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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1886
Page
4
A nostalgic tirade contrasts past and present gender norms as older generations defend tradition and modern youths push for independence. The piece humorously recalls grandmothers and fathers while noting shifts in behavior and expectations across decades.
George C. Miln recalls a debut at the Grand Opera House in Chicago News, advising calmness before an audience. He cites anecdote of a bishop and a priest to illustrate confidence, noting nerves yet mastery without prayer and detailing the stage journey from muddy alley to dressing-room.
The Rev Dr Brown was asked to marry an out-of-town couple at the guild house. During the Episcopal service the bridegroom asks what plight my troth means and jokes that it sounds like plight my truth about a hog trough. The rector explains truth equals fidelity. The groom jokes about living in a hog pen. Buffalo Courier.
Paris correspondent recounts M. de Lapeyrouse experiences in the 1851 gold era, detailing brutal gambling saloon violence at The Eldorado, a fatal stabbing, and a brutal flogging that culminated in death, underscoring the era’s lawlessness and human peril.
Georgia man in Campbell County reportedly had thirty six sons eligible for the last war with twenty three reported killed. He has reportedly been married nine times.
A wide sweep of brief items notes John W. Mackey buying English and Scottish estates, a Washington Irving statue for Central Park, railroads in Louisiana operating at a loss, a nurse training school in Japan led by a Boston woman, and a potential publication on Edwin M. Stanton’s private papers. Additional notes cover George W. Smith in Philadelphia, Admiral Shufeldt’s world tour, secret benevolent societies, Andrews the walker’s journeys with his small dog, a centenarian egg-eating tramp tale, and diverse curiosities from linguistics to mango trees in Central America.
A New York telegram reports Augustus Talton the first colored Catholic priest in the United States celebrating mass at St Benedict the Moor in Manhattan. He addressed the crowd describing his life from slavery to priesthood and notes plans to visit Quincy and speak at Epiphany church.
A Detroit officer recalled a moonlit night near the Biddle block seeing St Anne's church with two identical steeples. He doubted his senses and confessed to a friend that he was indeed drunk after realizing the second steeple.
An advertisement lists Walter A. Wood enclosed gear mowing machines from 63 to 65 dollars with reaper attachment option, along with W Anson Wood mowers, Meadow King mower, Springtooth Harrow, Oliver plows, Gowanda and Remington parts, Bu ford cultivators, Tiger steel tooth rake, Buckeye drill, farm wagons, fencing, cement, Wetherill paints, stoves, Paris ranges, Hartford sewing machines, and hardware for various trades at low cash prices.
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