The Dispatch Advertising Offices and Mail Details
The Dispatch lists its business and publishing offices at Diamond Street locations in Pittsburg with room and address details. It notes advertising office access in New York at Trinuke Building and Brentano’s in Union Square and Paris, offering distribution for foreign advertisers and readers visiting New York or Paris for hotel news.
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Smithfield
Diamond Streets
Diamond Street
Fasteen Advertising
Trinuke Building
New York
Dispatch
Dmepatch
Brentano's
Union Square
Ave. de U Opera
Paris
France
Daily Dispatch newspaper subscription options
The notice lists subscription plans for the Daily Dispatch including price tiers for daily and Sunday editions. Options cover one month one year and weekly rates with or without Sunday editions offered through carrier delivery at stated per week or per year prices.
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DaiLy Dispatch
Dany Dsratcu
DaiLty Disratcu
Daly Vdieeratch
Danyisratcu
Leadership in iron production in 1890 United States leads world output
The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association reports 10,307,28 net tons of pig iron produced in 1890, a 21 percent rise from 1889, placing the U.S. ahead of England. Allegheny County and Pittsburgh retain top positions, with vast districts boosting Ohio and Illinois. The data confirm Pittsburgh’s supremacy in pig iron and finished iron and steel.
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Bulletin of
The
American Iron and Steel Association
United States
Census Bureau
England
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Union
Pennsylvania
Pittsbury
Mahoning
Shenango
Mahoning Valley
Ohio
Bessemer
Allegheny County
Tlinois
Lessons Of The Indian System In Washington Opinion
A Washington correspondent argues Indians should receive lands in severalty and be taught to farm. The piece notes treaties and pledges, condemns neglect of civilized poor, and critiques the view that Indian administration is driven by a corrupt, competitive atmosphere labeled as business.
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Washington
Crooks
Zane
Government control of Indian trade proves harmful to natives
A correspondent argues that the Delhi policy of government managed supplies and restricted traders keeps Indians under tutelage. The piece claims state socialism increases costs, delays provisions, and invites political plunder, urging emancipation through self rule and competitive commerce.
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Pittsburg
Promises Of Wealth In Fraudulent Beneficial Schemes
The piece warns against mushroom organizations promising to return $100 to each member in six months in exchange for dues, arguing such plans rely on fraud or ignorance. It criticizes loopholes requiring new members, unsustainable compounding promises, and notes the history of failed deposit schemes replacing older fraud methods.
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Western Hemisphere
Severe eastern storm cuts telegraph links and wires in state
A sharp eastern storm brought snow and sleet to the region, shutting telegraphic lines to Philadelphia and New York. Electric wires suffered heavy damage, with communications through Central Pennsylvania and nearby cities severely hindered by the storm’s reach.
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Pittsburg
Philadelphia
New York
Centralsylvania
Peon
Storm near Pittsburg prompts city weather contrast
The report notes a storm extending from Pennsylvania to Albany creating contrasts with Pittsburg’s bright mild day. Telegraph outages have disrupted winter business, suggesting that undergrounding wires nationwide could offset the telegraph disruption costs.
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Sylvania
Albany
Pittsburg
Arctic Openings For Men Not Worth The Risk
Mr George Kennan warns that chasing the North Pole offers a dangerous and dubious opportunity. Reports from early Arctic expeditions describe cannibalism and fatal risk, making permanent Arctic postings unattractive for both young and old. The allure of heroic discovery fades beside the high death rate and no practical gains.
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George Kennan
North Pole
Arctic
Langston Introduces Bill for One Million Colored University
Hon. Joan M. Langston introduces a bill to establish a colored university with one million dollars. She states the bill could be an alternative to the elections measure if Hon. John M. Langston is kept from handling the funds.
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Joan M. Langston
John M. Langston
Political echoes and oddities from the Senate and press
The Boston Herald notes that past Senators who sought the Presidency did not always win, citing Garfield and others, while the piece questions Hill's presidential chances. It references cable reports on Prince Baudouis, Pittsburgh street-cleaning hopes, a pipeline bill, Eva Mann Hamilton testimony, and a quip about the Senate’s daily rhythm this week.
