Dispatched Notices for International Bookshops
The dispatch outlines availability at Brentano's New York and Paris Opera House avenues, with additional sale points in London. It notes outlets where disappointed hotel newsstand readers can obtain the publication.
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Pittsburgs
Aetofica
Lovemver H
Isv
Dormer Smithfield
Diamond Streets
Diamond Street
Fastern
Room MD
Tmecne
New York
Brentano's
Caton Square
Avc de Opera
Paris
France
Strannt
London
Eng
Terms of the Dispatch Postage Rates and Dates
The text lists postage rates and subscription terms for various dispatch issues. It includes yearly, quarterly, monthly, and weekly delivery options with details on days covered, such as Sunday and holiday editions, and carrier delivery frequencies.
The Dispatch For The Summer Subscription Notice
The Dispatch announces summer rates including 90 cents per month or two dollars for three months with Sunday edition. Readers may change address by providing old and new addresses. The business office moves to the corner of Smithfield and Dismond Streets.
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United States
Jamey WsraTon
the Dispatch
Smithfield and
Dismond Streets
Senate passes radical silver bill amid cross party shift
The Senate adoption of a free coinage measure shifts on a fractured silver path as Western Democrats and Republicans unite against East rivals. A large bloc of 28 Democrats and 15 Republicans backed the amendment while 21 Republicans and 3 Democrats opposed. The bill, altered in title and scope, faces House anger and a likely conference compromise before any signature. The Dispatch criticizes the extreme measure yet notes the era of silver momentum and potential gold premium ahead.
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Senate
House
Edmunds
Wnally
Wolcott
Reed
Disratch
Hypnotism and Crime in Criminal Manipulation
A discussion on hypnotism as a potential tool for unscrupulous individuals to compel unwitting subjects to commit crimes. The piece notes reformers in France, England, and the United States warn of possible misuse, despite some immunity from crime. Experts urge safeguards against this alleged power.
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France
England
Mewmer
Louis XV
Dumassod Bolwer
Hypnotism and legal safeguards against crime
The article argues that restricting hypnotism to medical professionals offers weak protection against misuse. It cites law as the ultimate safeguard, asserting crime requires criminal intent and that demonstrated use of hypnotic power in crime would make the inducer legally responsible, with law preventing its abuse.
The Census Thoroughness and Pittsburg Interest
The Dispatch notes one third of enumerators still incomplete and warns of undercount risk in Pittsburg. It urges recounts if increases in local totals lag behind vote, school, and directory growth and attacks overbroad questions and low enumerator pay as causes.
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Oliver
Pittsburg
Census Bureau
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
England
War Department
Lessons for census accuracy urge Pittsburgh population tally
The piece argues that until the Census Bureau releases totals, accuracy of city and state counts remains uncertain. It urges public leaders to recall lessons from past censuses and push for a full, corrected population statement for Pittsburgh in future census reports.
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Pittsburg
Cleveland Wage Dispute Seeks Paced Settlement
In Cleveland the railroad switchmen strike risks disrupting freight as Pittsburg lines refuse shipments bound for Cleveland. The text urges moderate counsel and public sympathy, noting prior calm settlements elsewhere and calling labor leaders and managers to a speedy, peaceful resolution to limit harm to coal, coke, and related trades.
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Cleveland
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Western Lines
Iroquois Vessel Retires After Pacific Trial and Breakdown
The old naval ship Iroquois endured 7000 miles in Pacific gales before a machinery breakdown and a fresh failure just six hours after leaving San Francisco. The piece argues for its honorable retirement and for modern vessels to carry on Union glory.
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Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Farragut
Gulf
Union
Colorado Senator Wolcott Starts Rapid Senate Career
Senator Wolcott pleased his bride with an oration in the Senate yesterday but his Republican party allies show little enthusiasm. The new Colorado senator begins his career at a gallop.
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Wolcott
Senate
Colorado
Abbott Defends Negro Invitation At Lake Mohank Conference
The Rev Lyman Abbott counters charges that blacks were excluded by likening it to a patient judged by doctors not present near the case. He argues that proximity matters for proper examination and understanding. Lena Caldwell wed Baron Zedwitz German minister to Mexico in Washington, a union viewed as promising.
