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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1890
Page
6
A review outlines Corbett McCaffrey bouts, predicts enduring public debate over the new league, and notes the National League’s direction, with commentary on managers, players, and key matchups. It also covers Sullivan Jackson talks, possible purses, and upcoming sculling and boxing challenges with multiple named clubs and athletes.
Charlie Foley shares gossip about a National League team visiting Boston. The squad, fatigued after a southern swing, lost three of four to Billie Barnie's slick lineup with Dimples Tate umpiring one game. Notable notes include Long's costly errors and Chicago's Dutch shoemaker struggles.
Boston fans see Lowe as a bright prospect while Clarkson and Hardie earn praise in early season matchups. The Boston Brotherhood report highlights injuries and weather affecting play, club finances near May, and internal squabbles with Ganzel and Johnston. Toronto and Chicago are noted as strong batteries, with Comiskey praised as captain and Baldwin tied to Pittsburgh.
Henry Foote a 28 year old widower enticed Minnie Burt for a drive and threatened to kill her if she left. He drove to Hamden and forced a marriage at Rev Hubbell's home before returning to New Haven. The couple will be separated for a divorce suit.
Mrs. Mary Stevens wife of J W Stevens superintendent of the Merchants Arc Light and Power Co disappeared from her home with her young son Harry last Thursday. Despondent over the loss of a favorite son who was run over by a train her husband believes she boarded a lake with the child.
A batch of brief items notes Stanley leaving Paris for Brussels, earthquakes in the Queen Charlotte Islands, a Pennsylvanian fatally injured while coupling cars, a Canadian colonel winning 10000 damages over an insult, and forest fires harming Connecticut. Other items report typhoid at Augustan College, political unrest in Galicia, and crimes including a Toronto flogging and an attempted murder in Elizabeth New Jersey.
An assortment of advertisements features Dickson the tailor at 65 Fifth avenue selling spring suits by M Auker, with other notices for Lochinvar awnings by Mamauz & Son and Etamise dress goods priced at $1 a yard.
San Francisco April 19 Promoters say the Pacific Short Line railroad will reach Omaha by January next and Ogden soon after, with the company maintaining an independent agency to auction rights to bidders. The tale mirrors the old pattern of ambitious rail proposals and public bidding.
A reader letter from Howard Ohio praises a home treatment for various ailments including habitual bead ache coughs worms colic and catarrh. Dr Byers listed as successor to Logan & Byers claims success with chronic diseases and offers low rate medicine with a busy practice.
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