Fruits of Florida a Semi Tropical Eden by Northern Thrift
A vivid overview of Florida orange groves and their practical allure for Northern investors. Discusses soil, grove layout, diverse varieties like navels, mangerine, and grape fruit, and the shift from cotton to orange culture aided by railroads. Profiles Burdett and Bardett Island Grove, notes yields, pricing, and potato farming alongside groves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Volusia
Orange
Hi. B. Stowe
de Land
New York
Stetson
Philadelphia
Florida
Orange Reigue
Sea Island
le Land
Burdett Island
Oakland
Lake Apopka
John's Lake
Killarney
New Books Added to Pittsburg Library Rooms
The Pittsburg Library Association has received a list of new books now located in its rooms. Included are works by Amelia E Barr Jane G Austin Rosa Nouchette Carey Mrs Burton Harrison Rudyard Kipling Julien Gordon Lily A Long Henry Cunningham Annie Edwards T Mommsen Phillips Brooks General Booth and E Babalon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Library Association
Olivia
Amelia E. Barr
le Baron
Jane G. Austin
Herdt
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Lily A. Long
Sir Henry Cunningham
Annie Edwards
The Game of Draughts by Ferguson and Noted Correspondents
Historic draughts column notes positions and problems from Ferguson and the reference board. Letters discuss corrections, plays, and requests for game samples, with a problem and game reported as played at the Home Hotel in Pittsburgh area.
Break in the Jail Sparks Matron Resignation Dispute
The Allegheny County Prison Board held a session addressing a dispute between Warden Berlin and jail matron Mrs Van Ostand. Mrs Hammond of the WCTU attended seeking support, but the committee said they have no authority to act and will present any action to the board at its next meeting. The board’s next meeting is scheduled for Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny County Prison Board
Ewing
Mercer
Wyman
Chess clubs meet weekly at city venues
The Pittsburg Chess Club gathers at the Pittsburg Library on Penn Avenue while the Allegheny Chess Club meets at Dr Miller's Hall on North Avenue every Monday evening for chess sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O
Pittsburg
End Game No 1 and 18 offered as chess puzzle prizes
The article describes ending positions from 1563 and a commission by J B Smithman offering the Dispatch prize for correct solutions. It notes time closes February 14, 1881 and invites members of the State Chess Association to mail in solutions for the endgame puzzles with black and white piece counts and play to draw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Campbell
Black & King
W Reid
Kilmarnock
Scotland
Rd Cleveland
Checker
The
Dispatch
Archie
Dra
Corr
Pittsburg
J. I
Ate. Llong
Men Who Will Run the Indictment Machine Next Term
A list of grand jurors drawn for the March term of Criminal Court includes Hugh Quigg Fred Newman Levi S Maller Richard Moon J A Bockstock W H Pinkerton Theodore Kolson Patrick ODonnell John D Robb Isaac Wall Charles Ges W A Steel Joseph P Coursin Jeremiah OLeary HK Walsh Henry Wadlick Josiah Crider J B Sturgeon Fred Manley A E Windsor A J Carver Loa Smith J F Dunshee B F Carver among others from wards and townships in Allegheny and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criminal Court
Hugh Quigg
Fifth Ward
Fred. Newman
Chartiers Township
Levi S&s. Maller
West Elizabeth
Richard Moon
Pittsburg
J. A. Bockstock
Scott Township
W. H. Pinkerton
Pine Township
Theodore Kolson
Patrick O'Donnell
Allegheny
John D. Robb
North Fayette Township
Isaac Wall
Forward Township
Charles Ges
A. J. Carver
McKeesport
Loa Smith
Seventeenth Ward
J. F. Dunshee
B. F. Carver
Sixth Ward
Fragmentary Chess Notes on Piece Safety and Threats
The fragment discusses RzP Brkt 2 RB and P E 6 positions, noting KB2 S a and KB4 defense comparisons. It mentions White could have kept pressure by 34 B Ki 4 and threatens Et K2 or R KB 3 with a fine, while RQ 5 is described as stronger.
