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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1891
Page
7
A lengthy examination of baseballs labor peace amid a rising monopoly, naming National League reforms, the key clubs in St Louis Chicago and Washington, and the risk of player exploitation. It analyzes league power, salaries and the prospect of two pennant races under a 12 club system while noting local bowling and cricket developments.
A Pittsburg couple describe a modern partnership in which each spouse remains independent while sharing finances. After two years of strife they adopt a written plan: half the money to the wife, the rest to each own account, with a joint denials box for discretionary buys. The arrangement, tested over years, yields mutual respect and financial independence. they hint at a future shared home in the East End.
A nostalgic verse recounts a maiden with cherry lips and blue eyes on a Carson street car. The narrator imagines a life of bliss with her though fate intervenes when a cross-eyed suitor with a five cent cigar appears, ending the romance.
L B Chidsey, a Beaver Falls real estate agent, visited a Hungarian colony's tenement and learned residents scraped paint from a building corner to brew a decoction said to cure measles. The broth was poured hot into children after ritual words. Chidsey fears the craft may trigger new outbreaks and suspects further woodwork preparations.
A revolution is threatened in ink manufacture as California innovators extract ink from crude petroleum. Production costs are very low and manufacturers are testing petroleum based inks to increase adaptability. If successful, the new inks may supersede current formulations.
A Globe-Democrat column declares corns inevitable, noting that removing shoes would not lessen the problem. It argues corns have persisted since feet existed and will continue as long as feet endure, shifting to the sole with stone bruises and blisters.
The article reports on Hiram Maxim's aeroplane, a powered air machine with a light steam engine and screw-driven propellers. It notes the machine weighs little yet generates significant thrust, claims by Maxim about power-to-weight efficiency, and expectations that steering gear could make flight feasible in a few months.
Experiments by the House of Commons Ventilation Committee show city air, especially in London with soft coal, is cleanest about 80 to 40 feet above ground. Dust increases below that level and higher up. Findings challenge the belief that higher floors are purer, noting little benefit beyond about 40 feet unless extreme heights are reached.
A new patent refines nutmeg grating with a device mounted on a tin rod sliding through a metal frame. A tinned cylinder grips the nutmeg, held by a spring, while the user operates the frame with a back and forth motion to grate without waste or finger contact.
A new device named the automatic supporter provides a stable grip for standing passengers in crowded cars. A nickel plated cylinder houses a spring loaded strap ending in a nickel plated iron piece that passengers grasp, dropping about ten inches for support and retracting when released.
The process blends about 15 percent combustible additives with crude petroleum, then heats the mixture in boiling water followed by a furnace at 400 to 500 Fahrenheit while stirring. After cooling, it solidifies and can be pressed into rocks for use. The entire conversion takes about half an hour with a simple, inexpensive apparatus and yields a clean burn with little ash.
A London optician firm manufactures horse spectacles to promote high stepping. The leather enclosed glasses are deep concave and large, aiming to lift the ground in front of the horse to encourage an elevated gait.
The passage notes that shying arises from fear and short sight. It discusses high steps, obstacles, and the uphill motion as a horse reacts. It advocates testing horses’ sight and using artificial aids to restore value to hunters whose vision is inadequate.
An English press account outlines American Mrs. Abbott the electrical girl performing feats in London such as four men seated on a chair. Nelson W. Perry explains the chair trick and other methods revealing ordinary people can replicate them with knowledge of the technique.
A learned doctor presents a device to time perception from seeing white paper to recognizing a familiar word. It records that recognizing a letter takes less time than a full word and that sensations travel to the brain at about one mile per minute, slower than once believed.
A new electric power hammer replaces steam in a design similar to the steam hammer. Its vertical cylinder sits on an arched frame with a rising and falling magnetic piston. The cylinder comprises multiple coils fed by separate currents to lift and then release the piston, accelerating descent via magnetic attraction.
Professor Rowland, noted electrician and physicist, completes a perfect screw for an improved dividing engine. It draws 50 000 lines per inch with the old setup and 1 000 000 lines per inch regularly with the new machine. Microscope vision reaches about 100 100 lines. Gratings on lum metals are produced by the automatic engine, which requires six continuous days and nights to make a single grating used to study the sun.
The article discusses concerns about electric light harming eyesight and argues for eye protection through common sense. It explains that visible light sources are unnecessary for good illumination, with frosted lamps, dioptric shades, or silk shades diffusing light for even, pleasant brightness. It notes engineers now view light diffusion as an art.
At the opening of the public call-room in Tewkesbury England a reporter telephoned a 700 word report to Cheltenham within three minutes. The feat required delivering over 230 words a minute and receiving the text in full, a remarkable demonstration of extempore speaking and rapid transmission.
An electro chemical method sharpens files and tools with satisfactory practical and economical results. After thorough cleaning, the tools are immersed for 20 minutes in nitric acid and phospheric acid solution, with plates and carbons in the same liquid. Edges are sharpened through cavity corrosion, mimicking the effect of a writer.
A Victorian era magician explains methods for slate writing tricks and hat concealments. Readers learn how invisible slates reveal writings and how fake chalk sounds are produced. The article describes fingerpins, hidden rods, and paper ribbons used to smuggle items from hats and summon doves.
A Pittsburgh observer questions Senator Quay's plan to offer Chihuahua Coahuila and Sonora to the United States noting their mineral wealth farming prospects and potential transfer of thousands of square miles to aid Mexican finances. He cites heavy Pittsburgh mining investment and asks what Mexico would gain.
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