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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
4
J A Edgerton of Boston Budget presents a romantic verse imagining cosmic pairings. The speaker likens longing to the moon and sea, a mortal to a bird, and the sun to a violet, expressing yearning and dreamlike devotion across celestial and natural images.
A fifty year old chronicle recalls Godfrey Warren who suffered a severe obsession with time. After confinement with a time curer, he carved the walls to count moments and finally killed the ticking clock that ruled him, ending his life in a brutal self-inflicted act.
Susy Bess considers selling the mare Brown Bess to pay the mortgage and fund two more terms at the academy. Her brother Tom and mother balk at losing the loyal worker as Charlie urges Susy toward a life apart, while the family struggles with roof, shingles, and debts.
Susy plans to sendherself to the academy by selling Brown Bess the horse she values at a hundred dollars. A buyer offers a thousand. Delighted Susy tells her mother she will share the proceeds and agrees to marry Charlie Grant. The girl’s outlook brightens as the family faces winter.
A batch of witty lines from various papers includes a Baltimore style remark that a lover fears losing a bride to another, a Bloomington quip about girls and fools, a Cleveland humor about onions, and a cyclist retort about roses and punctures. The snippets showcase light hearted exchanges and quips.
Lord Charles Beresford argues in Pall Mall Magazine that deep Anglo American ties bind Britain and the United States. He notes shared sympathy over two to three years, surges during the Venezuelan dispute, and fears of a continental European alliance seeking to humiliate the US. He says the threat united the Anglophone world and steadied cordial ties.
A clipped street exchange notes a loud preacher in the yard after dinner. Mrs Stubb questions the speaker while Mr Stubb suspects a local after-dinner orator, likely from the town.
A collection of observations notes fashion in letters sealing blocks on back folds. An English geologist traces electric letters by touch on a blanket atop a Hawaiian volcano. Berlin plans artisan lectures and model workshops followed by a note on tree cutting in Thiergarten. Alfred Lyttleton praised for versatility in sports and public life.
Miss Isibell Miller of New Providence Calloway County Kentucky suffered frequent periods heavy bleeding fainting fits and lasting cramps. After taking six bottles of Favorite Prescription and five of Pellets she regained strength and reports no return of her illness.
A rapid tour notes Jerusalem as a shadow of ancient grandeur with three mile circumference, describes Bank of England entrances, Peking towers, and Coutts etiquette, plus travels in Australia and a Belfast pocketbook linked to 1756 battle. A Lewiston clock reacts to passage of people and horse steps, a unique Maori mat of kiwi feathers sells in London for 30 guineas destined for the Natural History museum.
A compilation of curious facts cites stellar speeds of 50 miles per second the long lifespans of swans up to 300 years and falcons over 162 years a flea nickname for Fitzhugh Lee at West Point a one millionth of a second instrument based on tuning fork vibrations a prank involving a Philadelphia umbrella reading Kiss me and Mexican Mercedes Lopez with hair four feet eight inches long shedding light on extraordinary human and natural wonders and peculiar anecdotes.
A collection of curiosities notes steel use in pens exceeds that in swords and guns worldwide. It claims 100 million people lived in America before Columbus. It mentions Chinese cities lacking night lights except from homes, the Sahara's size, Russian imperial assassinations, doll shoe imports, marching step rates, and explains fusil as the old flintlock name for fusils.
Roderick Chu Smith, who journeyed to the Klondike, claims Alaska’s cold transformed his bald scalp into a lion’s mane. He credits the climate and rejects hair restorers, while observer P. J. McLeod notes northern dogs grow thick coats and jokes about barbering needs among locals.
The text lists weather indicators from red westerly sun halos to rainbow timing, swallows flying height, halos around the moon, coppery sunsets, and seabird behavior. It explains how these folk signals align with coming rain or fair weather and notes animal migrations as weather cues.
The article notes New Zealand has 42 000 Maoris and 626 000 whites. It estimates 350 000 sheep within 100 miles of Belle Fourche South Carolina yielding 2 000 000 pounds of wool annually. It recalls Admiral Schley aboard the Niagara in 1859 bearing back to Japan the embassy visiting Commodore Perry. It adds Cannes electric trams are suppressed by a government decree amid accident concerns.
Stuyvesant Fish hires architect Francis Bacon to remodel Glen Clyffe on the Hudson. Two plans from C. Vaux mirror each other across 2000 miles and two years apart. The uncanny coincidence fuels questions about a ghostly joke.
A quiet country home named The Evergreens sits at a road crossing with a large yard and abundant trees. Red squirrels roam the woods and courtship with the house as they leap among pines maples and walnuts. The narrator notes daily nut gathering, hiding, and playful antics of the brave rodents.
An Illinois man from a central town, after failing a spelling test at a Civil Service exam in Washington, later became a lieutenant in an Illinois regiment and served in Manila. He impressed by being physically imposing but faltered on spelling and other topics.
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