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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
1
Warren and Meadville area notices report legal matters and social events. R W Salsbury returns from Erie and Cleveland on legal business. marriage licenses issued. fires and thefts noted near Warren. local pastors relocate. a gas engine install and a large social fundraiser occur. public notices include jail, quaratine and barking warnings amid a mad dog scare.
Between midnight and 5 am Tuesday burglars broke into John Buck's North Warren postoffice store and stole the 600 pound safe. They moved it to the North Warren station of the D A V P railroad and blew it open. The safe held about $10, money order blanks and Buck's private papers. the papers and blanks were intact. Buck kept postage and cash elsewhere. The bandits acted with professional precision.
A McClure's feature recounts the making of a Hayro tale by G W Ogden. It centers on a section boss and his men who rescue a passenger train full of women and children, revealing the vital role of track workers in nightly rail travel.
An Atchison man and his wife resolved to start consuming the 187 quarts of peaches 47 quarts of strawberries 76 quarts of cherries and 43 quarts of plums stored last summer. They discussed facing the task for six weeks and then began by heading to the cellar to begin their meal plan.
A New York woman, married to a public figure, publishes a book urging temporary marriages ending by mutual consent or misbehavior. Divorce would be automatic and optional unless children require arrangement. The stance, linked to New York society, drawn as legalizing free love by many.
A distant warehouse scheme offers 20 mile round trip refunds on purchases of 15 dollars or more. Home buyers in Fentonville or nearby towns forming a cooperative can send a trusted neighbor to Warren as buyer, receiving a car fare refund and wholesale prices. Auction ends January 1, notes Beny A. Ball of Warren, Pa. Look for the big Black and White ad.
Jurors for December and the Traverse weeks include numerous names with occupations and towns such as Warren Eldred Mead Spring Creek Sugar Grove Tidioute and Freehold. The two weeks and broad roster cover farmers editors laborers clerks merchants and other common trades across the region.
Insurance agencies Mintzer & Co and W L Cable merge to form Mintzer Cable & Co with offices in the Warren Trust building. Ferrets advertised for sale with first class stock and price lists. Belle Shepard, Busti NY listed with sale notice dated November 29 1931.
Marriage announcements from Warren and nearby towns dated November 1906 include Kline and Groh, Clark and Peterson, Schuler and Anderson, Swain and Lapsley, Sims and Regina. The couples depart for honeymoons and report future residence details.
Marie Elizabeth Stewart four years old of 510 Water Street died November 23 1906 from stomach hemorrhages funeral held Monday at the Rev J W Smith Oakland cemetery. C B Gorman 49 died November 17 1906 Triumph township survived by two sisters interment Gorman cemetery. W Earle Langworthy 30 died November 21 1906 Emergency Hospital Warren after bowel obstruction operation.
In Warren two births are recorded. On November 20 1906 Mr and Mrs Elmer G Ander son of 319 Prospect street welcomed a daughter. On November 26 1906 Mr and Mrs Gust Olsen of Irvine street welcomed a son.
A man visiting his wife’s physician asked to buy the thermometer after a short pause, remarking to the doctor what would be paid for such a quiet instrument. The anecdote illustrates the man’s surprise at the stillness during the examination.
Hartford physician Dr. T D Crothers argues alcohol is a narcotic that quiets pain but weakens nature’s power to fight disease. He labels consumption and alcoholism as twin evils, warning many cured drinkers die of consumption or pneumonia and that alcohol predisposes to lung hemorrhages. A separate item recounts a gardener’s misidentification leads to a comic streetcar confession.
The proposition to raise the State school appropriation from $5,500,000 to $7,500,000 by the Legislature is very popular, especially in the countr districts.
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