The Dispatch Advertising Office and News Rooms How to Find
Public notice lists the Business Office at Smithfield and Diamond Streets and the Tribune Building New York housing The Dispatch offices. It notes sale points Brentano's Union Square New York and Open Avenue Paris with foreign readers invited to obtain copies.
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Smithfield
Diamond Streets
Diamond Street
Fasteven
Tribune Building
New York
Dispatch
THE
Brentano
Union Square
Paris
France
Dispatch Rate Notices For Daily Weekly And Sunday Editions
The Dispatch offers price details for daily weekly and Sunday editions including one year one month and carrier delivery options. It urges patrons who move to notify the office with their new address to avoid interruption in delivery and notes carrier notification methods.
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Datty Merarca
Seeit
Law Must Rule as Rioters Face Massive Opposition
The Morewood Coke Works riot underscores the need for strong enforcement of law and militia deployment to curb mob violence. It highlights disputed accounts of who attacked property and calls out labor and foreign workers in the broader debate on industrial disruption and national policy.
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Morewood
American coal wins new overseas market for steamships
The article notes American coal rapidly replacing English coal on great steamship lines. North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Packet Co choose American coal, attracted by price and quality. This opens new markets, creates more mining work, and helps prevent prolonged shutdowns, with freight ships consuming more coal than passenger vessels.
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Lloyd
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Lake Erie Canal
Pittsburg
Thix
America
Play Ball Returns Amid Peaceful Shakeup in Baseball
The season opens with calmer ties between clubs and public, following last year’s turmoil. New blood enters the field as veteran hitters depart, promising fresh rivalries and a focus on home runs and harmony in the coming games.
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Gold
Clory
Let the Play Go On Amid Baseball Season Intrigues
The piece urges patience in the early season, study the score intricacies, watch new baseball stars, defer to the umpire on all calls, and cheer for the home club while noting the perch bound spectator.
New Immigration Regulation Takes Effect With Broad Provisions
The new immigration law, effective Wednesday, expands powers to inspect newcomers for self sustaining citizenship. It aims to bar indigent, criminal and undesirable classes and sets swift enforcement penalties to deter Europe’s so called squads, demanding strict application by federal agents at the gateways.
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Europe
What Brazil Needs
The author warns against Brazil's risky new financial policy favoring unlimited bank money and speculative ventures. It urges a conservative path opening lands to emigrants to fund development, avoid debt, and deter revolutionary currents, arguing sturdy settlers would stabilize governance and growth.
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Brazil
Brasil
Tory Enjoyment Over Recall of Baron Fava
The British Tory press gloats over Baron Fava’s recall while the United States declines to mock or interfere. The piece notes that American policy avoids taking winged criticisms seriously and mocks editors ignorant of the U S Constitution and the principles of popular government.
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Baron Fava
Sam
United States
Artistic and Manual Training in Public Schools Debate
A Boston conference on next week will discuss art and manual training in public schools. The piece argues that while artistic training grows, it risks producing unprepared workers, and manual training could overburden students who should exit school earlier to seek work.
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Boston
Italy
Local War Preparations Prompt Reader Attention
The article praises the Eighteenth Regiment for quick mobilization after an order from the Governor and notes a focus on local unrest. It also mentions Bis marck’s April 1 birthday, Jerry Smpson’s Wall Street vault incident affecting re election prospects, Kansas farmers’ stance on wealth, and toll collection on the Perrysville avenue road ending, allowing Allegheny to ease relations with sister second class cities.
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Jerry Smpson
Sun-Treasury
Wallstreet
Kansas
Perrysville Avenue
Allegheny
Italians and geopolitics mix in a frail balance of power
The text notes Italian influence apparent in current events and suggests Humbert’s claim of Italian culpability in a Morewood death. It mentions ToLEpo’s 36000 gallon cask and hints at Ohio campaigning uses. It also covers racial school segregation in the Delaware Senate and a broad quip about Uncle Sam, Italy, and shelling.
Corset Saves Schenectady Woman from Fatal Shot
A Schenectady woman was saved when a bullet struck her corset steel, stopping the fatal shot from her brother-in-law. The incident highlights the debate over corset usefulness and fashion norms. The article also notes public opinion on Rudini as rude.
