24 May 1881
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1881
Page
1
A long comic collage of verses about kisses and courtship interwoven with a Brook- lyn Eagle editor and a student’s school days tale. It mixes flirtation anecdotes with editor banter and a parade of moralizing and playful quips.
The Revised New Testament is set for release on May 20 in various styles and prices from ten cents to several dollars. An Oxford edition is promised with neat letter-press and margin verse divisions for reference. Publishers race to be first on the street amid agents taking orders with deposits, risking mail delays and questionable copies.
A rush in New York for dandelions to wear at the throat or belt has florists balking, saying the flower is too common and recalling daisies as a prior fad.
Visitors and new arrivals are advised that Ayer's Sarsaparilla aids in adapting to new climates after travel. It is claimed to cleanse the blood and quickly relieve boils pimples and eruptions caused by sea diet and acclimation.
State reports show 165 companies involved in speculation in human life with only eight fully free of the taint. Snyder county alone has about 1000 people in the traffic, pushing families into penury as policies and assessments collapse. officials and public funds are implicated in several counties including York where Louis Strager amassed over 100000 dollars from policies on others’ lives.
A Lion arrives among jackals who praise him yet one by one they whisper warnings about others. After a fortnight he declares the community a nest of thieves and swindlers and tells them to fend for themselves. Morality note: those who pull others down gain little.
A Vermont clergyman articulates a vivid religious ascent after death. He describes crossing the mystic river and moving from human to angel to archangel to celestial and divine, culminating in gathering stars and dreaming the endless dream of eternity.
A New Jersey preacher, irritated by the women of his congregation fidgeting, paused to tell them he would watch the door and warn them if anything worse than a man entered so they could escape.
At a California Academy of Sciences meeting Dr. Henry Gibbons described using petroleum mixed with castor oil to kill scale insects on rose bushes. He noted the treated trees grew better, with the oil forming a coating that remains on the bushes and cautioned against saturating the soil.
The Philadelphia Times questions the value of courting and flirting with girls opposite, arguing that the time spent yields little result. It suggests that if flirting ever led to serious outcomes it might be reasonable, but in reality it ends with both spouses choosing others, making the pursuit a waste of time.
A news note describes a unique cattle car at Union stock yards that holds twenty head in individual stalls, fed and watered by a mechanical end-operated system. In a Cincinnati run the load lost only 2.75 percent despite remaining aboard, far below the 8 to 12 percent loss seen with standard cars which require unloading and feeding.
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