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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1884
Page
3
The Warren issue lists community events and civic notes for Thanksgiving week. It highlights dances, balls, concerts, church services, charity drives, fairs, and temperance events, with details on venues, dates, and local figures. It also mentions weather, gas supply issues, local arrests, and plans for next year’s encampment sites.
Al Davis travels to New York for new goods. Judge Brown held court in Smethport. W S Leffard and wife visiting Ohio. Miss Cora Allen visits Mrs J B Allen in Jamestown. J T Martin seen in town from Pittsfield. James Davis visits Artist Greaves' family in Warren. Mrs L R Freeman returns home from Franklin. M W Hull moves to Reno with daughter Nettie. Harry Kuhn runs a skating rink in Johnstown. Warren county youths excel at skating and other vocations. Mrs S Carver remains ill though slightly better. J H Spencer elected secretary treasurer of Independence Water Co in Kansas. J W Albrecht becomes American Express agent in Warren. Hon Geo R Starr of Erie visits, as trustee, at State Hospital for the Insane. Lydia Hinckle ill but back at work. Al Hall of Oil City, famed baseball player, dies in Warren State Hospital. Mrs Patience Harmon gravely ill, over 70. son George also ill. W B Meredith of Kittanning visits for water works concerns. Meredith elected senator by large majority. J M Siegfried and J H Hull take over Darling’s drug store in Sheffield, new stock, Hull in charge. Stephen Carver of Warren dies at 83. long-time businessman and builder buried after widowhood. Miner Curtis of Warren dies at 74. lived here since childhood, later moved to Chautauqua. funeral and interment in Warren.
Mrs. J M Davies secretary reports to the Warren organization detailing 12 relief cases and donations of clothing food and household items. The note thanks the City Council newspapers visiting committees and citizens for aid and emphasizes patience perseverance and community uplift.
A. A. Davis & Co. advertises store rugs and food at very low prices. O. H. Hunter & Son promotes a vast stock of clothing, hats, caps, and furnishing goods with many jerseys just opened in stock to make room for new styles. The ad cites Robert Allen and Geo. Ball in urging shoppers to visit for bargains.
R G Chase & Co invites job canvassers and praises its reputation while A A Davis & Co markets fine stationery. An immense underwear stock arrives this week with scarlet and white items priced from 1 and 15 cents. Geo Ball advertises a clothing and furnishing sale. Hus Cough Cure priced at 25 cents. Johnson and Siegfried promote job printing. Wendlebee makes custom window shades.
Den Thompson’s second Warren appearance as Uncle Josh Whitcomb drew the season’s largest crowd, praised for a strong performance and robust orchestra. Magg’s Landing is slated next Thursday Thanksgiving night with Miss Frances Bishop in the lead, receiving favorable notices from the New York Express for its lively, humorous plot and strong scenery.
The column notes a postponed children's masquerade at the rink and a schedule of music and skating sessions. It highlights prizes for candy from recent events, complaints about outdoor ice skating risks, local sales from Warren merchants, newly introduced hearse, and various village updates including schools, incidents, and politics.
Glade City continues steady oil operations as most wells pump to drain porous rock. Hillside wells outperform river wells due to more undrilled territory. Despite a shrinking district, average per well profit remains healthy. Local businesses grow with Willey’s hotel nearing opening and Pierce planning December 1. River bridge gains three stone piers improving resilience to floods and ice.
An advertisement touts the Glide Cigar as a good smoke free from poisonous flavors and asserts it is the best five cent cigar. It urges readers to call for it and buy from all dealers.
To save money and get No 1 stock visit Coolihan's on Second Street near Liberty. Readily available are select oysters and oyster crackers, pickles, pigs feet, eating and cooking apples, oranges, lemons, bananas, white grapes and icc. Sweet cider is highlighted as unbeatable.
The Philadelphia and Erie Railway puts tickets on sale to Butler Pennsylvania with connections through Corry and Shenango. Two trains daily depart Warren at 7 49 a m and 12 06 p m arriving Butler at 2 20 p m and 7 12 p m.
C W Sersall invites patrons to view a sales list featuring New Nuts such as Grenoble walnuts pecans brazils filberts and cocoanuts New Raisins Ondara Valencia muscatel and London layers Figs Eleme Smyrna and London layers Dates Persian and black Oranges Jamaica and Florida Mesina lemons onions Apples Baldwins Greenings Rice pop corn and related products Oysters olives pickles sardines salmon canned vegetables and more A wide array of confectionery and Christmas ornaments plus cigars from one dollar a box Prices claimed to be as low as possible. Scofield block Warren Pa. C W SERSALL
The Bell Bros store announces a fresh arrival of knit hoods described as the finest lot in town. Fans of warm headwear are urged to visit and inspect the new stock.
A woman agent is sought in every city and village to travel and solicit orders for Madame Wood's Corsets and Corded Corset Waists. Agents earn from twenty to fifty dollars weekly. Request circulars and price list from B. Wood at 64 South Salina Street, Syracuse, New York.
A fragment notes conditions at the Mart job rooms with emphasis on low levels. The text lacks clear subjects or events to identify a specific outcome or date.
R. H. Jounson offers cash for bags and rubbish free items plus brass copper lead zinc rubber shoes and related materials delivered to room No. 8 at Johnson's Exchange. Payments made in cash.
A. A. Davis & Co. touts the best line of wall paper and ceiling decorations in Warren and mentions job printing as a specialty at the mat office.
Nov 24 item describes Bear Lake near parallel hills with drainage and scenic value, a town of about 500 with two churches and multiple shops, loss from a large mill fire insured at about 1,000 and under rebuilding discussion. Fires blamed on incendiaries. school opens under Thorpe and Miss Dowd. Reports from Vox Barnes detail local incidents and missing youths.
M Dunham built a new platform before his storehouse and added a new roof and repairs. The Enterprise church has been painted by D Bartholomew. O H Wantep notes savings on Boots and Shoes at NortHROP's and Furnishing Goods at Geo Ball's.
Jacob Keller the Tailor promotes a vast cloth stock both imported and domestic ready to be made into suits with a guaranteed good fit. He boasts skilled workmen and latest styles and invites customers to visit rooms on Second street near Liberty. Also sample confectionery and a refund offer on Acker's Blood Elixir if it fails to relieve skin or blood disorders.
The Times of Philadelphia reports thousands without work in Manayunk Richmond and Kensington as mills close. Proprieties cite inability to manufacture and sell at current prices and wage levels, leading to widespread shutdowns across these districts. A Lancaster crematory opens, salt water damages Pittsburg wells, and tobacco shipments move to San Francisco. The highest Pennsylvania point is Kersey's Ridge Summit at 2843 feet. Letter-carrier counts for cities with free delivery are listed, and tobacco: seventeen carloads shipped from Lancaster to San Francisco.
The Dunirk Journal notes Tay lor of Silver Creek sold turkeys on political bets with conditions tied to Blaine or Cleveland outcomes, expecting to profit after November. The Jamestown Standard reports Joseph J. Conet of Ellington charging fifty cents a pound for butter by the tub, a spike tied to political expectations.
The item describes bets in Bridgeport and Warsaw with comical penalties such as shaving whiskers and dressing in white paint, plus a kazoo band. It also notes a North Java eater of mince pies seven eggs and milk, plus a public church step shirt change. A Warren Fire Department condolence resolution honors Albert G. Hertzel. Also listed are a Market street boarding house sale, a cough cure ad, and parlor coal stores at cost.
In Columbus on November 18 1884 Rev J W Wilson united Dr Robert C Clark and Miss Cora A Dean both of Columbus Pa in marriage.
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