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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1889
Page
4
The report outlines average net circulation per issue for the Sunday edition of The Dispatch over a three month period ending June 3. The document notes percentages tied to circulation totals but the exact figures are unreadable in the fragment.
Johnstown progress after the catastrophe shows relief efforts largely effective. While some judgment errors occurred and temporary “boomer houses” failed, the population has been spared starvation and epidemic by timely aid and street clearing. Critics urge ensuring unspent funds go to local relief organizations.
The article argues employers have a clear right to demand a wage conference with coke industry workers. It suggests public sympathy is unlikely if employers refuse to meet and submit wage disputes to discussion, citing past suffering from such conflicts.
A New York Sun note discusses unclear national locations of Mont Blanc and Mount St Elias. It cites French Italian dispute over Mont Blanc and British and American claims about St Elias shifting due to Alaska boundary views. The piece humorously links ocean and mountain borders to imperial rivalries.
The piece lampoons proposed profit division schemes, predicting a chain of associations from wholesale to retail grocers and finally to consumers, arguing such moves would simply raise prices and loop back to manufacturers. It warns against perpetual profit-sharing ploys across the supply chain.
A Chicago lawyer describes hoodoo as a pursuing misfortune that haunts a man much like a wheelbarrow making its presence felt to a weary person who has stumbled over it. He concedes this may be a fair urban notion but not the traditional understanding.
Describes a Pittsburger plagued by bad luck in love, bets, travel, and fortune. The afflicted man sees misfortune in baseball rushes, floods, ruined clothes, wrecked trains, failed stock tips, and jealous rivals. He is advised to flee to Chicago and return to Pittburg later for peace.
The Johnstown flood liability issue moves toward court tests in this county and Cambria as heirs sue the South Fork Club. Observers expect test cases to settle whether dam owners bear responsibility, with other suits paused pending a final decision.
The Philadelphia Record critiques free trade arguments from New England iron makers. It argues duties on coal and ore affect all regions equally, and warns that pure free trade would invite more dangerous foreign competition. The piece defends nationwide markets and opposes the view that New England owns its regional market.
A Western paper debates taxation per capita of five cents on 60 million people as a legal wrong, notes post office stamp color deadlock, and critiques Jay Gould’s rail holdings. It discusses Chinese prize fighters, U S subsidies, and Munat Halstead returning from Germany without Senate approval amid a local prize fight near-riot.
The excerpt recalls a disorderly camp scene where patrons include justices and constables. As fighting spread, constables threatened to arrest someone, prompting questions about why arrests weren’t made earlier. Other items mention Greenland ice thickness, Alabama farmers’ bagging factory plans, a Kansas City man who slept three weeks, and Herald editorials on the fool archetype.
Mar J L Rozckel and Mrs Rozckel celebrate their silver wedding. President Harrigon visits Deer Park and reads novelas. Fremont plans a project to honor Lucy Webb Hayes. Ex Governor Le Lane marks his 71st birthday and 32 years with Central Vermont Railroad. Mrs Alexander Sullivan returns from Europe. Boston’s General Arthur Dixwell is a famed baseball devotee. Julian Hawthorne stands tall with sister Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. another sister died in England. Bertha M Clay myths debunked. Mrs Charlotte Braeme’s stories misattributed to Bertha M Clay by a New York paper.
A Washington dispatch notes Massachusetts Avenue near Dupont Circle becoming a fashionable hub as Attorney General Miller and other top officials move into nearby homes. Residences of Vice President Morton, Justice Lamar, Rusk, and ex-secretaries line the area, with Castle Stewart housing the Chinese Legation and Blaine's mansion leased by L. Z. Leiter. Connecticut Avenue's shift toward business growth is seen as a change from prestige to commerce.
A Sedalia report details widow Sallie Aldred of Harpers, Kansas, who divorced and wed John Carber in Sedalia on February 4 1888. The marriage, later contested, ended with Aldred returning to Kansas and Carber scattered amid a public dispute over alleged mental instability and the validity of the union. Intervening letters and a certificate were noted, with wide local discussion on the affair.
