08 Sep 1874
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1874
Page
1
Rebecca Bates and Sarah Winsor climb Scituate Light and beat a drum to rally villagers as a British warship threats their harbor. The two girls marshal a defense, prompting boats to abandon burning sloop and British retreat along the coast.
Listing of services for Presbyterian Methodist Episcopal Evangelical Luthern Catholic and Scandinavian churches. Times include morning and evening worship with Sabbath School sessions and monthly/weekly patterns where stated. Names of pastors and occasional notes on services appear for each denomination.
A ship weighed anchor and fired no shots as darkness fell. The vessel drew near a beach where girls dropped a drum and set fire, laughing as a white water fountain leaped from a short round shot. The ship then sailed away, and Rebecca, aged yet spirited, affirmed the tale as true.
A humorous tale of Cooley at a Smith’s tea party failing to guess a riddle about a druggist and a viol in cellar. He later claims the joke is the answer. The piece shifts to Adeler’s misadventures with grape culture as neighbors advise watering, soap suds, trellises, and pruning before a nurseryman identifies the plant as a Virginia creeper.
Hannah Jane Wood of Reynoldsville writes to the Watkins Express denying claims of leaving her husband’s bed and board. She accuses Milton Wood of chronic drunkenness neglecting his family and laments whiskey's wreckage on homes and wives.
A Logansport Pharos item offers pithy cautions on daily virtue. It mocks clinging to old beliefs and urges action in simple duties. It lampoons pretension and asks readers to be practical about life, work, and kindness. The quip style blends humor with moral instruction.
Twenty two undergraduates serve as waiters at the Glen House in the White Mountains receiving twenty five dollars monthly plus board. They are mostly sons of farmers and prefer this work to the Granger's daily duties.
A reflection on male reverence for women likened to religious feeling. It considers love as a force surpassing object, merging past and present joy, and compares woman’s beauty to music that stirs core humanity. The piece also notes how beauty can blind moral insight.
Three boys tried to break up a bumble bee nest near a railroad. Bees swarmed as the youths ran. One boy fell onto the iron rail, tearing a hole in his pants and getting stung repeatedly. He will not sit comfortably for a fortnight. The others suffered large ear swellings from the stings.
An Irish newspaper prints an ad offering long-tailed horses at 3s 6d weekly and short-tailed horses at 3s weekly. The reason for the price gap is that long-tailed horses can brush flies while eating, whereas short-tailed horses must lift their heads from the manger.
A German in New York replies to a question about sourkrout for winter by saying he has little, just over ten barrels, "shust for sickness."
A collage of witty sayings, brief quips, and anecdotes appears, touching temperance, marriage, farming, and sayings from and about newspapers. The items reference historical names, regions, and Irish and Scottish humor alongside a note on teacher and voter literacy in Missouri and Florida.
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