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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1891
Page
4
The notice details subscription options for Portage Free LX and the United States edition. Rates are listed for annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans with Sunday and holiday inclusions. Delivery by carriers is at recent addresses, and Sunday editions are included in some terms.
In a local interview, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is praised for expanded facilities and strategic gains linked to Pittsburgh. Since King joined B and O, over 10 million dollars has been spent on upgrades, elevating its role in regional competition and promising improved eastern and western freight routes and faster passenger service to Chicago.
Two more lives were lost on the Pennsylvania line yesterday bringing seven deaths in two days with five within city limits. A collision scare occurred at Court House corner as two crowded cars misread signals. It is noted the railroad fault seems unlikely. deaths occurred on tracks where people had no business.
The Farmers Alliance urges Western farmers to withhold wheat until prices rise, arguing sympathy with trust tactics. The piece warns such artificial scarcity fails in a competitive market of seven million producers and condemns adopting tactics of worst enemies.
Controversy surrounds Miss Irene Cont of Norwich who passed Yale’s exam yet is denied admission. Eastern papers muse on fashion norms, athletics, and intellectual aims, debating whether co education harms or helps Yale’s prestige and separate college spheres.
The proposal argues that young women should attend Yale to preserve its intellectual character while male collegians stay in traditional sports like baseball rowing and football. The idea frames gendered roles in academics and athletics as a way to maximize institutional utility.
The article reviews Mr. Stead as defender of the Prince of Wales in the Tranby Croft case. It highlights two main defenses: the owner Wilson objected only to high stakes baccarat, not the game itself, and the Prince carried counters as substitutes for cash. It questions the practicality of buying tickets or tipping with counters while noting the Prince did not reveal Cumming scandal details to any confidant and praises his alleged virtues and debt-free status.
The letter from Mrs. Ward in Chile is praised for vivid life but criticized as partisan. Balmaceda claims Congress refused funds justification for his actions, a view the piece calls a misreading of constitutional government. It argues the majority in Congress exercised a lawful check, while Balmaceda usurped power, and warns U.S. neutrality should avoid taking sides on erroneous statements.
A Philadelphia Press editorial questions its past endorsement of Senator-Congressman John B. Robinson. It cites his earlier stance against constitutional regulation of corporations and cites the need for loyalty, hinting at political recalibration by 1590 amid Harrison era loyalties.
A fragment describes Amesbury Massachusetts proposing an industrial school to train boys in carriage making, questioning why the town should focus on traditional crafts like carriage and shovel making amid broader farming needs. The text is garbled but signals a debate over local industry and apprenticeship.
Commentary questions Secretary Blame’s health amid debates on banking consolidation and honesty. It notes a Forum suggestion for fifty central banks, mocks it with failures from Philadelphia. Mentions Rusk vacation, Melbourne and DeVoe weather plots, and warm late-season temps. Also discusses Itata inquiry, Scott Ray’s trip to New York, grasshoppers vs. wheat, Utah mine syndicate funding, and McClure Nicolay controversy with sidelined experts.
Out of the common heed, Charlin Chapts once a known actor is said to be insane. Jonny Jay spends summer reading novels at Saratoga. Coltexet Tom DechtlTree will return from Europe to attend the races. Whittier has rooms at Elmwood Inn Wakefield Corner NH mid July. Ex Secretary of State StraTh Bayard and Mrs Bayard are at United States Hotel quiet. Senator Spooner appears ministerial, Belgium Congo ventures falter. Colonel Hay, Lincoln biography author, famed leisure figure, married to fortune. Senator Warner Miller pursues Nicaragua plans to reach Europe. Miss Miller recovering health in Rome. Leander Richardson, Dramatic News editor, towers on upper Broadway at 6'8" and 20 stone, loyal friend. W E Gvrtt, head of Latin American section at the World's Fair, a brisk promoter with strong energy and organization skills.
A city page lists several visitors and departures. J H Fisgler of National Tube Works travels toward Chicago while meeting Crosby of Republic Iron Works. Rev J H Milligan heads to New York for National Prison Association Exective Committee in advance of Philadelphia October event. Johnson Hamlin Lemmerman Ulman attend Homewood services and events. American Telegraph District Superintendent Campbell departs for New York after breakfast. Francis Rawle criticizes Mards sey confessions. Local residents McMurray Echols Eaton Lytton stay at Congress Hall Atlantic City. Cae Graham of Speer Plow Works depart for Atlantic City. Montooth Miller leave for Philadelphia. T D Craig and C J Reynolds registered in New York hotels.
A critical look at the popes encyclical on labor, noting the two proposed remedies socialism and religion, the pope’s skepticism about private property reform, and the idea of turning trade guilds and unions into religious fraternities. The piece frames the pope as a global pulpit tuner and discusses practicality, loyalty, and the path to better worker welfare.
The Twin City audience hears William R K Harper at a July convention. Delegates cycle through sessions with sermons and mission appeals led by A A Stagg and Margaret W Leitch, plus Junior Endeavor progress and a strong temperance message. Attendance reaches about 4006 with doxology to close.
