Advertising offices and distribution hubs of The Dispatch
A notice describes the Business Office corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets and other locations including Diamond Street rooms 75 77 and 79. It lists FASTEEN ADVERTISING OFFICE room 51 Tribune Building New York and notes foreign and home advertisers can find The Dispatch there. It mentions availability at Birentone's Union Square New York and in Ave de C Opera Paris France for readers abroad.
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Smithfield
Diamond Streets
Diamond Street
Fasteen
Tribune Building
New York
Dispatch
THE
the Dispatch
Birentone’s
Union Square
Ave de C Opera
Paris
France
Daily Directory Ad Rates and Delivery Terms
The notice lists newspaper price and delivery terms including daily and Sunday editions. Subscriptions show per quarter and per year rates with weekly carrier deliveries and Sunday inclusions. The fragmentary OCR mentions 700 and 290 units, with 2 cents per week for carrier delivery including Sunday.
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Musraten
LusraTen
Merut
Effects of Street Improvements in Pittsburg
The piece argues for a street improvement law allowing abutters to trigger paving with one third frontage, citing 1887 act results. It notes boosted property values, increased building activity, and higher city taxes, while warning legislative fixes are needed to satisfy Supreme Court objections and avoid revived unanimity blocks.
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Supreme Court
Old City
The Farmer in Politics and Western Legislatures
The Farmers' Alliance has entered Western legislatures prompting dramatic actions. Nebraska sheriffs forced doors to serve a mandamus on the Speaker to canvass election returns. Minnesota shows alliance maneuvering to gain favor, while Kansas faces notable disruption to the granters’ peace. The period marks farmers mastering legislative power through subtlty and force.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Nebraska
State House
Minnesota
Kansas
Doodle
Progress by Koch lymph cures consumption and lupus
The discovery and use of Professor Koch's lymph spurs medical research though its full therapeutic value remains uncertain. It is shown to cure lupus and helps in early phthisis, offering hope to arrest consumption even if complete cure is not assured. The duration of cure remains undetermined.
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Koch
New remedy proposed for pulmonary tuberculosis treatment
Dr. C. E. Bruce of the House of Rest for Consumptives in New York reports early December experiments with a simple inorganic chemical as a substitute for Koch lymph. The method, akin to lymph-hypodermic injections, improves appetite and weight, especially in advanced pulmonary consumption where Koch lymph is less effective, and promises safer, wider physician use potentially transforming treatment.
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C. E. Bruce
House of Rest For
Consumptives
New York
Reform Move by Massachusetts Republicans Calls for Party Clean-Up
Amid heavy GOP losses in Massachusetts a core of leaders launches the Republican Club of Massachusetts advocating honest money a protective tariff American shipping merit-based civil service reform and restricted immigration along with honest ballots and fair counts. They warn that party success in 1892 hinges on enforcing these principles nationwide.
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Republican Party
Massachusetts
Republican Club of
United States
Pennsylvania
Democracy's Great Day in St Jacksons The National Mood
Democracy celebrated with banquets and meetings showing unity after elections. Patriotic oratory fired love for country and free institutions. Republicans urged harmony and praised the Muckrake figure for balancing neighbors and supporting the Farmers Alliance.
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Mucwump
Farmers’ Alliance
A New Rural Road Idea Named and Numbered Streets
A letter extols adopting city style named and numbered roads for rural areas. It notes current direc tion confusions and suggests Contra Costa County California's system by A L Bancroft, naming all roads to cut travel and locating effort.
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Yellow Meeting House
Jimtown
Contra Costa County
California
A. L. Bancroft
S County
Old City Plan Advocates System of Road Numbering
A proposed numbering scheme for county roads uses two numbers per block on either side of each road, with alphabetic suffixes for extra positions. A chart would show every road junction, aiding direct routing from a starting point. Cost would be modest, mainly distance measurements, funded by a compiled directory. The plan aims to ease navigation and help aid London’s poor and local needs.
