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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1878
Page
4
Edison Among Operators at Western Union Office
Thomas Edison visits the Western Union Telegraph Company in Virginia City and joins the office crew as peers. He examines the instruments, corrects minor faults, and writes a 130 word dispatch in a flawless copperplate hand, while sharing jokes and banter with the staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Edison
Western Union Telegraph Company
Graphy
Electricians
Edison
Virginia City Chronicle
Wilmington's claim of best organized telephone system cited
The article notes Wilmington and Erie adopting a switchboard exchange with about thirty five telephones in Wilmington and one hundred subscribers in Erie paying $24 yearly for telephonic communication. It includes social jabs about marriage and a prison dress remark on Blackwell's Island plus a note that Coal Oil Johnny, Johnny Steel, is working as a grocery clerk in Dennison Iowa at age thirty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Erie
District Telegraph Company
New York
Blackwell's Island
Johnny Steel
Johnny
Dennison
Iowa
Caspian Sea
Virginia
Buffalo Express
Dayton
Warren
Dr. King's New Discovery Promotion Claims Cure All
The ad touts Dr. King's New Discovery as curing consumption and lung diseases including coughs bronchitis asthma and throat ailments. It claims wide physician endorsement journal recommendation clergy and press praise and offers a free trial bottle or a $1 regular bottle through Morck & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Morck & Co
Warren
Vast Cotton Crop and Curiosities From 19th Century Notes
A compilation of varied items notes a booming cotton crop vs 1877, large Great Lakes area, and remarks on tobacco use and butter prices. It includes anecdotes on editors, scholars like Lyman Coleman, Moody and Edison, plus social manners and stray tips such as a dog handling adage and flax seed remedy for railway soot. The piece blends science, humor, and public notices with brief society sketches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes of America
Minnesota
Elmira Gazette
Jeff. Davis
Ned
W.L. Alden
New York Times
Italy
Oldham
Ireland
Grant
Lyman Coleman
Lafayette College
Easton
America
Yale
Moody
Baltimore
Sankey
Europe
Edison
Association For the Advancement of Science
St. Louis
Manchester
Alcott
Concord
Mass
Paint Durability By Season On Exterior Surfaces
The article notes autumn or winter paint jobs last twice as long as early summer applications because slow drying creates a glazed surface resistant to weathering. Hot weather dries oilfast, causing lead to crumble, but can be mitigated with raw oil at higher cost. Cold painting also avoids flies, yet dust adhesion remains a problem until paint dries.
Feeding Layers vs Breeders in Poultry Keeping
The article explains that layer feeding aims for maximum egg output rather than hatchable quality. It notes using last year’s hatch pallets, feeding rich food, and red pepper as a stimulant to restart laying. It argues killing hens after a year is more profitable than feeding through molting to maintain top laying.
Rake Sale Leads to Illicit Grain Barter
A neighbor was visited by an agent who offered a wheel rake in exchange for grain as payment. The farmer agreed hoping to avoid buying. In fall he paid cash to keep the rake and the grain harvested was worth about twice the rake’s price in one season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Photographs Show Trotting Horse Off Ground At Two-Minute Gait
An apparatus costing $2,000 used in San Francisco photographed a trotting horse at successive stride points with a row of cameras electrified above a track. The images reveal the horse’s feet left the ground simultaneously twice per stride, challenging turfman belief. Annie E Dickinson remarks on illness, comedy, tragedy, and upcoming city visit, noting her ongoing busyness.
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San Francisco
Annie E. Dickinson
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