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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1890
Page
2
Beatrice confronts Mr. Bingham over a false engagement rumor and a harsh tease. He apologizes as she reveals her loss of faith and a past tragedy. They discuss religion, doubt, and possible futures while walking together, each trying to chart understanding.
In a tale of doubt and belief Beatrice leans on Geoffrey to steady her faith. Faith wavers yet Hope and Charity reemerge as she clings to the philosopher she finally trusts. The scene ends with Beatrice choosing belief over doubt and saving a life as suspense remains for next Sunday.
A New York Tribune reflection on coin collecting as a harmless, sometimes sentimental thrift habit. It notes social remarks by pocket-piece enthusiasts, potential emotional losses at coin exchanges, and how emigrants pass keepsakes to new generations.
A curious hospital tale recounts a member of Congress and his tall disciplinarian wife. In the nursery mix up, the wife struck a boy with a slipper, while the husband arrived thinking he would discipline the children too. Laughter from the children revealed the amusing double spanking incident.
In Southern California placer mines many workers toil for small daily returns. One miner, digging under a rock with a stream overhead, tunneled inward and found a packet of nuggets worth 58000 dollars, changing his fortune after years of effort.
An Omaha man was struck by another car while alighting on Sixteenth and Dodge. The conductor warned to watch for the other vehicle, but the passenger asked what was said and was knocked about five feet toward the curb. He muttered aloud in pain.
The Laccadive Islands suffer plantation loss due to a rat plague. A proposed Madras Government method uses plaster of Paris sprinkled on boiled rice. rats eat it, become thirsty, drink water, and the plaster hardens to kill them. This avoids arsenic risk to women.
Fifth Avenue Little Folks and their mammas join a lively pageant on stilts. Comedian Crane’s wife manages his material welfare as a lighthearted feature highlights playful athletic girls in a cheerful society vignette.
A Compares article sketches the affluent crowd on Fifth Avenue adopting stilts and playful displays, noting charity ball shifts, opera nights, and social rituals. It highlights Miss Murray Hill crushes on a German baritone, Mrs. Crane’s money-management, and a club of marriageable men seekers as society fun masks deeper status dynamics.
Frank Damek a Chicago sportsman has a 20 year long collection of street found playing cards. He searched months apart for rare cards finally locating the deuce of diamonds and completing most of his deck though a few cards remain missing. His pack includes cards of varied quality from clean to worn.
The piece predicts a coming revival of steamboat interests within the next year or two as river traffic gains favor over railroads. Legislatures show renewed interest, river service is modernizing, and commerce shifts toward the river despite past railroad advantages.
The article urges regular unhurried muscular exercise as the best prevention for nervous exhaustion. It argues moderating hurry and taking longer walks or open air activity helps reduce nervous disease. For those unable to take holidays a day in bed occasionally is advised as a substitute.
Correspondent describes Colombia’s Magdalena region from Barranquilla to Bogota, noting poor harbors, dangerous river travel, and swarming mosquitoes. He portrays Sabanilla as a filthy, hot port with crime, then Barranquilla as modern and prosperous, and discusses emigration prospects, slave-era estates, mixed populations, and abundant tropical scenery including alligators and fruit plantations.
A Washington Street cafe owner with a large daily trade gives away leftover pies cakes bread and biscuits each evening at 7 30 to newsboys and newsgirls for a mere song. No one goes away hungry even with a penny. Every fellow gets something and the scene charms onlookers.
The Harrisburg gossip column profiles James McCormick Cameron son of the Pennsylvania senator, notes his Harvard education, Front and State street home, and interest in the McCormick iron business. It also highlights attorney Marlin Olmsted, match peddler Mark Blitz, and Jim Fletcher a surviving Light Brigade veteran with ties to Balaklava.
A Crimean soldier who served under the English flag and later for the United States recounts his wartime experiences. Col Williamews, treasurer of Pisseytvenie, describes his time at Balaklava and wartime duties in a brief biographical note.
Colonel Joseph K Rickey of Callaway county Missouri bets a Chicago capitalist two thousand to two hundred fifty on Robert T Lincoln as the next President The bet is laid for 1892 with Lincoln named by Rickey and agreed by both parties.
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