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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1889
Page
7
Evangeline Short, posing as an American socialite, captivates Lady Bagshot and London's best circles. When her ruse unravels, she confesses her true wealth stems from British real estate, admits deception, and plans to return to England with her mother after a failed American persona.
London season ends as Miss Short contemplates returning to America. Lady Bagshot urges her to stay, a yacht is chartered and paid for by Miss Short for a Solent cruise. They travel to Homburg with Sir Henry Bagshot and Sir Englefield Green amid reconciliation and romantic tensions.
The passage praises Evangeline and a parade of artists including Sir Lewis Chertsey and Draneciann. Evangeline agrees to accompany Lady Bagshot for a season from May to July. Sarah Short will sail next year under no false colors, likely shining as before across West and East waters, drawing many young gentlemen toward Bow and Stratford on Longman’s Magazine’s vast London map.
Market notes describe Chicago wheat and corn slumping with December and May contracts easing from yesterday's closes. Reports cite light demand, ample speculative offerings, and rising visible supply. Also mention quiet New York flour and firm lard futures, with mixed activity in other grains and commodities.
A nostalgic jingle notes a mother giving Castoria to a sick baby and children across generations. The ad line emphasizes trusted use from infancy through motherhood, reflecting mid century consumer marketing language.
A Saturday market update shows firmer prices for creamery butter cheese and Cranberries with higher demand for fancy apples. Butter is slow country markets and vegetables dull except sweet potatoes. Oats corn and other items fluctuate with weather weakening fruit quality and Florida oranges improving in supply.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous goods and prices including Rio, Java, Mocha, cacao, cocoa, fruits like apples and peaches, berries, and various canned goods. It references brands or ports such as Santos, Rio, Califormia, and Coenberry with scattered price figures and unit notes, resembling a late 19th or early 20th century wholesale catalog entry.
Total receipts bulletined at the Grain Exchange list 32 cars with oats hay feed in varied routings among Pittsburg Ft Wayne Chicago Baltimore Ohio and Lake Erie lines. Market notes demand for oats and meat remains firm while carload prices include No 2 rod and different rye classifications with limited on track stock.
Fragmented OCR listing dressed meat prices from Armour & Co. includes beef carcasses at 450 10500 Be and 550 to 68 the Go, 660 to 750, lambs at foes brealt, pork loins at 7e Seana. The text is garbled with misread digits and missing units, showing a snapshot of wholesale pricing data.
Prominent East End citizens plan a national bank with about 200000 capital, nearly half secured. A meeting will set details on name and location. Meanwhile, local business weather and finance news show varied conditions with stocks and rail shares active, while new coke works advance near Grindstone.
Fragmented page notes stock actions in Philadelphia and New York with scattered broker mentions and London, Liverpool, and Boston references. dates and figures are unclear, but quotes and prices appear partially legible amid OCR glitches. The item resembles a capsule market update with no clear single outcome.
A fragment lists meat lots and prices from Callery and Son with green salted steers green hides veal and stock reductions noted for No 2 stock and light bases. The legible items suggest a detailed price rundown for livestock and meat products.
Telegraph reports Chicago cattle receipts at 21 000 head with a quiet, unchanged market. Steers 13 60, stockers mixed. sheep receipts 3 000 with prices around 3 to 4 dollars. hogs steady with average around 3.70 to 3.80. Buffalo Cattle and St Louis shipments noted with strong markets for native and mixed cattle. Lambs and sheep show varied advances, while showy shipments are limited.
New York reports last week exports of specie totaling 134,283 dollars. Of this 77,000 dollars were gold and 200,453 dollars silver. All silver shipments went to Europe and all other remittances to South America.
Pittspore Beef Co. sold 13544 carcasses of Chicago dressed beef for the week ending December 7. Average weight per carcass 687 pounds and average price per pound 5.63 cents. Remoue & Co. reports 150 carcasses averaged 558 pounds selling at $5.18 per hundred pounds.
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