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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1891
Page
7
A traveler describes Guanajuato Mexico as home to an unimaginable cemetery where bones tower in stacked, intertwined masses over a hundred thousand remains. He recalls mutilated skulls and limbs fused in a vaulted hellscape, louder than any tomb he has seen, a stark, grisly panorama of death.
A narrator tours Guanahuate's cemetery, describing five acres of bone-filled courts and pigeonhole vaults renting for years at up to 500 dollars. Bodies are moved as holes fill, bones dust the ground, and a long tunnel of ossuary holds the dead in a grim underground repository.
The narrator describes a desert vault stacked with hundreds of mummified remains, from skeletal corpses to a ghastly woman with a leer and a contorted man. He photographs a coffin with a mummy propped on a thigh bone. coffins for townsfolk are large enough to hold two bodies and sold with steep fees. Coffin shops in Zacatecas offer rudely made baby caskets painted blue.
The article describes mourning in Mexico with broad black attire for varying durations, condolence visits in mourning clothes, and extravagant funeral notices. It notes street cars serving as hearses in Mexico City, with draped vehicles and drivers in mourning, running fast on city tracks, and charging up to $120 per funeral.
The account discusses high funeral expenses for exhumations and embalming, a case involving a doctor charging $5,000 for embalming a body, and a critic's note on undertakers' costs. It then describes Mexico City’s sanitation issues, the morgue, and a vast swampy, overcrowded setting with disease risks like typhus and typhoid.
The writer describes Mexico City as an unusual health resort due to equable climate and dry air. He cites the American Cemetery containing about 1,200 occupants and mentions plans to buy land for a new cemetery as Americans claim lives are saved by coming to Mexico. A Mexican Life Insurance agent notes no deaths paid during his first 23 months among the insured.
A Berlin letter reports the Vatican and Kaiser differ on dueling fees for Catholic students. The Vatican’s Berlin organ warns that Catholics who accept or send a cartel face church penalties, up to excommunication on repetition. The Emperor supposedly supports maintaining dueling in universities despite objections.
Dispatch reports slow progress in Chile due to arms shortages on both sides. Balmaceda's government holds loyal majority across most of the country while insurgents in the north act to seize rail lines and ports. Discussion of foreign mercantile influence, nitrate revenues, and a Grace-Donoughmore Peru contract frames the regional stakes.
A nostalgic look at John Bartram, America's first botanist, his Mississippi era garden beside the Schuylkill and Delaware, and the relics of his time. The article describes his Florida cypress, boxwood trees from Turkey, the ancient house, greenhouse-style rooms, and the garden's attraction to notable visitors.
John Westcott urges Marian Carter to trust his plan to recover hidden gold from a secret strong room tied to Mr. Girdlestone. Westcott tells of a lantern led hoard and a panel concealing a stairs to a doorway inside the old mansion while Marian plays on.
The article describes a trick using several schooners and a soda water siphon to fill glasses with carbonic acid. A soap bubble is formed and dropped into the glass. the bubble swells as endosmose drives gas through a membrane, expanding until it reaches the glass sides and bursts.
An advertisement claims A Clear Complexion and Peruna will produce clear skin by correcting digestion and blood impurities. It targets youths 14 to 20, urges regular use, and promises a bright face with perseverance. Free trial offers and a mail order line to the Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus, Ohio.
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