Favorable view of Grant era after off year elections
The Warren Mail argues that despite a national mood of apathy in off year elections, Grant’s administration remains trusted. It notes mixed state results, praises New York and Michigan shifts, and predicts stability as the nation returns to a specie-based economy after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wisconsin
Michigan
Virginia
Maryland
Massachusetts
Arkanas
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Jersey
Greeley
Grant
Penn Central Flourishes Amid Rail Market Shifts
A Pennsylvanian correspondent reports the Pennsylvania Central Railroad remains financially sound despite general panics. A $10 million European loan eased conditions, with freight rising eastward and passenger traffic dipping as economists expect. The next annual report should show earnings up by 1.5 to 2 million dollars, while construction costs are trimmed to accommodate growth. The piece also notes the broader railroad market may consolidate as weak lines falter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Central
Tom Scott
Europe
Pennsylania
Election returns show Allen barely leads after Prohibitionist aid
The piece outlines official returns with Noyes Republican Allen Democrat Stewart Prohibitionist Collins Independent and notes Allen's small plurality. It argues the Democratic revival is unlikely and hints prohibitionists aided Allen. Advice to youths urges diligence and work over loafing with cynical quips about physicians and lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noyes
Allen
Stewart
Collins
Our New Constitution Seeps Through Public Scrutiny
The piece commends the new constitution as an improvement yet notes higher costs for lawmaking and fears hidden or rushed changes. It condemns limited public access to the document, cites “back pay” voting controversy, and questions the Philadelphia special committee as handling elections. The December 16 vote looms amid debate over new provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Philadelphia
Wisconsin governor Washburn faces reformers in election
Wisconsin voters face a clash as Gov Washburn, a bold opponent of railroad subsidies and Ring rule, is defeated by reformers who accuse him of oppressing merit and fair government. The piece argues reformers plunder the treasury while posing honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Washburn
West
Jset
A Democratic Idea From a Louisville Retrospect
The Louisville Commercial recalls Humphrey Marshall’s remark that Democrats should wait for Republicans to pay the national debt and the treasury, so Democrats could then take power with “unembarrassed minds” and no need to worry about government credit or paying debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Humphrey Marshall
Treasury
Oil City council race sparks race based griping
A historical note claims Oil City elected a colored brother as Councilman as a joke and that the mayor later left office. the charter supposedly crowns the councilman with the largest majority as mayor’s successor, prompting criticism of white leadership in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Thanksgiving Proclamation by Pennsylvania Governor 1873
The governor designates November 27 as a day of Thanksgiving for Pennsylvania residents to attend worship and give thanks to Almighty God. It calls for prayers for continued favor and for delivering afflicted people in other states from pestilence. Dated October 30, 1873, Harrisburg. Assigned to Secretary T M S Quay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
J. F. Harrraannr
T. M.S. Quay
Dramatic Hanging Attempt Ends with Shortened Rope
In Whitrausport Pennsylvania a man named Wade failed to hang as the rope proved too long and he touched ground twice during the attempt. After delays the cap was reapplied and he fell again. He survived for seven minutes. Spectators took rope fragments as relics. A foreign report mentions Prussian officers recommending petroleum for arm cleaning due to its freshness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitrausport
Wade
Hell
Texas cattle baron claims world’s greatest herd
Samuel W. Allen of Texas owns 225,000 cattle on a 80 by 10 mile ranch between the Nevada and Colorado rivers, the largest on the continent. His outfits pasture 120,000 head, with two other camps of 70,000 and 35,000. About 400 herders and 3,000 horses care for the stock, 60,000 calves are branded yearly, and the value of the cattle, excluding land, exceeds five and a half million. He supplies New Orleans and gulf coast counties.
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Samuel W. Allen
Texas
Nevada
Colorado
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Danbury News Quip On a Tooth Aches Timing
The Danbury News humorously notes a boy’s tooth ache follows a precise daily arc from onset at 8 a m to peak at 8 45, then subsides by 9. It jokes that if a boy lacks four quarts of walnuts to dry upstairs at night, there is no upstairs space to dry them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Danbury News
P. B. S. Pinchback
Louisana
Indianapolis
Hyacinthe
Geneva
Reinkens
Iowa Gives Carpenter Republican Governor Nomination Land Slide
Iowa names Carpenter as the Republican candidate for governor by about 20 000 votes. State Senate majority Republican 35 to 15 and House 51 to 49. Joint ballot Republican majority 22. Boston Globe notes Justice Swayne prefers Suess for vacancy.
