OUR DRAFT HORSES OF PITTSBURGH AND THEIR GEAR
A illustrated look at the mighty draft horses of Pittsburgh, their weight about one ton, and their role in hauling heavy loads. The piece describes Conestoga wagon history, Ardary’s reconditioned wagon, and the heavy harness and ironwork required for draught work. It notes horse weights from 1,200 to 1,900 pounds, large hooves and shoes, and the care given to keep teams powerful and gentle.
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Allegheny County
Ardary
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Labelty Street
Twelfth Ward
Clyde
Iron Wheel-Driven Trucks Power Pittsburgh Industry
A historic Pittsburgh scene describes massive timber and iron wheels used to move iron from foundries to rail depots. Wheels weigh seven tons with loads up to 30 tons, and smaller 5 to 30 ton trucks fetch up to 400 dollars each. The shift from drays to heavy wagoning marks a major industrial revolution led by Frank O. at James Creek stables.
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Pittsburg
Dore
England
Penn Avenue
Carson Street
Frank
James Ryeek
Liberty
Liberty and Thirty-first Streets
Iron
Seventeenth Street
Ancient Timber Wheels and the Draught Horse Boom
Pittsburg's heavy hauling spurred a demand for powerful draught animals as imports of Percherons and Clydes rose. Four large horses pull seven ton loads, while four ordinary horses struggle with 17 tons. Draught horses are larger, consume a bushel of grain daily, and enable all-day work without exhaustion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Basre
Soden Gaie
Great iron work horses and record loads in Pittsburgh
The article extols large draught horses for strength and steadiness noting their docility and reliability. It recounts heavy feats in Pittsburgh including a 40-ton anvil block hauled by 16 horses and a 40- horse team moving a Penn Avenue Traction cable, illustrating the power of these draft animals in urban hauling.
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Pittsburg
Totten
Twenty-fifth Street
Siemens Anderson Steel Works
Second Avenue
Frankstown
Ardary
Scotch Market
Penn Avenue Traction
Frank Ardary Sod
Dan Dempsey
Lawrenceville
Lively G A R Meeting Over Inviting the Sons
A Grand Army Day Committee session in the Common Council chamber discussed the Rock Point reunion set for September 17. A dispute over inviting the Sons of Veterans ended with a plan to issue a separate invitation by the Secretary.
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Grand Army Day Committee
Common Council
Rock Point
Sons of Veterans
Lambert
McGrath
G. A. BR
Child found strangled near Gallagher street Allegheny
A coroner jury rendered a verdict of strangulation in the death of a child found in bushes near Gallagher Street Allegheny on Sunday. Evidence was completed Monday and the inquest was held open for the police to gather more testimony, but no further evidence was obtained.
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Gallagher Street
Allegheny
Excursions to the Southwest Reduced Rates to St Joseph
Reduced fares via Pennsylvania Lines to St Joseph Missouri for Sons of Veterans encampment on August 24 25 and 26 inclusive. Low round trip rate available until September 1. Tickets on sale August 24 25 and 26.
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St. Joseph
Pennsylvania
Sons of Veterana
St. Jose
Com 74 octave upright eee 7h octave wed tuned
Melodions and eee teat details appear in a partial notice. Foxora McMumnar and ERAX and Co. are named in a brief line of a commercial listing involving titled instruments and tuning work. The fragment notes a trade or maker arrangement with limited context.
Ancient stained glass and loom of horsehair cloth
In England a loom for horsehair cloth is described with a channel where a sharp set of fingers grip a single hair. A delicate mechanism uses a light arm to hold tension, dropping the hair if the grab fails, and a stop motion resets for a new trial. The system detects imperfections as the warp is adjusted during weaving.
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England
Glass painting styles shift from bold mosaics to refined depth
Winston notes that early glass paintings before the late fourteenth century relied on rich color and strong lines with bold, shadowless outlines. Later works show thinner, lighter material, increased massed color, broader shadows, and more delicate drawing, perspective, and atmospheric effects to compensate for weakness in the material.
