Republican Ticket for State and County Offices
Tuesday September 18 1883 Republican ticket lists William Livley Allegheny for State Treasurer J B Niles Tioga for Auditor General Charles H Mauley Deerfield for County Treasurer Dr F A Wheelock Freehold for County Surveyor and Isaac S Alden Warren for Trustee Warren Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Livley
Allegheny
J.B. Niles
Tioga
Charles H. Mauley
Deerfield
F. A. Wheelock
Freehold
Warren Academy
Isaac S. Alden
Warren
Republican canvass to secure victory in Pennsylvania
Chairman Cooper leads a vigorous canvas with Gen Beaver and Senators Stewart and Lee supporting Republican candidates. The party seeks harmony and energy to mobilize voters and deliver a Republican victory in November against the reform Governor's ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper
Beaver
Stewart and
Lee
Pennsylvania
Ohio Democrats Turn Away From Pendleton Civil Service Debate
Democratic bosses in Ohio sour on Senator Pendleton and fear civil service reform fractures. The Cincinnati Inquirer accuses Pendleton of lacking party loyalty while noting his June trip to Columbus to seek an endorsement for his civil service bill, despite near unanimous opposition among Democratic constituents.
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Ohio
Senator Pendleton
Hoadly
Pendleton
Cincinnati Inquirer
Tie
Columbus
Tour of Inspection by Vanderbilt Party Reaches Williamsport
Wm. I. Vanderbilt with I. B. Gowen and other officials toured the Pine Creek railroad linking the Central with the Reading system and the Pennsylvania coal fields. They inspected the Reading branch to Sunbury and Shamokin to assess heavier future coal shipments via the northern outlet. Gen. Cameron appeared in good health and spirits during the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. I. Vanderbilt
I. B. Gowen
Reading Railroad
Vanderbilt
Pine Creek
Reading
Sunbury
Shamokin
Gen
Cameron
President Arthur to skip Newport summer resort trip
A Washington dispatch reports President Arthur will not attend Newport or other summer resorts. He plans a western trip already completed and met with cabinet officers at a Friday meeting. He stays at the Soldiers’ Home cottage and typically leaves the White House at 5 pm for a quiet drive.
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Washington
Arthur
Newport
Soldier’s
White House
Hastings of the New York Commercial Advertiser Dies
Hucy J Hastings proprietor of the New York Commercial Advertiser and ally of Thurlow Weed died in New Jersey after a carriage accident in Long Branch. An Irish immigrant who rose from poverty to influence New York politics as a Republican, he was about 63.
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Hucy J. Hastings
Juror RanpaLi Calls for Jury Reform in Philadelphia
Hon. Samouent J. RanpaLi, summoned juror at the Philadelphia court of sessions, urged reform by arguing no man should be excused from jury service without a strong reason. He said he is not too old, young, rich, or ill, and vowed to serve.
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Jackson
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Samouent J. RanpaLi
Philadelphia Court of Sessions
Summer resort hotels suffer mass losses in season
Tur Iotel Mail laments a hard season for seaside resorts. Landlords bear the brunt as too many summer hotels crowd the market. Cottage life grows popular among former watering-place guests, and the season’s losses run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, offering little relief to those paying the bills.
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Tur Iotel Mail
Crop Croaker Threatens Local Harvests Hint Thanksgiving Squeeze
The crop-croaker risks cranberry crop damage while buckwheat is rising and flapjack market tightens. If pumpkins fail and turkeys roost high, Thanksgiving may be skipped.
Cornell Professor Fiske Challenged Over Deceased Wife Will
Cornell University professor Fiske faces questions about challenging his deceased wife's will. The suiting raises courtroom interest as advocates discuss validity and possible motives surrounding the contested will.
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Fiske
Cornell
Temperance preacher Francis Murphy arrives from England
Francis Murphy, a temperance preacher, has arrived from England last week. The report notes his recent travels and arrival to begin preaching duties locally.