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Iowa
Carpenter
State Senate
House
Boston Globe
Justice Swayne
Stokes Transferred from Tombs to Sing Sing Prison
Edward Stokes and Johns D. Couse were moved from the Tombs to Sing Sing on Saturday morning amid secrecy. Stokes, 32, a Pennsylvania native and broker, weighed 138 pounds and was assigned cell 173 after a brief hospital check and formalities. Couse, 33, a Jersey City-born bank teller, weighed 125 pounds and was to work in the chaplain’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Stokes
Tombs
Sing Sing
Johnson
Shields
Cahill
Stokes
Johns D. Couse
Lessie
Lawrence Bros
Conse
Prion
Fourth Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Hoffman House
Tee
Irons
Couse
Hubbell
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
N. Y. Tribune
Vast Global Wealth Figures and Political Quips
A collage of quotes and notes from a bygone era covers global wealth estimates, political shifts in Ohio, poll-watching remarks by Louise Alcott, Vienna Exposition visitor figures, Commodore Vanderbilt’s fortune, church calls in Williamsport, and remarks on politics, religion, and social norms from various figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain and
Ireland
Julia Ward Howe
Ohio
Louise Alcott
Commodore Vanderbilt
First Presbyterian Church
Williamsport
George Fr. Cain
Erie
Lewisburg Chronicle
Smiley H. Bonham
Iowa
Birdie
Judge Woodward
Gold and silver tonnage values and mint standards cited
The article notes that one ton of gold yields 602,799.21 dollars and a ton of silver 37,704.84 dollars based on 29,163 troy ounces per ton. It provides weights per cubic foot for pure metals, coin weights for large denominations, and ore fineness figures. It also includes mint calculations: 43 ounces of standard gold or 900 fine is worth 800, and over 960 fine coin is Denver. It ends with a shipment report: 104 000 lbs bullion sent from Southampton to New York.
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Mint
Denver
Col
Marriages Reported in New Haven Area 1878
A 1878 notice records two marriage rites: John C. Fuerlhart wed Philippini M. Leonhart at the bride’s father’s home in Iren Fair Haven Conn on November 1 1878 officiated by Rev G Brugel. David B. Bernard of Warren Penns and Julia M. Edwards of New Haven joined in a ceremony at the bride’s mother’s residence officiated by Rev John C Abbott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillipp Leonhart
G. Brugel
John C. Fuerlhart
Phillippini M. Leonhart
Iren
Fair Haven
Conn
John &. C. Abbott
David B. Bernard If Warren
Penn.a
Julia M. Um Emwards
New Haven
Notices of Admin of Catherine Elizabeth Toda Estate
Executor Christian Smith asks all debtors to pay promptly and all creditors to present claims for settlement regarding the estate of Catherine Elizabeth Toda, late of Warren Borough, Warren County. Warren Pa November 6, 1873.
