16 Oct 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1889
Page
1
A vivid domestic scene unfolds with Uriah and Mammy facing infidelity rumors, a hostile early morning exodus of boarders, and a near divorce that becomes a renewed reconciliation. The tale spans jealousy, social pressure, and a renewed marriage as they weather the scandal.
A detailed roster lists public offices and incumbents in Warren County Pennsylvania including Congressman L F Watson State Senator O Allen Assembly C C Thompson President Judge W D Brown Associate Judges J T Barker and C C Merritt Sheriff Henry Fuellhart Prothonotary D A Arird Register and Recorder S H Briggs Treasurer Geo F Yates County Commissioners Phil N Robinson Joseph Clinton and H T Russell Clerk C H Meacham Surveyor D F A Wheelock Coroner Dr F W Whitcomb District Attorney J W Dunkle Auditors O J Gunning A E Pelton Thomas Mooney County Supt H M Putnam all based in Warren and surrounding towns.
A survey of extraordinary feats and products from around the world and the United States. Items include a 17 foot rose bush in Wallula Washington territory, a 700 pound Swiss cheese in Atchison, 21 pound 15 potatoes from Wetzel County, a giant Italian cruiser engine, a massive Paris lathe, a 2,207 pound single sheet of paper from Watertown New York, and a vast Glasgow News advertisement carved on a hillside.
A classroom diary notes daily geography lessons, math struggles with dividends and fractions, spelling attempts, and weekly compositions. The writer mentions South Africa travel, future plans to move north, a defeat in battle, and a liking for French lessons taught by a gentleman teacher from Harper's Magazine.
A collection of maxims on diligence and prudence. Each line offers advice on wealth, work, thrift, honesty, and time management, highlighting the consequences of idleness, debt, and neglect. The verses emphasize careful conduct, perseverance, and prudent budgeting to avoid ruin.
Nancy Pottleton and her husband Uriah run a summer boarding venture at Stopover. They advertise selective boarders, face growing work and finances, and clash when city guests arrive with demands for tennis ground and social polish. Uriah pledges effort while Nancy recalls their earlier simple life.
A Cass avenue mistress learns her cook's new beau is a German who revealed his intentions last night and plans to marry in the fall. The exchange underscores a surprising engagement set for autumn.
A humorous note suggests adopting the pansy as national flower, claiming it indicates the origin of the species in reference to chimpanzees. The remark plays on symbolism and biological lineage in lighthearted fashion.
Rev Father J N Strassmaier reports on Babylonian tablets in the British Museum from Nabonidus to Cyrus era. Documents cover sales, notes, mortgages, wills, marriages, dower deeds, tithe books and temple accounts. The Egibi banking firm features prominently in these records.
A merchant tries to sell a wooden refrigerator to a woman and brags about its virtues. The woman worries the appliance will alter the taste of food. The dealer responds with a humorous claim that the taste will all be removed from the food.
A collage of aphorisms and quotes on wisdom, conversation, restraint, and study from sources like Somerville Journal Swift and N Y Ledger. It urges honest conscience, prudent speech, and diligent learning while warning against idle pursuing of pleasure and chasing fashionable trends.
A shipment described to Bangkok shows eighteen pairs ordered by the Queen of Siam. Each pair is plush and distinct in color and decoration, including electric blue with rose embroidery, amber plush, crimson with beadwork, and beaded French kid. Oxford shape shoes feature matched laces and bespoke dyeing for rare colors.
Practical advice on mending torn leaves with tissue, removing shine from fabrics with tea and coffee, lining pans for fruit desserts, and making sauces and preserves. Also notes on wheat flour, floor cleaning, glass jars, framing protection, knife care, and a pain relief remedy. Includes a sugar cake recipe and instructions for canning fruit jars.
The article reports Pasteur's claim that rabies is never spontaneous and is always transmitted by a microbe. It notes a German inventor's incandescent lamp for inspecting a boiler under steam, muses on higher male mortality from growth demands, and cites hopes for eradicating harmful insects by artificial means. Additional items cover phonograph use in auscultation, water safety, a French shell cartridge novelty, two royal scientists, cyclone cloud behavior, rapid brain growth, nerve cell renewal, and comet orbits near the sun.
The Mail Job Office showcases a well supplied pressure of power presses and type for first class job printing at low prices. Blanks of all kinds are kept on hand or printed to order. Subscribers can identify their issue by the date opposite each address. Communications from all parts of the county and country are requested, though anonymous articles will not be published.
A collection of light humorous snippets from old papers. Bits about weather, literature, a mouse in milk turning into butter, a census gag with a three and a half year old, a nose joke at tea, and a servant overheard as a mistress complains after pudding.
A collection of rustic sayings in a regional dialect offering practical wisdom. It mixes rural humor with cautionary lines about honesty patience and practical smarts, highlighting everyday common sense drawn from farm and town life.
Albany Times reports Sam Jones in Round Lake recounts a woman confessing to spreading small neighborly scandals. A priest assigns as penance sowing thistle seeds and recalls the sin cannot be recalled. editors and readers are urged to remember the lesson about calumny.
A compilation of riddle style questions and humorous quips. The items include wordplay on topics like theft, weather, astronomy, and morality with punchlines referencing biblical figures, London porter, and other cultural touchstones.
The local paper serves as a community hub informing on church and court schedules, school needs, marriages, births, illnesses, and deaths. It promotes public enterprises, supports good schools and law, and cheers prosperity while welcoming newcomers and boosting local business.
A promotional notice praising Electric Bitters as a life changing tonic and remedy for kidney liver and stomach ailments. It credits the health restoration to the treatment and urges use, listing Merck Drug Store as a seller and noting 50 cents to 1 dollar pricing. It also recommends Ayer’s Pills for indigestion and related issues as a trusted laxative advised by physicians.
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