Kansas House Opposes Elections Bill Amid Party Debate
The Kansas House passes a resolution against the elections bill by 91 to 21 as Republicans grapple with the shift of Kansas toward Democratic strength. The piece notes a drop in a Lottery-like scheme and reflects on reform efforts cutting profits in mail lotteries, while questioning broader party fortunes.
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Kansas House of Representatives
Kansas
Notable Figures in Briefing Toast to European Court and Americas
A collection of quick notes mentions Benator Plume as a Kansas newspaper subscriber, the Prince of Nassau in England seeking a wife, Sim Charles and Lady Dilee vacationing in a French country house near Toulon, and Charles Bradlange once a tailor’s shoewalker about his early debating days. James Gordon Bennett is due back next spring, with the ex Commodore visiting the Has san and Naouma and building a new steel screw yacht in the U.S. The Comte de Paris’ request for his son’s Russian military commission is refused, prompting surprise. Brsitor John P. Newman leads the Quarter Centennial Methodist Jubilees in New Orleans and will speak on The Future of the Negro Race, with a Western and Southern circuit to follow. Paul Cinquevalli, famed magician and linguist who speaks eight languages, is celebrated for his dramatic career and past beard. Bill Nye’s comic face once wore a long beard before losing hair.
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Benator
Kansas
Prince OF Nassau
England
Sim Charles
Lady Dilee
Cape Bron
Toulon
Charles Bradlange
James Gordon Bennett
Hassan and Naouma
Tar Comte de Paris
Russia
Louis Napoleon
Brsitor
Jonn P. Newman
New Orleans
Paul Cinquevalli
Bill Nye
Village Inn Echoes Through Time Amid Gossip and Memories
A nostalgic meditation on a white and green village inn that anchored daily news, gossip, and social life. Readers are reminded of the inn as a social hub where hosts and travelers swapped stories, while the landscape and garden paint a vivid rural memory of past life and community bonds.
Alexander Black Dies at 73 in Widely Known Local Figure
Alexander Black died yesterday at age 73. He was a widely known local figure. Funeral arrangements are pending with services at a specified church. Further details were not fully readable.
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Alexander Black
Bnet
Engineen Leisch
Manin Pecece Laenee
Buckeye Fox Hurts At Kentucky Fox Hunt
An old fashioned Kentucky fox hunt at Squire Whetlock's drew 23 hunters, 16 mounted, as 41 hounds pursued two foxes over fields and hedges from Bullittsville. Only seven riders finished. Selima won the race after multiple falls. A row at Sells' Grove arose over fox killing.
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John Renner
Aldia
Wick
Randie
Billy Caldwell
Colonel Whetlock
Kentucky Hills
Joe Renner
Bullittsville
Symseo
Tors
Squire Whetlock
Selima
Hetlock
Sells’ Grove
Kentucky
Sacred
Dr. Sale
Don Cameron and secret speculation in silver query
Kansas City Times questions whether Don Cameron’s silver speculation harmed him or if the secrecy until re election was aimed at concealing facts. The piece weighs political risk, timing, and reputational impact on Cameron’s Senate bid.
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Kansas City Times
Don Cameron
New York Man Imagines Himself Dead in Kansas
A New York man believes he is dead, a rare mental symptom noted among cases in Kansas. The observation from Emporia references occasional townsfolk who hallucinate they are alive despite grave illusion.
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Emporia
Kan
New York
Kansas
Go East Young Man A Reaction in Favor of New England Farms
Lewiston Journal discusses a shift toward eastern farming as western lands fill. It argues urban life grows from machinery, market demand, and social wants, predicting a decade of rural profit rebounding as the country adjusts to metropolitan growth and improved factory life.
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New England
Lewiston Jour
Alarm on Negro Supremacy Noted in Boston Talk
In a Boston Traveller discussion a warned alarm about negro supremacy is countered by data. White populations outnumber black populations by millions in historical years and are projected to widen further if trends continue. The piece argues immigration does not help the negroes and whites gain from it.
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Boston
Boomers Then Hustlers Now in New Orleans Delta
The boomers invade the Cherokee Strip as tensions rise with hustlers. Reports note looming pursuit by United States troops moving into the area to restore order and enforce authority amid escalating crowd activity.
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New Orleans
Cherokee Strip
United States
Industrious mother hen hatches January brood in Minnesota
Joshua Robertson of Lake Como backs a Far Northern hen whose fever to sit persisted despite cold and blizzards. After three weeks she laid claim to a porcelain nest egg and hatched eleven chicks, marking reportedly the first January brood in Minnesota in the eyes of the oldest inhabitants.