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Yorky
Catherine Elizabeth Toda
Warren
Warren County
Christian Smith
Warren, Pa
Harrison Hill
Baro
Junius R. Clark
Samuel Barton
Pittsfield
Hulet Barton
List of Causes for December Term 1873 First Week and Day
A dense roster of court cases scheduled for the first and second weeks of December 1873 in Warren County. Entries list numerous plaintiffs and defendants including Brown vs Taylor Parker vs Green, and Moyer against Hadley, with others scattered through Sessions one and two. The notice also includes a sheriff sale in Warren on December 1 1873 of Triumph Oil Company property and related leases in Deerfield Township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Brown
D.C. Taylor
F. C. Parker
W. A. Green
Page & Hutchinson
D. McGee
C. McKelvy
J. Eastman
J. H. Eddy
L. B. Hoffman
D. C. Phillips
Jones & Willard
L. PB. Borgers & Co
L. Moyer
Bonner & Bonner
Ramses, Stoker & Co
Stiles & Smith
J. Mowri
Dicvee & Crull
J. A
O. A. Lockwood
A. H. Lacy
J. C. Utter
R. E. Howard
Pierce & Mevain
E. R. Coville
A. P. Wetmore & Co
Guy C. Irvine
Exr
Ackley
Black & Robertson
Dougherty
F. A Thatcher
W. P. Shaw
Ditmars
C. T. Mix
A. Wallace
Empire Trans. Ce
Neil
Adm
WY. Thompson
J. Green
G. L. Lacy
W. B. Dunham
Hall & May
Thompson & Jones
A. Price
L. F. Watson
O. Hateral
A. H. Weaver
A. Wetmore
D. Mead
Mead & Ross
Same
Mead & Palmer
L. ¥. Watson
T. Dailey
Granger & Co
Lockwood & Hoyt
Wright N.S
T. N. Edsall
Biddle M. E. J. Et al
S. W. Waters
Warren, Pa
NHERIFE SALE UNDER WARRAN COUNTY WRIT IN 1873
A public sale is ordered at Warren Court House on December 1 1873 at 2 PM under a writ of Levari Facias. The property is a five acre leasehold on Ware farm Deerfield Township bounded by Magnolia Potter Hemlock Oil Co. It includes two oil wells two rigs tubing rods casing boilers engines tanks rope and about 100 cords of wood.
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Nherife
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Court House
Warren
Ware Farm
Deerfield Township
Magnolia
Potter Farm
Hemlock Oil Company
R. W. Irvine
S. Durham
Boro
Warren Co
Penna
Ware
J. FP. Stearns
Sherife
Borough of
South West Township
Pennsylvanis
Ianee
Puiter
Olinisa
Henry A. Husson
Chambers Butson
Henry A Hutson
Henry A. Lutson
Thomas Conway
VY Davis
Sheriff Sale Notice of Warren County Oil Lease Property
A Writ of Levari Facias leads to public sale at Warren Court House on December 1, 1873 at 2 PM. The leasehold in Deerfield Township, Warren County Pa, lease number 32 of New York and Allegheny Oil Company tract, 1 acre more or less, with engine boiler tubing belting and casing, listed as property of William Green for The Fidioute and Triumph Hill Oil and Water Company.
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C. Levari
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Warren
Deertfield Township
Pennsylvania
Triumph Oil Company
Tidioute
Titusville
George J. Luce
Tidi Oute
Triumph Hill Oil and Water Co
S. V. Davis
Sheriff’s
Heriff
Court House
Deerfield
Warren Co
New York and Allegheny Oil Company
William Green
Fidioute
Triumph Hill Oil and Water Company
Sheripf
Court of Common Press
Warren Counte
Announ
Warren Count
Deerfield Township
Warren Conny
New York and
Allegheny
Willian
Wiliam Cartwell
S. W. Davis
Sherif
Sheriff’s Oflice
Warren County Sheriff Sale Notices For Diverse Properties
Public vendues are set in Warren County for multiple properties. Readers will see lands in Corydon and Kinzua Townships, a Kinzua Village saw mill, and parcels in South West Township including tract numbers 136 and 196, all under writs of venditioni exponas and executions in the 1800s.
Sheriff’s sale notice for Warren County land parcels
Writ of Venditioni Exponas directs the sheriff to expose at public sale in Warren Borough on December 1 1873 at 2 PM two described land parcels in Brokenstraw Township Warren County Pennsylvania totaling about 170 acres including a 10 acre tract with a family burying ground and improvements and another 40 acre parcel part of lot 306. The sale is for the suit of Wm Davis now for D Mead with Ely P Kyler as owner and the docket details recorded in Warren County deeds.
