23 Oct 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1889
Page
1
Dentist Warren Pa offers artificial teeth without a plate as a specialty with gas administration. Orifice at residence on Third street, next to M B K Church.
Saturday Review notes that Empress Tsze Chi governs with strength unseen in China’s history. She stabilizes a vast population, reforms finance, curbs corruption, expands the militia, and asserts China on the world stage while Europe remains largely ignorant of her identity.
The text covers data on American Indians enrollment as church members, postal card use, and demographic estimates. It also notes origins of gunpowder, derivations of phrases, early lighting in London, literary firsts in America, and theories on American Indian origins from Asiatic and Polynesian migrations.
D Shear’s Store unveils new fall offerings featuring French dress goods with unique patterns. Prices range from 10 to 20 dollars per pattern. The cloak department highlights daily customer visits and new arrivals of 500 children and ladies garments offered at compelling prices.
The Warren County Agricultural Association holds meetings in Warren at the Court House on the last Saturday each month at 1 PM. Officers include President S. C. Evans Secretary Willis Cowan and Treasurer W. B. Acocks. All farmers are invited to attend.
Digest shows multiple trains between Erie Buffalo Philadelphia and nearby lines with times 1:45 p m 9:00 a m 11:10 a m and 6:39 p m across lines Erie Mail Erie Express and Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsb y R R noting Sunday times and connections at St Marys Oil Express and Kane Acc.
The record names town positions including Burgess and August Morck Jr as well as P. J. Bayer W. S. Leftard A. Mintzer A. D. Wood A. J. Hazeltine S. Keller L. Werle Henry P. Hunter Wm. Hegerty Jr Clerk J A Schofield Constable A S Dalrymple Surveyor Alson Rogers School Directors Chas Dinsmoor F M Knapp James Clark W J Alexander W D Hinckley Wm D McLaren Justices of the Peace Geo O Cornelius J F McPherson.
Congressman L F Watson state Senator O C Allen assembly C C Thompson president judge W D Brown associate judges J T Barker 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 H T Russell clerk C H Meacham surveyor D A Wheelock coroner F W Whitcomb district attorney J W Dunkle auditors O J Gunning A E Pelton Thomas Mooney county sept H M Putnam Warren Pa
A string of eccentric boasts and social tidbits features Prince Bismarck tea habit and a parade of figures from politics, royalty, and entertainment. It highlights Mrs. Henry Kimpaxy of Philadelphia, Nasir Epprx’s remark on Mrs. Alice Siaw, Sir Julian Goldschmid’s watch collection, Edison’s routines, and Mrs. Josrin Caamberain’s U.S. popularity in England, among others.
A montage of poems and verses from Chicago sources features seasonal musings on autumn, motherhood, shopping, faith, and memory. It presents lyrical passages by Sam T. Clover and Matilda J. Now, with reflections on aging, faith, and the approaching season, framed by period newspaper voice.
A testimonial style note claims Electric Bitters can cure dyspepsia and digestive ills and improve liver stomach and kidney disorders. It advertises 50c and 1 bottle pricing and naming Morris and Mullen as the druggists selling the product.
The piece promotes Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed cure for consumption and related coughs. It claims immediate relief for throat and lung ailments with a trial size offered free. Available from all druggists at 50 cents and one dollar.
Harper's Weekly surveys the disciplined, clockwork routine aboard ocean liners as crews prepare for weekly New World departures. It details exact timings, organized decks, mail handling, and the vast scale of provisioning for a thousand passengers, highlighting luxury and majesty of the voyage.
The Inventive Age extols the U S patent system from 1839 to 1889. It argues the patent office spurred manufacture and the arts, noting shifts from hand work to mechanized industry, and praising invention’s gain for society. It contrasts old farm life with modern industry.
The article explains wakefulness as rising from increased brain blood flow and lists causes. It notes bodily positions, mental exertion, substances like alcohol and opium, and functional brain-ward derangements. Relief requires brain relaxation and, when possible, travel or seaside visits plus a light, early dinner.
