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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1903
Page
11
A Civil War reminiscence on Dauphin's Island and Spanish Fort recounts a prank where a chaplain stole oysters, a hunter’s pursuit, a mud-hole fall, and a later reunion in Madison revealing forgiveness. The narrator reveals lasting tension and eventual understanding between the two men after years apart.
A Charleston family member of Maj. Wade Hampton Gibbes asserts his father Lt. Gibbes fired the first signal gun at Fort Sumter on April 12 1861. He recalls the battery aimed to burst a shell high, another at the fort, and a mine wired to explode, all nearly simultaneous. which shot was second remains uncertain.
In a lighthearted aside from the Chicago Daily News a reader laments misplacing a reminder. The exchange features Singleton and Wedderly debating a string around a finger meant to recall a gift for a wife.
A New York Sun profile quotes a southern university professor about the lingering loyalty to the lost cause. He recalls border state teachers teaching pro-southern narratives after the Civil War with no northern references. The piece notes how misconceptions about presidents cities rivers and capitals persisted, delaying sectional reconciliation.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a Loomis battery ex member who recalls shelling a woods near Murfreesboro. He notes huge destruction but no corpses, save one captured Confederate who asks why the shooting, and is told the war will exhaust every draft.
During the Civil War drafts in border states, a Maryland farmer’s daughter names Billy Button as a reluctant draft dodger by pointing to a donkey named Billy Button in a barn. Union officers laugh and withdraw as the donkey becomes the joke.
A pithy Milwaukee Sentinel aphorism notes that individuals craft their own legacies through their life actions and choices.
Prof. E. H. Farrington advises on practical cooling methods for dairy milk using windmill powered tanks or gasoline engines, outlining milkhouse setups with eight gallon cans, stirring, and transferring to larger cans. Emphasizes thorough cleaning and scalding of cans to prevent souring in hot months and ensures accurate testing.
The woodlot is underused and often treated for waste not profit. Proper management can transform coppice into a regular supply of merchantable timber and fuel, increasing permanent value over time. Wm. W. Hutt, Ontario Farmers' Institute.
S C Kieth argues at the National Creamery Butter Makers' association gathering in Milwaukee that bad flavors originate in poor milk handling. He urges starting with farmers, insisting butter quality depends on high milk standards and cooperation with producers to raise the standard.
A fire near Edgewood creamery in Siskiyou county California threatened the plant. Firefighters used 60 pounds of butter in the boiler to run the pump, enabling a rapid extinguishing of the blaze.
A Rural World excerpt explains how sun energy enters a hothouse as light and becomes heat inside. Short light waves pass through glass, but long heat waves cannot escape, causing heat to accumulate and keep the space warm even in winter.
John Jackson describes a sorting table or chute used for apples and other produce. He warns against piling apples on the useful table and prescribes placing them on a sorting table to be run off into barrels and headed up quickly. The design features a higher upper end than the lower end.
Nurserymen and fruit growers advocate fumigation as the only practical method to combat insect pests. The gas proves deadly to plant lice and aphids, though it does not kill eggs. When properly generated and handled, no animal life can survive the fumes.
The Farmers' Review notes chestnuts grow best where soil and moisture conditions are ideal, yet many waste areas could support them. Nuts offer a valuable annual income while timber harvest waits, and planting is framed as a legacy for future generations.
Miss Muriel Armitage the district organizer for the Royal Templars of Temperance writes that after years of uterine irregularities and hysteria she found relief with Peruna. She used fifteen bottles over six months and declares herself cured and grateful. The ad touts Peruna as curing catarrh of the pelvic organs by addressing catarrh in general.
An advertisement portrays pelvic catarrh as the cause of widespread weakness in women. It asserts catarrh progresses through the body and links pelvic catarrh with nervousness. The copy promotes Peruna as a permanent cure and offers free advice from Dr. Hartman in Columbus, Ohio.
An anecdote from the Chicago Post features a businesswoman who defends budgeting and jokes about a fictitious eight dollars and fifteen cents excess. Her husband argues it is a shortage, but she insists the balance in the book justified spending. He now seeks to stop her accounting habit.
The Chinese Daily World editor, a Yale graduate, calmly answered a rude salesman. Asked what race he was, the editor replied with a sharp quip asking the salesman to identify his own type and even call out whether he was a monkey donkey or a Yankee. The salesman fled.
The markets show flour steady at old prices across cities, with grains and livestock moving within narrow ranges. Wheat, corn, and oats hold near recent levels while cattle, sheep, and hogs vary by region, with notable prices for steers, calves, wethers, lambs, and Yorker hogs across Minneapolis Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Liberty markets.
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