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Heriff
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Court House
Warren
O' Dee
Isri
Win'elock A. M
Corydon Township
State of
Pennsylvania
Kinzua Township
Mead & Eddy
H. A. Jamieson
Kinzua Village
Ki. A. Jamieson
L. F. Watson
Dickenson
Penna
Collins
L. L. Lowry
South West Township
Said Township
Caldwell Central Petroleum Company
Kinzna Creek
Said
Robert English
William H. Dickinson
I. A. Jamieson
Cours Texan
Dea
South West
Pennsylvani
Bowsded
Samuel Fisher
Wisher’s Lana
Fisher's Land
Hollane Land Company, &c
J. A. Smith
Crouneh & Brother
D. H. Mitchell
C. C. Merritt
Brokenstraw Township
Warren Co
Brown's Tract
Hull’s Hill
A. Ze. Saalow
S. Hult
Wm. Graham
Wim. Graham
Ayso
Dennis Sullivan
A. H. Ludlow
Thomas Turner
Recorder's Office
Ely P. Kyler
Recorder’s Office
Wm. M. Davis
D. Mead
S. VY. Davis
Court’of Common Pleas
Tidioute
Main Street
James Parshall
William Burdick
Illiam Pike
S. W. Davis
Conewango Township
Ezra Hf. Dibble
Harriet
Wm. Bell
Wim. Bell
Mary D
Jacob T. Stahle
Stahle
John Denzer
Warren and
Jamestown
Sugar Grove
Pollet
Jacob J. Reig
Thomas Struthers
W. Davis
Sheriff's Office
Warren, Pa
Pine Grove Township
Yarren County
Lubly & Leiper Heirs
Nicklin& Griffin
Hubly& Leiper Heirs
John Wilkins
John Smith
Guy Irvine
Orman Houpt
Harrison Hill
W. W. Ballard & Co
Hill
C. T. Mix
Agnes Dow
Joseph Dow
Sheriff's Sale Notice for Warren County Oil Equipment
Public sale announced by writs of Levari Facias in Warren County Pa. The 1873 sale lists William Green property in Deerfield Township including a carpenter rig boiler engines tools and various oil equipment to be sold at the Court House in Warren. A second 1575 notice describes lease No is in Deerfield Township with multiple oil rigs pumps tanks and tubing to be sold as the property of William Andrews at the suit of J W Humphreys Jr and W Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Pleas
Borough of
Warren
Deerfield Township
Warren Co
New York and Dennis Run
Brown& Struther
Seneca Fall
Willian Andrews
J. W. Humphreys, Jr
W. Davis
Sherim
Warren, Pa
Goods Are Sacrificed for Cash in Low Price Store Hype
A local vendor boasts a booming store with cut prices on 10 cent prints and 10 cent swears. He claims to have bought more stock, attracting customers from Pine Grove to Kane while rival merchants fear the new low pricing and rush to trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield
Pine Grove
Warren
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Washington Chronicle
Senatorarpenter
Senate
Garpenter
Wilson
Ir. Wilson
Loxpon
Southampton
TE Aire
Tidionte
County of
Empire City OS Company
J. P. Gould
U. S
Clark
Bernard Deitsch
S. V Davis
Sheriff’s Ofice
Neserife
Warren Penna
C. Schiller
Henry Hill
C. Tatton
Thomas T. Tasker
Stephen P. M. Tasker
Morris, Tasker
V. Davis
Warren Pa
Vv. Davis
Navy
Japan
Yann
Sra
Messner & Trasher Dealers IN
Warren Savings Bank
Congress
Crane & Co
Ind
Librarian of Congress
Washington
Messner & Trushel
Pawlee
Orphan's Court
Robert H. Wiggins
Stephen Crouch
C. W. Stone
J. B. Slocum
James G. Marsh
Register. Register’s
District Court OF the
U.S
Alexander Ross
County of Warren
State of Penn A
District Court of
Ss. H. EV &Ns
S&le
Warre
Hunter
Loggins
Quaker Hill
Yankee Bush
Kinzua Valley
Kane
O. H. Hunter
John D. Quinn
District Court
D. S. Thompson
David Beaty
Glade City
F. A. Randall
O. E. Walker
Blour
Efeed
GEO. Ensworth
Snyder & Wood
Front Street
Episcopal Church
W.H. MacDonald & Co
Model Drug Store
KING
Vichy
Kissengen
W. H. MacDonald , CO
Carver House
W. H. MacDonald, George P. Orr
Eve
Ioings
Nis
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