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Winston
Paper Barrels Compete With Wooden in English Trial
After three years of experimental work an English company has produced paper barrels rivaling wood in cost and use. Made from waste paper, cardboard, and old sacks, the barrels carry gunpowder, molasses, paint, cement, matches, and more. The process includes pulping, molding, drying, and waterproof finishing. Standard size is 5 1614 by 28 inches, price 28 cents vs 34 cents for wood, with no waste as scraps are repulped.
Remarkable Armor Piercing Demonstrated at Chelsea Exhibit
A Royal Military Exhibition display shows 11 six inch cast steel shells fired as rounds at Shoeburyness against armor plates, with one 9.2 inch shell penetrating two feet of wrought iron and 20 feet of oak. A 13.5 inch diameter projectile passed through 18 inch compound plate and 88.5 inches of armor. Also noted is a new industry: cold rolling steel into wire nearly doubling tensile strength. Galvanic coating advances in plaster casts seal pores, boosting durability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea
England
Shoeburyness
Copper coated casts cut costs and finish by hand
A copper coating of one millimetre shields against weather and allows further hand finishing. Casts coated with copper cost about one fifth of plain copper casts. Improvements to sand blasting use steam jets to create vacuum, dry sand, and carve minute engravings on glass and stone. The process sharpens files, re sharpens tools, and can decorate monumental stones and metal castings.
Precaution on Poisons Saves Life in Birmingham Trade
A Birmingham chemists firm prints antidote directions on all poisons to aid accidental or intentional ingestion. An English chemical journal cites a case where a woman poisoned herself and told her husband she had done it. the label’s chalk and water or milk and magnesia instructions likely saved her. The article notes Japan’s growing drug import trade and government manufacture of caustics and medicines, despite stringent sale controls.
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Birmingham
England
Early reference to caoutchouc in Priestley 1770 warning note
A rubber journal writer notes one of the earliest practical references to caoutchouo in Dr. Priestley s prefatory remarks to Perspectives 1770. He recalls caoutchouc as useful for erasing pencil marks and priced at three shillings per half inch cube.
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Caoutchouo
Two Canal Projects Could Transform French Trade
Two plans under study in France aim to reshape trade routes. One would canalize the Beine to turn Paris into a port, enabling sea going ships to reach the city from Le Havre. The other envisions a Mediterranean to Bay of Biscay canal to bypass the Straits of Gibraltar and capture major shipping.
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France
Paris
Havre
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
Straits of Gibraltar
Manchester Engineer Introduces Indestructible Paper Balts
An engineer from Manchester unveils a novelty in paper using paper file bafts and tool handles. The indestructible material is claimed to be far cheaper than wood or malleable iron balts. Tested under a steam hammer, the items flatten but do not split or crack.
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Manchester
England
The Tickers Reunion in Kansas City Plans
Pittsburg telegraphers seek attendance at the Old Timers and Military Telegraphers reunions to be held September 15 and 16 in Kansas City. Officers named include Seer teak 0mers Telegraphers and Society of United States Military Telegraph Corps. A committee of arrangements features leaders from railways, telegraphs, and utilities across Chicago, Memphis, and Kansas City.
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Pittsburg
Haneus City
Kansas City
Old Timers Telegraphers’ Society
Society of the United States Military Cor
Seer Teak
da K. Smith
Barney Buape
Memphis
Tenn
W. J. Dealy
Fort Scout and Missouri Railroad Company
W.W. Smith
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company
E. G. Fish
Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad
E. K. Weeks
Kansas City Electric Light Company
G. M. Myers
Home Teleraph and Signal Company
M. D. Wood
Anager
Western Union Telegraph Comany
J.C. Hubbell
Fairbanks, Orse & Co
F. K. Holtzinger
Postal Telegraph Company
Excursion Tickets Promoted for Gettysburg and Other Rallies
The B and O RB Company offers ex cur sion tickets to the Gettysburg G A R encampment from August 29 to September 8 with return by September 5 at 895 dollars round trip. Also sells to Uniontown August 25 to 29 with return by August 30 at 260 dollars. Washington fair trip September 1 to 5 at 150 dollars including fair admission. Also listed are several musical instruments for sale at 152 Third Avenue near Government building.
