100 Years Ago in Warren: Potato grifters and young toughs
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in November 1912: Plenty of coal The coal shortage is apparently over as far as Warren is concerned anyway, as The Staples Coal Co., seems to have a good supply on hand and one of the barges of this company is discharging a [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Oysters and racers
Taken from the pages of the Barrington and Warren Gazette this week in November 1912: Sixty miles per hour! Barney Oldfield caught by the camera while making a mile a minute: Barney Oldfield is the king of speed artists when it comes to smashing automobile records. At Fort Smith, Ark., recently he made a new [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Popular oysters and dry taverns
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in October 1912: * Wonder is that the temperance organizations don’t shut down on base ball when the bases often get full right in the middle of the game. * There should be plenty of nuts this year, and a few sharp frosts [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: Tramps and hobos
Pulled from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in August 1912: America by bike Seldom outside a theater or first class circus, and then only unless you have paid a good round price for tickets, are you permitted to witness so high a grade of trick and comedy bicycle riding as [...]
Read More →100 Years Ago in Warren: A ‘soul-stirring’ rescue
Taken from the pages of the Warren and Barrington Gazette this week in August 1912: Soul-stirring rescue It came near being a drowning accident with two victims. It turned out to be a tale of heroism, that deserves recognition by a Carnegie medal. William Platt, a boy living at the mill boarding house with his [...]
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