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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1896
Page
1
A West travel report notes cyclists are embracing extended camping trips across Wisconsin and Michigan. They use lightweight tents, triangular frame cases, and distribute camp gear among riders. Rubber capes protect from rain, fishing gear and even shotguns ride on bikes, enabling voyages through poor roads to camping sites.
Attorney and district attorney services in Warren Pa. Offices in Haveltine building and Warren Savings Bank building. Lawyers include K F Comb D We Wheeter a and Leon Ball notary public, Chas Dinsmoor, Chas A Peterson, W W Wilbur, and William Schnur. Also an artistic photographer studio over Geo Ball's store. Office hours 1 to 4 PM.
The retailer states no items from prior seasons are on sale. All merchandise offered is current season manufacture and available at listed prices.
Gen. Neilson second assistant post master general unveils a Hartford built wagon system to collect mail continuously in Washington business districts. The vehicle will run from early morning until after midnight, sorting mail en route and delivering to trains and sub stations to cut delivery time. If successful it could be expanded to other cities and trials begin within 60 days.
Army Medical Museum doctors in Washington locate a 32 calibre bullet lodged in the upper femur of a Falls Church Virginia girl after eight months. Through multiple X ray exposures Dr. Gray and team trace the bullet within the bone and plan surgical removal, noting X rays made the result possible.
Prof. F Kleinpeter of Vienna describes Dahrnenite A as a mining explosive stronger than gelatine dynamite by about 33 percent. It produces roughly double the gas, causing a wedging action that aids coal fall. It compresses without loss of force, requires a weaker detonator, stores safely, and German railways allow its carriage.
The word somersault traces to middle ages roots in old French soubresault or soubresaut Italian sopra salto and Spanish sobre salto. These derive from Latin super or supra meaning above and saltum meaning a jump or leap.
Germany posted a surplus of 12 million marks against budget estimates for the last fiscal year. The government set aside 13 million marks specifically to reduce the national debt.
Reports from Mansfield Missouri describe a possible gold discovery and a claim of the largest cave in the world near Hudson, linked to the St. Louis Mansfield and Ava Southern railroad. Earth subsidence near Hartville prompted exploration revealing cavern networks with onyx and subterranean streams, some stalactites reportedly containing gold.
The infant Herman Robert Burch of Enoch Burch, a Mississippi River fisherman, died of senile debility. Doctors in St Louis found the baby's head fully developed with hair and a beard, yet the body did not grow past birth. They sought parallels but found none in medical texts.
Three Chicago residents Jacob Allen James McCoy and John McAllister report a 125 foot sea serpent in Lake Michigan near Evans ton. They describe the creature as green scaled with saucer eyes long teeth and a lambrequin tongue, heading toward Evans ton as it vanished from view.
The Bakersville area in North Carolina is described as the principal source of mica for the United States. Mica mining is a major North Carolina industry, yielding fortunes to miners. Mica occurs in varied blocks and can be split into thin wafers, with veins found between slate walls. The common size is about four by six inches, and larger sheets appear rarely. The electrical industry uses mica as an insulating material on high voltage armatures among other uses.
A 360 foot tower at the Paris exposition will host a pendulum experiment to detect Earth's motion. A 350 foot pendulum with a 180 pound steel globe at its end will be used, improving on Foucault's less conclusive Pantheon test.
Mulhall notes Brazil is larger than the United States with about 3,209,878 square miles and only 700 miles of public highway. The statement highlights the sparsity of roadways in the vast country.
A collection of small incidents from across the United States. In Missouri sixteen white chickens and one black chick hatched together at Springfield. Florida residents keep squirrels as pets prompting a citizen to build a dedicated squirrel house. In Virginia the bridegroom’s father halted a wedding by declaring his son already married. West Virginia robbers tied a man to a tree after looting his house and leaving him for berries to find 30 hours later. An Idaho stagecoach from Murray to Walla Walla tipped on Nine Mile hill, injuring only a surgeon with a broken leg.
