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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1884
Page
4
A Warren Mail selection reviews a Brooklyn mental health quip, a girl’s plea about elopement with strict fathers, the Dwight life insurance case in New York, a fashionable Fifth Avenue coat story, and a young lawyer’s ethics definition met by a veteran judge in Buffalo. The piece blends humor, legal notes, fashion and professional satire.
A series of Civil War anecdotes recalls humorous bravado and grim moments on battlefields. A confederate colonel urges his men at Malvern Hill. a shell disrupts a Federal gun. a chaplain leads a dying soldier in Bible verses until a punch line about John Pope interrupts. McClellan teases Zouaves about rations as they march toward Antietam. Endpiece promotes Zo pesa liver remedy with a brief testimonial.
L. G. Noyes asserts indigestion prepares one for disease and that Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets guarantee relief for all forms of indigestion.
A comic scene unfolds as Mr and Mrs Spoopendyke visit Niagara Falls. They haul a war club a canoe a bead bag and war paints from a street display toward the car while joking about the falls and their purchases. The spectacle ends with items dumped into the rapids.
The article surveys notions across Asia Africa Europe and America that women are born for labor. It cites Kirghese, Sanskrit, Tungusian, Abyssinian and Kaffir girls performing domestic tasks and crafts, while noting patriarchal norms claimed as filial duty and shared among tribes and nations from India to the Americas.
The list summarizes major scientific observations: the Pole is north of New York in the arctic region, an extremely cold area where animals wear sealskin year round. It notes some signal officers as unreliable, starvation when food runs out, frost bite from extreme cold, and that returning home is the expedition’s main challenge.
Letters from H Sampsel of Ottawa and Miss C C Peck Milwaukee praise Peruna and Manalin for long standing coughs bronchitis and related symptoms. Other writers Baker Bros Vernon and Daniel R Spry note good sales and customer satisfaction.
The Century Magazine announces a major 1885 program featuring a multi writer series on Civil War battles by high command officers including Grant Longstreet McClellan Beauregard Rosecrans and Porter. It opens with Beauregard on Bull Run. Also new fiction by Howells James Litchfield Stockton Hawthorne and others plus Italy city sketches and a North West feature.
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