Allegheny Club elects officers and lists entrants
Local Chess notes the Allegheny Club meeting on January 2 elected President James W. Collins Vice President James Grier and others. State Association secretary reported 72 entrants for the free-for-all. Major tournament units expect five to seven players based on current indications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny Club
James W. Collins
James Grier
Ea Oer
Et — Patterson
John Jerson
George
South
J. B. Crombie
State Association
State Chess Association Holds First Annual Meeting
The Pennsylvania State Chess Association will hold its first annual meeting in this city on February 3 at No 410 Penn Avenue. The business meeting starts 7:30 PM and then a free-for-all will be played. Twenty six players have sent in names. The association was organized last June with 13 members and now numbers 10. Membership costs 1 and includes participation in the free-for-all and society publications. Local players may join by sending name and address to Secretary George S. South No 204 Federal Street Allegheny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania State Chess Association
Penn Avenue
George S. South
Federal Street
Allegheny
Urcle Sam Auction Of Old Post Office Office Furniture
A sale of the old furniture in the Post Office building offices is ordered for mid February. It includes furniture from the United States Marshal, United States District Attorney, Inspector of Steam Vessels, United States Clerk of Courts, Pension Examiner and Post Office. Most items to be moved to the new building before sale. Also references Kipling content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Marshal’s Office
United States District Attorney
United States Clerk of Courts
Pension Examiner
Post Office
Ela
Two Murder Trials Set Next Week In Criminal Court
Next week includes two murder trials. One case stems from a shanty boat incident at McKee's Rocks and another from a riot at the Bessemer Furnace involving Michael Quinn. The docket lists numerous defendants including Higgins Moleska Le tonius Andrelius Atcas Flinberty Hanlon Woelfal Rosenthal Bartley McKnight Coyla Hays Marr Roth Welsh Jones Ley Weisser Graham Todt Kabel Rusnok Butas Mike Sellick Schwerengen Helke Kern White Kisenlan Smith Bauer Burns Walker Groff naene hes Dunseath Smart Patts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKee
Mary Hays
Maggie Marr
Robert A. Roth
Thomas Welsh
Albert E. Jones
Frank Ley
William Weisser
Lacey Graham
Andrew Todt
Michael Kabel
George Rusnok
Andy Butas
John, Alias Mike
Butas
Paul Sellick
Edward Schwerengen
Louis Helke
Howard R. Kern
George W. White
Mary Kisenlan
H. J. Smith
Louis Bauer
Elizabeth Burns
James Walker
C. J. Groff
John Naene Hes
Susie Dunseath
W. Smart
Patts
Anthracite Coal Dealers Fix February Output
New York January 30 anthracite sales agents met and set February output at 2,000,000 tons, the same as last year and far below this month’s 3,000,000 tons. They also agreed to keep current prices unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Big store price sale for today only at Grant and Diamond
Save Money Today at our big store with deep discounts on men’s overcoats and suits. Heavyweights stay, all must sell at the lowest prices. Men’s cassimere overcoats ten shades velvet collar or plain five dollars. Men’s suits fifty cents? fifty. Boys’ suits eighty five cents, left 300. Men’s pants one fifty. Pirristre Comsination Clothing Company at corner Grant and Diamond streets opposite the Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pirristre Comsination Clothing
Grant and
Diamond Streets
Court House
Directors Still In It Uphold Lincoln Sub-School Petition
Judge Stowe ruled the Lincoln Twenty-first ward directors may have overstepped by moving pupils to Lemington School but dismissed the petition to remove them. Petitioners to pay costs.
Five Plead Guilty In Liquor License Case Trio and Pair Admit Guilt
In Criminal Court yesterday Charles Seitz James Olife and John Burkhart pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license Jane Pasemore and John Nutten were found guilty and the jury failed in the Nancy Foreman case Also Frank Jolin kopki was found guilty of seanl on Mrs Maggie Piifer fined ten dollars and costs Daniel Schaffer and Henry Chadwick were acquitted of malicious mischief
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Seitz
James Olife
John Burkhart
Jane Pasemore
John Nutten
Nancy Foreman
Frank Jolinkopki
Maggie Piifer
Daniel Schaffer
Henry Chadwick
Chess puzzle solution hints with knight and bishop play
The text outlines a complex chess puzzle involving multiple pieces and moves. It describes black king placement outside a quadrangle and uses coded notation like 8KtB and 2 BK2. The solution emphasizes counterplay by the bishop along a diagonal from the first rank to a key square, resulting in draws and strategic exchanges.
