13 Nov 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1889
Page
1
A local retailer promotes French dress goods in multiple price points from $10 to $20 per pattern and highlights non duplicable designs. The cloak department reports daily customer satisfaction and a new stock of 500 garments priced to clear.
Warren County Agricultural Association meets in Warren at Court House on the last Saturday of each month at 1 P.M. President S. H. Evans Secretary Willis Cowan Treasurer W. Bb. Acocks. All farmers are cordially invited to attend.
A historical note defines basic electrical terms. It covers Ampere Currents Dynamo Electrode Ohm Volta Watt Wheatstone Bridge and related concepts with attributions to Edison Westinghouse and Volta. The piece explains units and how they conceptually relate to current, resistance, and electromotive force.
A damaged clipping shows train times and routes for Eastern Bandard lines with arrivals and departures at various hubs. It lists Erie Buffalo and Philadelphia connections, with approximate times like 7:45 am and 1:58 pm, but many details are partial and hard to parse.
A nostalgic ad line traces Castoria from infant to mother figures. The repeated reference highlights Castoria as a trusted remedy across generations and stages of childhood.
A cryptic line notes a boy sheltered in the pantry who may pose a danger by planning a pudding related act. The phrasing suggests a covert menace rooted in domestic secrecy.
General Lew Wallace received 45000 for Ben Hur while Lora Tennyson plans a final poetry volume. George Eliot’s works struggle in France as M Zola attributes their dullness. Wilkie Collins earned 5000 guineas for Armadale, others doubt English novelists’ genius. Fanny Lewald, Germany’s leading woman novelist, dies at 78 in Dresden.
The passage notes how writers from Dickens to Twain varied in paper and script, using large sheets, slates, torn envelopes, and scraps. It mentions Stevenson, Bronte, Hawthorne, and others, highlighting diverse habits and materials in drafting their works.
An elderly party scene features Irish banter and humor. A field officer teases Pat about laziness and a woman laments tooth loss. An uninvited Irishwoman vows to host a future corpse, while a remark about a shilling prompts laughter.
A poem narrates a seeker of Contentment wandering woodland and meadow until she remains unmet. She longs for a return home where a soft voice greets her at the door and the long sought one stands beneath her roof tree. Virginia B. Harrison, in S. S. Times.
In Arcot and Vellore garrisons during British India, a private contracts cholera, faces a death sentence as six men are to be buried. He drinks from a water jar while the grave is prepared, escapes death, and later recalls the episode to his doctor and family, then builds a life in retirement on land he bought with pension and bounties.
A Detroit landlord recounts a tenant's refusals to pay five months of rent. The tenant offered various excuses from a dead child to illness and unemployment. When the landlord asked for payment, the woman demanded proper identification and asked the landlord to return with papers next week.
Demorest's Monthly describes Haw Pond about seventeen miles east of Cordele, Georgia. The low basin fills in rain, then each year around June 13 the water drains suddenly with a roar and the lake disappears, leaving unstable ground and only tree tops visible where the bottom gave way recently. Crowds gather to witness the spectacle, though the site remains unsafe.
A Boston Herald item profiles a 27 year old American servant from Preston Ct who has held diverse roles from post office clerk to hatting forewoman, stage driver, carriage painter, and factory work. She manages horses, handles heavy chores, builds and repairs, tends a garden, reads Milton, sings in church, and supports a sister and child. She avoids cards and novels, keeps Sabbath, and prefers employment over idleness though accepts domestic work in dull months.
A nephew begs his wealthy uncle for $2,000 by evening or threat of suicide. The uncle replies that past similar pleas prompted a gun, and notes he has no revolvers left, closing with a curt judgment.
A Buffalo lecturer relayed a humorous bird story in which a man hunting parrots is startled when a parrot spots him and asks if his grandmother will still give it to him at home. The shocked hunter drops his gun and vows to quit parrot shooting.
Three fishermen in a small boat off the Florida coast were attacked by a gray eagle. The bird swooped at the men several times while they watched its flight, narrowly missing one captain’s head, and the crew repelled the attacks with fish poles.
The dramatis persona in the celebrated Terry Broderick duel faced each other in a morning confrontation on September 13 1859 within ten miles of central San Francisco.
The account paints Bethlehem as a hill town of 550 yellowish limestone houses with narrow stone streets and crowded workshops. Visitors note bric a brac makers pushing souvenirs at marked markups, observe clean, well dressed local women and handsome youths, and compare modern life with a memory of biblical times in this 4,000 strong Christian community. The description, from The Standard, emphasizes the town’s ancient structure, attire, and crafts.
The Mail Job Office offers a complete assortment of paper, cards, envelopes and specialized printers for all types of job printing in first class style. Subscriptions show circulation as second-class mail matter in Warren, and readers are urged to send brief, newsy communications with the writer’s name for publication.
The Boston Transcript recounts a farmer replying that he could have had new potatoes a month earlier if he had known their size, but he left them in the ground until last week when they proved too large to eat. A city person boasted of fresh spuds for weeks, highlighting the rural farmer’s pragmatism.
An irate brakeman insists he has been running on the road five years, while another speaker counters that nothing on this road ever runs. The exchange satirically contrasts experience with reality in a travel scene.
At age ninety Fontenelle passed Madam Helvetius without recognizing her. She chided him for it, and he replied Madam If you had looked at me I would not have passed.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery as guaranteed to relief for throat lung and chest ailments including consumption bronchitis and asthma. Trial bottles are offered free at Morck Drug Store with a money back promise if unsatisfied.
An indignant physician confronts a druggist after a patient dies from a wrong prescription. The druggist retorts that he previously sent the correct order to another patient, implying a mix up and a dangerous misunderstanding.
A collage of small items notes a new gymnaseum for Vassar, quips about laws and love letters, and jests from Boston Budget and Hartford Courant. It preserves brief jokes on manners, elections, and curious fish tales from the era.
The Morris and Mullen druggists advertise their long selling of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Dr. King's New Life Pills Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters with a full satisfaction guarantee refunding the purchase price if results are unsatisfactory.
A promotional tagline notes thousands travel and work after using Downs Flixir. The line credits Morris and Mullen and the firm N. C. Allen for distributing the remedy.
A quoted dialogue contrasts mind cure and faith cure, noting key differences. One asserts mind cure requires no faith, the other says faith cure requires no mind. The speaker concludes the faith cure suits them.
The proprietor claims that thousands receive bottles yearly as a bold advertising tactic for Kemp's Balsam. He asserts it cures coughs and lung troubles, urging immediate purchase and offering trial bottles free at all proggists, with large sizes priced at 50c and $1.
For Immediate Delivery True Warren Woaden Ware Works offers top cash prices for unlimited Pine Cuc mber Whitewood and Basswood logs or bolts. Pine lengths 1 13 14 20 22 26 28 inches and second growth logs free of knot rings and not under 6 inches diameter. Cuc mber Whitewood Basswood 17 and 28 inches long not under 8 inches diameter. 160108.
For a mild cathartic and efficient tonic use Baxter's Mandrake Bitters. Every bottle warranted Morris and Mullen N C Allen.
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