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Schenectady
Henry M. Stanley's Texas lecture fears and war echoes
The article notes Henry M. Stanley avoided lecturing in Texas due to Confederate desertion rumors, while public figures debate the impact of his loss on Texas. It mentions LA GRIPPE and the License Court in a corner discussion, reports a saloon discovery in Cincinnati jail and a Pittsburg speakeasy arrest, and comments on tensions in the coke country. President Harrison plans a San Francisco trip, with a geographic aside about distances from Rome to Washington.
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Harrison
San Francisco
Rome
Washington, D. C
Notable Figures and Anecdotes From Across a Century
A patchwork of brief notes profiles ex-mayors, poets, and society figures. It mentions ex-mayor Hewitt’s persistence, Colonel Ochiltree as poet Lasca’s author, Joan Rockefeller with a cane, and various American and European personalities from astronomy to theater. The item weaves reflections on health, travel, arts, and political links.
Cunard Plans Two 14,000-Ton Ocean Steamships
The Cunard Steamship Company contracts a Clyde shipbuilder to construct two steamships of 14,000 tons each. The vessels are designed to cross the ocean in five days, marking a new speed target for transatlantic travel.
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Conard Company
Cunard Steamship Company
Frm
Clyde
Grant Monument Work Set for April 27 Ceremonies
New York on April 2 reports the ground breaking for the Ulysses S. Grant monument will occur April 27 with formal ceremonies. The Grand Army of the Republic will oversee the events.
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Grant Monument
New York
Gronund
G. A.R
Allegheny Senators Push Wide Range of Bills in Legislative Session
A report from Harmanspurs details Allegheny county Senators introducing numerous measures. Bills cover taxes, morgues, notaries, public health, licensing, street railways, annexation, and protections for labor, housing, and public safety. House actions mirror the farmed slate with changes to highways, schools, and insurance rules.
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Harmanspurs
Allegheny County
Steel
Mr. Neeb
Morrison Foster
Finnon
Flinn
Matilda Gross McConnell
Upperman
Graham
Stewart
Courts of Common Pleas
Marshall
St. McCullough
Aoe
Nesbit
Whitely Shops Near Springfield Foreclosure Sale Planned
The Whitely shops at Springfield, the world’s second largest, will be sold under mortgage foreclosure in a few days. They cost 1,500,000 dollars including machinery valued at 500,000. Receiver George H. Frey seeks purchasers. Appraisers A. K. Ludlow G. S. Foos and Fuller Trump named.
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Columnes
Great Whitely
Springfeld
George H. Frey
A. KR. Ludlow
G. 8
Foos
Fuller Trump
Arkansas Senate blocks World’s Fair exhibit funding bill
The Arkansas Senate rejected advancing a House bill that would have appropriated about $90,000 for a state exhibit at the World’s Fair. The measure failed to reach a third reading, despite support in the chamber.
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Senate
House
Ature
Deaths of a Day in the Nation and Beyond
Reports from Washington and other cities note the death of General Albert Pike at 8 PM, with potential successors named for the Scottish Rite leadership. Separate notices record Miss Jane O Swan of Allegheny dying in Los Angeles after health travel, and brewer George Gerst and London financier Thomas Baring also passing away.
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Washington
Albert Pike
Pike
Josiah H. Drummond
Maine
Royal Order of Scotland
J. M. Brown
Navy
Thomas H. Caswell
California
Thomas M. Dudley
Kentucky
Los Angeles
Cal
Jane O. Swan
Swan
Allegheny
Windrim Nears Philadelphia Public Works Directorship
James H. Windrim, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, has been offered the Philadelphia Public Works Director post. He would resign his Treasury role to focus on the Girard estate, which pays $10,000 yearly, plus his $1,500 Treasury salary. A formal acceptance awaited the tender and press reports say he is inclined to accept. The appointment would be a significant departure from current duties, described by a Mint official as a calamity to the Treasury.
