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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1890
Page
16
From Kansas City to Denver the traveler notes a changing landscape as civilization advances, with talks of new rail routes and bustling depots. The writer, a health traveler with a playful critique of doctors and medicine, reflects on dust and dry weather and the evolving frontier towns along the railway corridor.
The narrator travels the Missouri Pacific from Kansas City westward, observing the shrinking timber, advancing farming, and vanished buffalo while lamenting loss of native plains and urging preservation of a remaining sample of the old landscape. He notes changing towns, dust, and the vast prairie slowly yielding to plow and progress.
The excerpt tours the eastern Montana edge toward Colorado, describing river meanders, irrigation canals, and desert blooming. It notes the Arkansas River cut deep canyons, and praises rail links like the Denver and Rio Grande, hinting at Pueblo as a hub and the broader Pacific route to the West.
A fragmentary, lyrical travelogue describes the plains and twilight as farm life fades beyond the watercourses. The narrator notes a distant light, the edge of civilization, and the slow shift from ranch to solitude as night approaches.
A critical essay notes the secrecy surrounding the British Imperial East Africa Company. It argues that official opacity risks native harm as Congo operations stay largely undisclosed, with Whittaker’s entry stating No information accessible and calls for publicity and parliamentary scrutiny.
A study contrasts United States and European railways using the Pressian and Pennsylvania systems. The Prussian network covers 16,800 miles and is state owned, earning 180 million dollars in 1887-88. The Pennsylvania system spans 7,884 miles with 123 million dollars earnings the same year. Prussia hauls 191.6 million passengers versus 78 million in Pennsylvania, while Pennsylvania ships 122 million tons of freight to Prussia’s 99 million.
A terse, period style note contrasts the odor of a cigarette smoker with the rising heat of a summer day. It highlights the distinct smell of pure nicotine and the image of an aging man whose dies begin to turn as the air grows hotter.
The article details widespread food adulteration from coffee and split beans to ground pepper, cocoanut shells, and fake cinnamon. It highlights actions by the Custom House chemists and state boards to detect frauds, nameing firms and foreign dealers, and explains methods like poivrette and refined raw sugar misrepresented as pure sugar. It notes the push to use tools like the polariscope to gauge sugar strength.
The piece details counterfeit materials and adulterations in foods from old cigar boxes ground into red powder to fake tobacco, to fake wines and liqueurs, coffee substitutes, jellies, fig paste, and chocolate. It notes officials exposing schemes, confiscations, and the high cost to guilty makers, with examples from Boston, New York, Hamburg, and Bremen.
A Paris widow leaves about £300 yearly to fund "real banquets" for actors, ensuring genuine celebrations instead of mere simulated toasts. The testatrix reflects on actors needing to pretend to drink champagne while real joy comes from honest meals and shared humor.
In the Boston Globe piece Mrs. Edison is described as a graceful 24 year old countess type figure with brown hair and olive complexion. She tends to the inventor by sending a carriage to his laboratory at 2 pm and providing his favorite dish pie for breakfast fruit.
A letter advocates adopting European two-story rail cars to boost capacity on suburban lines around Philadelphia Pittsburg New York and Chicago. It praises open upper decks with large windows great views and ventilation for smokers while noting equal fare between levels and outer-entry loading to speed trains.
The passage notes that the tobacco smoked is Turkish, deemed tasteless next to Havana or American tobacco, and mentions that some wealthy and fastidious Russians are involved.
The article discusses two-story omnibuses fueled by fine-cut tobacco and notes a shift from stone to asphalt pavement in Europe and America. It highlights smoother, quieter streets in cities like Paris, London, Brussels, and Berlin as rail use declines and omnibuses with horse power expand.
The piece compares European and American transport costs noting Paris and London omnibus fares, cheap London and Paris cabs, and cab ownership in France. It describes a French druggist’s main business of prescriptions and contrasts American habits in London with patients using improvised tonics, ending with a quip about an American’s iron tincture mix.
A clipped report contrasts London drugstores with American practice. Julian Eralph notes fewer patent medicines in England and calls out the American habit of self medication and lots of drug-related sales. The piece cites Harper’s Weekly and mentions Jonathan as a contrasting cousin.
The article traces lip reading as a way to teach speech, noting early ideas from Bede and a 1740 German French exchange. It cites children learning quickly, examples at Ealing College, and Lord Holland’s nephew, plus method details and advantages for those deaf from birth versus acquired deafness.
Ralph Julian recalls an American visitor experience in London at Lock and Co. on St James Street. He notes the shopkeeper’s insistence on calling a shop a store, and the difficulty Americans face avoiding polite forms like sir, which mark class and service norms in England. He lists words that caused confusion and how to adapt.
Hygienic authorities warn cat owners to monitor felines for diphtheria like illness suspected to be contagious to humans. Dr Klein of the London Government Board investigates the matter as authorities urge isolation of sick pets, especially where children nurse or fondle cats, to prevent possible transmission.
Belva Lockwood of the Daughters of America discusses women in the professions and courts. She argues women prosecutors should become attorneys and says her gender helps her judge mentalities of judges and jurors.
A Wisconsin angler recounts a goggleeye attack while wading in Lone Stone Lake. The rock bass struck repeatedly at the leg after the angler stepped on its spawning bed, appearing fiercely aggressive though small in size. The fish pursued and battled before retreating when disturbed.
The statement presents the author renowned for A Princess of Thule Sunrise and numerous highly regarded tales across two continents, highlighting his literary standing and prolific output. The wording suggests a biographical note praising the author’s reputation and breadth of work.
Vin Harris hosts a farewell banquet for his aunt in a refined Brighton dining room. The conversation turns to wealth equality and cooperative production with a speaker favoring voluntary sharing and another favoring state intervention.
A tall widow questions Vin about his sudden radiance and a younger man who hints at a new romance. Their aunt warns him that the woman is an actress with a questionable life, while they debate wealth theories and social change. Conversation veers to Madame Mikuszek and the mystic Bo as Vin defends his feelings.
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