09 Sep 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1871
Page
1
Poem by T Palgrave reflects on motherhood and children facing hardship and hope. It contrasts present care with future suffering and urges endurance, faith, and trust in divine love guiding the young. The speaker notes stern realities yet ends with reassurance that only divine love endures.
A playful verse recounts a young man trying to kiss Evangeline and Maude. Each maiden blushes or smiles, yet both consent in turn as he advances, exchanging shy refusals for eventual embraces in a lighthearted romantic moment.
A widow recalls a chilling Christmas Eve voyage and a signal by an one eyed conductor that warned of danger ahead. Two years later a return journey yields a sighting of the same man who had died fifteen months before, prompting a tale of fate and spectral warning that ends with a fatal train wreck near The Gap.
An Indian juggler performs a stage trick with a basket and a plant. The narrator examines the setup and is astonished as the plant seemingly grows, then a companion produces silks, decanter stoppers, shells, a spinning top, a fire jet, and more from a hidden display.
A. A. Freeman recounts a tale from J. B. Maxey at Bell's Depot of a white faced creature with mossy head and long neck seen in Forked Deer river while fishing July 7. Others, including Thomas Neal and James Neal, corroborate sightings near the same site over years. The report appears in Brownsville States with ritual penance in New Bedford streets for a missing husband.
New York State leads a dairy cooperative movement with over nine hundred factories milking a quarter of a million cows. The system yields about 100 million pounds of cheese annually and exports totaled 57 million pounds last year, signaling a shift to highquality, factorybased production.
The Toledo Blade notes Dr. J W Morton of Nash ville and Rev. Fountain E Pitts have successfully grown opium poppies in Tennessee. Morton plans to harvest fifty to seventy five pounds per acre after importing Smyrna and Calcutta seeds. Pitts reports three years of trial yielding Smyrna seed with a similar process and notes opium’s medical role and risks.
A descriptive sketch of Dutch homes showing a large top floor laundry, seasonal linen storage, and twice yearly town and country gaturnalia. It notes vast baskets for soiled items, roof pulleys to lift heavy loads, and women finishing garments by mangling ironing starch and crimping. The piece stresses the high initial linen outlay but cost efficiency of washing in situ.
Dr Moreau Morris of New York discusses Dr H. Sanitary Care of Contagious Diseases. He covers two disinfectant groups, including carbolic acid and chloride of lime, their uses and preparations, and notes the Metropolitan Disinfecting Fluid. He also cites Magendie on diet and the need for varied nutrition and cooking methods for health.
In Oliver Optic's Magazine an article explains that bubbles in boiling water are filled with steam not air, and that the white cloud from a kettle is watery vapor. It describes how water at 212 degrees Fahrenheit turns to steam, expanding nearly two thousand times in volume, causing vigorous boiling.
The superintendent of a new San Francisco silk goods company with broad experience in silk production in China, Japan, France, and Italy claims native silk received so far exceeds the products of those nations. He says it is stronger, finer, and more lustrous than imported Chinese and Japanese silk.
A Pall Mall Gazette item profiles Wilhelm von Humboldt’s eldest son once named after his father. He inherited Ottmachau estate in Silesia but spent roughly twenty years bedridden despite good health, dying in Berlin and buried at Regel.
A wide range of items from chimney corner humor to local curiosities. Topics include Berlin life insurers, Hammerfest publishing, fashion trends, a cow in Waupun, Mormon progress, boiler safety jokes, a Massachusetts church incident, San Francisco wealth lists, an Elgin watchmaker injury, a list of married wives, Joaquin Miller recollections, French Chicago shipping links, an orangutan in Gatesville, hydrophobia prevention quip, California woodpecker store, Paducah mill fire near miss, and barrel poisoning concerns in Chicago mills.
A farmer near Murfreesboro Tennessee watched a cat stalk and taunt a foot to two foot snake. The snake struck but the cat repeatedly kicked with its paw delivering blows. After about four exchanges the snake retreated but did not survive the field.
A teamster’s horses vanished for eleven days after being turned out at night. One horse was found dead at a river bank, with the mate guarding the body for eleven days, suggesting the mare fell and the remaining horse stood by.
The advertisement page highlights several excellent schools and colleges targeting parents and students. It signals opportunities for enrollment and education options in the community.
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