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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1890
Page
2
A firsthand account from a monastery details last rites for dying monks, ash crosses, straw bedding, and the absence of female comfort. The Abbot died recently, a successor chosen, and the new leader, isolated from worldly affairs, dismisses Tolstoy’s ideas and current events.
The incident involves Mrs John A Logan in London where the hotel proprietress named Logan opened mail. After being invited to a Prince of Wales garden party that was opened, Mrs Logan confronted the landlady about mail tampering and the two women settled with the landlady promising better mail handling. The landlady then began returning every Logan mail, while claiming she had paid a debt of honor.
The Athens Banner describes Judge Nicholson living in a single room with unusual but practical order. He keeps shoes on the mantel and kindling hidden between mattresses, using a split chair as a washstand and hanging Sunday clothes in a corner. Despite oddities, his system is efficient and his charity famed.
The New York man Succi endured a long fast with an elixir, washing his stomach first and taking forty drops, waking multiple times and reporting improved nervous vitality. Dr. Gibbs, initially skeptical, tried the elixir himself and later claimed it caused sickness and questioned its truth.
A pigeon belonging to Mr Baldwin was carried by a retriever during a country walk. The bird bore the owner's name on its wing and was returned after recovery. The next day the pigeon flew to its loft and resumed its perch, confirming strong homing instinct despite injury.
Autry Dam story recounts the discovery of Dr Elnathan Perkins elixir for consumption. A chicken eating discarded pills allegedly cured a dogged doctor rival, Dr Griffin, who failed and fled town. The tale ends with Perkins dying of consumption in spring 1889.
The excerpt describes Dr Perkins in his winter 1861 experiments testing human and animal cures. It recalls his belief consumption comes from bugs, his stove filled with burdock and herbs, and the smell of his brews drifting from Goose Falls. He tastes each compound before giving it to subjects.
A narrator recalls experiments by Dr. Perkins on animals and a sister of Peters, noting early success curing fleas and hair loss, then tests on humans. The doctor predicts deaths with certainty, praises prognostication, and hints at past doctors and money as driving forces.
Delegate Caine of Utah tells a Washington Post reporter the territory will remain a statehood waiting game. He notes Utah’s population exceeds 200,000 with Salt Lake City alone home to more people than Nevada, cites religious prejudice as a constitutional but enduring obstacle, and states Utah will wait for an invitation before making any move toward statehood.
A Atlanta writer quotes a St. Louis paper comparing Will Grady to Henry Grady noting Will’s higher talent as a writer and inventor. Evan Howell is cited as a stronger writer than Henry Grady, whose fame rested on oratory. A rumor says a famous New York dinner speech by Henry Grady was written by Dr. Smith of Atlanta.
A period roster of fashion items outlines shirt fronts without ornate features, collar styles, and neckwear. It notes care in sewing buttons, tying neckwear, and uses hats to describe new forms like the Moonstone shirt stud and Prince George collar. It mentions two scarf pins placement and evolving glove and turnover collar fashions. It also highlights the Ascot scarf and bold scarfings in fabric texture.
A wide survey argues that most fame comes from husbands and titles. It contrasts Martha Washington and Abigail Adams with later first ladies, noting few wives earned renown on their own, while others are remembered for social power or lack of influence.
Jerry Simpson, future Congressman-elect from Kansas Seventh, wowed voters with a barefoot stump speech. The New Brunswick native, a former sailor, soldier, city marshal, and farmer, boasted little formal schooling but sharp wit. He ridiculed his silk-stocking opponent Hollowell and humorously misreferenced Noah and Daniel Webster during a campaign stop in Washington.
A detailed explanation of incandescent lamp construction, including filament preparation from carbonized silk, platinum joints, vacuum sealing, and why platinum matches glass expansion. It covers air removal to prevent combustion, energy transformation to heat, lamp life, and calculations of lamps per horsepower.
Call on any druggist for free sample bottles of Kemp's Balsam the best cough remedy. Large size 500 and $1. Free samples offered to attract customers and promote the product.
New York manufacturers report a holiday surge in pipe demand driven by tariff effects easing cigar trade. From briar pipes to Meerschaum and amber finishes, dozens of styles retail from five cents to twenty five dollars. Novel spiraled pipes and long bone stems attract attention, while Turkish water pipes fetch three to five dollars or up to two hundred for crystal globes.
Real estate notice lists lot prices of 60 65 125 130 and 135 dollars each. Meridian street lots priced at 130 and 135 dollars. No interest or taxes until deed execution. If applications arrive after all lots are taken, first payment funds will be returned. Limited number of lots and first come first served.
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