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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
6
A short shopper note promoting the store offers low prices and prompt delivery for telephone and in person orders. It highlights suggested teas coffees and spices and urges patrons to try them to be convinced of their excellence.
The National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness warns of over 1000 past cases of wood alcohol blindness and rising deaths nationwide. New York reports more than 25 fatalities since January as states tighten sales rules, while health officials urge enforcement and public education.
Bare legs dominate the scene in Poland with scarcely any stockings seen among the poor. Footwear ranges from wooden shoes to sandals while many wear bare feet in Warsaw and other large cities.
Two elderly men with long police records enter the Chicago detective bureau and joke with officers. Old Man French, 81, boasts decades of graft experience while the Kid, Adams, 65, is described as a seasoned partner with a history in crime and pockets of Europe.
Three Cherokee Indians enter a Kansas City air plane distributor and buy an unpainted yellow airplane for 8000 dollars. After inspecting the craft they reveal plans to have it painted but decide against it, preferring to use the new red plane to fly over Oklahoma soon.
Raoul Doridot, a French soldier prisoner in Germany, sought permission to reach his dying mother in Mouline. The request was granted by Emperor William with a promise to return to camp. Doridot went to Besancon, mother died, then returned to Germany to rejoin the camp, where the commandant praised his honor.
Sarajevo, scene of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination, shows luxury despite conflict. Belgrade compares favorably, cafes stocked, shops full, but services falter. American Red Cross and relief teams run child feeding programs. 3,000 Sarajevo schoolchildren and orphans receive daily rations of chocolate and roll.
Jerry the French bulldog belonging to Andrew Saxe avoided a heavy collar at a Highland Lake cottage. After a muddy nose clue, the dog reappeared and family members found the studded collar buried beneath the cottage where Jerry had dug a hole and covered it as if hiding a bone.
Yokohama public school teachers press for higher salaries to cope with living costs. Police blocked a mass meeting called by Yokohama primary teachers. A circular urged unity as the League of Nations frames a new world welfare. The government reportedly plans salary increases for teachers.
A very mannish white and gray checked wool suit features darts braiding and black bone buttons for smartness. A yellow straw hat satin bound and trimmed with velvet hearted pansies completes the chic ensemble.
The Seattle Times raises daily price to 5 cents and Sunday to 10 cents citing high costs. The paper notes Sunday weight of 1.5 pounds and paper cost about 7.44 cents, with daily at 0.5 pounds barely breaking even. West publishers face similar costs and weigh options to reduce size or raise prices.
Mrs. Agnes Fergis reports a burglar forced the back door of her residence at 817 Twenty fourth street and rifled two trunks. A single ancient one cent coin dated 798 was stolen along with a few other minor coins. a search is sought for the missing piece.
In Fairmont West Virginia a group of boys attached a piece of trolley wire to a bull by the neck and ran it across the Monongahela Valley Traction Co. tracks. The bull was electrocuted and traffic was delayed. Investigations followed with harrowing scenes in city woodsheds.
A New York City widow, aged fifty, leaped from a third story window after reading a German letter she had awaited for years stating relatives were killed in the war. The tragedy unfolded in a derelict apartment building.
Local report describes Gus and Peter Heeden discovering an old copper Indian spear lodged in a tire on Eagle Silver road near Rhinelander Wisconsin. The relic appears weathered and likely from a bygone era, with the vehicle tire damaged but no injuries reported.
Mrs. Seymour of Camden New Jersey warns bachelors that about five thousand British women plan to marry American soldiers and come to the United States. She urges military authorities to support such war brides as a benefit to the war effort and suggests arrangements to facilitate transportation for families and children.
At a Washington conference the Emergency Fleet corporation and the navy department ruled no wage hikes will be granted now to navy yard employees or shipyard workers engaged in government work.
The Kerr line steamship Jason docked in New York from Hamburg carrying 350 tons of toys glassware and sugar beet seeds the first German cargo since the war. Seven stowaways were aboard including six Americans and one German.
A resolution to establish daylight saving in New York City next year will be introduced in the board of aldermen by President Moran. If passed, neighboring communities may follow with similar action by their governing bodies.
The Women's Roosevelt Memorial association launches a drive to reissue the two cent coin showing a bas relief portrait of former President Roosevelt on the obverse. The coin, drawn from circulation in 1874, aims to honor the late president.
The state crop report says the cranberry crop is excellent and plentiful this year. Farmers began picking in New Jersey and the berries could be used to richen Thanksgiving or Christmas meals as desired.
A fragmented note praises sandpaper as a kitchen tool with many uses. It suggests fine sandpaper can remove unwanted bread portions and leaves a smooth surface, though the text is garbled and unclear on concrete actions or sources.
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