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Windrim
Mint
Leech
Treasury Department
California
Centerville
Ocala
Fla
Big Four
Anderson, Inc
Savannah
Georgia
Marbia
Marietta and North Georgia
Gaylon Post Office
Emmons County
N. Dak
Remembered from Abroad Elegant Silver Gift to Mr Shinn
An exhibition at Tieyd & Shafer's on Fifth Avenue displays an oak case holding four large pieces of massive silverware. A letter from James Kitson, president of the Iron and Steel Institute, thanks Mr Shinn for directing a 1880 visit to the United States and notes a token gift of silver candlesticks and candelabra.
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Tieyd & Shafer's
Fifth Avenue
Victoria Manktons
Victoria Street
Loxpox
3. A
William P. Rhinn
Sir
Ironaod Steel Institute
United States
Iron and Steel Institute
Computetr
Institute
Sherman Faction Moves Against Foraker in Ohio Senate
Special telegram from Columbus reports Sherman allies in the Ohio Legislature plotting to block Foraker backed efforts to name the U S Senate candidate at the next Republican State Convention. Sherman opposition seeks a fresh show of support from peers as he aims to win re election. A letter requesting Sherman visit Columbus for consultation was signed by most Republican lawmakers.
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Columbus
Sherman
Ohio
Foraker
United States Senate
Sharman
Mansfield
Miss Bayard Weds a Count in Wilmington Ceremony
Count R A Lewentaupt and Miss Ellen Bayard wed at Delamoree Place in Wilmington attended by about 100 guests. Bishop Coleman officiated. the couple will reside at 1017 Adamas Street with no bridal tour.
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Wilmington
R. A. Lewentaupt
Ellen Bayard
Thomas I. Bayard
Delamoree Place
Cleveland
Adama Street
Baron Hockfrus
A Legation
An Baroness Posse
Houston
W. Platt
George W. Childs
Henry Bayard
Sane Aera
Samuel Warren
Boston
E. Fraser
E. Lawson
E. L. Peacock
Pennsylvania
Benator
George Gray
Comegys
Wales and Grubb
L. V. Vandergrift
Sugar price war looms among Chicago jobbers
A prospective price war in sugar markets emerges in Chicago as wholesale grocers plan to lower granulated sugar to 44 cents per pound April 1 amid a 40 cent retail sale and a carload shipment at 45.9 cents. Rival dealers may undercut further, despite limited stock and initial objections from some merchants.
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CaicaGo
Alos
Lere
Italian Colonies Searched for Labor Violations
Alien Labor Inspector J Lester from Springfield NL reports suspected violations of the alien labor contract law in the colonies of the south. He cites evidence against a Louisville ironmaker who imported five Scottish puddlers and plans exhaustive research into Italians not citizens working under contract, tied to a dispute with Italy.
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Avrilz
A. J. Lester
Springfield
Louisville
Scotland
Lester
Indians ratify sale of jointly owned district
The Chickasaw Council ratified the sale of a leased district owned jointly by the Choctaws and Chickasaws, with a one quarter ownership. Their share totals 747.70, to be divided per capita, about 1000 dollars per Indian. The Choctaw Council meets today to ratify and decide per capita distribution.
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Paris
Tex
Discovery to cut tool steel costs for ordinary items
Charles Henderson of this city reports an important discovery that will reduce steel costs from 40 cents to ? cents per pound. The process allows ordinary soft machine steel to be used for all tools, matching high grade silver steel with no breaking or tempering flaws.
Cupid in his element wedding season in Sewickley and beyond
A day of society nuptials with Miss Martha Nevin and Mr. John Broomall Booth at the Nevin home in Sewickley, followed by Beatrice Littell and James Harvey Bonl in an Esplanade street home ceremony. Also noted are Oakland M E Church youths staging a musical program and a Beatty family wedding at Osborn station with Charles Francis Arrott.