The Bay City Times Press notes a lively scene with local residents in seasonal attire, a boarding house keeper welcoming guests, a summer boarder arriving, and a three card monte man aboard. Mackinaw fish boats have been scrubbed, tourism preparations advance, and the region sees easing pests as inland lakes calm.
Detroit Free Press notes Senator Peffer intends to visit every state in the Union before next winter. A severe cyclone in Mississippi may lead him to skip that state, deeming the trip unnecessary there.
Excerpted quotes reflect opinions across papers on death methods and public events. It cites St Louis Globe-Democrat and Somerville Journal criticizing euthanasia and violence, Chicago Inter-Ocean mocking spectacle plans, and references to molasses in Louisiana as distraction.
The fragment mentions Miss Phoee Couzins and taunts about defeat and St. Louis in a Chicago news voice. It reads as a clipped historical gossip item with unclear dates or sources, focusing on Phooe Couzins and a tease about facing St Louis.
The last surviving granddaughter of former President Andrew Johnson died Saturday in Colorado after months of seeking health relief. Once known as Lady Belle Patterson, she was beloved by the President and idolized by him. Johnson’s children are gone except Mrs Patterson, now with ex-Senator Patterson at the old Green family homestead. Her daughter’s remains will be moved to East Tennessee for burial next Sunday.
Mack Brinson, Bibb County’s oldest man possibly in Georgia, died at Roi Home. He claimed Revolutionary War service and once tended General Washington’s horses. Also noted: Daniel Bushnell, long-time resident and church member on Craig Street, died aged about 80.
James Loyd Fuller, brother of Margaret Fuller Countess Ossell, died in the insane asylum at Worcester, Massachusetts, aged 63. He was the last surviving son of the noted family. E. Donnas, veteran journalist and longtime editor of the New Castle Courant, also died Friday after long illness in a Pennsylvania hospital.
A Paris cablegram pledges 100000 francs to the Academy of Selenoe to prize any method of contacting another world, planet, or star. The plan muses Mars as the best target for an experiment, with expert notes on telescope limits and the impracticality of proving Moon inhabitants.
A young man in a summer suit sits on a park bench with a cigarette and a far away gaze as animals pass by. A boy appears carrying a heavy burden and asks, "What's the score?" signaling an impending doom in a mood of suspenseful fiction.
A Detroit crowd at Grand Circus Park watches a well dressed man known as Mr Blank attempt to undress in public. After repeatedly removing hat coat vest and shoes he realizes he is not at home and must stop. His partner loudly questions the act as onlookers react to the odd scene.
In a tale shared with the Commercial Advertiser readers the New York Mercantile Trust Company president recounts declining a yacht trip to fish on Sunday to avoid setting a bad example for his children. His policy backfires as his four kids fish under the dock, prompting a mortifying but humorous ending.
A National Guard officer and G. A. R. member, living in Brooklyn with a large family, hosts a writer from the Connection Guardsman. He invites an inspection announced by a whistle at the stairs. The visit begins with a chat and a tour of the Colonel and his spouse as they prepare for the inspection.
Correction to Lossing's claim that the song began in a restaurant near Holiday Street Theater. The earliest performance occurred on the second day after Fort McHenry’s bombardment, in front of Captain Benjamin Edes's printing office by 17 year old Samuel Sands, an apprentice captain. The first singer was James Lawrenson, later a longtime Post Office employee and journalist.
Vexed by the sea, the verse notes tourist crowds crossing oceans and harbor buoys along the coast. It contrasts the lively seaside life with a lack of fruit at sea, then mentions a trend of brides and bridesmaids as American seaside life unfolds.
Chicago Herald notes George Francis Train's brief stop and argues the city missed a chance to deploy his promotional talent as Promoter Extraordinary and General Foreign Whirligig. The piece lauds his linguistic flair and argues his ubiquity could have made the World's Fair an omnipresent topic across Europe. Train’s prolific talkativeness is praised as a potential global advertisement.
A Versailles Ky Clarion report highlights a refined woman who runs 400 United States mail routes and earned 20000 on Texas routes last year. She is praised as a wife and mother and a valued community figure, despite her demanding career.
A rustic scene unfolds as Mary climbs a cherry tree while robins scatter. Jack notes her ascent and teases the maid as he stays beneath the shade, asking her to come down. The verse captures a shy, lingering moment under a white tree.
A rapid collage of odd excerpts reports female streetcar spotters in Bay City, a baccarat club in Mexico Missouri, Scottish kilts for a Toronto regiment, and Italy reviving warship weddings with the Adriatic. Other items note a Waterville Maine mayor banning religious services at a poor farm, a bevy of misadventures from bees to a New York parrot, a very tall Cincinnati policeman, and misc. snapshots of strange incidents across the United States and abroad with dubious authenticity.
A collage of witty sign lines and brief exchanges from newspapers. It catalogs humorous snippets about signs in cars, home installments, fashion mockery, and social chatter. Included are quips from Baltimore American, Philadelphia Times, Indianapolis Journal, Siftings, and St. Peter items with quick banter on manners and slang.
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