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Francis Murphy
England
Arctic Tragedy Deepens as Relief Mission Fails
The Lady Franklin Bay relief expedition led by Lieut Greely endures a third Arctic winter with two years of intended supply spent and both ships Proetus and Yantic lost. The Proteus sank taking stores, while the Yantic returned to Saint Johns.
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United States
Lady Franklin Bay
Buffalo Express
Lieut. Greely
F. F. Kislingbury
J. B. Lockwood
Army
Signal Corps
Esquiman
Newfoundland
St. Johns
Greely
Gen. Hazen
Saint Johns
Proteus
Signal Service
Yantic
Record of the Year a grim ledger of global and local disasters
A reflective yearend tally recounts a string of deaths from fires mines floods storms and avalanches at home and abroad. It lists the Newhall house fire in Milwaukee, the Braidwood mine disaster, river floods, tornadoes, the Brooklyn bridge collapse, and many other cataclysms including the Cimbria sinking and Java eruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhall House
Milwaukee
Braidwood
Brooklyn Bridge
Minnesota
Riverdale
Hudson
Cimbria
Germany
Hungary
Poland
Mt. Ararat
Bessieres
France
Scutari
Glasgow
Ischia
Egypt
Java
Buffalo Express
Reduction of Letter Postage Announces 1 October Cut
Postmasters nationwide receive circular detailing postage reductions to begin October 1. New stamps include two cent for standard mail, four cent for double postage, three cent stamp to be removed by macerating machine, Jackson head on four cent, delivery rules unchanged for free drop letters and one cent for non delivered drop letters. Second to fourth class rates remain as at present.
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Washington
Jackson
Portrait of a Writer Also Nurse and Traveler
The subject, of medium height with strong features, speaks in a silver stream when engaged, then settles into silence. She notes her husband’s illness, writes little aside from charitable work, and travels with birds between Florida and wintering in the South. She mentions Mandarin, Florida, a Presbyterian minister, and plans a new love story titled Orange Blossoms set in Florida.
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Florida
Blaine Denies Butler Views on Mass Governor and 1883 Race
Hon James G Blaine testified on Sept 12 that a published summary misrepresented his opinions. He stated the article reversed his beliefs about Butler’s governor bid and expressed strong faith in a Republican president in 1883, with the party stronger than in 1875 or 1879.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
James G. Blaine
Butler
Gen. Butler
Massachusetts
Postal notes meet moderate demand in cities
The new postal notes attract only moderate interest with a gradual rise in several cities. In Chicago banks nearly ban them on deposits, citing excessive clerical work from endorsing and examining amounts, limitations dates, and related details as the main nuisance.
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Chicago
The Crop Prospect Nationwide Drought Shrinks Corn Yield
The September crop report from the Department of Agriculture showstern states and many others with lower corn conditions than August due to drought. Frost damage in Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota New York and Pennsylvania further lowers prospects. Wheat yield averages 83 indicating 17 percent drop from last year and oats look sizable with a 99 average. potatoes show a favorable average of 95.
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Department of Agriculture
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Arkansas
Georgia
Alabama
Middle States
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
New York
Pennsylvania
West
Free Thinkers' Convention Critique in Rochester
A Buffalo Times response derides a Rochester gathering calling itself the Free Thinkers' Convention. It denounces anti religious sentiment while praising the church’s social influence and warns that closing churches would invite pandemonium.
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Rochester
Buffalo Times
Journal rhetoric on news ethics and responsible reporting
Franklin Press argues there is more than one way to curb ugly facts by exposing a scribbler. The piece condemns reckless publication and calls for accountability of papers and writers for harming reputations and public peace.
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Franklin Press
Abduction of Charlie Ross Mystery Deepens
A letter found among a Philadelphia detective’s effects claims New York men offered to return Charlie Ross to his father on November 24, 1873 for 20000 dollars, four and a half months after the 1873 abduction. The note, never delivered, did not reveal the boy’s fate, and another similar letter exists but sheds no light.
