Eastern Advertising Office promotes THE DISPATCH reach
Advertisement text describes office locations in New York Paris and London for THE DISPATCH distribution. It mentions convenience for advertisers and regular readers in various districts and hotel news access.
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Eastern
Thidune Building
York
Dispatch
Forview
New York
Dispatch & Regularity Onacle
Abrentane's
Union Square
Ave. de Opera
Portis
France
Strand
London
Eng
Portage Free in the United States and Daily Dispatch Notice
Historic text fragment lists publication dates and editions for Portage Free and the Daily Dispatch in Pittsburgh. Mentions weekly and daily carriage with Sunday inclusions and delivery terms.
The Dispatch for the Summer
Readers can forward The Dispatch to a new summer address at 90 cents per month or two copies for three months. Sunday edition plus a Daily edition are available. offer includes handling both old and new addresses with care.
Business Office Move Reported to Smithfield Diamond Corner
The Business Office of The Dispatch has been relocated to the corner of Smithfield Street and Diamond Street.
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Pittsburg
the Dispatch
Smithfield and
Diamond Streets
Traction Rivalry and Possible Consolidation In City
An interview with a Citizens' Traction Company director discusses Duquesne and Pittsburg Traction rivalry. It suggests cutthroat competition may force consolidation or combination while noting broader competition could make three cent fares profitable or push losses toward preventing mergers.
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Citizens’ Traction Compeor
Duquesne and Pittsburg Traction Company
Trafic
Tak Dosratee
Trour Traction Road
Mier
A Foolish Regulation on Census Data Handling
A critic denounces a Census Bureau order forbidding supervisors from tabulating district returns or even sharing rough estimates. The piece argues the rule delays crucial population data for two cities and the county, hindering early publication and serving no harm. The critique labels the regulation more foolish than prior questionnaire changes.
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Census Bureau
Oliver
Washington
Dismissal of Keenan and Sayles Probes Sparks District Attorney vs Bohemians Clash
The indictments against Keenan and Sayles were dropped after years abroad, prompting a public spat between the New York District Attorney and the boodling aldermen. Advocates say the DA found no evidence, while the men hint they fled to Canada with proof they could be prosecuted.
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Keenan
Sayles
New York
Canada
Fellows
Keenas and
Bayles
New York Aldermen Bill on All Night Surface Transit
The New York Board of Aldermen passed a resolution requiring all city surface lines to run cars all night at fifteen minute intervals. Critics warn the plan risks forcing losses on the public and fault the system of government regulation for mandating unprofitable service. They urge that such service only be required where public patronage ensures profitability.
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New York
London
Ames
America
Congressional
Washington
Connecticut
Regulation vs Competition in Night Street Car Service
The piece argues government regulation stifles natural market forces, urging free competition for street car service to expand where profits exist. It cites New York as an example where nocturnal operations would advance if not constrained, burdening paying riders with losses from roaming night cars.
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New York
New York Board of Aldermen
Debate on Agricultural Prosperity and Surplus Pressures
A State Board of Agriculture discussion questions whether farming can sustain livelihoods amid overproduction. The State Bureau of Statistics warns of surplus food and urges producers to reduce output while critics call for easing exchange barriers and tackling railroad rate distortions.
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State Board of Agriculture
State Bureau of Statictes
Middle States
Political movements and misread history in 1880s Philadelphia
The piece critiques Republican organs for political miseducation, cites the Inquirer praise for the Delamater manifesto and Pattison politics, questions Independent votes and desertions, mentions Mason Mnxtoorn and Major’s aims, and ponders Belgian iron makers undercutting Minneapolis build costs. It ends by suggesting awaiting the manufacturers’ balance sheet after bond issuance.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
McKee
Independent Movement
Pattison
Stewart
Minneapolis
Pittsburg
Charles
Belgam
Untitled fragment hints at congressional action and sports reference
A fragment notes Kansas and Pennsylvania decisions and mentions Congress and Bouton Globe in an unclear context, suggesting a government rule topic amid sports references. The readable text lacks specific names, dates, or events to form a full summary.
Economic fears and political oddities in a late 19th century column
The Globe warns of silver value rising and potential trouble if the bullion dollar gains strength. England faces drink law battles, while Cornell journalism and Michigan boxing face bans. Boston state senate seats fetch 10000 dollars as politicians seek scarce prices. New York ice monopoly collapses under competition, Senator Plumb subscribes to 250 Kansas papers.