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Str
Pau
Joshua Robertson
Lake Como
Minnesota
Mr. Robertson
St. Paul
Evidence of a united country in political move
The Kansas House of Representatives passed a resolution denouncing the force bill. This is praised as evidence that the nation is reunited and healing civil war scars. The piece argues that selfish politicians aimed to keep the sections apart will fail.
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New Orleans
Kansas House of Representatives
Sheridan's Ride Outdone by a Delayed Legislator
Denver January 23. Thomas F. O Mahoney leader of the Democratic delegation from the carbonate camp in the House of Representatives returned home Friday night to see his constituents and planned to come back Monday morning. He missed his train and rode a working engine to reach the assembly in time for roll call Monday morning. Anxious and desperate he pleaded with the station agent who offered the only option a ride on an engine. He finally arrived as the session began.
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Denver
Thomas F. O'Mahoney
House of Representatives
Soret
James H. Brown
D Alaboney
O’mahoney
Mahoney
O'Mahoney
Mornionc
Oban Iona and the Ocean Final Bit on Northern Britain
Rev George Hodges writes of a scenic Scottish tour from Firth of Forth to Oban with glimpses of Sterling Castle the Trossachs Loch Katrine Ellen's Isle Loch Lomond and Oban. He details the serpent mound near Loch Nell Dunstaffnage Castle and Campbells clashes with Murrays, ending with a vivid battlefield memory.
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George Hodges
Britain
Dunstaffnage Castle and the Stone of Destiny Tale
A fragmented reminiscence traces the Stone of Destiny from Iona to Dunstaffnage and Scone then Westminster, claiming the site as Scotland’s ancient throne. It mentions Fingal’s Cave near Staffa and vivid sea cave imagery, with biblical overtones and medieval coronation lore.
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Dunstaffnage
Scotland
Mecca
Jacob
Ireland
Columba
Iona
Scone
Thither
Westminster Abbey
Staffa
Fingal
Thence to Iona Island and its stark sacred cradle of stones
A vivid sketch of Iona a small island one mile wide three miles long with no trees but abundant rocks a fisher village of 250 people a single multi purpose store post office and hotel two churches Gaelic and English signs two ruins a roofless cathedral a ruined nunnery an ancient cemetery and stone crosses. Columba landed here about 1900 years ago at Port-na-Cruaich Columba Bay noted for a beach called the beach of precious stones named by the Duke of Argyll the island owner.
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Iona
Church of Scotland
Free Church of Scotland
Cmsar
Columba's Bay
Port-na- Cruaich
Duke of Argyll
Columba
Columba and a Highland voyage to Glasgow and New York
The account traces Columba as the missionary who began converting Anglo-Saxon England and describes a journey from Oban through the Crinan Canal to Glasgow, then a week aboard the Majestic to New York. The writer reflects on homeward feelings and the appeal of Pittsburgh’s past in contrast to Edinburgh and Glasgow’s smoky streets.
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Pittsburg
Oban
Crinan Canal
Kyles of Bute
Glasgow
Majestic
Eiher
Atlantic
Liberty
Custom House
New York
G. H
Cloture debate and Pattison inaugural notes
The Inter-Ocean notes purists push to call closure cloture, arguing French pronunciation. It warns that if the measure passes it will likely satisfy the law. The Altoona Tribune urges early and earnest Legislature attention to Pattison’s inaugural proposals on state funds.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Ceea
Altoona Tribune
Pattison
Street Improvement Act Letter Advocates Time to Pay
Groves Fisley E E of Pressville argues in The Dispatch that the pending street act should allow longer payment terms rather than forcing homeowners into bankruptcy for improvements. He urges choice of pavement material by petitioners and cites how vast land sits idle due to short payment limits.
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the Dispatch
Groves Fisley
E. E
Question on origin of consumption cure in 1815 almanac
In a letter to the editor from Elderton Pennsylvania dated January 73, the writer cites Kixe’s Evym a claim that the kine pack cures scrofula and asks whether Dr Koch, Dr Dizon, or Dr Smith originated the remedy. The note references Dr Smith leading Maryland’s Vaccine Institution and mentions the almanac published in Pittsburgh.
