Carnegie Opened Allegheny Library Sets Public Gift Example
The opening of Allegheny Carnegie Library, with President Harrison attending, marks a milestone in public education and enlightenment. It showcases wealthy philanthropy as a path to communal benefit, urging other meg-rich individuals to invest in public institutions for the broader good.
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Allegheny Carnegie Library
Eclnt
Harrison
Carnegie
Alegheny
Allegheny
Prize Beauty Sparks Domestic Turmoil and Morality
A beauty contest prize leads to an affair with a German count, angering a husband who returns from abroad to find the rival in residence. He thrashes the count and is jailed. A contemporary laments marriage as failure, noting virtue and a good heart matter more than vanity and charm.
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Teutons
Ate
Frau Betty
Frau
Betty
Donkeys and Stanley Largely Compete in Moral Echoes
In New York two correspondents prize their own discoveries over Stanleys exploits. The piece contrasts their boastful expeditions with Stanley who found Livingstone and completed his coastward journey amid peril. It lauds Stanley for courage and tenacity, while minimizing the Muscat donkey as a silent, prudent observer.
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New York
Mr. Stanley
Stevens
Vizitelly
Muscat
Stanley
Livingstone
Lake Tanganyika
Africa
Middlemen and competition lower staple costs, says study
The Boston Globe cites flawed figures on coal and corn prices from Pittsburg and Kansas City to argue that free middlemen competition yields the cheapest transport costs. Corrected data show coal and corn costs around 16c and 20c per hundredweight respectively, supporting the claim that pure competition reduces charges and that trusts aim to obstruct it.
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Pittsburg
Kansas City
Pennsylvania
Kansans City
Southern pig iron shipment to Pittsburg sparks mixed views
A 5000 ton Southern pig iron shipment to Pittsburg prompts brokers to warn of price pressures and question value. Pittsburg typically buys pig iron, and supporters say Southern iron, if competitive, could aid local industries while reliability remains unproven.
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Pittsburg
After Election Sadness and Political Ironies
A reflective column muses on post election sorrow for Democrats in Pittsburg and Allegheny, noting no clear silver lining yet and suggesting future political digs may yield hidden gains. It ends with an odd, inappropriate local anecdote about a mule and apples.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny
The Coal Rate Question
Railroad officials favor reducing coal rates to thin vein mines within a forty mile radius. They argue shorter hauls require less service and costs, and charging the same for long and short distances wastes effort. The present system skews rates, charging rail freight as high as the longer haul will bear, despite the thin vein operators seeking relief.
Human nature seen in prize beauties abroad and at Spa
A fragment notes that human nature is universal with prize beauties described as "little cattle" in America and mentions Frau Betty Stockhardt crowned at Spa as the Venus of Germany.
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America
Betty Stockhardt
Croward
Spa
Venus
Germany
Weather Wonders and Seasonal Revolutions Explored
The piece muses on predicting tomorrow’s weather and reflecting on yesterday’s. It links influenza spread to atmospheric conditions, questions seasonal shifts, and ponders causes from equinoxes to solstice effects with a tone of light skepticism and curiosity.
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London St. James Gazette
Greenwich
Pittsburg
Local Voices Share Memories on the Event
Several residents claim they can recount the incident in detail if asked, offering firsthand recollections and perspectives on what happened and who was involved.
Revival of Clerk System for House Members Sparks Debate
The movement to provide every House member with a clerk to aid in duties gains ground in Philadelphia papers. Critics argue extra constitutional office brokerage overburdens Congress, not the constitutional duties.
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House of Representatives
Philadelphia
Nations race to seize dynamite gun edge
The text warns that if the United States fails to adopt the new dynamite gun, other nations will. It contrasts a government merely tinkering with military tech with one needing the latest inventions to survive.
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United States
Kansas Riot Questioned Over Federal Election Oversight
A Democratic journal questions applying federal supervision of elections to Kansas after a fatal riot, and asks why the South cannot rise above sectionalism to accept central government action against disorder by any group in the nation.
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Ingalls
Kansas
Kubluz
White Capa
Speculation Quietly Persists Among Exchange Members
The exchange members contribute interview pieces to papers. They discuss whether the issue is sleeping or dead. The reality is the issue is waiting for a new generation to grow up.
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Orz
Exchange
Influencing forces shape a man's career at World’s Fair talk
A New York Worlds Fair meeting saw voices and resolutions urging the fair be secured for New York. A message from Thomas C. Platt echoed the sentiment, Me too. The text comments on Boston rum shipments to Africa and suggests missionaries for civilization.
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New York
Thomas C. Platt
Boston
Africa
Buck Ewing Chooses Between Glorious Causes in Baseball
Report notes Buck Ewing faces a near split decision between supporting professional players and backing speculators in base ball. Salaries loom large in the business, with few principles guiding the industry. A separate item mentions the British East Africa Company planning to import Indian laborers for African opium plantations, prompting potential strikes by Africans over coolie labor.