Men and Women of Note from a 19th Century Page
A Nephew of Dr Schliemann Carl Schliemann sings with the Emma Juch Opera Company Henny G Marquand urged to head Chicago Exposition art department Carlisle's grandson prefers John G over Johnnie SenaTor IxGaces adheres to Friday superstition Mary E Williams 30 year old novelist Royal Geographical Society grants 1000 to Theodore Bent for Mashonaland exploration Princess of Meiningen Erisee Wilhelm translates German classics Principal ex-Justice SimonaG of the Supreme Bench admired in Washington George W Comps of Philadelphia owns 2000 clocks Kronkovski the Russian bandit sentenced to Siberia once well born General Brale notes Grant praised Li Hung Chang photograph taken together
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Dr. Schliemann
Carl Schliemann
Emma Juch Opera Company
Henny G. Marquand
New York
Carlisle
John
Johnnie
John G
Ixgaces
Mary E. Wiliams
Royal Geographical Society of England
Theodore Bent
Mashonaland
East Africa
King Solomon's
Erisee Wilhelm
Meiningen
N. P. Banks
Simonag
Supreme Bench
Washington
Grorce W. Comps
Philadelphia
George
Kronkovski
Siberia
Prince Demidoff
General Brale
Grant
Ld Hung Chang
China
Snap Shots In Season In Door Pry To Be Serious
A column of humorous vignettes and satirical lines on life and law opens with reflections on balancing seriousness and humor. It weaves quirky quips about street law, wigs, poets, and public life, finishing with a pithy note from Willim Winkle.
Elegant Reception at the McCreery Mansion in Allegheny
A double social reception at the McCreery mansion on Lincoln Avenue drew Allegheny’s society. Ladies in pink mousseline and blue, with Mrs. McCreery in black silk, mingled among roses and laurel decor. An evening dance followed a refined luncheon with decorations by A. M. and B. Murdoch and music by Gernert.
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McCreery
Hazelwood
Carnegie Library
Lincoln Avenue
Allegheny
Jane
Madam de Wartteville
Cusine
Emilie
Lide
Misa Maxwell
Vassar Pes
Miss Romney
Nowes
Miss Blackwell
Trenton
Tollete
Bessie Stephenson
Bakewell
Caughey
Sarah Scott
Alice
Eleanor Stevenson
Benny
Mary Ewing
Frances
Elizabeth
Virginia McCreery
Folka
Luther
Music Gernert
A. M
B. Murdoch
Almost Within Reach Pittsburg Library Bender Collection
Carnegie Library seeks to acquire the J. J. Bender Pittsburg book collection through Librarian Stevenson. Bender offered the set, dating from 1806-7 to recent works, including rare items like The Olden Time first edition. The library aims to fund it from regular library funds or the Phipps donation trustees.
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Carnegie Library
Stevenson
J. J. Bender
Pittsburg
Bender
Phipps
Neville G. Craig
Hazelwood Wedding Set For January Fourteenth At Presbyterian Church
A fashionable Hazelwood wedding will be solemnized at the Presbyterian Church of that place at 8 o'clock, January 14, when Miss Margaret McKibben and J. L. Bowman are to be united in marriage. Cards have been sent to the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McKibben, and "at home" cards also for February 15, at their residence on Mobile street, Hazelwood. A reception at Cyclorama parlors was given under the auspices of local organizers.
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Hazelwood
Presbyterian Church
Messia
H. H. Farreo
G. A. Langenheim
T. P. Courtney
A. H. Langenheim
W. H. Baum
E. P. Young
Sewickley
Henny Houlpship
Lincoln Avenue
Jous Young
Terrace Avenue
Oakland
G. J. Honosai
Fulton Street
Kenmawr
A. J. Logan
Navy affair defines officer duties after Tracy rebuke
Washington January 8 The Navy Department debate centers on Secretary Tracy's reprimand of Commander Reiter. The event yields a sharply written directive defining officers duties in future cases to defend the flag and protect those under it, while warning against overreach. Officers express mixed views on balance between restraint and responsibility.
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Washington
Navy Department
Tracy
Reiter
Farmer John MacCaskey Dies After Tree Falls
Crawford township farmer John MacCaskey was killed when a tree toppled and crushed him this morning. The incident occurred amid a severe storm that marked a tragic event for the local community.
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Tue Dimatoh
CosHodox
John MacCaskey
Crawford Township
Volsak
Deaths of a Day Miss Margaret Moore
Special telegram reports Miss Margaret Moore dying in Wellburg at home where she was born and lived all her life. She would have been years old if alive today, oldest county resident, daughter of Hubert T Moore, one of the Moores who built the house. She was second of ten children. old era memory recalls Mingo Indians near Og Junction. Her brother Captain F Moore of Ironton was the last surviving family member. Nearby, Associate Justice Charles Devens of Massachusetts died at 71, a former US Attorney General. Captain Francis Van Swarton, long a western leader, died at his Youngstown home.
