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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1850
Page
1
The Warren Mail announces editor E Cowan and terms for subscribers. Annual prepaid price is 14, with 82 00 within the year and 50 cents extra for residence delivery. Discontinuation only after all arrears, publisher's option. Trans or advertising costs listed as one square for three insertions at 1 and 25 cents for each further insertion.
A rejected verse celebrates Columbia as a land of free minds and vigorous youth. It extols republican virtue over birthright, honors labor as nobility, and envisions national power spreading like an eagle’s wing while promising peace and prosperity at home and abroad.
A Warren Mail short sermon argues that anger can be justified only under strict rules. It outlines injury, intention, penance, and reparative steps before anger, urging mercy, forgiveness, and the open air cure for anger.
A family debates fashion and Scripture texts at church while their father rebukes indifference. A seafaring scene follows with a shark scare and a dramatic near-drowning rescue of two sailors, including a black crewman, ending with a warning never to bathe at sea again. The page also notes a humorous omnibus incident and a scientific discussion on river falls and rapids in the Jordan.
During the winter of 1837 a religious revival unfolds in an Ontario county town. A note signed anonymously seeks prayers for an anxious person, who confesses and seeks guidance but insists on a “more excellent way.” The minister teaches that belief here and now brings salvation, and the man finds peace after kneeling in prayer. The piece urges humility, warns that wisdom without faith hinders grace, and reflects on time’s swift flight toward judgment.
A writer in the English Mechanics' Magazine envisions a global electric telegraph network after a successful Dover to Clais underwater wire. He argues telegraphs could reach Vienna Moscow Constantinople Ispahan Delhi Calcutta and extend across Europe and Asia guiding future diplomacy and wartime alerts. He recalls Lord Palmerston’s 1850s remark about a minister telegraphing for war news.
A visionary note from 1843 to 1850 predicting electro telegraphy will cross the Irish Sea, connect the Old and New Worlds, and shrink time and distance to a clock’s beat. The author imagines world-wide links, potential interplanetary telegraphy, and the era’s faith in gradual technical triumph.
A reflective piece contrasts memory and mortality with a midnight mind touching ages. It recounts a German saying about prosperity and a carpenter and surgeon who talk of ripe corn as a fire starts, then the carpenter breaks his arm while the surgeon notes the corn is ripe.
A 19th century fragment presents Dr West guidance on life rules, interwoven with a harrowing Pittsburg area crime note. The text recounts cholera era cat migrations near Harper's Ferry, a broke infidel quip to a girl, Solon on laws, and ends with a brutal murder at a tavern near Pittsburgh, detailing the killer’s bloodied appearance and the coroner’s jury.
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