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Buck Ewing
Tare
British East African Company
Let the South Hang Its Murderers Editorial
A Philadelphia paper argues the South should be allowed to hang its murderers rather than grant penitentiary terms. The piece notes local relevance if Pennsylvania faced its own executions. It also mentions a renewed claim that the fishery question is settled, though no lasting guarantee is offered.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Indian in Penitentiary Reflects on False Tax Affidavits
A man jailed for falsely swearing he had no money to pay debts warns that many who sign affidavits for taxation or equity cases still refuse to learn honesty.
Notable Figures in a Portrait of 19th Century Prominence
A gallery profiles Misa Pauncefo te tall English minister’s daughter who leads a walking brigade, and figures like Joan Thomas Scantr a versatile figure who interviewed Jefferson Davis. It honors Mrs. Lauriy Joy Warre Boston journalist and Frances Benny Whitcher author of The Widow Bedett Papers. It recalls Martin Van Buren and his son, Henry W. Austin editor of a socialist magazine, and Josiah Keppler founder of Puck, a 6 foot 10 inch Viennese cartoonist now in Inwood New York.
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Misa Pauncefote
Julian Pauncefote
Washington
CoLnoxe
Joan Thomas Schanr
Goethe
Duke of Buckingham
Jefferson Davis
Lauriyy Joy Warre
New England Women's Press Association
Boston
Ashcroft
Frances Benny Whitcher
Widow Bedett
Oneida County
N. Y
Whitcher
Martin van Buren
John
John van Buren
United States
Henry W. Austin
Fationalist
New Socialist
Harvard
Josarh Keppler
Puck
Vienna
Inwood-on-the- Hudson
Typhoid Strikes Vandergrift Family in Pa. Four Dead
Washington Pa February 19 another Vandergrift family death from typhoid fever brings four deaths in three weeks. The father perished first followed by three children two daughters and a son. A daughter was engaged to be married to Mr Jacobs who also died of typhoid. Four unmarried children remain ill and a married daughter Mrs Lewis is gravely ill. The mother Mrs Frazer aids the family alongside frail survivors.
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Washington
BR. C
Lewis
Ene
Bor Siuier
Rae
Elsters
Frazer
Vandergr
Bon Grace
Jane Simmons
Maiatio
Mitedgere
Siereease i Lane
Florence
Siberia
Pe Vexun
Hoffily
Oregon
Piedmont
Roman Republic
Sacra Mento
Colusa
Calenus
Bellah Meee Estes Om
Amadeus
Vienna
Connecticut
Norwich
Eaath
French Academy of Fine Arts
Rossini
Academy di
Isis
Eugene
Bede
Gietans Goole
Joseph W. Wham
Tucson
Ariz
Ays
Twenty-first
Illinois
Grant
Poys
Gnee
America
Thompson
Little Prairie
Wis
Atancea
Cherokee County
United States
Georgia
United States Army
Mortis
Ceares
Garrison
Axton
Joseph K. Sanders
Sanders
Vanderbilt
Flatbush
Paris
Mantua
Londu
Theater gossip with Miss Mather on stage and Paris plans
The writer observes Ming Margaret Mather in the dressing room and on stage chatter about future roles. She discusses dropping Juliet to study new parts and mentions plans to collaborate with Bara Bernhardt on Romeo and Juliet and Joan of Arc productions in New York and Paris, noting eye color inquiry and theater life chatter.
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Ming Margaret Mather
Darwin
Miss Mather
Juliet
Iime
Shakespeare
Romeo and
Juiliet
Juliets
Paris
Jean D’arc
Mile
Bernhardt
Romeo
Jean D'Arc
Joan of Arc
Divine Bara
Porte St. Martin Theater
New Madison Square Garden Theater
New York
Delegates Arrive for Union Veteran Legion Encampment
February 1 news notes many delegates arriving for the National Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion led by National Commander Pearson with staff. A National Advisory Committee meeting discussed rules changes and a pension bill endorsement. The encampment opens at 10 AM with roll calls and addresses by General Pearson and National Commander La Lettee tomorrow. a dampfire and welcome address follow later.
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Tern
Ahraatom
Nayar
Union Veteran Legion
Pearson
Kis
Bragg
Wisconsin
Justice Read
Iowa
Read
Missouri
Byram
Philadelphia
Footman
Massachusetts
Manchester
Kansas
L H H. Duvall
West Virginia
Plunkett
Illinois
McNair
Delaware
M. M. Murphy
Ohio
la Lettee
Addrora
Deaths of a Day in Local Area
William White Jr. son of ex Chief White of the Fire Department died last Saturday at his Clarketrost home at age 3 and was buried Monday. Francis X. Fink of Bloomfield died at Pearl street aged 85. Mrs. Alice Dally, 78, an inmate of the Home Women in Wilkinsburg, funeral services set for Thursday after 2 o clock.