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Martha Mary Nevin
John Broomall Booth
Sewickley
Hannah Nevin
W. 0. Campbell
Sewickley Presbyterian Church
T. H. Nevin
Allegheny First National Bank
Philadelphia
Relationship
Mesdrs
R. P. Nevin, Jr
Fred Irwin Nevin
Frank Nevin
Mr. Hopper
Hagan
Beatrice E. Littell
James Harvey Bonl
Littell
Esplanade Street
B. F. Woodburn
Jean
Ada Littell
England
Beal
Shadyside
Young People’s Society of the
Oakland M. E. Church
Liberty School Hall
Ned
Oakland Orchestra
Cora Sellers
Grace Miller
E. Ai. Dermitt
Fannie Haliet
William Sutley
H. B. Brockett, Jr
Adelaide Lare
Smith Family
Sellers
J. A. McGowin
Tie McDonald
Osborn Station
Beatty
Emma V
Charles Francis Arrott
Wood Street Life Insurance Firm
A. M. Campbell
Kennedy
Social and wedding notices from the Cyclorama and Pittsburgh area
The Helping Hand Society plans an entertainment and the Cyclorama dancing class closes with a reception next Monday evening at the Cyclorama. Peter Shields wed Miss Cora Hagan at St Pauls Cathedral. Utopia Circle OC L G meets Monday. Young People's Aid Society offers a musical and culinary program next Tuesday. AA Christian Endeavor ice cream social planned. Academy of Science and Art hosts W D Moore on Darwin fossil flora evidence. Florence O Mealy wed Rev W E Purvis at New Wilmington yesterday.
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Helping Hand Society
BR. N.onark
Fifth Aven
Peter Shields
St. Paul's Cathedral
Cora Hagan, Sasentee
John Ragan
Young People's Aid Society
Fifth Avenue M
Christian Endeavor Society
First Methodist Protestant Church
Union Avenue
Allegheny
Academy of Science and Art
W. D. Moore
Florence
Old Fight Over Board of Control at World’s Fair
Chicago April. The World’s Fair National Commission today faced a clash with the Board of Control over site decisions at Jackson Park salaries for top officers and appointments by Director General Davis. The commission voted to ignore the board on key questions signaling further clashes and possible abolition moves.
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Chicago
Board of Control
Jackson Park
Davis
National Commission
West Coast Sugar Refining Co形成 Spreckels Havemeyer pact
The Spreckels and Havemeyer factions seal a joint venture named West Coast Sugar Refining Company. The two refineries will alternate operation with American Refinery idle periods, and prices for cube, crushed, and dry granulated sugar fall modestly despite the sugar duty removal. Yellow sugar shows a small rise of 1 cent.
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San
Purchase of Amazon Steam Navigation Company Completed
Brazil’s Empreza de Obras Publicas completes acquisition of the Amazon Steam Navigation Company for 4.25 million dollars. First installment of 0.5 million paid in Europe. Transfer includes river steamers, offices, and landings across the Amazon basin and tributaries, spanning over 40,000 miles of navigation.
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Brazil
Amazon Steam Navigation Company
Empreza de Obias Publicas
Europe
Amazon River
Lumber Run Fends Off Rain Boosts Tionesta Lumber Output
Orry April 2 The late rain increased river levels and developers report the season’s largest run. About 2,000,000 feet of lumber and timber was moved downstream along Tionesta creek, boosting lumbermen’s profits amid rising waters.
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Orry
Tionesta Creek
Italy's Fine Navy A Surging Sea Power in Armored Ships
Italy fields seven large armored battleships of 10 500 to 14 000 tons with high speed and heavy main guns. Vessels carry four 10 inch guns, reduce side armor, and emphasize protected power plants and magazines. Describes the Duko Andrea Doria Morosini Lauria Lepanto Italia and new additions plus numerous commerce destroyers and torpedo vessels.
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Humbert
United States
New York
Italy
Gowee
Duko
Andrea Doria
Francesco Morosini
Ruggiero di Lauria
Roggiero di Lauria
Lepanto
Italia
Tralia
Castellamare
Leghorn
Sicilia
Palestro
Amerigo Vespucci
Columbo
Savoia
Flavio Gioja
Giovanni Bausan
Ee Oeene &Co
Etna
Stromboli
Vesuvio
Fieramoseas
Rani W. Hawthorn, Laslie & Co
Hewcuni-On-S Yee
Sabe
Armstrong & Co
Tripoli
Gotto
Montebello
Monzambano
Mediterranean
Falgore
Laetta
Archimede
Galileo
America
Angelo Emo
Confienza
Curious Condensations Remnants of Odd Facts From The Nation
A collage of quirky items from Peoria silver ore finds and fog light limits to woodwork fads in New York and a Washington district arrestee. Includes oddities on safety pockets, easy divorce in South Dakota, a cat in Franklin aged 72, Jamaica ginger shipments, Kodiak Island fruit climate, and a Pennsylvania hen with oddly large eyes.