The Boston Herald notes King Kalakaua has earned enough from his Sandwich Islands book to fund a trip to the Paris Exposition. If he travels on earnings, he may draw more notice in Paris than Buffalo Bill or the Eiffel Tower. A monarch paying his own travel costs through literary work would be a rare curiosity.
A memo from the Baltimore American notes a man who trains in peace to defeat an army, yet when war comes hopes simply to avoid defeat and retreat remains his expectation. The piece contrasts bold self belief with cautious wartime reality.
Correspondence from Washington reports President Harrison's health improving in the mountain air after a period of care. It notes his accessibility to office seekers, mentions Nathan Frank of Missouri, and recounts anecdotes about portraits and beard trends among senators, Clarkson’s post office removals, and the rise of Henry Plummer Cheatham, the sole Black congressman, highlighting a unique party contest.
A Micawberesque market shows little change with bulls and bears alternating, while liquidity and investment shift owners and sectors. The piece notes muted activity across agriculture and industry, westward drift in wholesale trade and manufacturing, lower interest rates reshaping markets, and growing trust formations amid inflation concerns.
John Weaver, a Philadelphia daytime carpenter, claims in the Philadelphia Record that within two years he may fly to Philadelphia and back in an hour. He describes a new air machine with 40 foot sails, compares it to a bird, and plans to patent it later. He says he could fly for hours once ready and aims to become rich from the invention.
The 10 month old son of P F Moran of the Westside Hotel died after a sting. He was attacked Sunday while at home and developed leg swelling, paralysis of an arm, and fits. Despite medical aid, death occurred at 6 this morning. the exact insect species is not identified.
Report from the St. Paul Pioneer Press states William Mahone of Virginia has an eye injury that may affect him.
A collage of brief notes from several papers recounting quirky items and sharp quotes. The Wayne gp editorial quips about wealth and cold. Leechburg vows Friday editions unless law muzzles the press. Beaver Falls mocks Philadelphia editors and a sewer drinking claim. Freeport debunks a Patterson dog killing story as a lie from New Castle Courant. a turkey-raising blip notes a dry season. a Brownsville fishing tale ends with a pig inside a 9 pound monster fish.
A Charleston West Virginia correspondent recalls frontier women such as Mary Ingles and Elizabeth Zane. The account details Ingles’s 500 mile 40 day escape with her infant and a Dutch companion, and bravely fighting Indians. It also recounts Bogarth and Bush women defending cabins with axes and bullets.
The paper fronts a global digest of news and culture with literature reviews, poetry, fiction by Hawthorne and Kempster, and portraits of public affairs. Reports include political debates, royal grants controversy, labor strikes, crime, and local events in Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, and Johnstown.
In Cincinnati at the C H D and depot a scene of chaos broke out as four rattlers and their young emerged among waiting travelers. A snake five feet long slithered across the floor while a frightened woman fled to a seat. Depot Watchman O Dowd captured one rattler and placed it in a box.
Short items report a Mineral man fond of tobacco ends up in a hitch to a buggy while begging for more, a Milton woman hatches a double yolk egg with developed features, a Beaver County doctor fights two large snakes in a wheat field, a New Wilmington duck has three legs and four feet, a Reading area bubble blowing game attracts local interest, a Waynesburg wool shipment yields a sheep carcass, Delaware Water Gap ladies host a paint and powder party, a Monongahela City plowman uncovers an old sword engraved with William Crawford, and fish in a Kennett creek suffer from freshwater leeches.
A collage of brief items from 19th century America notes 275 women preachers in the United States, curious math results, a bear incident near Butte County, a Torrington slaughing tale, a Kalamazoo electrician with a skull clock, and Charleston discoveries including a siege gun under a dead oak. Also reported are reunions after 40 years in Salem, a Syracuse grocer’s costly tomb, Congo railway plans, Columbia PA girls’ rowing, Pike’s Peak snow melting tale, and a Board of Trade kitten evacuation spectacle.
A collection of short quips and captions from the era, including jokes about hereditary wealth, political reform, and a boy with grand plans. Lines reference Willie's rainbow pot of gold, an overbearing teacher, a mule lesson, gladiators mocked for punches, and a quip about a candidate claiming a spotless character.
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