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Margaret Moore
Wellaburg
Jan
Stargaret Moore
Paobsandle
Washington, Pa
Hubert T Moors
Rocka
Ogo Junction
Redskins
F. Moore
Ironton,l
Deanala
Bostos
Charles Devens
Massachusetts Supreme Court
United States
Hayes
Massachusetts Supreme Bench
The Polish-On Shoes Reveal a Chemist’s Patent Blacking
A Pittsburg chemist, famed for his shining shoes, explains the joy in his work. He recalls inventing a brilliant lasting blacking after a year of trials begun Christmas Eve 1898. He describes early missteps, a bottle of acid, and eventual success with a patent product he believes unmatched.
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Pittsburg
They Glory in Their Badness in Allegheny Night
A Pittsburg father schemes to discipline two defiant boys by making the guilty suffer while the innocent see mercy. The plan backfires as the brothers confess each misdeed, while Allegheny nights host a farcical burglary scare escalated by overheated neighbors and a ketchup explosion. This comic slice ends with a barber tale of rough treatment and a sharp quip about the boy’s raw faces.
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Pittsburg
Lahall
Elevated Railroad Dispute Heads Toward Hearing
Master Windes reports in Patrick O Donnell et al v Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company recommending no injunction but a final hearing soon. Plaintiffs seek removal of the structure citing frontage issues though most frontage secured. Lake Street bought rights from other railroads with consent to exceed required frontage. Judge Tuley to decide Horton Randolph street case. Windes holds Council ordinance final as petitions show majority frontage secured.
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Curiaco
Windes
Tuley
Patrick O'Donnell
Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company
Lake Streets Company
Master Windes
Sar
Oppor
Horton
Randolph Street
Down on a Food Trust in New Orleans Court Case
In the Circuit Court the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company versus Bernard Klotts et al the judges Pardes and Billings refused the application to prohibit monopolistic control of the daily bread business. The decision rejects concentrating bakery power in one organization as harmful to competition, public interest, and fair pricing.
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New Orleans
Jan
Circuit Court of
United States
American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company
Bernard Klotts
Pardes
Billings
Miss Mather Shines as Juliet in Local Shakespeare
Miss Margaret Mather gave a pleasing Romeo and Juliet at the Bijou Theater with Otis Skinner as Romeo. Though her popularity in Pitesburg is noted, the company appeared uneven, yet the crowd praised her strong Juliet performance and the evening drew a loyal following.
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Margaret Mather
Bijou
Juliet
Pitesburg
Otis Skinner
Population counts by wards for Pittsburg and Allegheny County
Final census totals released show ward populations for Pittsburg and surrounding counties. The report lists each ward population for the city and totals for Allegheny County and nearby counties, highlighting the distribution of residents to project ten-year demographics.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny
Washington
Jan. K
Pennsylvania
Son of
Beaver
Heatord
Bink
Om Bradford
Satis Butler
Cam
Clarion
Clear
Forest
Greene
Indias
Diana
An Lawrence
McKean
Mercer
Somerset
Venango
Warren
Wn Washington
Resis Sir
Emma Abrottis Remains to Reach City for Funeral
The remains of Miss Emma Abbott will arrive in Cuticago at 9 tomorrow morning via the Chicago and Alton Railway delayed about twelve hours in Denver. They will lie with Miss Abbott’s mother at the Continental Hotel until 1pm then proceed to Central Music Hall for services conducted by Rev Dr Thomas and Prof Ewing. Music by a quartet and organist Harrison Wild, with flowers from across the country. Pallbearers will be local theatrical managers and Emma Abbott Opera Company members select the actual pallbearers.
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Cutcaago, Jan
Emma Abbott
Chicago and Alton
Denver
Miss Abbott
Continental Hotel
Central Music Hall
Dr. Thomas
Ewing
Whitney Mockridge
Genevra Johnston-Bishop
Marcheta
George Ellsworth Holmes
Harrison Wild
Emma Abbott Opera Company
California’s New Governor Inauguration and Tax Plan
Sackramento Jan. h Governor Henry Markham was installed today urging the Legislature to keep annual state taxes at 5 cents per $100 of property value as fixed by the Republican convention. He spoke on funding a World’s Fair display and advised Congress to strengthen and extend the Chinese exclusion act beyond 1892 for as long as possible, stressing California’s products and resources.