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Globe
Me W H Smits and the Salisbury Cabinet in the Lords
The report says Me W H Smits of the Salisbury Cabinet is proposed for the House of Lords but cautions he should reconsider. It fears a Smith in the Lords would be disowned by the great democratic family.
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Me. W. H. Smits
Salisbury
House of Lords
Smith
Various Society Notes From Early 20th Century
Ex-Governor Ornpwar of Dakota spends summer in Warner New Hampshire with family. Frank W Smurrs of Boston builds Pompeian villa copy at Saratoga. Ex Governor Curtin to attend Pennsylvania soldiers meeting at Valley Forge on the 19th. Leonard K Winacox leaves private secretary post with Stanley to serve Belgian king. Shakespeare gift from laborer delights Mr Stanley. Mashpee summers when Joseph Jefferson and Grover Cleveland rent Attaquin Hotel for last week of July. W J Florence to Europe with Joseph H Tooker to visit England Ireland France Italy Germany. Ada Heather-Dicas Lady Dilke and Mrs Jeune start happy evenings for London Board School children. Peter Lecker, lone Weather Bureau observer on Schomblick Mountain, reports from European apex station to Jenna three times daily.
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Curtin
Pennsylvania
Washington
Valley Forge
Leonard K. Winac0x
Mr. Stanley
Stanley
Mashpee
Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Attaquin
Cotult
Cataumet
W. J. Florence
Europe
Etruria
Mia Florence
London
Joseph H. Tooker
America
England
Ireland
France
Italy
Germany
Ada Heather-Dicas
Lady Dilke
Mra Jeune
London Board School
Herr Peter Lecker
Weather Bureau Service
Schomblick Mountains
Austrian Alps
Jenna
Snake Woman Martha Ann Tillson Dies in Virginia Cabin
Rae Virginia June 11. Martha Ann Tillson known as the snake woman died near here after living in a small cabin at Twelve O Clock knob with snakes for companions. Her body was found with a mass of writhing snakes covering it and a large rattlesnake corpse on her heart.
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Rae
Martha Ann Tillson
Wen
Gold Watch Prize For Beer Drinkers In Washington
The Washington Star reports a new advertising scheme where a real gold watch is awarded after consuming 600 bottles of a specific beer. Each bottle yields a yellow ticket, and 600 tickets grant the prize, with the watch displayed above the bar as a lure.
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Washington
No American Girl Need Apply at Chicago Mall Visit
A quirky piece notes an approaching visit by a royal heir to Chicago, suggesting the event will be a novelty for American audiences. It urges acceptance of progressive ideas while acknowledging the constraints of royal marriage rules and public interest in the visit.
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Chicago
Csarowicz
America
Brenan
Wilmer Wellington
Virginia
Rudyard Kipling
Uncle Sam
Gotham
Thomas Nast
Congress
William Churchill
London
Ellice Serepa
O. St. Clifford
Sode Stall
Tae
Boston
Mr. Slowboy
Miss Passe
Somervidie
Briggs
Griggs
Lucy
Emma
Jalla
Mall
Detroi Pret Press
Mamma
Tommie
Toumie
Sok Towers Statesman
Mae
Laura
Rome
Florence
Book notices review and new Darwinian primer in 19th century journal
The Grific's Review surveys Bryant's nature philosophy uniting realism and idealism, warns of reconciliation limits, and highlights Darwinian primers by Bergen and Patten. It also notes Ballads and poetry volumes, Jewish history outlines, and Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition as notable new releases with brief critical takes.
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John B. Alden’ Press
Stanley
Emin Pasha
Wauters
Soudan
al Khartoum
Dr. Junker
Inclu
Gub
A Journalistic Treat in Yesterday's Dispatch
Yesterday's Dispatch edition in Pittsburg sold over 600 copies. The 20 pages cover global cows local news features and a wide array of articles from politics in England to theater in America plus market reports and literary columns by noted writers.
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Pittsburg
From Portsmouth to Pittsburg The Smoky City Reimagined
A Portsmouth Blade letter by W. H. Mo describes Pittsburg now as clean and well kept, with gas replacing coal, paved streets, and extensive transit. Allegheny Park, white-painted skyscrapers, and botanical displays surround a Sunday-friendly Sir Phipps donation site. The piece notes strict law and order, speak-easies, and a working-man driven bustle in the city.
