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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1891
Page
15
The Dispatch announces postal arrangement with entry at Pittsburg Post Office on November 14, 195. It marks the paper as a second class matter and notes the Business Office location at Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets.
The Dispatch explains subscription prices for various formats and frequencies, including weekly and Sunday editions. It notes postage for Sunday mail and carrier delivery costs, and outlines responsibilities for carriers, agents, and newsdealers to provide complete numbers. It also mentions manuscript submissions and postage rules for sending copies to friends.
The discussion on treating habitual offenders questions the current prison system. Advocates like Mr Henry Warner propose penal colonies or colony-like programs to reform repeat offenders, while others warn of abuse risk. The debate cites Capt Maconochie and Ireland as examples and stresses supervision, honest work, and certain punishment as keys to reform. It also questions how law uncertainties and wealth influence crime rates.
A Norristown unveiling honors General John F. Hartranft, praised for a brave military career and trusted governance. The National Guard of Pennsylvania erected the monument, reflecting his modest, virtuous character and leadership in shaping a disciplined Guard.
The Presbyterian General Assembly and a New York Sun editorial clash over progressive euchre. The Sun calls the game a gambling activity, played for prizes, likening it to draw poker and asserting gambling stakes drive its popularity. The piece frames a definitional dispute as central to the argument.
The piece argues that prizes offered by hosts in progressive euchre differ from gambling when players do not supply the purse. It contrasts horse show prizes with owner funded purses, and condemns bookmaking in New York as pure gambling. It concludes that gambling harms arise when a party undertakes a hazard without mutual gain.
The article reviews Mr. Carnegie's The ABC of Money in the North American Review. It traces money origins from barter to coinage and assesses gold and silver, debasing silver coinage, and the impact of free coinage, noting silver agitation rests on debtors wanting relief and predicting benefits to speculators and manufacturers at the expense of the masses.
The piece surveys forecasts by several scientists and thinkers about Earth's future. Flammarion warns of cooling toward extinction, Adhemar predicts fatal heat, another foresees ocean upheaval, and Totten dismisses methods yet trusts a mystical revelation. The tone mirrors late 19th or early 20th century scientific speculation.
The piece argues that predictions of earth’s demise by climate extremes or cataclysm are sensational and foolish. Instead focus on improving life while the world lasts, as common people seek steady means despite expert disagreements and the longer horizon of life insurance timelines.
A Baltimore swindler known as Honest Jacob Bennett, secretary and leader of the Rothschild Building Association, exploited trust, defrauding numerous savers before dying by his own hand. Victims include washerwomen and workers. managers face responsibility for oversight amid public suspicion of reputation.
A convicted offender who absconded five years ago and returned to the city was arrested by order of the judge after living openly here for four years. The piece urges swift action to stop bail jumping and stresses that lax enforcement tramples the penal system. Additional items note a fireboat request, historical misreferences, constitutional revision debates, possible Haitian naval station leases, and rising crop optimism.
Officials consider a formal inquiry as two citizens allege service consideration for switch privileges. The article questions the credibility of the complaints and notes past investigations have yielded little. It suggests a presidential side topic due to current political climate and upcoming frosts and elections.
A real English coach man, imported by an ambitious anglomaniac, is held as contract labor. The piece argues U S officials misjudge him, saying an English coachman is not a laborer but an “article of bigotry and virtue” as Mrs. Malaprop might phrase.
Harvard graduates in the speak easy trade pursue a specialized course to master practical politics, applying street level cunning to influence public opinion.
A Washington Post view parallels a Philadelphia zoo metaphor with officials bending the national bank act. The piece notes power players own the freight, mocks imperial remnants in Paris, and ridicules government interference with republican autonomy.
News page notes Hon. A G Porter United Minister departs Rome for summer leave en route to England. Mrs LeGay and family in London begin a summer coaching trip through England. Rev Thomas H Gaylor declines Episcopal Georgia chair. Harvard hires Somme as German chair. Nellie Grant, Sartoris and daughter sail to Liverpool. Twain, Curtis and Streave sail for Havre. Epison writes first novel.
In Springfield a 51 year old colored barber William M. Dempsey bled after a tooth extraction. Despite doctors efforts the wound reopened and he weakened daily. He remains at his Harrison street shop and East North street home as physicians fear he may die from the ongoing hemorrhage.
A June storm near Brrporrort Comn reports lightning struck the Orton residence on Park Avenue. The bolt tore two corners, blasted the drain pipe, and burst a water main on Shelton Street, sending a 40 foot high jet of water three feet in diameter into the air. Two women narrowly escaped injury as the lightning knocked one down. A crowd gathered as gas was extinguished and a sulfur smell filled the rooms.
Bellefonte News notes the Pirrisune Disratch has relocated to the corner of Smithfield and Diamond streets. The paper proclaims itself wide awake and compares favorably to eastern contemporaries, asserting it deserves success.
While Linn Shelly clipped his dog a bumblebees nest was found in the long hair at the neck. Cells with wax were visible and several bees served as watchmen, nestled in the dense mane.
