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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1891
Page
9
Indians endure a harsh night as thirst and fear shape a grim tale set in the Mojave region. A doomed journey concludes with a brutal decision to kill a shadowed figure, marking a stark moment in a harsh frontier chronicle.
A narrator recalls a violent confrontation with Shadow ending in a deadly exchange of shots amid a desolate plain. He buries a companion and reflects on love guiding mercy, then travels with imagery of Mojave fishing and a fading, harsh landscape.
The excerpt describes a remote tribal funeral with a blazing pyre of old ties, wild chanting, and garments cast onto the flames, alongside a journey through the Mojave Desert from Needles toward Calico and Los Angeles, meeting a ragged French Canadian named Albert Munier.
The excerpt recounts a grueling desert trek with Munier toward Stoddard's Wells and the Mojave River, detailing thirst, cold nights, and hospitality from Vincent’s farm. It then shifts to a windmill fable where wind and dove reconcile to save the mill and enable labor. The piece closes with musical and puzzle fragments.
A fresh wind laments the windmill on the hill as a vexing nuisance in a rustic fable. The wind vows to seek easier living while the pine forest and a woodpecker chorus listen to the exchange across the valley.
A small feature titled The Bridge of Sighs presents a riddle about a bridge whose stones are sighs. Readers are invited to interpret the metaphor and solve the puzzle. The item appears in Home Amusements with mailing address for responses in Lariston Maine.
A garbled set of crossword style clues mixing plural nouns verbs adjectives and abbreviations. The text includes numbered entries for across and down clues with misspellings and stray fragments like Snow Masx and Totax.
A fragment lists names and places such as E. J. Robinson of Sharon and H. C. Burger of Salem along with a roll of honor and miscellaneous snippets. Items include childlike phrases like Little pitchers have big ears and short cataloged labels such as Pandora and Hog-nose snake. The text appears as a damaged OCR segment with scattered names and phrases.
A vivid Concepcion dispatch notes a Chilean funeral scene with a dead child carried on a board, music, and dancing. It details wake culture amid church state clash, public cemeteries open to all faiths, and the rise of liberal reforms challenging clerical control.
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, visits Jesus by night to test his claims and wonders at his teachings and miracles. Jesus challenges him to rebirth, showing that admiration alone does not prove belief. Nicodemus remains impressed but not convinced, later aiding in burial spice offerings.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat jeweler notes people act as magnets for watches. A man may wear a watch for years with accuracy then grow ill and have the timepiece lose reliability. Once ill and removed from magnetism the watch regains accuracy when worn again, suggesting individual magnetism differences.
The passage notes riveters used to raise much noise but machines now rivet boilers with minimal sound. Describes a heavy, cumbersome looking unit that operates reliably like a clock, signaling industrial change and technological progress in riveting.
Report notes saloon keepers in New York pay two dollars and two hundred twenty five dollars per keg for quality beer. It cites five glasses and computes ninety five times five cents as forty seven five, leading to an estimated profit of about twenty six dollars per keg.
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