30 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1879
Page
1
A collage of verse and prose pieces recalls Whittier's cider mill poem and a New York Examiner vignette on the old fashioned little girl. The selections celebrate rural charm and virtuous domestic ideals, contrasting 19th century simplicity with modern habits.
A terse sequence shows time stamps like 12:21 am 12:30 am and 12:36 pm 12:47 pm with 19 57 am. the fragment hints at a log or schedule capture but lacks clear event details or identities. The readable elements suggest a chronology of moments, not a full report of what occurred or who was involved.
A roster of congregations including Lutheran Baptist Presbyterian Episcopal Methodist Evangelical Scandinavian and Catholic services. Each entry lists the pastor and service times with Sabbath School when noted. Dates are not specified.
P Green land secretary reports Regular meetings of House Council No 41 Mutual Protective Association held on the 2d and 4th Thursdays in Good Templars Hall with details for members.
A transformed verse condemns punishing women while excusing men. It urges women to shun improper paths yet support male success and fidelity. The poem calls for harsh judgment of a sister who faces danger and warns to trust a figure who led her to ruin.
A brief note from Up Country dated August 20 shows a couple’s strong accord as Julia writes to John she will stay another week and is enjoying a splendid time with affection.
A group of American tourists in Rome prank a fellow patriot by placing him drunk in the catacombs. He awakens among skulls and skeletons, calls out jokes to the skulls and proclaims “Rah for the United States” as daylight nears.
General Grant states that travel in Japan is as secure for unarmed foreigners as in New England. He notes Japan’s universal free schooling for males and females, with English language textbooks and five years of study before entering college.
The roster of prominent dignitaries who met General Grant on his world tour includes twenty one sovereigns beginning with Queen Victoria and ending with the Mikado of Japan, plus notable leaders Prince Bismarck and M Gambetta, described as powers behind the thrones of Germany and France.
A Sun reporter visits a Bleaker Street shoe store and interviews clerk Charles Wolf about gaiters. He notes sizes from number ones to nines, remarks on Irish American customers, and contrasts Yankee Southern and Jersey feet with colorful, period voice.
Nasby argues Southern Democrats use direct coercion rather than persuasion. He contrasts William Tweed’s buyable machine with Southern methods relying on intimidation, gun violence, and party discipline to suppress dissent.
In Peoria Illinois two Andersonville survivors reunite on a streetcar after fifteen years. Veteran January recalls his brutal prison ordeal including amputating his own feet with scissors to survive. Jones, once barely alive from gangrene, was rescued by a Southern woman and aided to reach Union lines.
Miss Baldwin of Morris Otsego county aged fifteen weighs 140 pounds. Last week she pitched four thousand twenty bundles of oats onto a wagon and helped store them in the barn. The next day she went to Schenevus on business then loaded two more oat loads for storage. She is said to perform as much daily work as nearly any man in the harvest field.
An advertisement touts the Universal Pain Annihilator by yourhorndale’s English Lin iment as instant relief for rheumatism neuralgia back pain chest pain scalds bruises and more. Sold by Wells & Noyes at 50 cents.
The Secretary of the Navy orders a grand naval review early in October to educate American boys as sailors. A fleet drill sham battle and maneuvers will be held. He warns that many sailors are foreigners and seeks to train native born boys for naval service.
A young man named Roger from Indiana county was bitten by a rattlesnake. He cut an onion, removed the heart, filled it with salt, and applied it to the wound, changing the poultice every two hours before resuming work unharmed.
The Noblest Aim of Science touts Thorndale's English Remedy for throat and lung diseases as a high character cure. It claims instant relief for bronchitis asthma coughs croup whooping cough hoarseness and consumption with rapid action. Sold by Wells and Noyes at fifty cents and one dollar.
The Virginia City Enterprise quotes strong authority claiming Kalloch of San Francisco escaped serious injury from a shot. The bullet allegedly caused only a slight flesh wound, with no missed meals or sleep, described as a political martyr act.
Citizens accuse authorities of indiscriminate dog killings in Meadville, regardless of age or previous condition, and question why un taxed Warren dogs should be spared or targeted.
Frederick Meyer displays an incubator that hatches eggs without a hen, using a three tier wooden box with warm water and a controlled heat cycle. The device mimics natural incubation, delivering even warmth and ventilation to raise forty eggs into healthy chicks while the inventor claims to have perfected eighteen years of experimentation.
A string of brief items and witticisms: jokes about marriage and clocks, a joke on bakers, notes on telephones and oil, Cuba fighting, Grant’s daughter Nellie Sartoris visiting, many references to patents and locomotives, wages in Pennsylvania coal fields, Vanderbilt railway empire, women teachers abroad, Shakespearean quips, moonshine evasion in Alabama, a large Smith family reunion in New Jersey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes still busy with medical school duties and possible new volumes.
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