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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1890
Page
9
A Pittsburgh reporter records daily hot workplace conditions across several factories and mills. Thermometers reach 110 to 130 degrees in paper boxes, stereotyping, book-binding, rolling mills, and blast furnaces, with workers cooling via ice water and oatmeal.
The article describes high furnace temperatures in several mills including Oliver Bros. & Phillips and Hainsworth Bessemer Steel Works. Workers endure near 120 to 135 degrees with extended shifts, crucibles weighing about 80 pounds, and continuous relay work. Officials note heat as a major hazard but workers continue with precautions.
The article notes Esquimaux beliefs in ghosts and soul transmigration into animals winds rocks ice and water. It describes rites to influence wind, destruction hoodoo practices, tribal bans and death from ostracism, eclipses causing fear, earthquakes tied to eclipses, and village rituals with drum and mask ceremonies.
Acoma near Le Mesa Encalada records a wind and flood that collapsed the upper stairs of the mesa top during harvest. A cloud burst swept away the notched rock path, burying the summit and leaving three women stranded above as the town below worked below. No rescue could reach them.
New York World notes how Western songwriter James C Stewart believed liquor sparked his best songs. He thought intoxication was needed for pop hits and resisted arguments against the idea, yet his most successful works came while in that altered state.
A London correspondent reports British MPs disbelief in tariff retaliation against the McKinley Act. Thomas Burt argues England will not retaliate. free trade remains dominant. The piece also surveys Liberal hopes for Ireland home rule, with Gladstone's leadership seen as pivotal and Irish leaders relying on his stance to advance autonomy.
Shirley Dare offers cosmetics and dyeing mixtures to Tem Dispatch readers for summer use. Recipes include milk with violets for skin softness, oat meal paste with bay rum for whitening, magnesia and soda washes, a weekly skin-clearing drink, and a hair dye method using safflower and ammonia with a lemon or vinegar mordant.
A Philadelphia Times anecdote about a new servant girl named Bridget and her culinary missteps. The narrator recounts cherry stoning mishaps and kitchen mishaps as misapplied wisdom leads to fruit stones eaten and eggs that are small.
Denver grows as a capital and supply hub driven by mining, eastern investment, and expanding housing. The piece notes 125000 census estimate with 3500 new houses, asphalt streets, rising real estate values, and a shift in beauty standards as women in the city are described as notably more attractive than in the 1870s.
The piece comments on fads, con games, and old time tales told to Eastern audiences. It notes jokey disguises like wigs and swindles in ores and fortunes and laments the weariness of folks who spin Western lullabies for city readers.
In a Harper's Bazar memoir Elizabeth Bisland notes London social strictures. A stranger is hard to approach at a host’s gatherings and an awkward encounter at a Brasseys party ends with a humiliating exit mediated by Lady B’s stern inquiry.
A Newport style column reports a ghostly rider seen in New York, a woman on a bicycle with a male attendant guiding her. Onlookers in West End windows watched the spectral figure recover from falls and ride smoothly, drawing chorus of astonished reactions.
The Lord's Day Observance Society presses Queen Victoria to stop Windsor Sunday bands citing unfitness of secular amusements for rest, crowd disruption, drink traffic, and harm to the quiet and sick. It also protests Chief Commissioner of Works use of authority to promote Free Sunday events at Greenwich Park and other sites under government care.
The readable fragments describe a youth event led by a person named Tuan with a plan to perform on stage. The context hints at a community gathering or school activity focused on cooking or performance, with participation and preparation noted.
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