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Washington, D. C
Cavendish Square
London
Sioux Falls
Franklin, Ga
Boston
Jamaica
Maine
Kodiak Island
Alaska
New England
Philadelphia
Phi Kappa Psi District Convention in Meadville
The third biennial Phi Kappa Psi district convention is in Meadville with thirteen colleges represented including Cornell Syracuse and Penn. W W Youngman of Allegheny was elected to the Executive Council. The next convention will be in Philadelphia with Swarthmore and Penn supporters. A reception and a banquet close the event.
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Rere
Ee - Pator
Meadville
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Cornell
Syracuse
Hobart
Colgate
New York
University of Pennsylvania
Washington and Jefferson
Washington, Pa
Allegheny
Buchtel
Dickinson
Lafayette
Franklin and Marshall
Swarthmore
Pennsylvania College
W. W. Youngman
Koch Consumption Cure Discussed at German Surgical Congress
April 1 The German Surgical Congress opened with Prof Bergmann presenting the Koch treatment as a specific cure for tuberculosis. Other speakers questioned the remedy while notes on its efficacy circulated during the session.
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Beeeman
Prof
Bergmann
Philosophers Point and Quick Quips Across the Page
A collage of humorous exchanges and comic vignettes from a late era page. A boastful statesman’s envoy, literary musings, a doctor patient skit, and light verse mix with shoppers and gossip as readers glimpse crosswords of wit. Names and details anchor a snapshot of daily humor.
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Ittsburg Postoffice
Iss
Tory
Bismarck
Tolepo
Delaware Senate
Mason and Dixon
Uncle Sam
Austro-Hungary
Rudini
Henry M. Stanley
Texas
Stanley
Cincinnati
Hewitt
Insomnia
Thomas P. Ochiltree
Lasca
Joan D. Rockefeller
Courtress
Youna
Princeton
Grex Eral
Dan Sutterfield
Compte de Paris
Margaret Sangster
Grover Govip
Edith Kingdon
Daly's Theater
Queenx Victoria 1
Lord Onslow
New Zealand
Taikoa
Onslow
Burdett-Coutts
P. T. Barnum
Rosedeans
Register of the Treasury
Ernest Longrellow
Longfellow
Eine Houmsert
Howard Crosser
General Bovuancee
Morley’s Hotel
St. Louis
Michael O’brien Datton
Tim Healy
Healy
Donegal
C. M. Smarn
Misa Todd
Mary Todd
Lincoln
Bevatn
Smith
White House
Culbertson
Muehlbroner
Jones
Richards
John Joos
Kearns
Mr. Hynd
Claus
Arkansas
Miss Jane Swan
George Gerst
Madison Avenue
Theny
Thomas
Baring
House of Maring Hros, & Co
Mary Connors
McKeesport
Mary
Pepe
Ornoon
A Treasury
Souveenir
Mr. Shinn
James Kitson
Checkmating Forakker
Miss Bayard
Cupid
Glenwood
Hazel Glen Council
No. 208
Mendelssohn Orchestra
Lillian Burkhart
Jennie Day Gogley
Ray
J. H. Gogley
Stephen Callins
Tre
Utopia Circle
OC. L. G
Evan ~ Penton
Miss Evans
Crawford Stree
World's Fair National Commission
Spreckelses
Havemeyers
Amazon
Peoria
Westtown
Chester County
Idaho
Sespe
Ventura
Bethlehem
York
Flo
Brill Hart
KOCH
Lobby
KE. S
Chicago Times
Pensington
Pusat
Medina
Buffalo Kapress
Meorgie Weetiy
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