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William White, Jr
William J. White Jr
White
Fire Department
Clarketrost
Panhandle
Francis X. Fink
Bloomfeild
Pearl Street
Alice Polly
Wikinsburg
New Home for Apaches in Florida Neighboring Tribes Debate
General Crook arrives in the city after an extended tour of Indian Territory and is asked whether Florida Indians would accept Apaches as neighbors near Fort Sill in Cu1caco. He has not yet stated any decision about relocation or settlement plans.
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Crook
Ft. Sill
General Crook
Indian Territory
Florida
Foraker Defends Comments On National Guard Talks
Cincinnati February 1 2 A shorthand interview with Governor Foraker defends his remarks about Adjutant General Kelton and the Canada fisheries debate. He says the statements were not confidential and were meant to impart information while denying any plan or movement tied to the fisheries issue.
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Cincinnati
Foraker
Kelton
United States Army
Ohio National Guard
Cleveland
National Guard
Canada
Becaus
National Ret
Cabten
Pennsylvania
Erie
New York
Buffalo
Adjutant General
White House Election Night Tale from The Globe Democrat
An 1880s note recounts a tense White House library scene as election returns roll in Postmaster General Dickinson and others speak while Cleveland measures figures against four years prior. A Detroit telegram signals Michigan voting Republican amid tariff reform talk and Palmer’s candidacy rises in discussion.
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White House
The
Globe Democrat
John M. Palmer
United States
Cleveland
Petion
New York
Kings County
Aed
Bras
Gees
Roscoe Conkling
Har
Dickinson
Hae
Nigan Aofar
Detroit
Michigan
John Palmer
Carey
Colman
Ole
Republicans sweep in Kittanning constable race dispute looms
Election returns show a Republican landslide with about a 25 vote average. J. D. Reynolds won the constable seat while W. Montgomery’s defeat prompts court challenges over election legality and the three year term controversy stemming from a Bearer act.
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Kittanning
J. D. Reynolds
W. Montgomery
Bearer
Tae
Election Returns Show Democrats Sweep City Offices
Telegram from Johnstown reports a decisive Democratic victory in yesterday's election with the party sweeping the mayor, treasurer, controller, and city seats. Voters favored Democratic candidates by wide margins in council and school controller races despite a tied Common Council race.
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Johnstown
Rose
Republicans Clash With Quay Over Local Politics
In Du Bois on February 19 the borough election produced Republican wins for burgess, assistant burgess and auditor with Th ner elected treasurer, collector and door assessor. Voters criticized Senator Quay’s meddling as the ticket secured a majority.
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du Bois
Burgess
Sonioavante
Banator Quay
Theatrical Notes Paul Kavvar at the Bijou next week
Paul Kavvar stars with Joseph Haworth in the title role in Steele Mackaye's French revolution drama. A strong cast and stage effects are promised with 100 auxiliaries on the set. First Pittsburgh visit attracts attention. seat sales start this morning. Annie Pixley engagement at the Grand also opens box office today. Repertory includes The Deacon's Daughter and 22, Second Floor as weekend bill.
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Paul Kavvar
Joseph Haworth
Bijou
Steele Mackaye
Pittsburg
Annie Pixley
the Grand
Moi
Gutine
the Deacon
Santanne Ey
New York
Kennan Lecture Draws Vast Crowd on Siberian Exile Tyranny
George Kennan's second lecture in the city drew a large audience at Old City Hall. He described Siberian exile life, shown photographs of prisons and exiles, and criticized Russian authorities for executions, harsh laws, and lack of reform. He noted the deaths at Kara and urged public awareness and reform.
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George Kennan
Old City Hall
Kennan
Mr. Kennan
George Welshons
Alexander II
Ana
Siberian
Allegheny Musical Association to present first Carnegie Hall concert
The Allegheny Musical Association plans its first Carnegie Hall concert in about three weeks. Featured performers include soprano Mrs. Emma ey Wolfe alto Miss Nell and tenor Mr. W. S. Weeden with a chorus of over 100 Allegheny voices. J. John A. Belt will conduct and W. A. Lafferty will assist.
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Allegheny Musical Association
Carnegie Hall
Emma Ey Wolfe
Nell
Mary To
Soa A. Aisenek
Festival of Days Set by Shadyside Church
Shadyside Presbyterian Church announces a Festival of Days to be held tomorrow afternoon and evening. The event aims to attract a large attendance and will showcase activities organized by the church community with religious spirit.
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Shadyside
Wing Workers to Entertain at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
The Willing Workers of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church present their fourth entertainment for ladies on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Beside other members the "Speakeasy Store" will delight those in attendance.