Correspondence and chess notes from the period
A compact item lists correspondence on Noteworthy position No 2 and a note on James Rayner's problems. It mentions J F T declaring a solution to Problem No 26 incorrect and references Mackenzie's Chess Its Poetry and Prose priced at $1. The Gunsserg Steinitz game 19 will appear in the next issue, with a brief commentary on a superior move sequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howand Lourrox
James Rayner
A. F. Mackenzie
Scottish Concert at Carnegie Hall Allegheny
MacLennan's Royal Edinburgh Concert Company of Edinburgh will present a grand Scottish song concert with varied recitations and violin dormance in Carnegie Hall Allegheny on Wednesday evening February 3 at 8 o'clock. Proceeds go to charitable causes. Tickets available from local vendors including D. S. Thompson and others in Allegheny and Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Hall
Allegheny
D. 5. Thompson, Douglas & Mackie
Charles P. Lockhart
Campbell & Dick
James W. Drape & Co
John T. Wilson
A. Leggate & Son
Pittsburg
Millvale Parents Sue for 10000 Over Childs Drowning
Rudolph Engeman and wife filed a damages suit against William and H. K. Sample seeking 10000 after their four year old child drowned in a sunken water barrel on the defendants spring land in Millvale borough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Engeman
William
H. K. Sample
Millvale
In Criminal Court To Day Surety and Desertion Cases
In criminal court today the docket includes surety and desertion cases. Commonwealth versus William H. Anderson James McClearey and Honora Breen are listed among those expected to appear before the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
William H., Anderson
James McClearey
Honora Breen
Fresh Crackers Win Local Demand Over Shipped Goods
Consumers realize the desirability of fresh crackers from the bakery. Stale or long-stored crackers are unhealthy and undesirable. Grocers should buy only fresh goods in quantities they can sell. Carloads shipped from distant areas sit unsold in Pittsburg. Local, home made Marvin's crackers meet demand in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Marvin
The Soldier That Lay Dying Poem Stirs Algiers Biscuit Claim
A fragmentary verse notes a soldier of the Seden dying at Algiers and speculates on recovery with Marvin's Algiers biscuits. The text includes garbled ad lines such as callouts to order goods and a brewery watermark, preserving the odd mix of poetry and commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seden
Algiers
Marvin
Legal and injury suits flood county court docket
The docket lists suits and verdicts including H W Law vs G G Jeremiah on account, a verdict for Christ Wetzel against Peter Hoffmeister, James Botos vs J T Kresa for 5000 damages, C H Bell vs Gulick Co at Bijou Theater verdict 200 for plaintiff, Iron City Microscopical Society charter filing, directors named, a verdict 100 for KE Downs vs Equirrel Air Railroad, Thomas Griffin vs Amand Mihm for 5000 damages, injury from a fall into a cellar, county commissioners reelect official county papers, divorce filings against various parties, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company vs Winthrop Dean, and a misprint notice about Cent rate and Everson and Layng. The piece ends with an ad line for Vas on Oil at 95 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Law
G. G. Jeremy
Christ Wetzel
Peter Hoffmeister
James Bostos
J.T. Kresa
C. H. Bell
Gulick &Co
Bijou
Iron City Microscopical Society
George H. Clapp
G. Gattenberg
T. P. Roberts
Hirav DePuy
F. J. Heerici
C. G. Milner
Herbert Walker
KE Downs
Equirrel Air Railroad Company
Thomas Griffin
Amand Mihm
Restaurateur
Mihm
The
Times
Thspatch
Commercial Garette
Fredcus Surrs
Elizabeth Afer
Henry Schafer
M Devineamueehomas Devine
Martha W. Monegomery
Thomas E Montgomery
Edward Gephard
Caroline Gephard
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
Sixteenth Game Evans Gambit Match Note
The fragment notes a chess game labeled Sixteenth Game XXXII Evans Gambit between White and Black players Guneberg Steinitz and Krys. It contains scattered moves and annotations such as Castles, resignations, and percentages, but the readable portion records a resigning end in a position after several minor moves and unclear notation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunsberg
