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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1895
Page
3
Home notes report the new brick St Josephs Hall beside the Catholic church nearly finished for a school library and church meetings. Also plans to extend the Warren Street Car Co line and a Republic Saving and Loan Association formed with officers led by B W Rogers and J F Kertcher.
Lincoln visitors include D. C. Taylor from Lincoln and Maude Clayson of Kane in town to visit friends. Several residents travel to New York and Philadelphia area while others return from Germany and Buffalo. A church choir event, a parish pulpit substitute, and a charity collection are noted along with local social gatherings and a horse accident near the Glade Run tannery.
Bustling with holiday chatter and appetite, readers note Thanksgiving excitement in communities from Warren to Youngsville. The report lists local sales, events, charity efforts, and preparations including minstrel shows, a church choir, a teachers' institute start date, and a sheriff sale of farm products.
Jacob Keller the Tailor announces a new cloth lot for overcoats and suits in Warren. Call soon to view affordable, stylish materials and ready garments for men’s and other wear.
Information on the location of Edd Smith formerly employed by E Clinton Warren about two years ago is sought by his brother Guy L. Smith care Courier Buffalo New York. Any reader with knowledge is asked to contact the listed party.
The Warren Directory Co announces a near completion of the new Warren County directory. Advance orders will feature individual and firm names in extra large type at no extra charge. Copies will quickly exhaust, so applicants should apply at once at Box 1041 Warren Pa.
An advertisement claims immediate results for asthma and feverish cold symptoms with a harmless remedy called One Minute Cough Cure by F. H. Dixson, urging rapid action.
On Friday and Saturday November 22 and 23 MO. F. KERTCHER offers a special sale of 200 dozen handkerchiefs in lawn Swiss linen and silk for ladies men and children. Holiday stock is complete and the sale urges holiday presents.
The Pure Oil Company has been organized with President David Kirk and Vice President James W. Lee. Secretary Treasurer Charles H. Duncan heads a board including Jerome B. Akin and others. Trustees include Thomas W. Phillips and Lewis Emory Jr. The goal is to standardize White Sand Pennsylvania oil, produce pure product, and supply quality over price with one million dollar capital.
Miss Della Dunn of Warren, a State Hospital patient since last winter, killed herself last Sunday morning by hanging with a sheet. An attendant had momentarily left her room, and on return found her dead. Her body was taken to her parents home on Poplar Street. funeral held Tuesday afternoon. Also notices Delia Cornelius death in Ohio and local obituaries for Mrs. Michael Lasher and George Lauffenberger in Warren County.
A general practitioner advertises an office in the Sill building at Third and Liberty streets. Specializes in diseases of women nervous disorders and stomach troubles with office hours from 10 to 12 a m and 2 to 4 p m.
A sales pitch touts Wash burn Crosby Co spring wheat patent flour Gold Medal Flour at 1 per sack versus 1 25 elsewhere. It also advertises Warren Mills Co High Grade Winter Wheat Flour at unusually low prices with a note to see more on another page.
A reader from Magic Pa. reports the Nickel Plate Road runs a refined passenger service with day coaches, dining cars, and through sleeping cars to Chicago Cleveland Buffalo New York and Boston at low rates. A. G. Bartley praises De Witt s Witch Hazel Salve for eczema and his son s leg sore.
Old men urged to visit Jacob Keller the Tailor to view elegant fall and winter cloths. Largest and best fabrics in town with low prices. California travelers advised to check Nickel Plate Road agents for rates and connections before buying tickets elsewhere.
Real estate transfers list multiple buyers and sellers across Warren and surrounding towns with payments ranging from 250 to 4 100 dollars. Notable parcels include Elk Nelson Rickerson to Bertha Ricker Spring Creek and J P Houser estate transactions in Limestone and Tidioute. Powerful preaching by Rev J W Smith at Warren Presbyterian Church highlighted in church and local editorials.
Messrs J H Sandstrom J A Swanson Alex Erickson Oscar Boberg and O C Westling of Warren organized in Tidioute last Friday a lodge of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America with 21 members and officers including President Frank Vif Vice President Carl Engstrom Chaplain A W Nelson Secretary J A Holingquist Financial Secretary Eric Hendrickson Treasurer Charles Use Marshal John Larson Assistant Marshal Josephine Widman Inside Guard Laurence Lindquist Outside Guard Charles Lindskog Trustees N A Levin A Lindquist John Bergstrom.
A collage of humorous quips and medical promos from a vintage page. It features warnings about romance and propriety, sales pitches for De Witt’s Little Early Risers and One Minute Cough Cure, and endorsements of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and English Spavin Liniment. Names include F H Dixson and Morris & Mullen.
Catalog shows numerous titles and authors across fiction and nonfiction including Paris by Richard Harding Davis and Okefenoke In The by Louis Pendleton. A matrimonial notice records the marriage of Albert Brightman and Laura Wilkinson on November 14, 1895, in New York with related transportation ad to Nickel Plate Road offering low rates and through sleeping car service between major cities.
Advertisement claims exclusive low prices on a range of fabrics and garments including 28 inch outing flannel at 7 cents, 38 inch novelty dress goods at 25 cents, silk fabrics at 25 cents to $1.80, brown cloaking at 1.80, and discounted hosiery underwear blankets and quilts, asserting no rival matches these deals.
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