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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1889
Page
5
M B Church urged caution on coating walls with new papers in Hastings Michigan. He argued pasting over old layers traps moisture and germs, causing illness. He praised alabaster based finishes like alabastine as sanitary wall coatings free of glue or paste hazards.
French experiments test a 56 foot spindle shaped electric torpedo boat using storage batteries and water tanks for submerging. A smaller 15 foot boat carries two missiles to serve as submarine torpedoes and mine carrier. The U S Navy pursues a steam powered submarine design with submerged auto submersion and rudder controls for stealth and distant dynamite use.
A New Orleans invention called the Harmonigraph claims to transcribe piano or instrument music onto paper as it is played. It would allow improvised melodies to be written and later read as standard notation, using markers and connecting rods linked to instrument keys. The device includes a marker and a measure marker and promises to preserve extemporaneous melody for later reproduction. Tressment of the Opium Habit.
Pittsburg Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks plans a three day reunion beginning the 1st of the month. Visiting lodges will be greeted at railway stations, a grand parade is planned, and a coronation banner award will honor the best lodge display.
Fragmentary notes show Elks lodges in Richwowp Ind and Beatrice Neb pursuing Elk lodges with a regular Wednesday meeting at a ball. Mentions Milwaukee minstrel earnings and a Cleveland rear guard, plus discussion of street improvement debates in Pittsburg and city hall bookings for a reunion.
Banks reported above average business with strong borrowing demand yesterday. Several banks claimed to be well loaned up to the reserve line while others had ample funds. rates held at 6 6 percent depending on time and collateral, with deposits and checking active. Treasury data show circulation at 17.324 million in the month and a net bullion and money decrease, while New York banks report reserve and loan movements amid mixed exchange values.
Fragmentary text indicates a corrected daily item from John M Damsey & Co related to Pittsburg Petro and a monetary amount or entry. Names and details are garbled but imply a corporate update or financial note published in a local paper.
Properties on 164 Fourth Avenue and 315 Webster Avenue changed hands for cash sums around 7 050 and 275 dollars. Buyers included Mrs Annie Phillips of New Haven and a stock broker of Fittsburg. other parcels on Fourth Avenue and Rebecca Street were transferred, with multiple brick dwellings and lots described.
The city issued permits for forty one small houses totaling an estimated eighty eight dollars and seventy six cents, while many contracted buildings remain unfinished due to two months of persistent rain. The list names numerous owners and locations across wards, detailing frame or brick two or three story additions and new structures on streets including Plummer, Forty fourth, Duncan, Rural, Frankstown, Greenfield, Eccles, Vickrey, Cooper, Washington, and more.
New York traders show caution with railroad issues barely moving while Grangers Lake Shore New England and Reading dip and recover little. Sugar trust shares edge up slightly amid overall quiet session as stocks close near the day’s low.
An elderly resident near Lafayette, Indiana, bitten by a rattlesnake Monday becomes blind after a brief illness though otherwise recovers. Other items note labor conflict, a frontier shooting, a derailment fatality, and Catholic council developments.
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