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Sackamiento
Jan
Henry Markham
California
Congress
Cameron to seek another Senate term at Harrisburg caucus
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes Rep Senator Cameron will succeed himself as expected. The Harrisburg Republican senatorial caucus action pleases many Democrats and a few Republicans, while provoking regret and resentment among the broader Republican base and those unhappy with Cameron and his methods as reported by Philadelphia's Press.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Cameron
Philadelph
Harrisburg
Sympathy for the Hebrews in Russia debated in Congress
The Cummings resolution on the treatment of Hebrews in Russia was studied by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It was referred to a sub committee to draft language that avoids interfering with Russia’s internal affairs while expressing U S sympathy for the Hebrews.
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Washington
Russia
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
United States
Medals For American Seamen From King Of Sweden
Congress authorizes acceptance of 344 medals offered by the King of Sweden to reward the Baltimore crew who conveyed the remains of Captain John Ericson to Sweden. Distribution planned: one gold medal to the commanding officer, 61 silver to officers, and 22 bronze for crew. Since the crew cannot accept without Congress approval, Representative Rockwell reports a Foreign Affairs Committee resolution delegating delivery to the State Department.
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Congress
Rockwell
Committee On Foreign Affaira
Department of State
Hing
Sweden
The Funeral Train Arrives with Emma Abbott's Remains
Emma Abbott's funeral train reached Kansas City at six after a one hour delay from the storm. The procession included about 80 mourners and the entire company of performers traveling in two Pullman cars. The casket rested in the dead car as delegations from local theaters greeted the arrival with flowers. The mourning party then continued on the Alton express to Chicago at 630 PM.
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Kansas City
Emma Abbott
Chicago
Alton Express
No Limit Set To Discussion On Shipping Bill In House
The Shipping Bill was taken up in the House in Washington on January 8. An effort to set a voting time failed, leaving the debate open without a limit. Mr. Grosvenor spoke at length in support of the measure.
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Wash
eTon
Grosvenor
Savannah News O Donovan Hossa Moves Toward New Term
O Donovan Hossa seeks a new two year term from Raxlandl as plans unfold for a move toward the country. The report notes expected delays and political maneuvering affecting the timetable and route.
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Savannah News
O'Donovan Hossa
Raxlandl
Financial bill under debate sparks party warnings
The Louis Globe-Democrat notes that bad financial legislation would harm the country more than the force bill. The Buffalo Express highlights commercial concerns as the Delgmater assets total $300,000 with liabilities exceeding that amount. Political honors in Pennsylvania are described as costly.
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Louis Globe-Democrat
Senate
Buffalo Express
Delgmater
Bheing
Pennsyvania
Varied Global Anecdotes From Curious Early 1900s News
A collage of brief items notes gas shortages in Perth, mine and labor shifts involving Chinese workers, and debates over ship dynamo magnetic leakage. It mentions Belle Gentry in Scottsboro, a record honey harvest in Oregon, anti Hebrews edict in Russia, Siberian gold, Georgia fruit hopes, a Chattanoogan’s rat tale, a Paris lakefront expo plan, English interests in Maine mills, a 115 year old Indian woman Torres, Queen of Italy’s grand Parliament dress, Benton Halstead's claim to invent the typewriter, a Vermont tragedy of two deaths, a Wyomington relic discovery linked to Kit Carson, and a note on Mike Laeger’s rifle inscription.
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Mnaman
Hypolite Hardy
Paris
Chicago
Rome
Herculaneum
Stabine
Pompei
Kentucky
Alvin Record
Livermore Palla
England
Uncle Sam
Washington
Henry McGowan
Barre
Cherokee Strip
Pond Creek
Mike Laeger
Kit Carson
Mike Jones
Whimsical quips and comic slips from old papers
A collage of gags and light jests from several newspapers. It recalls punchlines about teachers whales benevolent cries and misread fortunes, with quips about fashion costs and a Liverpool candy merchant, all in a breezy, era voice.
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Vola
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Bering Sea Dispute
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Wares
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Devens
Francis van Swarton
Greensburg
Jon
Youngstown
Lise Acalieseea
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Perth
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Liverpool
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