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Lyman Abbott
Lake Mohank
England’s railway tariffs lack a common basis after seven decades
London Industries states no uniform railway rates exist after seventy years of rail transport. The finding undermines English proponents who argued federation among railways as a model for American regulation, a point echoed across the ocean.
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England
London
Ocean
Wild Western Solution Clashes With Law in Dayton
In Dayton Is a vendor told to depart by sunrise to sunset after opening a shop, a scene framed as a reply to package trouble. The piece argues urban mobs may override law and questions the value of strict midsummer sanitation amid cholera in Spain and yellow fever in Havana.
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Dayton
Spain
Havana
Tariff Bill Crisis Deepens Senate Battle
The silver bill faces possible defeat as Southern Democrats back Western Republicans in amendments. A quid pro quo plan circulates in the Senate, suggesting mutual favors if support continues. A thunder storm struck the hill at sunset, foreshadowing hotter weather ahead.
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WueEn
Senate
McKinley
Quiet Hampstead wedding draws crowd of hoodlums
Our Mary becomes Mrs Navarro as a hush wedding ends amid a violent outside scene. Attendees in fine dress confront the ceremony at the lite church in Hampstead, with onlookers mounting disturbances surrounding the nuptials.
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Mary
Mr. Navarro
Hampstead
Anderson Navarro
Modern Congressional Methods and Health Notes
Mr. Vaux’s first speech was withheld for revision as cholera rises in Europe prompting urgent seaport quarantine. Pittsburg Health Board should enforce cleanliness. Senate vote on the House silver bill was clumsy. Resignation of the U S Minister to Brazil prompts regret. a Rio presence is needed to press free speech over military tribunals. Silver king ideology cited.
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Europe
Pittsburg
Health Board
Senate
United States
Brazil
Rio
One Sided Cherry Picking by Local Boys
An elderly Sewickley resident hires six boys to pick a cherry tree. The boys take half the harvest first and eat the fruit, leaving the owner with less than half. The piece notes boy mischief and mentions future performances by Lavin and Gilmore, recalling past concert politics and a wartime venue in Charleston.
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Lavin
Gilmore
Sewickley
Notable Figures and Events Span North America and Europe
Mr W S Grunnerr buys a country place and trades his London home Grove Street in Tom Green county Texas aged 104. Derew to deliver RPI commencement address. Harvard's Henry M Torry recovered from illness. Rev Dr Dales marks 50 years as pastor in Philadelphia. Parcee Grovese seeks love cure via sea voyage. Mrs Adolph Dahlgren of Nashville praised as one of the Souths prettiest women. Watts painted Lord Tennyson portrait for Trinity College and National Gallery. Garibaldis tomb at Caprera to become a national monument with sailors home and a lighthouse. General Pleasonton appears in Philadelphia with a sombrero. Mr and Mrs Josseron Chamberlain voyage to America meeting Endicotts and Lord Stanley. Prince of Wales declines a London international exhibition before 1000.
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Grnnerr
Tom Green County
Tex
Derew
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Henry M. Torry
Harvard University
J.B. Dales
Second United Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia
Parxce Grovese
Adolph Dahlgren
Nashville
South
Watts
Lord Tennyson
Trpity College
Cambridge
National Gallery
Garibaldi
Caprera
General Pleasoxton
Chestnut Street
Asd
London
A German Baron's Bride in Washington Ceremony
Miss Lena Caldwell married Baron von Zodwitz German Minister to Mexico in a quiet chapel ceremony at the Catholic University in Washington. Notable guests included Sir John Pauncefo te and Lady Pauncefote, Mexican Minister Senor Romero, and Bishop Spalding who blessed the couple after the service.
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Leon Caldwell
Washington
Lena Caldwell
Baron von Zodwitz
Mexico
New
Catholic University
Anington
Emina
Harriet Maine
John Paunceefote
Pauncefote
Senor Romero
Homeoro
Baron Seckendorf
Seckendorf
Senator Vance
Representative Hitt
Alexander Porter Morse
Henry Wise Garett
After Forty We Grow Thicker and Thicker
A satirical verse notes changes after age forty with jokes about thinner hair, weight gain, laziness, aches, and shifting social roles. It lampoons aging men as they become graver and less desired, while younger women flirt cautiously and offer confidences.