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Charlie Ross
Philadelphia
New York
Ross
Three-Cent Piece Should Be Retired, Says Times
The New York Times favors ending the three-cent coin, noting its odd origin with three-cent postage, lack of relation to the decimal system, small size, and indistinguishable nickel form. By law it is legal tender up to twenty five cents, though paying a quarter with only three-cent pieces would stump Congress mathematicians.
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New York Times
Times
Congress
Most Populous Place Joke at Cape Cod Graveyard
Rev. John Peate recalls riding two hours through fog and mosquitoes to Truro. The driver stops at a graveyard active for 200 years, more tombstones than residents, a scene that turns into a shared joke and lasting Cape Cod tale.
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John Peate
Truro
Cape Cod
Peate
Driver
Cape
Kansas crop and national summaries dominate the era
Kansas reports a wheat crop of 35 million bushels doubling the 1880 year. U S life saving service opens 201 stations across three districts on the lakes. Reports detail arrests of Payne’s group in Indian territory and a Niagara flood fatality. Other notes cover a record five year old horse Jay Eye Lee, the Cuappaaua estate sale to Gabrielle Greeley, and Perry’s Lake Erie anniversary. The earnings of Western Union and drummers’ salaries are cited along with Judge Black’s arm injury and writing later with left hand. Devil's Lake Dakota rises as a new frontier town. Public sentiment cites the James trial verdict, while Mrs Garfield’s views are noted. The 1883 cotton crop nears 7 million bales with exports dominating.
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Kansas
United States Life-Saving Service
Payne
Indian Territory
Capt
Weon
Niagara Rapids
Jay Eye Lee
Maud
Horace Greeley
Gabrielle Greeley
Shelbyville
Buarye
Perry
Lake Erie
Erie
Anthony Wayne
Presque Isle
Erie Fire Department
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Western Union
Judge Black
Devil’s Lake
Dakota
Creelsburg
Saratoga
Kansas City
James
Westfall
Sheets
Garfield
Northern
Southern
Night watchman revival and Fayette frost report
The night watchman in Mercer revived the hour calling practice. Fayette county miners report a severe frost on Sunday night Sept 9 damaging buckwheat and corn and freezing still water to a quarter inch thickness. Henry Struble of Hempfield was wounded at Antietam and later found a gravestone bearing his name. Governor Pattison appoints six Pennsylvania delegates to the Louisville educational convention on Sept 19.
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Mercer
Butler
Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Fayette County
Henry Struble
Hempfield Township
Westmoreland County
Antietam
Pattison
Louisville
Milton S. Lytle
Huntingdon
J. L. Milligan
Allegheny City
Herbert M. Howe
George L. Harrison
Philip C. Garrett
Gen. D. Kaine
Burdette Satirizes Cathedral Finance in Verse
Robert J. Burdette writes for the Cincinnati Enquirer on Garden City’s Cathedral of the Incarnation built by A. T. Stewart. He notes the costs of construction and asks where the bones that built it lie and argues for spending on humanity instead of cold stones.
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Robert J. Burdette
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Garden City
A. T. Stewart
Enterprising Girls Hold Claims in Dakota Shanties
A Dakota letter to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette extols eastern and local women who lodge in shanties to hold mining or ranch claims. It notes monthly or bimonthly visits, 160 acres per claim, and a six month age restriction that reverts young women to eighteen to twenty afterward, despite wolves and gophers nearby.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakota
List of Causes Set for Trial at October Term at Warren
Rew Advertisements announces 25 civil actions to be tried at the October Term starting the first Monday at 10 o'clock A M. before J A Weible Prothonotary and S H Briggs deputy at Prot y's Office Warren Pa Sept 10 1883. Names include Conrad Weigel vs Jas Brown Bradenbaugh vs Bradford Cordage Co Libby vs Lewis Everett Fisher vs Roupe Hoyt vs Kinzua RR Rollins vs Buffalo Pittsburg Western RR Brown & Co vs Hall Allen James vs James et al Rollins vs Buffalo Pittsburg Western RR Preswick vs McGrew et al Eysinger vs Hurd Sager vs Orris Hall Exis Gretter vs Anchor Oil Co Cochran vs Gibson Bettis vs Vandergrift Davis vs Buffalo Pittsburg Western RR Roberts & Son vs Given Kimball vs Chase Brown vs Jaquins Friday vs Orris Hall Exis Kuhn et al vs Pratt Hodges use of vs Kittanning Ins Vandergrift vs Copeland Truby vs Struthers Fisher vs Dunkirk Allegheny Valley Pittsburgh RR Co Prothonotary J A Weible and deputy S H Briggs.