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Wispaten
Almanac of 1815
R. C. J. Patterson
Wood and
Fourth Streets
Pittsburg
Kixe
Dr. Smith
Vaccine Institution of Maryland
Koch
Dizon
Letters Debate How Ohio Voters Choose President
A and B discuss the process by which Ohio voters influence the presidency. A argues voters elect electors who then vote for the President, while B contends voters elect the President by plurality or majority of the vote. Jan 14, Lem?m, Jan. 14.
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Dispatch
Ohio
BaLem
Ver esichagin collection Sunday hours questioned
A reader from Steubenville asks whether the Ver esichagin collection is publicly open on Sundays. The inquiry notes it may be open but seeks confirmation, stating Sunday would be the only opportunity to visit. The message is dated Steubenville Ohio January 14.
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the Dispatch
Christinee Inquiry to The Dispatch Editor
A reader requests the editor state through weekly columns the truth of a year’s events in West Newrtost. The message asks for clarification on a specific date and person, namely January R. eT. Lucas. The tone is formal and seeks published response.
A Pen Picture of Carlisle in Cincinnati Enquirer
A 54 year old Carlisle portrait recalls a full height spare figure with graceful motion and plain yet gracious address. The observer notes the Senator’s mind in exercise, a public duties mark on the brow, and a speech shaped by long training, a literary air escaping publicly.
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Gath
Cincinnati Enquirer
Carlisle
Cesar
Pet fox outsmarts rats in clever yard ruse
C W Hubbard of Mippierows Connecticut keeps a clever fox named Reynard in a fenced yard. The fox, after a rat problem, dug a stash near the rats burrow and pretended to sleep. He then sprang up and captured four gray rats, leaving the others wary in the yard.
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Reynard
Seven anti Cameron balters named in PA caucus
The Nashville American notes seven Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislative caucus opposed Cameron. Three backed Harrison, three Wanamaker, and one supported the Philadelphia Press.
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Nashville
Public Good Advancing Press Moves to New Fireproof Building
The Xenia Gazette Dispatch announces its imminent move to a granite fireproof building equipped with modern machinery. It boasts a daily circulation of 30,000 and a Sunday edition of 50,000, claiming leadership in Western Pennsylvania for typography and news gathering. The paper pledges independent Republican editorial stance focused on truth and public good, with comprehensive commercial and foreign dispatch coverage.
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Xenia
Prerssure Dispatch
Dispatch
Pennsylvania
The Typewriter’s Quiet Gaze Over Slow Speech
A speaker describes a shy typewriter glancing toward the speaker with inquiring looks. The machine seems to question why progress is slow, then offers a sympathetic, kind face. The observer notes hesitation while watching how the keys and symbols appear and vanish in a dim, flickering rhythm.
Curious Condensations From an Odd Toss of News
A compilation notes England eating Australian eggs Alaska’s large quarts mill coal at Pittsburg Kew women’s library in Turin strawberries fetch high Boston market Maine New Hampshire lead in sports a 1000 turkey drove from Parsons to Oswego baptisms in Missouri and Missouri market notes. It cites St Louis lead in coon skins marketing, Mexico beer trend, Fiji tobacco push, UK shipbuilding drop and Scottish rise, astrology believers, a Michigan coin tale, cotton stalk fabric, a Mississippi death coincidence, Lady Jane Grey nine days queen, New York sewists earnings, Bar Harbor scold case, Brooklyn Bridge ice closure, cave spiders near Buena Vista, Vienna’s vast Freihaus, Berlin cancer lymph injection first, skunk fur value and US fur trade totals, high wages in major cities, camphor scarce substitutes, aluminum-glass union breakthrough.
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Moberly
St. Louis
United States
Mexico
Fiji
United Kingdom
Cab Nueas
Michigan
Mississippi
Jane Greyn
Jane
Bagiadt
Edward VI
New York
Bar Harbor
Vyie
Brooklyn Bridge
Smirks and Smiles in Blooming Suburbs Sitcom Notes
A garbled humorous clipping mixes lines about land values and buyers, a theatrical blooper, name changes, and a chorus of quirky dialogue. It mentions Evanston, Chicago Triduna, and various mock exchanges, ending with a playful note about a raft scene gone wrong.
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Wales
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