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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1889
Page
9
A Manila to Havana piece describes Cuban life under Spanish rule, noting a mixed, resistant population bound to ancestral laws. It details street life, architecture, utensils, and the daily routines in Havanas homes, including kitchens and servant labor, while critiquing cleanliness and colonial control.
The account sketches a vast unfenced forest spanning from Gaboon to the great lakes, with a width of hundreds of miles. It notes dense tree canopies blocking sun, hidden Batwa communities, and branch-dwelling huts along the Sunkuru river. It cites Kund, Tappenbeck, Wissmann led to early village discoveries and Bishop Taylor's Africa goal.
An 19th century overview outlines how Allegheny Observatory around Pittsburgh operates to determine standard time. It describes the building layout, instruments, and especially the time service using chronometers and clocks to send electrical signals to railroads and cities, funding, and ongoing research components.
The article describes the transit room telescope used to verify clock accuracy by timing star transits, and details the large 13 inch aperture telescope rebuilt by Clark and Brashear. It highlights Langley’s moon heat research with the bolometer and galvanometer, studying radiation, absorption, and atmospheric effects, plus color light tests and observatory library growth.
London Globe reports on John Aitken whose invention counts dust particles in air. In a cubic inch near a ceiling 88 340 000 dust atoms were found. by a Bunsen flame 489 000 000 particles. He compares gas density to Britain's population and notes vast dust presence in breaths.
In New York Herald reporting, automatic bartenders operate with 5 10 and 25 cent slots to dispense liquor based on coin input. Machines are set up outside the state lines, and the harshest penalty mentioned is a month’s imprisonment, which does not affect the machine or its liquor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Eckley Brinton Coxe, heiress of vast Luzerne and Carbon county coal lands. Despite immense royalties and leadership of a major leasing firm, he favors simple dress and hard labor, mining engineer by day and scholar by night, fluent in several languages and a translator of Wiesbachs mathematics at nineteen.
A well dressed young woman on a Brooklyn Bridge train yesterday morning discreetly took a pinch of tobacco from a package and disposed of it daintily. She faced the shocked gaze of fellow passengers with a calm, innocent look, an appearance not particularly pretty but suggesting intelligence. The scene drew attention as a rare sight in modern times.
Dialogue shows Pinny Poole pressing Ally Rounder about securing a downtown store position and references. Ally admits no, while Pinny complains about the old boss demanding perfection and sound references before employment.
A long excerpt recounts old Salem life a hundred years ago with Sarah Parris and Harry Curwen. Curwen joins General Knox staff while the couple face peril and longing as they travel the Monongahela toward Marietta. A Virginian youth Clendenin tells a frontier massacre tale as the party camps and shares a rough wilderness meal with Indians and settlers.
A narrative recounts a brutal marine ordeal where Sarah Pareis describes drenched distress, quick thinking, and mutual aid among women as Shawnee danger looms. Mary, fear, and the fire scene reveal resilience, warmth, and an unlikely bond formed during peril.
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