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Gettysburg
Uniontown
Washiton, Pa
St. Mission
Mayer
Marshall & Mittauer Bees
Bach Bdo
Smith American Organ
Cseccsanesneyeene
Henry F. Miller
W. C. Whitehill
Music Cates
Third Avenue
Government Building
Horizur Bros. & Co. Short notice furnishing items
Mattings, linoleums, oil cloths and carpet pieces prepared and laid on shortest notice. Mauslins, sateens and silk draperies in stock and put up at short notice. Horizur Bros. & Co., 307 Wood Street.
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Short Notre
Horizur Bros. & Co
Wood Street
Mwrssu
Short Stories of Kemmler Death Sentiment
A fragment of a humorous dialogue shows an old man and a listener discussing marriage fit. The man claims he and his wife are unsuited, noting his temper and a misfit in dwelling and temperament, with accents highlighting regional speech and a rural setting.
Israel O'Malley Nominated For Ward Alderman
A drab suited speaker at a ward caucus nominates Israel O'Malley for Alderman. He praises O'Malley's character and temperance while others heckle, accuse him of saloon ties, and the speaker is removed through a rear window as the meeting resumes.
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Israel O’malley
O'Malley
Messiah and Halloway Named After Lord in Virginia Family
Old Pate Robingon of Worsham Virginia, a pious African American, kept naming each newborn with scriptural tags. After seventeen olive branch names, a Presbyterian minister overheard and asked the couple to explain. They reveal plans to christen two more children Messiah and Halloway as a playful nod to prayer.
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Pate Robingon
Worsham
Pete
Peter
Dar
Lord
Messiah
Halloway
Fragmented Literary Dialogue Fragment in 19th Century Voice
A fragmentary excerpt portrays an author immersed in work and craving appreciation, juxtaposed with a practical woman whose view of poetry is plain. The male speaker asks another to judge a crafted sentence as sublime, while imagery hints at ambient sunset rays.
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Gas City
Ustave Dore
Lebanon
Frank Ardhery
Pittaburg
Jackson
Ing the Sons
Piakos and Organs
Com
Foxora, McMumnar
Japan
Supply and Demand
Netra
Kemmler
Heslers
Horsfoerd's Acid Phosphate
Wainwright
Lemeteg
Mr. E. D. Wilt
Eres
Leesee
MR. George Edgar
Ae R. Ford
Messrs. Eytings
Day Davenport Bok Bebua
Richard Es J. KR
Brennan
I. Miseos Estes
Vai Alles Elton
Jesule Weat
Dottie Pins
Edgar
Bsup
Edwin Forest
Louis James
Aum
R. M. Gulick & CO
Chas. A. Gardner
Tyrol
Sidney R. Ellis
Gardner
Lilac
Harry Williams’ Academy
Sheffer
Blakely
Freddy
Neh & Blakely
Favor & Sinclair
Mason & Ralston
Kittie Smith
John W. Thompson
Lottie Elliott
Gallagher & Griffin
Adaline Devere
Francisias
William Johnson
Bixbee
Henry Bariesque Company
Harris’ Theater
Aiden Benedict
Fabio Romant
Walter Lawrence
Frances Fild
Mount Vesuvius
NEW Clipper Theater
Cor. Beventh Ave
New Grant St
Jas, M. Peet
Sept. I
M’caffrey-Dempsey
Venther
Guana Id Bissal
Ayette County
Rand
Harry Davis
Fifth Avenue Museum
Pittsburg Exposition
Curio
Ae W. Correxrh
Sig. Gillettis
Mons
Bragsini
America
Major Little Finger
Wipe
Bobby Hydes
Bobby—The Hydes
Annie
George Co. Marshall
Kings of Knockshout
Ward
Richards
Gus
Bailey
Reynolds
Joe Devere
Demaly
Jennie
Maddie
Deere
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