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Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
Eak Bistore
Burdetes to Lecture at Carnegie Music Hall Saturday
Renowned humorist Robert J. Burdetes will deliver the first Ald Society lecture in the new Carnegie Music Hall, hosted by Arch Street M. E. Church. The talk is scheduled for Saturday evening.
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Robert J. Burdetes
Carnegie Music Hall
Ald Society
Arch Street M. E. Church
Quay Franks Wedding Report Corrected
A correction notes the Quay Franks wedding occurred Tuesday evening in Sewickley. The earlier report misattributed plant media to the Phipps Conservatory, and the correction clarifies the source. Senator Bair presented a petition for his educational bill, signed by four million people, though not as long as Senator Blair's speech.
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Phipps Conservatory
Sewickley
Philadelphia Times
Senator Bair
Senator Blair
Name Change Sparks Townwide Postal Controversy in Mansfield Valley
A Village paper letters column argues for renaming the Mansfield Valley station and post office to simplify naming and unite boroughs. Residents debate Mansfield and Now Mansfield options, urging a single local identity without external aid.
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Mansfeld
Kamen
Dispatch
Ten Ore
Wee Eee
Co Op
Putnam
Chartiers Creek
Fissbore
Lake Erie
Allegheny River
Tarentum
Westmoreland County
Mansfield
Simely Mans
Annoyanes
Manafield
Masspield Valley
Old Dan Rice and the origin of a well known phrase
Letters to the editor discuss the origin of a popular saying in Old Dan Rice's chorus and request how to route a world circling letter. A note clarifies St Helena as Napoleon's exile, describing its location and dimensions in a dated reply.
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Old Dan Rice
Tspaten
Liverpool
The
Liapaten
Tae Disraten
Parant Step and New Mare in NATANT READER Fragment
A fragmented historical notice discusses a parental step and marriage age, with garbled references to NATANT READER and a Pabrussy Lee. The readable text hints at social or legal questions about marriage eligibility and guardianship in a past period.
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The
Dispatch
Pabrussy Lee
What Sort of a City is It In Ford City Pa
The piece asks how many inhabitants Ford City Pennsylvania has and whether the town is owned by a single man and possesses a mayor and police. It appears as a topical inquiry from Wheeling dated February 12.
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The
Dispatch
Ford City
Reaper
Wheeling
The Distarce Offers New Features and Growth in 19th Century Press
The Dispatch receives praise from an Ohio weekly while The Distarce expands with a larger Sunday edition, better circulation and added printing facilities. Hoes & Co plans to install a double perfecting press to enhance publishing speed and capacity across its plant.
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Pirrsnorg Drstaton
United States
Home Circle
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Taz Disratcn
Hoe & Co
Swift
Tae di Fatoh
Political clashes and reform talk across newspapers
A collage of political commentary notes: New York Sun on patience with deadlock. West Virginia approves Australian ballot. Chicago press on Senate dynamics. Cardinal Manning backs German labor reform. Ohio Republicans split over Foraker’s stance. hopes for a unifying Republican figure fade.
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Harrison
Reed
Pratt
New York Sun
Horace Boies
Iowa
Knooklys Standard-Union
West Virginia House
Tammany Hall
David B. Hill
Tammany
Carcago News
United States Senate
Montana
New York Tribune
Cardinal Manning
Kaiser
Bostos Herald
Ohio
Foraker
Repubiicans
Curious Condensations From Awaning Times
A garbled column compiles scattered items from science, portraits, and oddities. Topics include Russian rail plans in May, Indian chief Hoffily’s mother’s death, a buried Roman coin, a bear on a Sacramento river log, and a Bellah mechanism near the California tragedy.
Fragments of Wit and Gossip From Various Papers
A jumbled collection of quips, verse snippets, and cartoon captions from multiple papers. It features jokes about charity and honesty, coastal and midwestern commentary, and satirical lines on public figures, love, and daily life with scattered attributions and nameless punchlines.
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Pittsburg Dostolice
Fifth Avenue
Diamond Street
Eastern
Fee
Tribune
Dirarcn
Mer Dar Disratcn
Davy Inaraton
Samaieg Cain
Visratch
Im'the
Merera Eats
Boston Globe
Southern Iron
Sympatey
Mrs
Alice Dally
Pomaker
Colonel Quay
Kara
Cerenas
Ile Sea
Zaro
Russias
McVickar
Cinefion
Baerdetto
St. Helens
Napoleon
Glenfield
St. Helena
Great Britain
South Atlantic
South America
B&st
Ohio Patriot
New Italian
Quincy Journal
Rogtom Mort
Washington Maleset
New England
Providence Telegram
Spriggins
Iinghamton Republican
Milwaukee
London
Agha Alb Khan Ala-ls-Sultan
George
Chicago
Tam
Pistt
Lincoln Park
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