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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1890
Page
10
Maisie contends with Dick the artist as letters fade and jealousy grows. A cavalryman kiss and Kamis studio scene mix with Maisie’s resolve to pursue art and mastery, while Torpenhow arrives with news of Dick’s alleged blindness and a cliffhanger ending signals next Sunday.
The article notes dolls now resemble real individuals more, with Miss Mantilini observing greater variety. It highlights dolls with antique faces representing historical figures, autonomous infant dolls that can stand, close their eyes, and utter Ma in a natural way.
New York Herald humor piece shows a patient calls a distant doctor about a cough. The doctor prescribes ten chlorate lozenges and expects a quick recovery.
From the Leach and Lydston shop on Fileat street in Portsmouth a record is reported. Between Thursday morning and Saturday night last week two workmen Lydston and McGrath shod 200 horses all round.
Ex chief Bell reveals a 28 man force concentrates on counterfeiting suppression rather than other crimes. He laments low pay and only 60 000 yearly appropriations, urges doubling funding, describes spies earnings, and notes public ignorance and a pending Driggs case tale.
The Lewiston Journal explains that two coat buttons began as a functional feature on rear skirts to aid drawing the side arm in old dress uniforms. They were placed to ensure mobility and defense, not ornament, with later fashion preserving the detail as a link to a bygone era of laces and etiquette.
Dr William T Cathell of Baltimore argues against fasting between dinner and breakfast. He says continuous nourishment supports tissue turnover, digestion and vitality during sleep, and a light supper improves strength. He asserts nine of ten weak, emaciated, sleepless individuals rise to better health with a simple pre bed meal.
The article describes Steinitz as a stout, tallish man with a tawny beard and a cane due to lameness, while Gunsberg is of medium height with a gleaned beard and receding hair. Both players show distinct postures at the board as games proceed, Steinitz leaning forward and Gunsberg bending over at critical moments.
The Dispatch reports on the rise of lithographic show printing for 300 Broadway theater companies, detailing weekly costs of 150 to 200 per company, the aggregate millions spent, and the shift from early window portraits to colored three and six sheet stands. It describes the stone trade, color processes, and an artist’s studio tour in Duane Street as works progress from sketches to finished posters boosting theater advertising.
A critical reflection on savings banks and depositor risk as money sits idle in depositories. The piece cites rising savers, fading employment for the poor, and fragile security for borrowers. It warns that lenders will demand risk or withdraw credit, reshaping prosperity and work, with Franklin’s thrift ideals deemed obsolete.
An enthusiastic praise piece extols Marvin's crackers as fresh from the ovens and pure, noting Pittsburgh as a cracker capital with vast daily output. It highlights wide distribution from Maine to California and urges readers to try Marvin's Palace bread, baked daily and delivered citywide.
A narrator and two companions tour second and third class London music halls by night. They encounter the Savoy Essex and Clarendon venues, watch McCarty perform a repetitive comic song, endure nosy audiences and noisy acoustics, flee to oysters, then end up in a private room amid a sales pitch and a shouted joke about American managers following them.
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