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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1892
Page
9
A historical tale unfolds around a famed skald at a Scottish court. His heroic song stirs fear in King Harold and Prince Haldane, prompting a perilous pledge of vengeance. Years pass as war drums rise, messengers fly, and armies gather to clash in open battle.
A fragmentary poem recounts King Harold facing kin and war as a Norse threat looms. Prince and king resolve conflict with restrained bloodshed and a song’s guerdon. The piece shifts to proverbs on tongue and a brief note on counterfeit coin mystery.
A preacher argues that Jesus answered doubters by deeds not creeds, citing the blind seeing and the poor hearing the gospel. He urges Christians to live as Christ in daily charity and good works, warning against hypocritical conduct and stressing the church’s social mission. Only through helping others can faith be proven true and poverty alleviated.
Theodore Roosevelt writes on elk habitats in the Rockies and Oregon Washington. The essay describes elk behavior horns and mating, with hunting practices including a roundup chase and a cow ponyer capturing a running elk. Roosevelt notes meat quality and hunting ethics for adventurous readers.
A Dispatch correspondence outlines 2,500 New York messenger and telegraph youths, with about half employed by ADT and others by three firms. It explains testing, residence verification, and ethics checks to find 1,200 competent youths annually, after screening 8,000 to 9,000 applicants.
An essay recounts a shift at West Point from informal rough instruction to systematic, thorough riding training. It describes earlier chaos with unseating drills and spectator pestering, contrasted with modern practice emphasizing safety, uniform methods, and improved horse handling, yielding skilled cadets by graduation.
The article details a ceremonial royal burial in Spain where a king’s corpse is carried on a catafalque to a monastery vault. Gates close, a monk questions the party, and after certificates of death are shown the king is laid in the tomb. An official kneels to listen for a reply, then declares the king dead and the queen or king now reigns.
A new furniture invention includes an upright easel like portfolio that conceals a desk when the top knob is pressed. The front drops to reveal shelves pigeon holes and inkstands with a tiny clock in the Essex frame. A matching dressing table easel offers a beveled mirror and brushes in pale blue upholstery.
A lively reminiscence contrasts college town stage door lore with elk hunting adventures. A soubrette recalls students flocking to stage doors in Bethlehem and New Haven, then shifts to a hunter’s narrative of bull elk encounters, ambush in tamarack forests, and a dramatic double bull fight. The piece also touches on school cooking studies teaching nutrition and food science to girls in grammar grades.
A mother confuses her near identical twin sons Jacob and an unnamed twin when they request pie. One son eats, then returns claiming another piece is needed, exposing the ruse as she unknowingly cheats him twice. The tale appears in Youth's Companion.
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