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W. H. Mo
Portsmouth
Pittsburg
America
Eghény
Allegheny Park
India
Phipps
Sahara
Law and Order League
Woralea
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church Dedication at Braddock
The Braddock First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, built this spring at a cost of 10000 dollars, was dedicated with impressive exercises. The St Luke’s Recean Church corner stone was laid in a similar ceremony. All Saints Episcopal Church to be dedicated next Sunday and the new Methodist Episcopal Church, built for 25000 dollars, to be dedicated a week later.
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Braddock
Disrarce
Brappock
St. Luke's
Epison
St. Luke's English Reformed Church
Fourth Street
Camp Avenue
Wilkinsburg Reformed Church
Semen Iymn
G. W. Sherrick
Garner Stone
John RR Pragh
Grace Reformed Church
Pittsburg
Freeman
John R. Prugh
Pittburg
Whitman
Lancaster
Huwasier
G. W. Kerrick
Copeland U. S
Reformed Church
Weather, politics and tales from the home front
The piece mocks Washington political speech and rain as well as local anecdotes from Titusville and Corry. It notes enumerators nearing completion and hints at the hardships endured during the 15 day cycle, with jokes about misfired names and stray brickyard mishaps.
Tariff Showdown in Congress Sparks Democratic Senate Feud
A Northern correspondent blasts the McKinley bill as mangled by a Republican Senate. He accuses Senate Finance Committee members of wholesale revision, portraying House supporters as vindicated vandals and labeling the action a national scandal in party warfare.
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Annals of Congress
Congress
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Phenomenal Impadence and Political Critique of Tariff Bill
A speaker denounces the tariff bill as a profound insult to the Ways and Means Committee the House majority and the Republican Convention. He condemns Allison and Hiscock as unrepresentative leaders while praising the nation’s manufacturing interests and protection principles despite partisan flaws. A cloud of witnesses supports the critique.
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House
National Republican Convention
House of Representatives
Senate
Allison
Hiscock
Ridicule of State Leaders and Tariff Reform Critics
The passage insults LDRICH and allies, calling the state tiny and ineffective. It mocks Allison as a mere compromise candidate and Hiscock and Aldrich as obscure figures. The piece argues the electorate and Republican party lack capable leadership to draft a new tariff bill on McKinley’s ruins.
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Ldrich
Allison
Hiscock
Mitch
Aldrich
Republican Party
McKinley bill clash over Senate changes critique
The speaker attacks the Senate Finance Committee for stripping key provisions from the McKinley bill after months of hearings. He accuses it of self interest and political motives, urges House conferees to demand full restoration or let the bill die in its mangled form. Executive opinion labels the revised bill Democratic in character, not Republican.
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Committee On Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
Itelf
Finance Committee
Senate
House
A Collection Prized by Veteran Gatherers in Town
Pittsburg Grand Army men offered $500 for etchings in the Grand Army room, but the proposal was not entertained. The old soldiers prize their collection highly amid notes of a Cracker Trust forming to boost clam chowder enthusiasm.
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Washington
Pittsburg
Grand Army
Hanoverian decline and Prussian annexation noted
The letter discusses a postmen mall delivery in England and questions which event ended the Hanoverian kingdom. It states George V as King of Hanover, his distrust of Prussia, and that Prussia invaded and annexed Hanover after a Six Weeks War. It mentions Ernest Augustus and other royals, with notes on indemnities and deaths through 1878.
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England
Duke of Cumberland
Bure
Georges V
Hanover
Prussia
Austria
Ernest Augustus William Adolph George Frederick
George V
The Delaware tribe and Mohicans debated in letters
The piece asks if the Delaware tribe remains and whether the Mohicans of New England were a Delaware branch. It notes the Delawares are Algonquins and mentions Munsey Indians in Canada as descendants, and that in 1866 Delawares in Kansas held lands in severalty, ceasing to be a tribe. It explains the Mohicans as Algonquins with the name wolf and three Delware classes.
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Cooper
New England
McKersponrt
Jonesl
Canada
United States
Kansas
Photographic Process Questions in a Letter to the Editor
A reader asks the Dispaten editor about the difference between two photographs created from negatives by distinct processes. One print appears blue while the other does not, prompting a request for a photographer to explain the technical methods involved.
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The
Dispaten
Voting Jurisdiction for Movers Between States
A reader asks if a man who relocates from Pennsylvania to another state and leaves his family there must return to Pennsylvania to vote in a general election or if he may vote in the state where he resides for business. The query notes two old books, a Methodist Discipline and the London Gazette from 1805, seeking guidance.
