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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
4
An old veteran related a tale of he and his brother serving in a battery. The brother secretly tunneled behind lines, loaded a shell with a message, and fired it to deliver crucial information to the general. The plan helped win a battle but cost the brother his life.
A new insurance model insures lost or missing dogs. The company registers each dog with full description, issues a wearable tag, and maintains pounds staff to release dogs bearing its tag and the city license. Detectives trace missing dogs and volunteers report found dogs bearing the tag.
A collection of humorous lines on love and relationships. Witty observations note a woman’s talk adds to speech, a man’s one love may have experimented, money speaking loudly, doctors disagreeing, a baby carriage motor causing trouble, creditors driving literacy, sea serpents in drug stores, and insomnia when waking late.
Great numbers of old pneumatic tires return to dealers as a firm handles over 100000 tons annually. They are sent to rubber reclaiming factories where rubber is reclaimed by specific processes. Last year overshoes imported from Germany totaled over 1900 tons for this purpose.
A column wistfully argues for balconies in apartments as a humanizing feature. It cites playful balcony scenes in literature and notes Munster Westphalia's balcony tax while recalling Maenius in ancient Rome who built a balcony to watch the censors.
A compilation notes diverse facts: a German claim on brain neuron count. Zola's early earnings of 80 and later 30000 for L Assommoir. Austria's colonial absence. Oregon mineral outputs for 1897 and 1896. Georgia funding for a textile department at Atlanta. flags with red among 19 of 25 nations. a physician on liquor effects on singers. Commodore John Watson as Fara gut’s flag lieutenant at 19 and his actions at New Orleans and Mobile Bay.
Anxious smugglers in a Bohemian village attempt a risky return into Saxony. Their foot-warmers are drained and filled with Hungarian wine to fool guards, then revealed as overheated, prompting a jovial innkeeper’s cold water ruse.
Francis Joseph laments an American "masterly assault" on world geography, framing the debate as a clash over how maps and borders are understood and taught. William echoes the tension, highlighting broader concerns about national pride and cartographic authority.
Advice for dairymen on summer cow care and milk safety. Avoid overheating cows, keep stables cool, sterilize utensils with hot water and sun-drying after washing, aerate and chill milk within 12 hours, and use cold water to prevent taint. If no ice, wet floors and walls to cool the dairy atmosphere.
Seeded in April the first cutting may be ready by late July. Desmodium mixed with crabgrass moderates coarse stalks. Let cut grass wilt half a day then stack in layers with rails and hay so air spaces form. Stubble six inches leaves quick second growth. Second crop likely better. Baldwin fodder cutter reduces stalks to one inch. Dry, sweet hay stores well. sprinkle dusty hay for horses, not needed for cattle. Desmodium hay is more valuable than Northern hay.
The Cultivator advises placing flocks on cleared woodland to prevent regrowth of bushes and shrubs. Seeding the land to grass enables summer grazing with sheep, which trim shrubs and maintain pasture. Extra sheep fed grain improve browse digestion and thorough shrub destruction.
Readers note concerns about Dorset Horn sheep giving birth in November and lambing in May. Critics warn such timing strains stamina and overall health, with possible long term disadvantages for flock productivity and vigor.
The article advises plowing early before seeding time, preferably from July to August, to destroy weeds and pulverize the soil. It recommends deep, repeated harrowing and rolling to create a mulch, prevent evaporation, and ensure a well-prepared seed bed for fall grains. Seed should occur from September 10 to 20 using a press drill.
Ellery P. Ingham a former U S attorney and Republican leader argues the Quay case is politically motivated. He asserts the state treasurer had broad discretion over deposits and that the People's bank was reputable. no illegal conduct is proven and the deposits did not harm the state.
The record defends a clear, amply secured note loaned by the People's Bank with collateral of 126000. The bank handled deposits like any private depositor and Senator Quay’s stock purchases were routine brokered transactions. The article argues there is no proven connection between Quay and the deposit or the loan beyond his endorsement.
The Easton Free Press comments on Senator Quay's arrest relating to the People’s Bank, asserting prosecutions of this kind are usually politically driven and that real grounds would have prompted action long ago if valid.
The Rev Dr Fourthly makes a pastoral call to Mrs Billus about John Billus-Y-yes who is at home but not in a suitable frame of mind. She explains he dismantled a furnace register to repair it and is attempting to reassemble it.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer noted exchange where one speaker claims two parties struggle for control in China, while another questions how they can distinguish between the parties. The remark about Chinamen looking alike highlights a stereotyping moment.
The Atchison Globe publishes a provocative op-ed asserting society should bar women deemed as beautiful as dreams from public view, describing such figures as dangerous and monstrous and prompting calls for public policy action.
In Chicago a playful exchange explains why two wheeled hansoms are called funny looking. The joke notes drivers must balance deftly to avoid tipping horses, reflecting city humor from the era.
Metropolitan notes a joke about marriage humor where a wife thinks she grows stout and her husband blames her eating and chores. The quip suggests the honeymoon phase ends when such exchanges begin.
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