County Letters Notice to Correspondents
Notice requires all copy to be in by week end and signed by the writer. Names will not be published unless requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1909
Page
8
Notice requires all copy to be in by week end and signed by the writer. Names will not be published unless requested. Do not write on both sides of the paper.
Mrs. Nelson J. Ault visited her mother Mrs. N P Starrett at W J Metzger’s home after a social week. Carl Myers returned from six months in Washington D C. T C Siggins opened a meat market in the old Carl Horn shop. Peter Swanson plans steady winter operation. John Harrington led local hunting with 11 rabbits and several squirrels. Potatoes pay off for farmers. Andrew Mowers yields 500 bushels of oversized potatoes. Clyde Parshall, now with an artificial eye, returns to work on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Deer were secured nearby Thompson’s Station, while a large black bear remains elusive.
Columbus news notes Thanksgiving services at the church Thursday at 7 30 PM and school closings for the Thanksgiving vacation continuing through Wednesday night. Local residents Anna Ayer teaches in the Primary, Miss Morrison sick at home, and several residents travel or visit others in Pittsburg Erie Union City Dunkirk N Y Sheffield Corry and New Castle. Committees prepare for the Cemetery Association elcazar sale December 8 9 10. donations urged next week.
Discussion contrasts general intellectual development with specialized professional training in college. It argues learning cannot be fully imparted in four years and questions whether college should cultivate mental discipline or prepare for a specific vocation. The excerpt includes Woodrow Wilson’s essay and social guidance on courtesy between genders.
A humorous old column questions strict social rules for women and men. It notes no fixed age for a girl to be "brought out" while men seem free to change status. It jokes about walking beside a lady, tipping hats, entering houses, goodbyes, kissing, cigars, and arguments with tongue firmly in cheek.
The article argues New York progresses under Tammany influence but urges continued improvements via better administration. It cites schools tenement laws street cleaning health and police as areas where rational management and fusion reforms could yield social gains without revolutions.
Excerpt from The Point of View in November Scribner condemns reading modern novels as a guilty pleasure. The author recalls a six month ban on reading and describes wandering through a gallery of distinctive literary characters as if dissecting familiar figures like Maggie Tulliver and David Copperfield and likens plot to a vivisection of earlier works.
The article shares a London prize winning English plum pudding recipe from The New Idea Woman's Magazine for December. It lists ingredients including raisins, currants, suet, breadcrumbs, flour, brown sugar, lemon rind, nutmeg, eggs, and candied peel, with detailed mixing and boiling instructions and a traditional stir for luck.
From Woodrow Wilson's What is a College For published in Scribner November issue, the excerpt argues that colleges have become teaching machines. It notes undergraduates dominate life outside class, shaping the university while faculty influence weakens. Leadership and initiative decline among students as a result.
Public documents on farming gardening and fruit culture are available at the newspaper office for subscribers. Included are Annual Report Pa State College Report Orchard Demonstrations and other works by noted authors from Pa Dept of Agriculture and Pa State College focusing on plant pest treatment lime sulphur butter study.
The column rails at King Alfonso and Spain, mocks a stingless bee as a molly coddle, and notes Crane confusing open mouth with open door policy. It recalls Taft in Texas, criticizes a surreptitious pursuit of the Pole, praises Walter Wellman, and announces Wilbur Wright’s aviation school.
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