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Lee & Shepard
J.R. Weldin & Co
J. Y. Bergen
Fanny D. Bergen
J. B. Scott & Co
J. A. Waldin & Co
Simmon N. Patten
University of Pennsylvania
Patten
England
Europe
America
Dr. Patten
Ceamopolitanium
the Dispatch
Pennsylvania
Dispatch
London Gazette
Alieansa
Marriage license requirements in Canada unclear query request
A reader asks if a license is required to marry in Canada and who can issue it. The note mentions June in Canada and signs as J. R. Hecemax from Pittsauro, requesting a receiptor formula for making stick em fly paper.
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the Dispatch
J. R. Hecemax
Pittsauro
Rhode Island Jews Catholic Holdings Question Poses Inquiry
M Ique of Pittsburg asks if Rhode Island prohibits Catholics from holding office. G A B inquires about who invented the process of inserting silk threads in paper money.
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M. Ique
Pittsburg
Rhode Island
Catholica
Supreme Court to settle the Sunday question in King case
The Tennessee Supreme Court recently affirmed a lower court ruling in State v King from Obion County. King, a Seventh Day Adventist farmer, was fined for working on his premises on Sunday, amid a broader fight over religious observance and constitutional questions awaiting U S Supreme Court review.
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Supreme Court of Tennessee
R. M. King
Troy
Obion County
Toon
King
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Kine
Justice of the Peace
A &Jo Ae Ts
Ann
Grand Jury
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Ospaneny Lawa
United States Supreme Ot
Fatal Feast Ends Summit County Farmer's Life
Homer E. Newton a leading Summit county farmer died at his West Richfield home after an alludgment to overeating during a party excursion. Three hard boiled eggs caused illness and a rapid decline as his stomach and bowels failed and he passed away. Newton owned a prized farm valued around £100 000 and was a prominent cattle shipper and importer with ties to Chicago and New York stock dealers and state fair exhibitors.
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Arrgor
Homer E. Newton
Summit County
West Richfield
Newton
Chicago
New York
Pittsburg Millionaire Collects Orchids in Philadelphia
James Horner a wealthy Pittsburg resident visiting Philadelphia bought four thousand dollars worth of rare orchids. He maintains a large conservatory at home and recently toured South America, bringing back valuable specimens including an orchid with leaves curled into a dove shape.
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James Horner
Philadelphia
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburg
Girard House
South America
Outfitting Gentlemen For Summer Wear In London
Fashion guidance describes morning wear in London including Prince Albert coats and rough faced cloths. It notes hosiery in plain styles for warm weather, reduced demand for wade-up scarfs, and avoidance of four-in-hands with eating wear. It mentions tuxedo coats without waistcoats and sash styles, plus canes with repousse silver decoration and wide waist belts aimed at comfort.
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Prince Albert
London
London tower designs and oddities in nineteenth century news
Numerous notes from a late nineteenth century paper recount competition for a great London iron tower with eighty six designs submitted, curious weather and thunder cloud theories, a white raccoon gift to Philadelphia, a jail escape note to be back in October, a Connecticut stamp healing a child's illness, and various local curiosities from Florida to New Jersey and Ohio.
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Natente
London
Hiffelia
William Jones
Philadelphia
Ohio
Humorous fragments and travel talk echo old papers
Vignettes of witty dialogue and character sketches including a Boston girl moon talk a London posting upcoming travel plans and light exchanges about names and honeymoons with quirky misreadings and dialect humor.
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Ornpwar
Dakota
Warner, N. H
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Sarstoga
Beee
Washington Star
the Gritic’s
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Oibor
C. Griggs & Co
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Spencer
Hegel
Breant
Mr. Bryant
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Lovell
Edward Maitland
Anna Kinesford
Lyrlin
Ouldis
Frank F. Lovell & Co
Jewish Publication Society of America
Lady Magnus
Babylon
Herod
Jerusalem
Spain
Emma Lazarus
Dean Milman
Slack Davis
J. R. Weldin & Co
Lillian Slack Darin
Edward § Oltis
Homans’ Publishing Company
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Randall
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Baron von Zedtwitz
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Findlay
Kentucky
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Powderly
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William Scott
Salvatore Toro
Allegheny
West Penn Hospital
United States Marine Band
Frank Semple
Capitol
Marshal Lurty
Oklahom
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Field
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Tattnall County
New York Sun
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Mich
Jersey
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N.J
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Montgomery County
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Ormond
Fla
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Duncombe
Montefiore
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Bellah
Jackson Young
Chile
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