Pleasure and Business Last Woman's Club Meeting in Wilkinsburg
The Wilkinsburg Woman's Club held its final season meeting at Mrs. KE Wade's home. Members enjoyed a luncheon on the second floor and discussed papers on Pessimism and Optimism and an Innovation in Woman's Clubs.
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Wilkinsburg
Union Station
KE. A. Wade
Ramsey
Sehlenderberger
M. E. Dinwiddie
Aesdor
George Taylor
W. H. Winslow
Julius Caesar at the Bijou by Curry School graduates
A pupil production at the Bijou presented Julius Caesar with Prof. Byron W. King in the title role. Cast includes Tom Geraghty as Cassius, William Robinson as Caesar, Hannah Baxter as Calpurnia, Joe D. Binson as Mark Antony, and graduates Clara Dawes Gertrude Donohue Millie Gardner Frank Reynolds Tom Geraghty. The audience appreciated strong performances and scenic effects.
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Julius Cesar
Pupls
Curry School of Elocution and Dramatic Culture
Byron W. King
King
Brutus
Joe D. Binson
Mark Antony
Clara Dawes
Gertrude Donotine
Millie Gardner
Frank Reynolds
Roses Bloom in Pittsburg at Schoonmaker Residence
The elegant home of Mrs. L. Schoonmaker on Shady and Howe streets was transformed yesterday into a vast rose garden by Messia A. M. and J. B. Murdoch. Wealth and fashion of Pittsburg gathered in full evening dress, touring open rooms and dining in a rose scented setting served by Caterer Kuhn with la Franca perfume and string music.
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Pittsburg
Kuhn
Quiet Home Wedding in Allegheny Unites Daisy Craig and E K Heck
Miss Daisy Craig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Craig, wed Mr. E K Heck at her childhood home on Church avenue Allegheny. Rev. W J Robinson officiated as guests and family gathered for the ceremony and wedding feast before the couple departed for their honeymoon on the lakes.
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Daisy Craig
EK. E. Heck
Allegheny
Joseph Craig
Joe Craig
E. KE. Heck
Church Avenue
Ww. Jd. Robinson
Ww. Jd. Robinson, PD. D
Messrs
Pressly Craig
HB. Thickett
Florence Brace
Kuhn
Mra
Heck
Lakea
YMCA Picnic Planned At Ohio Pyle By Johnstown Group
The Y M C A of Johnstown will hold a picnic at Ohio Pyle tomorrow. E D Smith of the B and V will go to Johnstown today to arrange transportation. They have engaged 15 cars.
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Johnstown
Ohio Pyle
E. D. Smith
Community Events Highlight Local Picnic Concert and Wedding Plans
The article lists several city happenings including the attorneys picnic at Rock Point, a free McCall Band concert in Highland Park, a J T Leak lecture on Egypt at North Avenue M E Church, a Pink ten at Point Breeze Presbyterian, and invitations out for the marriage of Miss Jeanie Lowrie Childs to Mr Alexander Wurts at Calvary Church. It notes City of Pittsburg sending a steamer down the Ohio with Mr Thomas Pickering’s furniture business patrons aboard with refreshments and music.
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Rock Point
McCall Band
Highland Park
J. T. Leak
North Avenue M. E
Egypt
Point Breeze Presbyterian Church
Jeanie Lowrie Childs
Alexander Wurts
Calvary Church
Eust End
Pittsburg
Ohio
Thomas Pickering
Gilmore Band Concert Seats On Sale At Old City Hall
The sale of seats for the Gilmore Band concert on Thursday afternoon and evening, June 24, at Old City Hall opens tomorrow morning at Hamilton's music store, 06 Fifth Avenue, at o'clock. Demand already promises two audiences and the concert may be the season’s last big musical event. The vocalists are well known in Pittsburgh.
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Old City Hall
Hamilton
Fifth Avenue
Concat
Pittsurg
Brown-Bennischof Napuianta obituary fragment
Greenville dispatch notes the death of Hubert W. Brown eldest son of Hon James Brown and Maud Benningbolt daughter of Joseph Benninghoff in Greenville. The service was conducted by Rev J Israel of Meadville aided by Rev J Koob of this place.
