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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1889
Page
7
A poor couple’s daughter Florence dies after a forest snake bite. Birds carry a crystal casket to her parents and a king’s family, including a prince, mourn and then take the casket to a marble hall. A tutor guides the prince to seek a cure by discovering the snake’s species.
The Prince finds a dead snake bearing the inscription I killed the fair and beautiful Florence. He carries it to his father’s castle. The tutor uses snake tail broth to revive Florence, who awakens and later marries the Prince. Four white doves vanish at the wedding.
A vintage Dispatch style guide urges men to embrace wool undergarments and flannel shirts as summer essentials. It details shirt fabrics, washing, suspenders versus belts, coat choices, footwear, and straw hats, proposing a complete cool, practical "freeman" wardrobe with a suggested $50 outfit to honor the flannel shirt pioneer.
A portrait gallery of literary figures and thinkers: William Black, Lytton, Mrs. Beeton, Herman Melville, Constance Carey, Rosa Veetner Jeffrey, Henry James, Appleton Morgan, Aldrich, Swinburne, Julian Hawthorne, Donald Mitchell, Tennyson, the Prince of Wales, and Epavuno Gosse. The piece notes their appearance, temperaments, travels, and social roles within 19th century letters.
A portrait of Prof. F. W. Hayden founder of the Geological Survey of the United States. The article recalls his genius and erratic habits including a Sioux captivity episode and his fearless, sought-after scientific spirit. It notes his death last year and the regard of young survey members.
A Washington man wed his mother in law in a case noted by the St. Paul Globe. The marriage was already illegal under a statute over a century old, provoking debate on social norms and the potential impact on other family members.
In Bell township Clearfield county an abandoned coal bank forms a natural ice house about 12 miles from Punxsutawney. Water drips through rock crevices in early spring creating chilling ice formations as residents note.
A London based Lady Guide Association offers educated women to serve as guides for strangers in sight seeing shopping and travel. Services include arranging apartments, hotels, or long term stays, escorting children across Europe, and advising on dress etiquette. Over 700 registered guides with varying certificated levels, with expansion planned to Paris and other capitals.
A traveler recounts a comic incident on a sleeper car between Sioux City and Manila Junction. An elderly couple argued over room size and later woke to find a 120 pound passenger occupying their berth. The porter moved the stranger, but the couple remained asleep despite the chaos and confusion.
August Wide Awake recalls President Lincoln in Virginia camps where he suffered rheumatism while at work. Mrs Lincoln despairingly asks Stanton to lock him out, and Lincoln quips about comfort as he endures illness and long red flannel wear.
In a formal committee exchange a clerk reads a letter from the King of Hawaii to a designated Sir, requesting sustenance or a favor until the day after tomorrow. The exchange appears framed as a diplomatic inquiry conveyed through the Foreign Affairs committee clerk.
The essay argues that Christianity has grown in numbers and influence but questions inward spiritual health. It cites the apostolic era, Puritan Massachusetts, and Roger Williams to show past tensions, praising the modern Sunday school while urging better teacher preparation, graded structure, and purposeful, efficient sessions.
The writer argues that sensational news drives the nation more than thinking or culture. Germany’s ideas are cited, but the daily press dominates public life with vivid episodes from Mackenzie to Bismarck, royalty to politics, journalism shaping national affairs and culture.
A series of religious maxims and reflections on duty faith and the soul. Notable voices include Canon Wilberforce Adolphe ALWAT Pascal and John Wesley. The text debates happiness in God on earth evidence of Christianity and the existence of the soul amid scientific doubt.
A fragmented page presents wordplay and puzzle items including The Fireside Sphinx and The Magic Pasture. It includes mnemonics and a farmer sheep distribution problem seeking a unique odd-numbered field arrangement and cross-field totals.
A barrister toils over a missing witness amid a tangled riddle of numbers and words. The page lists multiple wordplay items including 686 Numerical Enigma, 687 Metageam, 688 Double Rectangle, 680 Riddle, and 690 Zebus, with clues hinting at hidden letters, transformations, and thematic puzzles.
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