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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1890
Page
2
In Naples a missing priest is found dead inside an ebony chest after a Count locks the room and foists his household to Caserta. The Baroness Bravura suspects a haunting, and police uncover a grim vengeance tied to the Countess’s ebony chest.
In Naples the Count reveals the dead body of his wife's cat was found locked inside by mistake. The Baroness Bravura reacts with horror while the Chief of Police hints at hidden knowledge about Arpino the blind beggar and a long vigil outside a palazzo as punishment looms. The Pall Mall Budget notes the Dispatch will publish 24 pages tomorrow.
Store offers watches diamonds and silverware for sale to the highest bidder with no reserve. Public prices set by buyers as stock is to be closed out. Open daily from morning to night until all items are sold. Store space and fixtures also for sale.
Mellor and Hoene offer a large holiday selection of pianos organs and music cabinets at the Palace of Music 77 Fifth Avenue. They feature Hardman A B Chase Krakauer and Vose pianos and United States Chase Star and Chicago Cottage organs with matching cabinetry and mirrors while promoting easy payment plans and circulars.
Harpy & Hares and Henry Terheyden present a selection of solid and plated Christmas silverware. Jewelry and silversmithing items offered at 529 and 530 Smithfield Street, featuring elegant stock for gift buyers.
Readers can find a wide variety of novelties in browses, bird plumage, lobster and dog colors, plus dress bargains at Shearer & Lloyd’s Jewelers, 37 Fifth Avenue. Yardage priced 50¢, 75¢ and $1 for plaids stripes and cheviots, with prior ranges from 5¢ to $150.
A new lot of common sense stools painted or unfinished now in stock for Christmas at P. C. ScmoEexree & Sor 711 Liberty street. Gists' mackintoshes for presents. Sauer & Co 25 Fifth avenue. Cafe Augustin 546 Wood street advertises the city’s best cook and meals from noon to 2 PM.
The Wilkinsburg Presbytery suspended five Reformed Presbyterian preachers for refusing to accept American citizenship on grounds that the U S government is not Christian. A prominent theologian is also reported as a likely future target, while a church meeting outlines sermons across several local congregations.
The Rev. R B Holmes D D pastor of Sharyside Presbyterian Church will speak at the First Presbyterian Church Wood Street on Tuesday evening next at 7 43. Those familiar with his Chautauqua lectures praise their practicality and interest and organizers hope for a large attendance of Sabbath-school teachers from all denominations.
Sunday religious services listed across Pittsburg including St Andrew's First Presbyterian Seventh Presbyterian and Grace Reformed churches. Morning and evening worship times noted with various pastors and topics such as A Righteous Party Sunrise and Our Schoolmaster.
The Allegheny area lists multiple church services with pastors and themes. Union details include U P Church on Montgomery Avenue, Lincoln and Grant avenues North Presbyterian, M E Church on Nenton Avenue, First Congregational at Franklin and Manhattan streets, and First Methodist with morning and evening sermons.
A long church schedule lists morning and evening services across multiple congregations in Allegheny and Pittsburgh areas. Subjects include sacrifice endurance miracles humanity and moral courage, with lectures on prophecy and a note about the Arc Light mystery. The Dispatch promises full coverage in tomorrow’s twenty four pages.
A Pittsburgh mother Mrs. Marvy Rutherford describes her son Thomas Rutherford’s three year catarrh and related symptoms which improved after treatment by Drs Copeland and Blair. She praises their care and notes their lab and pharmacist work, free medicine preparation, and willingness to reveal methods to interested parties.
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