Dangers of Hypnotism and Mesmerism Across Europe
A historic review notes hypnotism and mesmerism now restricted or banned in France and Belgium for the young and insane. It traces 19th century bans in Germany Denmark and Russia, citing medical concerns and warnings from authorities about risks to the nervous system including hysteria and visual hallucinations.
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France
Belgium
London Saturday Review
Europe
Germany
Berlin Academy of Science
Denmark
Russia
Oxford
Cambridge
Bernteim
Nancy
M. Paul Richer
Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Des Sciencea Medicales
Questioning hypnotism and crime linked to somnambulism
An article discusses how somnambulism may lead to unconscious criminal acts. It cites 1883 French cases where hypnotized individuals committed theft without recall, noting how justice can miscarry when hypnotic influence is involved and noting multiple similar instances in French courts.
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Nancy
Law Courta
Hypnotism Cases Across Eras Stir Legal Waters
Historic cases show hypnotism used to compel actions and kidnap victims. Castellan received twelve years hard labor after forcing Josephine Hughes to flee home. Dr Esdaile reported hypnotic influence over natives and a boy, leading to nine years in irons. Similar notes in Malacca journal highlight child susceptibility with few failures under age four.
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Rimes
Castellan
Josephine Hughes
Esdaile
India
Hooghly
Malacca
JSC
A Debate on Hypnotism and Criminal Suggestion
An article examines hypnotism as a potential source of unconscious criminal influence. It contrasts Nancy doctors who warn of danger with Paris physicians who downplay risk, noting historical cautions from Mesmer and Poysegar and emphasizing the power of the hypnotizer over subjects.
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Pari
Nancy
Beamis
de Poysegar
Mesmer
Hypnosis and Crime: How Subconscious Acts May Be Performed
Professor Bernheim's experiments suggest subjects can be guided to commit acts at a future date while forgetting the influence, with some resisting morality yet susceptible to manipulation. The report calls for wide publicity and official scrutiny of sensational demonstrations that may harm individuals or threaten public safety.
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M Liegeois
Nancy
Bernheim
Liebesult
Beam
Otter
Third Meeting of Allegheny County Union of YP Society
The Allegheny County Union of Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor held its third meeting at Second Presbyterian Church. Matthew Walker of the Philadelphia Union spoke, joined by Dr. Linn of St. Louis and Rev. H. C. Applarth of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church.
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Allegheny County Union of Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
Second Presbyterian Church
Matthew Walker
Philadelphia Union
Dr. Linn
St. Louis
H.C. Applarth
Fourth Avenue Baptist
Noted Congressional Stenographer John J. McElhone Dies
John J. McElhone, longtime official stenographer of Congress, died at private cottage 100 South Delaware Ave Atlantic City after recent illness. He reported historic addresses from Jefferson Davis to Sumner and others, served both Senate and House, and remained sharp in intellect until his death near age seventy.
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John J. McElhone
Congress
Atlantic City
United States Senate
House of Representatives
South
Delaware Avenue
Washington
Chicago
Taxeien
Elberon
Long Branch
McElhone
Garfield
McKelhone
John Russell Young
China
Alfred Townsend
John W. Forney
Senate
Forney
House
Jefferson Davis
Charles Sumner
Carl Sehura
Congressional Record
Pittsburg Lawyer Debates Prohibitory Liquor Law
Mt Pleasant alumni reunion at the Grand Opera House featured a debate on the prohibitory liquor law. J H Pershing of Pittsburg urged the cold water side while D L Neville of Greensburg urged repeal. Commencement exercises are scheduled for tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. with a dinner and reception to follow.
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TLE. Dispatch
MT. Pleasant
Ada Criswell
Grand Opera House
J. H. Pershing
Pittsburg
D. L. Neville
Greensburg
Institute
Aid for the Distressed Martina Family in Mulberry Alley
Dr. R M Bands reports a destitute Polish widow Mary Martina and six children in Mulberry alley near Twenty eighth street. One child died, three ill with measles pneumonia and stomach inflammation. The Dispatch notes charity funds and urges further donations to the Martina Fund via Dr. Landa.