Fragmentary OCR note hints at advertising a low cost printing service. The line mentions “best and cheap” printing and a reference to a press or printer associated with a location or owner, but specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
A collection of old time household advice covers stain removal with alcohol on white fabrics, horseradish in pickles to keep vinegar strong, compact tin measuring sets, caution against using the same knife for pineapples, Cuban salt as antidote, swans down care with muslin and castile soap, and stiffening dark fabrics with gum arabic or indigo tinted starch.
Rev Washington Gladden writes The Working Church and Its Pastor. Souvenirs de Jeannesse by Ar sene Houssaye reissued, 1830 to 1850. Maj Sharp Hume third edition The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth. Lord Leighton's posthumous Royal Academy addresses advanced. Centenary edition of Carlyle works in 30 volumes edited by H. D. Traill. Gilbert Parker new novel The Pomp of the Lavilettes nearly ready with Cumner's Son manuscript. Teg Gens Chics by Gyp with Bob illustrations. Ohe! Les Dirigeantes upcoming. Mrs. Lynn Linton My Literary Life to be published autumn with gossip of midcentury literary circle.
Congressman Warner argues against forced silver adoption and urges accepting the gold standard as the world commerce basis. He contends free silver would harm contracts and markets while asserting gold remains superior and government interference should be avoided.
A collage of quotes and quips from multiple papers touches politics romance crime and humor. Officials and commoners weigh in on understanding jokes marriage whisky and guilt through ironic historical glimpses and a jailhouse remark. The collection hints at social norms and enduring human foibles.
Rev W J Yates comments on how language differences breed misunderstanding and bigotry. He argues that judging others by outward forms masks inner devotion and can reveal arrogance, intolerance, and lack of charity. He urges humility and self examination.
The Epworth League of a Nagoya church helps its self support by making silk bookmarks with Scripture in Japanese and selling silk handkerchiefs in the United States. Proceeds fund native workers, under Rev. D. S. Spencer, inspiring home chapters to renewed effort.
The text argues against overproduction of trends and praises gentle manners rooted in brotherly love. It urges interest in others, sincere welfare concerns for Jesus sake, and replicating Christlike gentleness. Promote pleasant truths, cheerful religion, and natural goodness at home to ease universal kindness.
The Endeavor society in Washington and the Epworth League at Ocean Grove sparked desires for larger local gains. The speaker urges translating crowd energy into quiet, persistent home efforts, focusing on character building and practical action in fall chapters.
A caller presents a reflective poem describing a quiet valley of sorrow and prayer. The speaker confesses weeping dreaming and praying with tears like May dewdrops and a fragrance rising to heaven. The valley lies between dark Mount of Sorrow and bright Mount of Prayer with God and angels present.
Rev S H Doyle outlines a nationwide missionary need noting twelve million children outside Sunday schools and forty million unaffiliated with any church. He cites American Indians mountain whites freedmen irreligious city masses and the western expansion as areas demanding gospel outreach and education. Bible readings accompany the weekly topic.
Farrar argues that God speaks daily through nature and life, not only through ancient scriptures. He criticizes literalism and superstition that worship old words while missing the living lessons of Jesus from the broader revelation.
A quotation from J. L. Jones and a Garfield remark discuss distrust of science and religious alignment with nature and human rhythm. The quotes urge courageous discourse against evil and promote steely religious resolve in confronting temptation.
A verse from Hezekiah Butterworth in Golden Rule describes a voyage scene with a strong pilot guiding through storm and sea. The speaker recalls waking to crimson morning skies as sea birds wheel above and a port recedes toward uncharted waters. The pilot remains on board, preserving secrets of the deep.
In verse from the New York Sun, Mary Clarke Huntington quips that while Mary’s bonnets charm her, the mounting bills threaten finances more than fashion does. She jokes that expenses bite deeper than romance.
A terse verse contemplates poverty with ironic moral judgment. The speaker claims a poor person would possess saintly cheer in hardship, smiling despite cold, hunger, and neglect while rejecting trivial concerns.
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