Scribner's Magazine describes the facsimile telegraph in which manuscripts, maps or pictures are transmitted by synchronized drums and ink marks. Lenoir's method outlines with insulating ink on a rotating cylinder, producing spiral traces at the receiver. The pantelegraph also links writer and distant pen movements for facsimile records.
The article notes the Philadelphia & Reading railroad record of 92 miles in 93 minutes with a 46 second mile. It cites rail accident deaths as one per 10 million riders and more deaths from falls than rail accidents. It lists the Canadian Pacific from Quebec to the Pacific, the Poughkeepsie cantilever span at 548 feet, the Kinzua viaduct at 305 feet, the Hoosac tunnel at 4.75 miles, and the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe system with about 8,000 miles of track.
Paris Letter notes a French law allowing adoption to transfer noble titles and income. The Duc de Miromesnil offered to adopt and bequeath his dukedom for a 2 000-10 000 francs annual income, but found no bidder and died in poverty. The column speculates English peers might similarly auction honors for cash.
He Saw a Resemblance. Uncle Harry, after a long Northwest residence, visits Algernon's family and judges his tennis racket. He promises to show Algy how to make snow shoes that will stand travel when cold weather comes, in a note from the Washington Capital.
A late 19th century health piece lists must have items for a girl's toilet including glass bottles of alcohol alum camphor borax ammonia glycerine or vaseline. It advises camphor wash for breath, alum for fever sores, alcohol for skin eruptions, and cautions on scented soap while recommending castile soap for hair washing.
A Beatrice Nebraska paper reports a two foot across turtle killed by a hired hand after it dragged off a pig from Indian Creek just north of Beatrice. The creature had a head as large as two hands and had been responsible for the mysterious disappearances of pigs raised by F. M. Pethoud.
The piece notes London closes drinking places at set hours with officers calling Time to enforce the rule. It mentions large cafes avoid serving after 11 30 pm on Saturdays to prevent breaches as police monitor closely. It also describes Baltimore Vermont as a small town with a sparse voter base and recounts a Kas Kansas case of a woman seizing neighbors’ children for debt.
An Austrian official touts a portable phone for trains while a Swiss inventor perfects plaster and reed boards. Britain tests nickel-on-slot public phones at corners, and an electric fire engine claims speed, lighter weight, lower cost, and no smoke. A Portland, Maine man builds a bicycle locomotive to run on an elevated single track. A London shoemaker offers cork elevator boots to make wearers appear taller.
A roundup of theater figures and fashion notes includes Bernhardt in Paris nicknamed Grandma Sarah and Edwix 8. Connor, Philadelphia actor, claims Richelieu 1 013 times. Mary Anderson popularized English shoes in the United States and several cast members, including Son Smith Russell, are profiled with anecdotes about family ties and property holdings.
A woman thought incurable by doctors weighed under seventy pounds before a scrap of wrapping paper led her to Dr. Kings New Discovery. After trying samples and full bottles she recovered. druggists offer free trial bottles at Morck Drug Store in Fort Smith.
In a Life magazine quip, Mrs. Henpeck proclaims outrage at a New Jersey case where a woman was convicted for being a common scold. Her husband dismisses the label, while Maria remains puzzled by the remark.
The Mail job office offers presses and complete printing services in first class style. Legal blanks are stocked or printed to order. Submissions from readers are welcome with a name, date on address, and brief newsy content. anonymous pieces not published.
A collage of quips from multiple papers spots line gags and wordplay about ice weight gas songs and church life. It riffs on advertising practice morals manners and small town humor with references to Georgetown Courier Terre Haute Express Dallas Texas items and local papers.
A nostalgic note traces Castoria as a trusted remedy across generations from baby to child to mother. It highlights lifelong reliance and the product as a recurring guardian in family health routines.
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