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R. M. Bands
Mulberry Alley
Twenty-eighth Street
Pittsnone
Jane II
Martina
Landa
Mary Martina
Sands
Bizarre Wires Narrate Oddities And Scattered Local News
A mishmash of brief items reports a powder magazine burglary in Mount Hops Prairies and a thief with a failed scheme, a Yorn Pennsylvania girl bitten by a snake who survives, and a parrot and monkey time image in politics. Odd notes on Reichstag, watermelons, Jamaica ginger trust, and social quirks follow with random gossip about Miss Willing, John Jacob Astor, Roscommon Michigan safes, foreign noblemen, Mary Anderson, and an Oshkosh drowning in a head-down incident.
Barbers Close Shops At Nine Dollars
An assortment of local notes reports barbers signing a deal to close at 9 dollars. The piece bundles miscellaneous regional items including a veteran's death in Tionesta Forest County, local school and civic events, population bets in Bristol, and a murder guilty plea by Joan Tenutry in Olyphant.
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Crry
Mancus CuUrstTaNaxa
Tionesta
Forest County
Meadville
Titusville
Tue Towanda Electric Illuminating Company
Conneaut Lake
Lancaster
B. J. McGranh
Fair Association
McKean County Association
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frank Kelley
Thomas Kelley
Joan Tenutry
Mike Feiser
Olyphant
Curious Condensations from a Curio Month in Lancaster
A collage of odd items: a man in Lancaster who speaks selectively. a leprosy cure touted by homeopathic electricity in India. Guatemala hymn prize of 1000 dollars. death and treasure finds in Birmingham and Staunton. a West Chester worm sighting. a barber shop ad venture in New York. a birthday party gift tally. pigeons in France wartime supply. a Grand Rapids death by long nap. a fireball incident in Indianapolis. a multilingual four year old found astray in Philadelphia. a Reformed Presbyterian Synod bans liquor and tobacco for members. a Galveston fortune claim. Waterloo veterans in Haarlem. St Petersburg crop insurance plans. elk harvests in Norway. a New Zealand Mormon convention report. anti Chinese migration in Mexico. a Kansas farmer bee swarm. Ringing Rocks literary picnic song from rocks. Biddeford eagle eggs hatching. a Lancaster man in an ice cream shop stampede. a Missouri church funeral struck by lightning. Maine granite varieties. a Miller county widow’s matchmaking scam. and a Georgia moonshiner misidentification tale.
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France
John van Dam
Grand Rapids
Mich
Indianapolis
Michener
Philadelphia
Synod of
The
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Galveston
New Zealand
Mexico
Misera
Harvey County
Kan
Literary Society
Ringing Rocks
Pottstown
Biddeford
Hallowell
Funny Men's Fancies In A Busy Comic Parade
A collection of quips and one liners from newspapers and cartoons mixing jokes about poetry politics and daily life. It showcases playful exchanges on poems grooming weather monarchy and a yacht sighting with brisk wit and punchy punchlines.
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Baron Zedwitz
Prorie
W J. Lavin
Dispatch
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Grant
Arthur
Charleston
D. C
Marseillanse
Columbia
Aekter
Dot
Daisy
Fogydom
Ethel
Etxty
Ecrawlas
Dowton
St. James
Jodas Owenr
Curry School of Elocution
Juliaus Crear
Wil Picenle
Anruval
Mount Hops
Reichstag
Bismarca
Emperor Billy
Jamaica
Hale
Mr. Cowles
Miss Willing
John Jacob Astor
John Jacob
Roscommom Mich
Michigan
Mary Anderson
Lancaster County
Guatemala
Birmingham
Alu
Staunton
West Chester
Haarlem
Holland
St. Petersburg
New Society of the Metropolis
Norway
Voltaire
Miller County
Chas, Sharpnack
Murray County
John Brackett
Atlanta
Haight II
Sharpnick
Mary Wing
Thomas Wing
Fayette
Rowe
Catal
New Fort Sun
New York Journal
Cesar
Sao York Sun
Wantington Post
Lord Sallybury
Johnson
Kastus
Hastus
Ash
West Shore
Wiggins
Dobbe
Balis
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