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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1891
Page
13
A crowded column discusses royal finances and marriages in Britain with Kaiser visits and plans for Aribert and Louise. It also notes American interest in purchasing noble titles and chronicles financial troubles of Earl and Dudley families, plus Icelandic emigration to Alaska and a waterfall legend.
A travel writer recalls dining in Yokohama and Tokyo teahouses where foreign hotels mimic Western menus with imported wines and tea while Japanese waiters and geisha entertain. The piece contrasts aesthetic dining with substantial courses of fish seaweed soup and rice, noting chopstick use, soy sauce, and the cultural emphasis on age, etiquette, and the beauty of attendants.
Correspondent notes Fifth avenue’s hotels and shops present a distinctly foreign air to visitors, contrasting with American origins. The piece details hotels like Elmonico, Buckingham, Windsor, and Plaza, their continental interiors, and the shifting street from elite residence to commercial corridor as immigrants of fashion encroach. It forecasts the rise of surface cars ending Fifth avenue as a premier residence street, while malls and clubs flourish.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY argues Fifth Avenue embodies a cosmopolitan mix of nationalities and upper‑class tastes. He laments the street’s alien tone, foreign fashion, and wealth, insisting it reflects America’s snobbery more than patriotism and fuels a breach between urban wealth and national identity.
A traveler at Lee Ho Campbellsburg Indiana learned a local woman suffered severe cramp colic. He gave the landlady a bottle of Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to deliver to the sick woman. The medicine relieved her promptly and she believes it saved her life.
Ex Senator Ingalls guides a reporter to a small mound on his South Atchison farm, marked by a rough cross. The tale tells of an Indian girl and white hunter lovers who die together after a forbidden romance, with the grave later to be opened to determine its true contents.
A Chicago Times item describes a train car encounter where two young women in the lower berth are irritated by a large man occupying an upper berth. A quarrel erupts after the man blocks the aisle, causes a threat of stabbing with a hatpin, and the ladies insist on safety as the fat passenger waits to bed down. A local advert follows for Ladies' White Waists at Kosenbaum & Co.
A circulating claim warned bankers that electric lighting could aid burglars by softening safes in minutes. The piece notes the claim is unfounded and reassures that no practical danger from electricity enables safe cracking.
New York Tribune recommends preserving delicate flowers by using very fine, clean dry sand. Fill a pan, upright flowers, sift and cover with more sand, press with a spoon, dry several days, and warm sand in the oven. Avoid breaking brittle leaves. pansies stay colorful and shaped. ferns gain a deeper, natural look.
Sardis J. Bacon of near Scranton used a pet crow to summon cows. The bird perched on a cow and rode to the barnyard as the herd moved toward the bars after the crow cried Co bos in a low voice.
Textiles including ribbed silk vests at 65c each, outing shirts from 49c to 149 each, and tourist ruching sold by the box at several low prices. Chiffon ruching and barred nai saw products are offered with yard and per-yard pricing, plus linen damask towels advertised at 25c each. Store notes July Saturday closures.
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