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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1895
Page
4
The text offers advice on water softening with ammonia or borax, wearing boots, sleeping injuries, fabric washing guidance, stain removal with salts of demon and hot water, rubbing doors and furniture with chamois oil and turpentine, and selecting durable flannel to avoid shrinking.
A historical cooking excerpt outlines multiple Charlotte desserts including Dip & mold, Cornucopias, Gooseberry Charlotte, and Apricot Charlottes. It provides step by step methods: mixing sponge, sugar, lemon juice and brandy, thickening with cream and gelatine, molding, and chilling. for gooseberries boiling with sugar and gelatine, molding and serving with cream. and apricot Charlottes using fried bread fingers as a crust with baked apricot filling and powdered sugar.
A compiled list recounts major wars with the Indians and others from 1790 to 1818, detailing start and end dates and the number of men enlisted or serving. It notes the 1861 65 Civil War grand review and naval actions against Tripoli.
Hammondville postmaster W H Waltacs marks a long service under 31 postmaster generals. Thomas B Reed enjoyed a summer in Grand Beach cottage he recently bought. Prof Zuspita, Berlin English professor, died recently and is praised as a leading authority on early English. Rev Dr W J Holland of Pennsylvania, noted naturalist, is the sole American Zoological Society London member with species named for him. Miss Abbie Gardner, sole survivor of Lake Okoboji massacre, owns Indian relics and won a $7,000 Iowa grant for a monument at the massacre site.
A beheaded criminal in France showed a heart beat six minutes after execution. A Swiss study finds no microbes above 2000 feet, Hyderabad doctor claims no malaria parasites, and Italians mistook white cell nuclei for microbes. Limoges relic acquired by Cluny, a small Limoges reliquary illustrated with St Valeria. Borchgrevink urges a new Antarctic expedition, claiming an eight million square mile continent. Batt questions a large flag and 500 mile pole needed for a hypothetical signal.
California adopts a civil permit standard with juries of three fourths to render verdicts. The reported legal shift follows broader notes on court procedure and verdict rules contrasted with prior practices.
A mix of curious tales includes a Vienna bank clerk killed while counting notes his lips moistened for grip. A Paris barber shaved a man inside a cage with a lion watching. A Mississippi convict hid in a swamp to escape mosquitoes and surrender to the sheriff. Calais breeches banter tells of cyclists abandoning bloomers amid jeers. An enterprising boy sharpens pencils door to door earning five to seven dollars weekly. Parisian itinerant musicians entertain on streets. a former maid aids a now distressed-looking performer with savings.
Reports from St Malo note a four foot circumference edible mushroom weighing seven and a half pounds. France tests heated asphalt blocks pressed at five and a half tons per square inch. A French speculator loses a legal dispute with English brokers. French courts allow recovery via English transactions. The 1900 Paris exhibition promises a Seine bridge 100 meters wide with riverside houses theaters and monuments linking Champs Elysees to the Invalides.
In a Boston Globe narration a magistrate questions a prisoner who stole ham claiming family hunger. The prisoner confirms four dogs live in the house but notes he would not let his family eat dogs, highlighting a tense poverty moment.
Mrs De Style warns her daughter about a call by a young man who lacks proper manners. The exchange highlights social pretensions and etiquette concerns in a humorous tone from a New York Weekly style.
In a domestic scene from the New York World a woman named Marie frets as Willie climbs to seek parental consent for an engagement. She declares she will stand beneath the window to break his fall, signaling anxious family involvement in a marriage proposal.
The article recounts Napoleon Bonaparte’s push to be made consul for life following ratification of the Amiens treaty. Despite private resistance, tribunes and senate back the move, and a plebiscite is proposed after hints of naming a successor are struck down. Concurrent approval seals reestablishment of slave trade amid broader public baseness.
A shoot of the historic Penn Treaty Elm, grown from a sucker, was sent by Gen. Paul Run to Chief Eisenhower and planted in the Penn Treaty park. The original elm linked to William Penn’s 1682 treaty stood at the treaty site until its collapse in 1810.
In Brussels the vacant city bell-ringer position drew eight finalists and a crowd jammed the city hall square. De Mette of Alast was edged out as number eight won after a powerful finale, securing the post for life with a 3600 franc yearly pay amid ecstatic public support.
A wartime comparison notes that the Franco German war lasted 180 days. Germany suffered 6,055 officers and 110,701 men killed or maimed. France faced 21,508 officers and 702,048 soldiers captured or disarmed.
Trn in Huerfano county Colorado is reportedly richer in pay quantities than any other U S site. Odessa merchants plan large consignments of Russian goods for Abyssinia via Odessa to French vessels bound for Obock. New England rum exports to Africa have fallen from 1 025 226 gallons to 561 265 over two years, cause unspecified. Ireland has 3 000 000 acres of bog land with peat litter imports from Belgium and Holland and mills to separate litter from turf. peat moss litter may become export. Duck eggs from Swatow to Bangkok and Singapore travel in shallow baskets two to three layers deep, wrapped in paper. heat triggers hatching before arrival.
A St. Louis Globe Democrat report argues physicians profit from prescriptions and control drug dispensing. It cites fear of substitution and ethic codes, noting doctors sometimes rely on trusted pharmacists, or issue unique compounds, to protect patient safety.
De Witt C. Lockwood details a rapid mail service using Belgian carrier pigeons between Santa Catalina and Los Angeles. Training involved staged flights from nearby to distant points until pigeons reached San Pedro, then boarded ships to sea before returning home. A parallel set on Catalina learned to carry messages back to Los Angeles.
A technical journal notes a new fabric called gelsoline derived from mulberry bark without silkworms. It cites three distinct fibers from the tree, including an ordinary silk and a thick fiber produced by killing the silkworm. The bark is rotted, fibers treated like flax, washed with soap and soda, and woven for upholstery.
A miscellany of notes on Polish nobility in Warsaw contrasts with jokes about Adam’s Nurse and wordplay in a Sunday school tale. Short quips describe hereditary and personal nobility counts, plus a playful exchange about a baby and a nurse.
A humorous exchange notes that bee-keeping was once seen as a light profitable hobby for men with leisure and a sizable yard. The quip underscores a newspaper article as the cause of the speaker’s surprised look.
The bicycle brings health and happiness to many while threatening certain trades. The Sunday theater has suffered since cycling grew popular and may close on Sundays for lack of patrons. Suburban transport loses riders to bikes, and a Sunday paper finds fewer readers. Laundry costs drop as cyclists skimp on formal attire. The piece notes bicycles are here to stay and rights of riders will shape future public benefit.
A prominent Quaker City doctor warns that tea drinking, especially cheap or poorly brewed tea, can cause grave functional disorders and symptoms such as headache dizziness indigestion despondency heart palpitations insomnia and even hallucinations and nausea after prolonged excess.
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