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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1892
Page
10
The piece examines baseball manager effectiveness citing Burns and Pfeffer, discusses Pittsburg’s team struggles and pitcher changes, notes amateur rowing champion Ryan’s upset, reviews Grand Circuit trotting crowds, and covers Dawson vs Needham boxing plus Corbett and Sullivan training rumors. It highlights organizational issues, player conduct, and upcoming matches.
Abel Fuller, the woodsman from Kettle Creek, and three companions pursue a bear that has taken pork from a camp. They outpace Cub Conners’s fearsome reputation by surrounding the laurel patch and force the bear toward a controlled kill, ensuring the creature is not lost to Conners.
The hunters pursue Cub Conners through hills and hollows until a bear is cornered in laurels. Abel boasts of claiming the quarry while a woodsman named Cub Conners reveals himself, praising the effort and noting danger in the area. Ep Morr
Pliny the naturalist counted 94 known fish species. Linnaeus classified 478 and was the era’s foremost ichthyologist. Since Linnaeus, exploration by Challenger and others has expanded catalogues to about 13,000 species.
Emeralds from India Persia and Persia are praised as the most valuable stones by tint and luster. Suetonius notes Nero viewing emeralds with gladiators. The gem symbolizes charity hope joy and abundance and was thought to cure epilepsy and act as a general pain killer.
The article cites Prof. Elihu Thomson predicting future revolutions in telegraphic progress, including mixed wired and wireless signaling, longer line permanence, and reduced storm interruptions. It notes hopes for signaling through dense fog and electric oscillations, but says essential means are not yet available.
A correspondent describes Abyssinian beliefs about the evil eye influencing eating in public and causing goods to vanish. He recalls seeing three men eating under coverings, amulets and parchment prayers kept for protection, and a thief fleeing after a paymaster’s intervention.
An examination of diverse mile lengths from around the world notes 12 distinct mile standards from English nautical to Swedish and Vienna post miles. It covers Roman mille passuum, German, Dutch, Swiss, Italian miles, and regional scales, plus metric equivalence and historical boundaries.
The text explains the light year as the distance light travels in one year, about 5.9 trillion miles, and notes there are equivalent weight and force measures. It defines a foot pound as energy to lift one pound one foot, leading to foot tons used by scientists, and mentions foot-seconds as space covered by a projectile in a second.
Anna Willess Williams, the model for the Goddess Liberty on the silver dollar, was born in Philadelphia during the Civil War. In 1876 George Morgan, a Royal Mint veteran, designed the coin at the Philadelphia Mint with guidance from Thomas Eakins, including sittings at Eakins house on Mount Vernon Street.
A St Louis statement by a top city health official argues many sunstroke cases are really delirium tremens. The piece notes excess drinking and heat, warns against misclassification, and suggests hot drinks like tea and coffee to stimulate perspiration and treat sunstroke in emergencies.
Edward W. Bok writes in August Ladies' Home Journal that most women do not want the ballot or spend time thinking about it. He suggests women prefer home life, family reading, and personal dress over reform movements. He concludes husbands grant them all rights of love and kindness.
The city faces over five million dollars in losses yearly due to limited adoption of smoke consumers. With a population around five hundred thousand, half the households see laundry bills rise about nine percent from smoke and soot. Additional cleaning and wear add to a substantial annual burden on city and state governments.
The year ending June 30 1891 saw ordinary postal revenue of 265,065,293 87 dollars excluding money orders. Of this 41,432,129 50 came from letter postage, with most of that from 2-cent stamps, and the total 2-cent stamps used likely exceed two billion annually.
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