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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1898
Page
4
The document describes a trend led by Mme Mendosez on Fifth Avenue teaching girls to control and adapt their voices. The program trains tone and projection for different rooms, aiming for soft, carried speaking without nasal or harsh qualities.
Chief among current ideas among New York women is strict economy. Wealthy women cut gowns and fripperies, curtail daily purchases, and monitor sugar and butter. Merchants report falling accounts as households save in preparation for possible fund needs. Servants are dismissed and households tighten their belts.
Miss Louise Hortense Snowden of Philadelphia earned a Bachelor of Science in June and became the first woman to complete a full four years of college course honors at the University of Pennsylvania. She also won first prize for exemplary preparations illustrating anatomy or embryology of any animal.
Chicago doctor G A Wood tests twelve veil samples for reading ability and finds all reduce distance and near vision. Dots and dense meshes cause most interference while single, large, regular meshes lessen impact. weak eyes suffer more than healthy ones.
Captain Joshua Slocum, age fifty five from Gloucester, sailed the thirty foot Spray from Boston on April 24 1895 and completed a solo circumnavigation in roughly twenty six months. He voyaged via Yarmouth Horta Fayal Gibraltar Brazil Pacific Juan Fernandez Samoa Melbourne New South Wales Tasmania Torres Strait East Indies Rodriguez Martinique Natal and Cape Town. He traveled about 46000 miles with no accidents sleeping by day and sailing by night to avoid detection.
A lighter load of oil barrels, painted in red and blue with varying brightness, forms a striking, symmetrical pyramid on the deck. Three white masts rise above the square-ended load as a tug tows the vessel, creating a picturesque mosaic along the river.
A Scottish company develops an artificial stone made from lime and sand. The process uses high pressure water and heat to form a weather resistant block, with 400 degree steam and extended curing to remove moisture. They anticipate rivaling natural slate and marble and contemplate broader applications.
The Royal Ann cherry, known as Napoleon in the East, is large and pale yellow with a red cheek. It yields well and thrives in parts of Ohio. Cherries do not come true from pits, but trees grown from pits of good fruit are usually edible and productive.
The piece argues hogs and hog products drove economic strength, noting record western hog packing, 20 million hogs processed yielding 3.33 billion pounds of meat products, $175 million value, and exports surpassing grain and cotton. It credits hogs with significant impact alongside wheat and corn.
The piece explains how Guam became a navigational fiction in trade and shipping. It traces the historical right of Spain to control Indies ports, the Ladrones as a loophole, and how American possession ended the old maritime fiction by rendering the laws obsolete.
A proposal envisions a cross border railway from the Gulf of Finland northward across Sweden to the Norwegian border near Ofoten and back via Finland. The route, largely on an old ore line, would stretch about 300 miles with an estimated cost of £1,200,000, aiming to strengthen Atlantic access and defense.
A New York Times writer recounts Artemus Ward delivering a lecture in Central Pennsylvania during a blizzard. With only three attendees, Ward invited them to join him at a cafe beneath the hall, turning a poor turnout into a memorable, warm, humorous evening.
Cheap and neat legal blank forms advertised at the Mai Office offering quick access for official filings.
A detailed look at Spain's railway history notes the 1848 Barcelona to Mataró line as the start of the system. It covers total mileage, funding, foreign investment, and operational quirks such as late openings, high fares, and trains often running behind schedule.
Two coal miners who despised each other over a shared love interest reconcile after a razor thin wager. The elder man gifts a gaudy waist belt to win back peace, prompting the younger to woo the girl and restore their friendship.
A battered prisoner complains the magistrate’s split infinitives shame him more than arrest. He endures ridicule amid a scene in a dingy courtroom as officers lead him away. A separate joke panel contrasts a fond wife and loving husband over arithmetic and time.
During the battle at Sibo ney American troops had just secured the field when Renter approached the commanding officer asking for a sales or lease option on the land. The exchange reflects a wartime real estate impulse amid combat.
In Candia twenty one more Christian bodies were recovered from smoldering ruins as foreign admirals seek to reinforce garrisons. Ejevad Pasha reports orders to Turkish authorities to maintain order and blames the Bashi Bazouks for the violence. The British admiral reportedly calls for Muslim disarmament.
The exchange features Celestine and The Captain debating self perception while Eb questions the value of seeing oneself through others eyes. Ally Sloper adds a punchline about a look that was given.
A teacher gives a new girl Dolly a sum of debts from sixteenth century currency units. Dolly answers with a confident plan to move, suggesting a way to resolve the combined liabilities. The dialogue implies a practical math exercise about family debt.
Cattle markets show export steers at 5.15 to 5.25, heavy butcher stock around 5.10, light handy cattle at 4.00 to 4.50, cows and heifers 3.95 to 4.25, calves heavy fed 4.25 to 4.50, veals about 62.00. Sheep and lambs range 3.50 to 4.90, spring lambs 5.65 to 5.95, hogs 4.10 to 4.50 and Yorkers 4.25 to 4.30. Buffalo hay prices list timothy 9.50 to 10.00 per ton, baled hay 11.00, baled straw 4.00 to 4.50, bundled rye 10.00 to 11.00.
A brief humorous note from the Chicago Record describes a boss who hires a boy for general usefulness while the worker stays busy fetching caramels for the typewriter girls. The exchange hints at workplace routines and light office life.
A fragmented note recalls a musical topic and a related incident ending with the piano closed. A separate line mentions the saying Thirty days hath September and hopes for cooler weather, tying to a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph tease.
Utica New Jersey September 12 at the Utica board of trade reports cheese sales including 4050 boxes colored at 6c 90 boxes small white and colored at 7c 60 boxes small white 7c 120 boxes small white 4 1 4c 80 boxes skim 6c and 860 boxes consigned Butter 95 packages creamery at 18 19c 40 cases prints We.
A humorous Atchison Globe line notes that a couple’s honeymoon endures as long as they can sit together without boredom. The quirky remark contrasts fleeting trends with lasting companionship.
The Little Falls market notes show cheese sales with barrels and pricing across large white and colored boxes and creamery products. A traveler from Athens reports Greeks shifting from anti monarchy chants to strong loyalty toward King George, elevating his popularity since his accession.
Journal aboard the Iowa describes repeated coal supply problems in June as the collier Justine and later the Stirling fail to dock cleanly. Holes punched in fenders and ash chute damage slow operations while crews endure heat and hard work awaiting calmer seas and a return to coaling.
Fragmentary rail schedule text shows stations from Niagara Falls to Titusville with times and routes. The legible items include Dunkirk, Falconer, Oil City, and Titusville along with scattered mayoral or line references, but many words are garbled, leaving an incomplete timetable snapshot.
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