03 Oct 1888
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1888
Page
1
Crowds linger as fast moving bargains draw shoppers to D. Shear for a late Special Sale. Articles marked down spark demand with low prices, promising summer goods moving quickly. French patterns, American Satteens, white goods, gauze vests, and black silk mitts priced affordably reflect one of the season’s sharpest price cuts.
Timetables show eastward and westward trains from Warren and Sheffield, with through Pullman cars to Philadelphia, Erie, Baltimore, and Washington. Daily services include the Erie Mail and Oil Express, plus several local accommodations. Epigraphs and light humor follow the notices and editorials.
Fragmentary timetable shows multiple train numbers with scattered times across day and evening. Readable entries include No 2 and No 3 listings with several specified departures and arrivals though many digits are garbled or missing.
OCR fragment shows a sequence of listed times and stations such as Oil City Tionesta Hickory Kinzua Warren Bradford and others with AM PM markers, suggesting a regional rail or bus timetable snapshot. Details are incomplete but indicate travel times and stops across multiple towns.
Train notices show departures from Garfield with routes via Junction East Branch Wood's Mill McCallmont Underwood's Corwen and Clarendon.
Mrs Newyork jokes her husband is a Wall Street bear while Mrs Boston counters that hers is a plain domestic bear. The playful exchange highlights domestic humor and market jargon in a social chat.
Advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs as a guaranteed cure for consumption leading with a cough. It claims instant relief and cure with trial size free. Price 50c and 1.00, sold by druggists under L. G. Noyes.
A satirical verse warns that wealth never satisfies the average man. It notes endless spending and debt as income rises, ending with the idea that chasing greater riches harms happiness and even mortal rest. The quatrain laments finance-driven folly and the pitfall of perpetual striving.
Agatha West and John Beswick, both drawn to fear and fascination, navigate a shy but fatefully comic courtship. Beswick plans a grand confession, Agatha teases and then accepts, only to reveal a phonograph whispering the truth that their engagement was secretly soundtracked.
A Confederate soldier and a Tennessee woman, separated by the Civil War, reunited aboard a Cumberland Valley train. After twenty five years of letters and anticipation, they revealed their engagement in Harrisburg and planned a Philadelphia wedding to seal their long awaited bond. The moment came as the pair were recognized by a Telegram reporter in the depot.
General Sheridan's dispatches confirm Colonel Herbert Hill's accounts of the Shenandoah Valley campaign and the famed ride from Winchester to the relief of his routed army. The letters detail movements, horse switches, and actions near Mill Creek, Middle town, and Getty's division, affirming key disputed points about the Cedar Creek fight.
A Civil War era tale from Youth's Companion recounts Governor Allen of Louisiana meeting three women soldiers' mothers in Shreveport. He orders plows hoes meat sugar molasses and a well rope but notes no pigs are available. The scene shows his patience and generosity amid wartime hardship.
RANDOM SHOTS presents a tour of Civil War memory with a Grand Army Posts count in Philadelphia and a museum display of a white oak tree shell fragment from Fredericksburg. It notes a Berkshire County officer lost at Ball’s Bluff, flags the memory of generals buried in multiple cities, lists National Commandery officers led by General George B. Abbott, and reports the next session and re-election of the Ladies' Aid Society president.
A historical overview traces ear removal as a public disgrace from Edward VI statutes to Defoe and Bastwick. It notes pillory sentences, the symbolism of ear loss, and later uses in brawls and violence, with examples like Jack Slade and the described poker stake scene.
A medical note from Nate's Health Monthly warns summer readers that ice water can trigger diarrhoea and coughing. It recommends drinking water around 50 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit and suggests temperate drinks, pure water, and gradual adaptation. The piece also mentions dental effects from hot and cold drinks and contrasts ice water with moderate temperature water. It ends by describing a South Carolina school program where girls learn housekeeping in a supervised cottage for a month, tracking expenditures.
A battered diary fragment recounts a hopeful writer’s May entries about submitting verse to Harper’s Scribner’s Century Atlantic and Drake's Magazine. He notes epic cantos and comic rhymes, says poets pay little, and ends with a cliffhanger about a possible breakthrough and discovery.
The Alaska purchase from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, once derided as Seward’s folly, is praised as farsighted. The Alaska Commercial Company pays 300 thousand annually for seal fisheries, while salmon, cod, fur, gold dust, lumber and ivory add up to a six point nine five million annual commerce. Climate benefits from a warm current, and while Russia funds church schools, the U.S. allocates 25 thousand for territorial public schools.
A fragment recounts a couple rushing to catch a train as a wife misplaces gloves. It shifts to Hackney where women mend worm eaten nutmegs by grinding fine nutmeg dust and glue, paid four cents per gross. The piece also notes nickel slot machines offering a tobacco chew for a penny.
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