for next Sunday from several denominations, and promotes a Northfield conference with Boston connections and shared expenses. It also reflects on Rev. J Z Tyler and the Inter national Convention's impact, plus a May topic by Rev S H Boyle on Christ cross and carrying burdens.
A collage of facts surveys 2261 Civil War engagements, royal tensions between a German emperor and the British throne, Sweden’s vote removal for habitual drinkers, a long telegraph path to Australia, canned fruit opening tips, and claims about dogs spreading disease credited to Dr Megnin of the Paris Academy of Science.
The passage notes that peasant women in Japan do not tire of head-dress, India claims a barber can shave a sleeper with a light touch, and some Chinese deity images are believed to be about two thousand years before Christ.
The Christian Endeavor society of the American church in Paris remains highly active. Since its October annual meeting it has worked hard, holds its third monthly prayer meeting with the church missionary service, discusses a special mission field, and reports about 100 in attendance. Young people aid the pastor’s receptions as the work prospers with country enthusiasm.
Ninety five years after its founding the Religious Tract Society has printed gospels in 201 languages and issued Pilgrim's Progress in 87 languages. Its New Testament commentary appears in Chinese Arabic Syriac Marathi Bengali Tamil Urdu Hindoo Canarese Cingalese and Karen. Last year it distributed 67000000 publications.
A New York Endeavorer urges the missionary committee to rotate bringing a short thought or fact about missions to each prayer meeting. The idea rests on the belief that almost any prayer meeting topic can be enriched by missions.
The passage describes the closing phase of Job's discourse with Eliphaz Bildad and Zophar. Each friend accuses Job of wickedness, Job asserts integrity, and a third round of speeches unfolds with Job responding eloquently about upright character.
The author warns that the church faces dangers from worldliness apathy and widespread vice in government business and education. Only the Holy Spirit can save souls as revivals of Pentecostal power are essential to face upcoming struggles of the new century.
In June Boston will host its largest Christian Endeavor societies gathering while Chattanooga welcomes Methodist hosts from across the continent. Both meetings aim for earnest discussion of Christian life, broader cooperation, deeper consecration, and higher divine inspiration.
No Methodist should miss the Chattanooga convention of the Ep worth League June 27 to 30 if possible. The gathering promises uplifting help to the League cause and strengthens fraternity among Methodisms represented there with the prospect of spiritual blessing for many souls.
A million conversions this year. A million souls to Christ be given and redeemed from sin. The plea asks divine light to shine within, awaken zeal, and endow church leaders with apostolic power. A. J. Merchant notes salvation for souls ransomed by Christ.
The church shows a total membership increase of 157,468 in 1894, averaging 3,030 weekly. After accounting for losses by death withdrawal and exclusion the church now lists 2,359,972 in full connection and 21,621 on probation.
The League is described as a grand training ground for young church life in all practical Christian aspects. It fosters personal piety through devotion and Scripture study, develops benevolence via missionary knowledge and offerings, teaches mercy through visiting the needy and distributing aid, and nourishes social and literary interests, aiming for a significant uplift of the nation’s young life with far reaching results.
Daniel W Howland of Boston asked the navy department for the location of John Paul Jones grave. He was told Jones was likely buried in Paris Protestant graveyard behind the Hotel Dien, that the St Lawrence was sent to Southampton in 1851 to fetch his body, and that the graveyard had since been repurposed. The navy department does not know if the bones were dumped in a pit or placed in Paris catacombs.
Idle Tim recalls a near miss in a large city building described as an employment office. The tale notes twenty different people offered work before he could exit, highlighting dangers for the unwary in urban centers.
A dialogue defines a battle as a fight among many, and a duel as a fight between two. Johnny notes that he and papa fight duels, while when grandma and Uncle Jim visit it becomes a battle. Truth adds the distinction.
A witty dialogue ends with a playful quip about memory and speech. One speaker notes they talked for three hours, while the other claims only half that time passed. The insinuation prompts a playful counter about faster forgetting than talking.
A humorous exchange, Mr Up To Date tells his wife that women need more sleep per medical journals. He suggests she not stay awake for his club return tomorrow morning, highlighting a lighthearted gender sleep stereotype.
Conversation snippet from the Chicago Record features two Advanced Lady speakers debating pursuit. The First scolds the Second for not seeking a meeting, while the Second claims to have hunted at the home, accusing evasion as the motive.
A rural hotel guest is told the surest spring sign is the alligator crawling out, though a rattlesnake under a pillow in the morning hints that spring has truly arrived. This Georgia note from the Atlanta Constitution uses a rural humor punchline.
A collection of light dialogue snippets from comic pages featuring witty banter between Spratts Miss Elder Hunker and others. Jests touch on reading habits age perceptions and playful putdowns reflecting early 20th century humor.
A humorous Life magazine quote shows a wife proposing dress reform while her husband jokes he will take up chloroform. The exchange highlights satirical social aims and gender norms of the era.
A Washington Star brief notes stage laughter as a playful echo from a bygone era with a naughty villain and a tittering spinster joined by a hayseed exclamation revealing local character charm.
The Atlanta Constitution discusses the boy who stood on the burning deck and the child who could not swim, framing the historic tale with contemporary interpretation and questions about heroism and danger.
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