The Boston Herald reports Baby McKee is no more and is now described as Ben in adult attire, signaling a playful or symbolic change as he wears trousers. The note frames a transition in a light, whimsical tone.
Fragmented OCR reads of a reflective paragraph noting that envy was unknown and love not blind, cooks numerous, creed unifying, worth above wealth, livers orderly, duty worshipped, women less fickle, more laughter, politics honoring, and dyspepsia omitted. babies sleep while thieves may be found out.
Baxcon Mr Juneé Charles Heath a 15 year old boy of East Thornton Maine faced a furious wildcat in a grove on his father’s farm. He threw a stone and the animal leaped from a tree battering him. Heath kicked the beast after a struggle and it fled, leaving him injured but alive. The event occurred yesterday in the Maine game region near his home.
Walter Sanders, a 13 year old son of a farmer near Beaver Farts, was ordered to destroy orchard worms with lamp kerosene and matches. The boy, nervous and tormented by imagined worms, became violently ill from the effort. A physician gave morphine injections and he may be sent to Dixmont for treatment.
Joseph Reilly of 10 Orient Avenue Jersey City was arraigned before Police Justice Kimmerly on assault and battery against Alfred Hennemier. The case reveals a police game fraud where Reilly ran numbers for a policy dealer and cheated Hennemier out of funds. He is held to await grand jury action.
A Virginian Mr William Kennedy L Dickson of the Edison laboratory claims the kinetograph, famous for capturing motion and sound, originated from his work rather than Edison. Dickson cites Edison paid him in 1639 to connect a system to photograph life like scenes, asserting the kinetograph’s independence from Edison.
The Chicago Tribune notes debate over women acting as church ushers. Some ministers oppose the idea while many women welcome the change, tired of male ushers reaching above the elbow during services.
Local notes joke about a rough stretch for a devil figure in Talbotton Georgia. Reports a beat girl kicking him on Friday a horse running away with him on Sunday and now nursing a sore finger and a case of dumps. Unvarnished Truth. Smith and Gray's Monthly shopworn.
An obituary notes the death of John Sancto in Rochester England aged 7. It recounts his claim of hearing a Chesapeake ship halt a British frigate during a famed sea fight and boasts of Captain Lawrence's promise to ruin Shannon, then notes confusing references to battles and injuries in the Peninsular War era with garbled text.
Dr P T Shearer city health officer of Wheeling died at sunset morning from typhoid fever. He passed away at the home of Rev Seeam, rector of St Luke's parish on the island. He was a local figure of repute and regarded as a promising professional.
Ex-Governor Henry Lippitt of Providence died Friday. Notable deaths include Baron von Arthas of Austria, Cortland county farmer Leoroto Hasxen, Alden Goldsmith’s widow, Romeyn Beery of Rhinebeck, abolitionist Joan E. Loveiolt, and others. Local obituaries list ages and hometowns, with brief notes on their roles and affiliations.
Murray's Musings surveys New York culture from church choirs to Broadway, noting paid singers as a norm and a mix of artistry and business. It also recounts a Deceptive Switch-Table tram accident, theater talk with Jacob Litt, and various society vignettes from combing lovers heads to high society housekeeping plans.
William Jordens and Miss Louise Menke, both of Cincinnati, were married in Newport by Squire Bodkins after confusion over Kentucky laws. Jordens first tried a proxy with Miss Menke’s consent, but the Clerk refused. He then returned to Newport with Menke and the couple wed amid delays and erratic explanations.
For ten years a river front dog named Tom patrolled Oak Street, rescuing three children from the Housatonic and twice diving in after his own family. He died Tuesday morning at Patrick McGough’s door from an unknown cause. The dog was fond of beer and often not sober in recent times.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad plans to debut a fast train from Chicago to Boston via Albany. During a trial run today the train carried company officials and tested a route to Boston by way of Albany on a three-sleeper consist. Departure from Chicago is in the evening with arrival in Boston anticipated that day.
A proposed fifty dollar prize for a city seal design is seen as an incentive for local artists. The note references an incident where Mr. Warbinton reportedly fractured Bouguereau's Spring with a chair, underscoring local tension surrounding public art during the period.
Mrs Langtry is said to have won a fortune of 290000 as a better way of getting rich than pursuing the theater dollars. The report frames her success as a sharp contrast to old acting to secure wealth.
A collage of brief notes covers diverse curiosities and odds and ends. Items include a rare American five cent stamp sale in London, Georgia watermelons, a bicycle of Matius blue penny stamp lore, a York wallpaper snake killed in a store, a 186-pound bass catch near Ulster, a Montmartre carpet project, and weather and crop notes from Southern California.
A collage of comic snippets from periodicals recounts witty exchanges about a parrot, flirtatious misunderstandings, and satirical verses. References include Miss Laura, the Casternos parrot, and lines from Chicago Herald, Amaish Gray Co Monthly, and Puck. The fragments showcase light social banter, domestic scenes, and playful wordplay across various 19th century sources.
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