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A. M
Conrad Weigel
Jas
Mary Brown
G. A. Bradenbaugh
Bradford Cordage Company
Andrew Libby
Lewis
Jesse Everett
John W. Fisher
James R. Roupe
A. G. Hoyt
Kinzua R. R. Co
Chas. G
B. N. Hurd
John Sager
Orris Hall
Victor Gretter
Anchor Oil Co
John Cochran
Nathan Gibson
Myron K. Bettis
Wm. K. Vandergrift
E. H. Davis
Buffalo
Pittsburg & Western R. R. Co
W. B. Roberts & Son
George Given
M. Kimball
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
R. R. Co
J.A. Weible
S. H. Briggs
Y’s
Warren, Pa
Impossible Ad Craft in Newspaper Layouts
The Lockhaven Journal notes the endless pressure on editors to fit ads and content into limited space. It laments crafting news when there is none and writing obituaries without offending families, all while preserving paper interest and revenue.
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Murish
Lockhaven Journal
Peterson's Magazine October issue preview
Peterson's Magazine for October is highlighted by a principal steel engraving "An Ignominious Flight" after a Paris Salon work. The issue features two sheets of colored patterns, a rare colored fashion plate, about fifty wood cuts of fashions and patterns, plus original literary content. Specimens offered to clubs. address Charles J. Peterson Philadelphia.
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Peterson
Corydon Township School directors seek bonds for new school
Notice states Corydon township school directors will apply to Warren county Court of Common Pleas on October 4 1888 for authority to borrow funds at not more than eight percent and issue bonds to build a new school house in Corydon Pennsylvania President John Williams Secretary Jos Brown Corydon Pa September 8 1883 llsdt
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Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Corydon Township
Said Township
John Williams
T. Jos. Brown
Y. Corydon, Pa
Administrator's Sale of Warren County Land in Spring Creek
By order of the Orphans Court of Warren County Pennsylvania the administrator of Lyman Raymond deceased will offer at public sale on October sixth at 2 PM a twenty six acre parcel in Spring Creek township. The tract is part of number two hundred ninety nine, bounded by the Columbus Spring Creek road Jasper Wright lands and Wm H Deming deeds. Sale follows a 1869 deed from W H Deming and wife to Lyman Raymond.
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Orphans Court
Co. of
Warren
State of
Spring Creek
Jasper Wright
Wm. H. Deming
W. H. Deming
Lyman Raymond
WM. B. Sutliff
Admi
Dee’d
Local Ads Hype Wells Tooth Paste and Chamber Suits
The advertisement touts Use Wells Tooth Paste by L. G. Noss, Druggist, and McNett & Co. offering the largest line of Chamber and Parlor Suits at rock bottom prices. It also claims JOHNsON & SIEGFREID sell the best selling Yes Tooth Powder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gent’s
Hanon & Son
Burt & Mears
Nettleton & Co
L. G. Noss
McNett & Co
Yes
Johnson & Siegfreid
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J. A. Weible
St. Benedict's Academy
Young Ladies
Beech St
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Thomas Fleming
Township of South West
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Thomas J. Fleming
Robert Dennison
M. Waters
Josephine Dennison
I. S. Alden
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Adin
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People’s Market
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New Bridge
W. C. Rowland
Asa Smith
Sugar Grove
Samuel Thomas
Struthers
Iron Works
Warren, Fs
Struthers, Wells & CO
Watson & Davis
Second Street
C. P. Northrop, Prop’r
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Fine Shoes
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Astice
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Suce
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