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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1890
Page
9
Washington society buzzes over presidential hopefuls and widowers as bachelors hunt lasting matches. Senators Allison Hale Wolcott Higgins Sawyer vie for wives amid heiress wealth, diplomats, lawyers, and navy men, while letters from suitors flood chaperoned gatherings at the winter capital.
Fragmentary text recounts a rich city man named Walcott and a romance with a Baltimore girl. Fatherly warning and marriage to another man are noted, with later life hints and a funeral home detail mentioned in brief, garbled form. The passage ends with a Wheeling reference to Toba Pendleton.
A Lewiston Journal item humorously recalls a man who boasted about his wife’s church attendance while guests mocked outfits and sermons. The tale features Mrs Hughes in a conspicuous bonnet, Kate Selwin in a costly sealskin, and a sleepy sermon voice as guests pivoted to gossip about fashions and a new minister.
Shirley Dare calls on rulers and the public to end neglect of sanitation as la grippe devastates cities. She warns of costly illness, lost labor, and weakened vitality, blaming faulty drainage, sewer gas, and dirty streets for a rising plague threat and urging immediate civic health reforms.
An elderly Lynchburg story recalls Joe, a one time slave and body servant to General Jubal Early. Joe remains fiercely loyal, declaring he is not free but bound to Mas Jube until death. He guides Early at times like a faithful guardian, even addressing sobriety and control as a playful boss–servant dynamic.
The Beethoven House Society in Bonn has acquired Beethoven's last piano, ordered from court maker Konrad Graff who died in Vienna in 1851. Made with four strings per key for deaf composer Beethoven, it passed through Wimmer and the Widmann family before Brahms confirmed its authenticity. It will be housed in the composer's birthplace in Bonn.
A Berlin professor Dr Kuhnewan claims a man with moderate appetite would need a railroad train of fifteen cars to convey the food a child consumes from birth to age three. The statement, released publicly by a University of Berlin professor, frames caloric needs as immense and remarkable.
The twenty first verse of Ezra chapter seven is cited as the only verse containing every letter of the alphabet. It records Artaxerxes the king issuing a decree to all treasurers beyond the river that whatever the priest or scribe of the law of heaven requires must be done.
Florida roseland is eyed as a future mass market for Northern cities. Eastern capitalists push winter forcing in Florida, with Marechal Neil and La France leading varieties, as investors claim hundreds of millions in floriculture potential near New York City and beyond. The piece touts cheap Florida roses for hotels and homes, and hints at perfumery uses.
Lazarus, a sober builder and devout Jew, is seized by a sudden overwhelming passion for Zahara. He wanders through the night in a delirium of love, while his sister Mary and the household sense a sacred, unsettling shift as Jesus’ presence lingers in the background. The tale frames a man torn between faith, family duty, and an irresistible, transforming love that could redefine his world.
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