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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1885
Page
4
An irregular poem passage presents maritime imagery and dreamlike verse. It weaves references to ships, islands, and distant names such as Cadiz, Madras, and St. John, portraying sea journeys, peril, and longing across a global horizon.
Practical farming notes describe wind resistant hay and grain stacks with centered, high cores and careful tramping, plus a method using a pole and top coverage to secure grain stacks. It also covers hog cholera, its spread, and farmer practices, and ends with tips on prairie tree planting from cuttings, mulch, and weed control.
Rob ert Douglass, a veteran of forestry and tree culture, states oaks are creeping into West prairies and colonizing uncultivated grounds where soil and climate suit them. He cites their tap root as key to steady advance, claiming extensive progress over forty years and predicting eventual continental domination if conditions remain favorable.
A 30 year view notes hogs once seen as least disease prone now show higher mortality than other domestic animals. Authors discuss early slaughter, the resilience of young hogs after weaning, and the pig’s readiness to eat varied liquids and swill as substitutes for maternal milk.
The New York State and Express reports on Yale President Porter and Prof. George P. Fisher urging a pronunciation reform in Webster's dictionary. They argue the flat American "a" sound is inferior to the short broad Italian "ta" as used in "can't" and advocate adopting the nobler vowel in pronunciation.
Article outlines the scale of provisioning for passengers and crew on large ocean steamers. It lists hundreds of pounds of butter ham biscuits and desserts, large quantities of dried beans rice onions potatoes flour eggs and other supplies. Fresh meat and game are typically supplied at each port making exact totals hard to estimate.
Naturalist Dr. C. C. Abbott found a box tortoise on his Trenton New Jersey farm. The under shell shows his grandfather J. Abbott engraved with the date 1821. The tortoise’s aged appearance suggests the engraving may be sixty four years old.
This notice sets November 3 1885 election hours 7 A M to 7 P M across Warren County districts to select State Treasurer Associate Judge Sheriff Prothonotary Coroner with listed polling places in Warren Youngsville Columbus Tidioute Clarendon Conewango Elk Mead Pleasant Sheffield Pine Grove Freehold Columbus Broken Straw Spring Creek Deerfield Kinzua Limestone South West Eldred Glade Sugar Grove Corydon Pittsfield Cherry Grove Farmington Triumph Watson. It also presents the 1867 act authorizing ticket voting labeled Judiciary State County and explains duties of inspectors and judges including vacancy rules.
A brief transit update notes departures from Clarendon and Corwen with stops at Underwood McCalmont and Wood's Mill, East Branch Junction Garfield arr.
An OCR fragment lists stations North Stations No2 No4 No6 with times and names such as Warren Sheffield Gilson Barnes Donaldson Martin Brookston Thompson and Foxburg. Mentions Pittburgh area and P. I. at Sheffield with references to June and a timetable style, showing arrivals departures and place names.
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