Castles
S. Bitch BK
Tkrebs Rta
BK Casties
Eick
Queens Hi Om
Hlack
Guneberg- Steinitz
PKA Krys
BES
I. Pes
Baltimore and Ohio excursion to Cincinnati price note
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Cincinnati for 1120. Tickets are valid for return until February 3 1891 inclusive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cincinnati
Stevenson South Sea letters to feature in THE DISPATCH
Robert Louis Stevenson’s series of letters from the South Sea begins in The Dispatch tomorrow. This will be the newspaper feature of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
South Sea
South Sea Island
Big Dispatch
Queen's Gambit Declined Seventeenth Game Analysis
Analyzed play notes from a chess game, discussing deviations in the Queen's Gambit Declined. Evaluates White and Black decisions, key exchanges, and resulting positions, with commentary on potential profits from certain lines and the relative strength of attacks and pawn structure.
Reed and Charles F. Reed Pay Match in Game Forty at Glasgow
The record notes game 40 of the 1880 match between J P Reed and Charles F Reed. The snippet shows the players and indicates the ongoing series of games, marking it as the twentieth and fortieth entries in the sequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
J. P. Reed
Charles F.ee Ears Oy Nee
Feed
Checker Tournament Debates Tarentum Start and Scores
Reader letters critique a chess problem and a match position while Tarentum hosts an eight entry team tournament. W S Nesbit and Thomas P Pratt lead rounds with mixed results. Pittsburgh contention centers on Thomas Boyle claiming city champion status as forfeit money remains unsettled.
Veteran Checker Edi of the Turf Recovers at Home
Mr A J Dunlap the veteran checker editor of the Turf is now well again. Champion Boyle of the Southside last week welcomed a fine boy which, if spared, will likely be a Dameth devotee. Home Hotel headquarters furnished with three fine in laid checker tables. Noupareil failed to show Saturday. Captain Spurran claimed his defeat and warned him off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Checker
The
Dispatch
Pittsburg
Thomas Hoyle
Southside
Jouhnps
Thomas Boyle
Thomas Boyie
Mr. Sherrow
James Matthews
Peal'smoney
A. J. Dunlap
Boyle
Dameth
Home Hotel
Noupareil
Late News In Brief From Across The Nation
Brief items report Chinese piracy rising at Hol How, a Iron Mountain Michigan mine disaster with two deaths, 200 of 300 dead in the Shanghai steamer fire, a wheat crop forecast 10 million bushels below government estimates, West Salem smuggling Shinamen across the Canadian line, Rev. William Mitchell con forgery in Fort Worth two-year term, theft arrests for jewelry at Fifth Avenue Hotel, San Francisco robbery with pistols, Indiana Governor Hovey alleging cleansing of Warden Murcock inquiry with ex-Auditor Carr implicated, St Paul grand jury finding no county officer corruption though clerks indicted, Thornton estate dispute over England heirs. scattered notes on various legal and local matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
West Samor
Wis
William Mitchell
Fort Worth
Tex
Enmtanak
Fifth Avenue
New York
Haginaw
San Francisco
Hovey
Indiana
Murcock
Thorn
Thornton
England
Unbroken Claims of Dr Copeland’s Repeated Cures
The passage asserts overwhelming evidence of Dr Copeland’s exceptional cures in Pittsburg, citing numerous patient testimonials with full portraits and addresses. It argues the weekly claims prove reliability, urging continued documentation rather than new proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copeland
Pittsburg
Man Cured After Consultation with Doctors Copeland and Blair
Mr Uriah Donaldson of No Diamond Street employed at O Hara Works on Thirtieth Street describes lifelong catarrh with nasal blockage hearing loss eye weakness and chest and heart pains. After consulting Drs Copeland and Blair the patient reports all symptoms gone and hearing fully restored, praising affordable charges and permanent relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Uriah
O'Hara Glass Orks
Thirtieth Street
