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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1883
Page
4
Articles in the Warren Mail criticize officers defying duty by gambling and thievery and urge merit based Army appointments. A Peck's Sun piece praises exam boards to choose officers from the poor over the rich, arguing it will strengthen the service and curb misconduct.
A Milwaukee Sentinel note praises California stage drivers for flawless control on rugged down hill routes. The piece describes six-horse teams guided with reverent skill, rapid downhill progress, and deep familiarity with every turn, rut, and stone across Sierra snow to valley grain, marking early summer as a backdrop.
A boy, misled into thinking walnut juice would harden skin, stained himself a mahogany color overnight. He faced the headmaster in the swishing room but was spared punishment after peers explained the harmless joke and the master found it humorous.
Indiana has lost the prize banner and the Boston Supreme Court docket overflows with divorce cases. Judgments come at times as fast as ten per hour as professional perjurers swindle testimony with collusion. Efforts to shift all business to Probate Courts have failed in the Legislature.
A Tuolumne County man runs a skunk ranch on Cow Creek trading secretions for high prices from Chinese buyers who prize the musk as medicine. A separate brief notes a five ton land roller passing over an Indiana man with no serious injury. he had been married thirty six years.
A Denver correspondent recalls the Mule Shoe Curve on Veta Pass in the Rocky Mountains. He describes dropping on a side track, a 30 degree bend, and the steep 217 feet per mile grade as two locomotives labor up the hillside with dramatic smoke and sparks lighting the rugged pines and rocks.
Mrs Grubbe landlady spoke insinuatingly to Colonel Harkle about his board bill at table. The colonel laid a curry comb beside his plate and then raked it over the butter when asked what he was doing. He claimed to be a collecting agent for an upholsterer, but stopped mid sentence. Observers call it a dramatic incident.
In Gainesville Judge James Bell of the Smithsonian, collecting venomous serpents for medical work, encounters a local Alachua county granger who faints upon learning the snake is poison. The man tears off his breeches and runs to a store exclaiming for help. Jacksonville Times reports.
Fortnightly Review laments the loss of artistic input in modern type design. It argues old Aldine and Baskerville faces from Italy and 18th century England rival modern fonts, noting Hogarth’s rumored link to Baskerville and French descendants as the true heirs. It urges a collaboration of decorative artists like Mr. Morris with type founders to create new, inspired letterforms for refined books.
In Society News a rural Arkansas paper reports Major Jack Muggle known in the community and who sells goods at Jack Fork married Miss Higtores. He yesterday shot and killed Col. Bloweall described as a gentleman of merit in business but slow in society.
Advice on raising daughters with practical skills and moral grounding. Emphasizes household duties, thrift, personal virtue, and the value of work over displays of wealth. Encourages health, self-reliance, and discerning judgment in suitors, pairing happiness in marriage with character.
Hayes and two companions went to the James River to kill fish with giant powder. Hayes lit a fuse while holding a half stick of explosive, refused to throw it, and tried to cut the fuse with a knife before the charge exploded, tearing him apart.
A humorous Arkansas Traveler excerpt contrasts a mother's threats to whip her daughter with the child’s evasive responses. The piece ends with a moral urging mothers to avoid false promises and to tell the truth.
Observations by M. Parize show red brick dust is largely minute living organisms. A 300x magnified sample from brick dust and brick interior reveals the same animalcules, with more in softer bricks and fewer in harder ones, suggesting micro-life drives weathering more than heat or frost.
Washington correspondent reports Benny Brewster, son of the Attorney General, cheekily pressed all electrical call buttons in the department causing a panic. The startled Solicitor General and twenty chiefs arrived in haste, only to be met by the Attorney General’s apology as Benny rolled with laughter on the carpet.
A House of Commons writer recalls MPs polite fakery with water. Ashmead-Bartlett is pictured carrying a hat with a tumbler hidden beneath it for his speech. He allegedly hides up to three tumblers, relying on Irish MPs to fetch more water if needed.
A New England cotton buyer met a Mississippi colored preacher who said he worked for the Lord on eight dollars a year and faced arrears of six dollars from his congregation. The preacher explained that collecting the money would bankrupt the church and ruin his meetin' house, highlighting a humorous dilemma.
A nursery scene shows a physician family grieving over a boy named Penjymin Leyi he dead after a tragic accident at a synagogue. The father explains a misfortune at the toot and grid, while a child asks about Job the doctor and a remark about patients.
A Cleveland correspondent recalls Amasa Stone's 20th century visit to a Cleveland high school. Stone attends the algebra class and is impressed by the students and the school’s teaching, noting the strong work and engaging demonstrations by the pupils. He vows to pay taxes cheerfully in support of education.
A Burlington Hawkeye excerpt argues that live-in servants suffer extreme isolation. It contrasts a tradesman household with a servant's confined life, noting hours from dawn to night, limited social contact, and the urge for small freedoms and companionship beyond kitchen walls.
In La Crosse Wisconsin a rich miser who sought marriage before death promised $3000 to a man who could find a spouse for him. The broker arranged a wife, but after the wedding the old man refused payment. The agent claimed the sum after the death and recovered $1400.
A young man about twenty bragging of his exploits arrives with a younger girl in Bay City. He plans a staged assault to impress her, but a larger man intervenes, humbles him by tossing him among hides, and the girl reassures him she is unharmed while he frets over potential murder.
The Zulu claim baboons are humans transformed by Tusi the Amafene chief who led idle people into the wilderness where digging tools grew into tails and hair covered their bodies. The idea mirrors old German belief that storks once were men and became birds in Germany.
Cincinnati judges declare frozen food unsafe for consumption and convict sellers of distributing it. The ruling emphasizes public health safeguards and imposes penalties on violators.
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