Gridiron talks and gun club plans shape Pittsburg sports
In Pittsburg notes, baseball prospects loom with 12 club league debates and Lyons Grimm claims. East Liverpool denied league entry. local gun club aims to rival Hurllingham with enclosed grounds and regular contests. Homewood races plans large stakes. Teemer-Hanlan talk reemerges with no clear match. Griffin plans Bowen bout as boxers eye titles. Sullivan-Slavin talks stall over forfeits and reputations.
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Dialma
National League
New League
Pitteburgers
Lyons
Grimm
Poes
Pitt
Pittsburg
New
Wherclubs
Grimza
Pittsbore
Yoong
Indianapolis
Tom
Standrett
Ander Staning
Louisville
Jaegbn
East End Gems
Wilkinsburg
East Liverpool
Liverpooliles
Greensburg and Heaver Palis
Allegeny County
Eitos
Pillsboro
Shaner
Hurlingham Club
Suootere
Pittsboro
United States
McCracken
Homewood
Torm-r
John Teemer
Gaudaur
Astar
Toomer
Hanlan
Teomer
England
Australia
Stansbury
Fashions in men wear sparkle with spring lines
The piece surveys fall and Christmas dress parade notes and forecasts new spring taste in gloves hats and underwear. It highlights self-stitching pearl shades for kids, elaborate white floral trims, English silk hats, cream gold gloves, open-front undershirts, and a surge in neckwear following Christmas. It also describes dress coats with velvet collars, varied lapels, and the shift toward day and evening shirt differentiation.
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London
Paris
Iris
Harry le Grand Vinnoa
Literary People Don't Always Agree
Frank Leake's weekly surveys Bronson Alcott's view on Walt Whitman. Mrs. Gilchrist praises Whitman's electric streams and wisdom. A Contemporary Review calls his poetry atrociously bad. Appleton's Journal deems him a trickster. Joaquin Miller predicts Whitman’s lasting legacy in Washington.
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Frank Leake
Bronson Alcott
Mega
Walt Whitman
Gilchrist
Bedlam
Appleton
Joaquin Miller
Washington
Northwest senators rise from rugged farms to national power
Wast ington dateline notes how Northwest leaders from Wisconsin to Idaho and Montana built fortune from surveying land, lumber, and steady work. Pettigrew, Shoup, Sanders, Davis, Casey, Washburne, Vilas and others are profiled as self made, resilient figures shaping policy and politics in Congress.
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Minneapolis
Northwest
Union
United States
Senate
Senator Sawyer
Wisconsin
New York
W&k
Philetus
Dsg
Sawyer
Hoe
New
Senator Pettigrew
Pettigrew
Dakota
Vermont
Sioux Falls
Rinal
Frank Pettigrew
Minnesota
Washburne
Davis, O'Brien & Wilson
Napoleon
Europe
Casey
George Shoup
Idaho
Wilbur F F. Sanders
Montana
East
Pike's Peak
Colorado Volunteers
Sasa
Indian Affairs Committee
Sanders
Ingalls
Washington
William F. Vilas
Congress
Viins
Chamber
Wyoming
Carey
Warren
Shoup
G. Canzzntza
Women in Paradise and the Duty of Women in Society
A critical examination of how religion and gender roles define women’s place in France Spain and America. The piece argues churches and state clash over female authority, notes women’s influence in church life, and contrasts Spain’s traditional, male-dominated culture with evolving American views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jules Simon
France
Sisters of Charity
Spain
Europe
Jerusalem
America
Real estate in New York fairs prices astound
A Harper's Weekly tone piece notes Manhattan land values soar with frontage sales reaching 20x100 feet at 3400,000 downtown and similar 20x100 lots at 50,000 uptown. The passage argues traffic demand and housing needs push soil value to dazzling levels, implying a widening gap between the extremely rich and the very poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sianas
Harper's Weekly
Paradise
New York
Manhattan
Locomotive on Chicago and Alton Road Sparks Smoke Incident
Readable text from Detroit Free Press notes a locomotive on the Chicago and Alton line emitting its own smoke. The brief item references a basic rail event with minimal detail, preserving names and place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Hunker
Reading
Chicago and Alton Road
Grateful mother touts Peruna cure for boy’s catarrh
A Chippewas Falls mother writes of her twelve year old son’s long battle with chronic catarrh and cough. After about a month on Peruna his nasal discharge and cough ceased, improving his health and prompting a strong recommendation to others. The letter endorses Peruna as a family medicine and urges households to keep a bottle on hand.
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Griffin
Larkin
Bowen
Bay St. Louis
Gibbons
Andy
Andy Bowen
New Orleans
Carroll
Mrer
Grifin
PrincLe
Hartman
Peruna
A. E. Ackerman
E. Grand Ave
Chippewas Falls
Wis
Peru
Peruna remedy advertisement promises household peace from winter illnesses
A period advertisement urges keeping Peruna at hand to prevent catarrh La grippe coughs colds and consumption. It directs readers to The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company in Columbus Ohio for a free edition on treatment of climatic diseases of winter and related ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Arbitration with Chile Proposed as Peaceful Solution
A New York official advocates submitting the United States Chile disputes to arbitrators, citing the Macedonia Claims settled over 20 years ago. He recalls the 1821 silver seizure by Admiral Cochrane and notes Belgium as the arbiter, urging war avoidance and peaceful resolution.
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Cash Davis
Minnesota
Washburne
Senator Davis
Ben Butler
Butler
Fifth Avenue
New York
Northwest
United States
Chile
Macedonia
Cochrane
Ter
Belgium
Procrastination breeds and old gossips in the street
A fragment notes two elderly women with rabbits and canaries who talked and astonished the neighborhood. An advertisement urges Carlsbad Sprudel Salts for home use, claiming they treat constipation and stomach diseases. It promotes Eisner & Mendelsor Co. as sole agents in New York with illustrated pamphlets.
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Carlsbad
Europe
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John L. Sullivan
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Sullivan
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Fitzsimmmons
Titz
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Neelige
Prince Albert
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Millionaires’ Club
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South Dakota
Eneo
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Court House
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Maine
Norlands Library
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Simon
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Cty
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