Various Humorous Bits from The Warren Mail Dated 1884
A miscellany of quips and anecdotes presented in The Warren Mail includes jokes about oysters breeding, a girl needing a toothbrush, Prohibition politics, a cyclone name, a child’s mischief, and humorous proverbs. It also features light sketches about a thief in Cincinnati, a merchant’s sales ploy, temperance remarks, and a Lincoln era note with John W. Garrett.
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Lorge
Albany
Sinai
Indiana
Cyclonia
Paul
Cincinnati
Cough Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief for 25e
An advertisement touts Hub Cough Cure available for 25e with rapid relief claims. It directs readers to ask Johnson and Siegfried for the remedy.
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Johnson & Siegfried
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets Promoted for Indigestion
L. G. Noyes asserts indigestion prepares for disease and guarantees Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets cure all forms of indigestion in an advertising claim.
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L. G. Noyes
Acker
Local Household Remedies and Supplies Featured
Advertisements list Pure baking powder at 35 cents per pound mixed by Hazeltine Mixer, bottled by Johnson & Siegfried of Warren Pennsylvania. Fraizer’s Magic Ointment cures boils burns sores cuts and more at 50 cents, sold by Johnson & Siegfried. Hun Cough Cure claims to cure coughs magically for 25 cents. Frazer Medicine Co. of Cleveland Ohio props.
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Johnson & Slegeried
Warren, Pa
Ask Johnson & Siegfried
Williams Indian Pile Ointment Ad From Cleveland
Bold promotional note for Williams Indian Pile Ointment claims instant relief from bleeding itching and swelling of piles. It asserts cures for long standing cases and offers orders via Johnson and Siegfried in Cleveland Ohio with a mailed price of one dollar.
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Williams
Johnson & Siegfried
Frazier Medicine CO
Prop’s
Cleveland
Ohio
Constipation Remedy Ad Promotes Liver Health
An old advertisement touts Zopesa as a cure for digestive ills including constipation dizziness bad breath and loss of appetite. It claims the product energizes the liver aids digestion and regulates the bowels with a 25 cent sample offered by Johnson & Siegfried.
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Johnson & Siegfried
Baby Mischief Turns Sleepy Morning into Panic
A Long Island family nearly faints with fear when their infant son vanishes from his crib at dawn. The wakeful year old, later found sound asleep in a hay-filled stable basket, is believed to be a somnambulist who wandered while still asleep.
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Long Island
Monkey
Baby
Boy Blue
Loston Beacon
Notice Periods in Employee Contracts Across Roles
The piece explains definite but unwritten terms for high paid staff like managers and clerks, usually three months notice, and one month for copying clerks. Mutuality is required, and breaches allow damages. It notes masters may dismiss with salary in lieu of notice, but servants must provide proper notice to avoid loss. Chamber's Journal discusses practical distinctions.
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Chambers’ Journal
Irish Thorns and Fairy Folklore in Ulster Legends
Harper’s Weekly recounts Ulster folklore where sacred thorns deter plowing and touching branches is said to bring misfortune. People report encounters with green folk who grant favors or bring woes, calling names and dancing on hillsides before vanishing. The myths describe fairy influence on households, milk, and children as part of a broader belief in caprice and benevolent mischief.
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Ulster
Harper’s Weekly
Women ushers proposed for theaters stirring debate
The New York World reports a theater plans to replace male ushers with women, arguing it will raise audience friction and invite audients to seek access. Critics say women may struggle with matinee crowds, but a future usher college could train them, offering new career paths.
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New York World
Lyceum
College of Ushers
America
Pauline
Juliet
Wealth in Newport Women Prompts Awe in a Newport Letter
A Newport letter notes wealth increasingly concentrates among women in Newport. It names several prominent heiresses and their estimated fortunes, including Mrs. Gammell, Miss Catherine Wolfe, Mrs. Paran Stevens, Mrs. William Astor, Miss Florence Lyman, and others, totaling millions. The writer observes a national reverence for wealth and lists many prominent ladies on Bellevue avenue and in town.
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Newport
United States
Casino
Gammell
Catherine Wolfe
Paran Stevens
William Astor
Florence Lyman
Ellen Mason
Rachel Kennedy
Emily Gibbons
Gardiner Brewer
Bruen
Bellevue Avenue
Edward King
Maid Perkins
Lawnfield
Eleanor Hartshorne
Isaac Bell, Jr
Duncan Pell
Kernochan
Admiral Baldwin
Boy’s Snake Adventure Ends With Blaze and Escape
A 14 year old Louisville boy visiting Illinois recounts a tale of a ten foot blacksnake found on a hay wagon. After hours of effort by harvesters using poles ladders and flames the snake retreats as a fire streak travels two miles to a barn then to a stream where the reptile climbs a tree uninjured beyond its hide burned away.
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Louisville
Illinois
Texas hotel waiter squelches iced tea request
A Texas hotel proprietor and waiter balk at a guest asking for iced tea. The guest requests beef, potatoes, cabbage, pie, and tea. the landlord objects to iced tea as a New York traveler's trick and offers river water instead, sparing the drink.
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Texas
English surgeon recites rare operation witnessed firsthand
A noted English surgeon published a paper detailing a highly difficult operation. A leading French doctor questioned its truth, and the Englishman affirmed his eye witness. The French reply, quoted, argues belief depends on personal sight, yet would not have acted if he had seen it himself.
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Bos
Gobe
Boston Dialect Slang Noted in Quirky Speech
The article catalogs local slang terms used in Boston speech including girl called Squirrel suit named shuit and dude as jude basket for basket and a dog breed termed Nuffenlanders. The piece highlights playful linguistic variations reflecting regional vernacular.
Castle Garden Sees Young Women Seek Reinfidel Lovers
Officials at Castle Garden report many young women arrive seeking recreant lovers, indicating a pattern of pursuit for romantic liaisons rather than legitimate resources or assistance. The claim frames the arrivals as driven by personal longing and social circumstances.
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Castle Garden
Endless Br ic Brac Designs Captivate Designers Worldwide
A New York Sun report surveys bric a brac mania with designers worldwide turning old shoes, hats, animals, and botany into novelties. European designers work under high pressure crafting lamps, candle holders, skewered animals, porcelain vases, and intricate liquor sets to adorn open fires and center tables.
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Boston
Yokohama
Eagle Pass
Tex
Paris
Geneva
New York Sun
Shanghai Juvenile Bird Catchers Fined In Mixed Court
The Bad Boy of China was fined one dollar or seven days in jail for捕 small birds in the settlement. Police clampdowns failed to curb the habit as youths now use a rod-like bamboo with lime to snare birds, hiding the device when officers approach.
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D. C. Jansen
Shanghai Museum
Celestial Empire
Notable Buffalo Hunt Ends in Narrow Escape
An Idaho correspondent recounts a perilous buffalo chase with a prized bull. The narrator shoots to protect himself as the wounded animal charges, while his horse perishes, and he survives a close encounter amid the prairie chase.
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Idaho
Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
California giant tree Old Moses measured 240 feet high
The Tule River grove giant called Old Moses stands 240 feet tall with a 12 foot trunk diameter where broken. Estimated age 4840 years, hollow trunk 111 feet long fits 150 people and shows California scenes with furniture. A 75 foot round section toured New York in 1879. Townsend notes jury fixing is common.
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Tule River
California
Moses
New York
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Geo. S. Gatchell
Exchange St
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Burlington, Vt
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H. Hallett & Co
Portland
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