Notable residents praise local doctors in testimonials
A list of citizens including Mr. J. 3 Moore at 121 and 1% Fifth Avenue, Mr. Miller at 12 and 123 Fifth Avenue, Mr. Samuel Crawford with Hugus & Hacka Co., J. R. M. Anderson of the Sheriff's office, and Mr. John G. Frazier at 5710 Kirkwood Street, offer favorable recommendations for Drs. Beemed and Blair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beemed
Blair
J. 3
Moore
Fifth Avenue
Miller
Samuel Crawford
Hugus & Hacka
Coods Louse
J. R. M. Anderson
Sheriff's Office
John G. Frazier
Kirkwood Street
Home Treatment by Mail for Catarrh Doctors Copeland Blair
Mr W T Henshaw of Prospect Pa and Mr Henry Rose of Eckhart s Mines Md praise Drs Copeland and Blair for curing chronic catarrh at home by mail. They offer treatment for eye ear throat and lung diseases from 66 Sixth Avenue Pittsburg with hours 10 to 11 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 30 P M Sundays included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.T. Henshaw
Prospect
Copeland
Blair
Henry Rose
Eckhart’s Mines
Das
Core
Sixth Avenue
Pittsburg
Lla
W. H. Copeland
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Duquesne Way
Eighth
Ninth Streets
Samuel Leeds
Seventh Avenue
Hox
East End
Pitrseves
L. Armstrong
M. Wilde
Z. Waiht
Co. E. Wizsom
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John Burris
Garland
Hester
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Dunnes
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John Mulholland
Mulholland
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Prison Board Quarterly Committee
CHESS
Disputch
J. B. Smithman
Ofl City
BG. Laws
Sam
United States
Eead Rudyard Kipling
America
To Morrow
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Kais
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MacLennan’s Royal Edinburgh Concert Company
Edinburgh
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Tarentum
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W. W. Calpass
Fred Anderson
Pratt
D. B. McConville
Thomas P. Fleeson
Bert Hannell
Saneeses
Dee Hannell
Fleeson
Calpe
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Fred. Anderson
T. B. Pratt
W. S. Nesbit
Th. P
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D. A “McGonvil
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S. Nesbit
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Ccose
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Calpass
Th. P. Fleeson
D. B. MacConville
Th. P. Pratt
Fr. Anderson
Th. P. Freeson
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Thos
P. Pratt
W. Calpass
D.B. McConville
P. Fleeson
Bert Hanoell
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Fulton
Hol How
Iron Mountain
Mich
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Lise Reilel
Gare
London
Engly
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Edward Eggleston
Chandler Hactis
Ieee Asapase
Aleew
Grn
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Dougla Brockton
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Carter
Fili
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Finh Ave
M. Lang
Butler St
C Sperber
Oo Carson
Heney Kosser
E.G. Hollman
Uriah Donaldson
Diamond Street
Zoeller
t-Tictsburg
JAS. Mneil & Bro
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Plumer
Hotel
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Oblast
Londonderry
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Europe
Austin Baldwin & CO
J. J. McCormick
Polirestar Lins
Queenstown
Moralard
United States Mail
Adriaic
Teutonie
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Menil
Celtic
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White Star Dock
Rocket West
Britain
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Pittabarg
J. Bruce Ismay
Broadway
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Utsche
S. S CO
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HISG
Ester
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Fulda
Saale
LLOYD
Aprils
Lahm
Prisy L Ding 2
Kaizer
Mar Aller
Eider
Tig
Dave
Bremen
MAX Schaumberg & CO
Sac
Bates
Lake Srttain
Ireland
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Wright
Dasxer
Danner Medicine CO
Atx Bottoa
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