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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1889
Page
6
A brief page outlines the birth, conversion and death of St Patrick. It notes his role in teaching Christianity and introducing civilization. The account frames Patrick as noble and pious, shaping early Christian history and cultural development.
A narrative of St Patrick’s life, birthplace disputes, conversion in Ireland, and his mission to convert pagans. Details include his patrician surname, possible birth years, the shamrock parable, early missionaries like Bridget and Columba, miracles against Druids, and legendary relics and songs. The piece reflects on his lasting cultural influence and celebrations.
A Chicago era piece argues resource depletion will drive a new civilization. It predicts aluminum replacing steel for housing and transport, sea-based food production, and advances in electricity and chemistry shaping labor and industry by mid twentieth century.
A former anthracite miner-turned-politician claims miners use their blood as cement to mend broken pipes in the mines. He describes jabbing the hand with a needle to draw blood, coating the pipe edges, and securing repairs with dried blood, citing multiple fixes from a single wound.
New York society notes Lent diversions with ladies touring a nearby groggery behind mahogany blinds and a basement bowling alley. Salvation Army staffers visit wealthy homes to promote revivalism while Ella Did Clymer becomes Sorosis’s new president. Dion Boucicault and Louise Thorndyke marry officially as Boucicault jokes about staying active in old age. The writer laments the rise of rigid good form among young women and longs for more natural behavior.
Mrs. Jar's pendulums tangled with law claims in Tezaa Siftings noting a monkey on a walk and a humorous misunderstanding of pendulum names.
A Massachusetts sportsman Chadwick uses an ice tricycle to hunt ducks on inshore ponds and land locked bays around Fort Pond Bay and Napeague Harbor. The machine has twin forward runners, a rear steering runner, and a large geared propulsion wheel. Under favorable winds the craft reaches high speed and can rig sails for assistance. He disguises the craft with brush to approach ducks closely before shooting.
A fragmentary dialogue mentions Mr de Spare and Cooldorf in a cryptic exchange. The speaker vows to be lost to the world upon closing a portal, while addressing Mr de Spare and pondering Seeecaaree’s breakfast and wage tools. The text reads as an oblique dramatic fragment with unclear plot details.
The visit of baseball players to Egypt reads like a sightseeing jaunt with camels and donkeys at the pyramids. A chaotic but lively parade through Cairo featured merchants, dragoons, and locals as the players, including Leigh Lynch and Spalding, moved toward a desert-inflight match near the Sphinx with an audience of Bedouins and desert children.
The London Spectator questions what makes an incident trivial or significant and argues providence and chance often shape life. Notable examples include a railway clerk’s neglect leading to a brilliant career, a chance meeting altering fortunes, and a crossroads of fate in marriages and career paths.
In Newcastle Chronicle style, Old William of Malmesbury relates the witch of Berkeley who defied decay. Her ritual included sewing her body in a stag hide, a stone sarcophagus sealed with lead and iron, and 80 nights of psalms and masses, yet a demon tore chains, a tall man freed her, and she rode away bound for nowhere.
A humorous local dialogue unfolds as Mr Weepleigh arrives at Uncle Philip's house to warn that four new family members are moving in nearby. He jokes about the threat to leghorns and chicken stock while discussing daily rural affairs.
The piece muses on the peaceful transition after a national government change, praising democratic order and cordial exchanges between Presidents Cleveland and Harrison. It notes the marching crowds, rainy rainbow panorama, and the prudent restraint of factions, concluding Americans deserve pride in their self control and patriotism.
A stark call for calm amid tensions between Protestants and Roman Catholics across Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Quebec. The piece decries religious strife, urging Canadians to Christianize morals and manners and avoid conflict that could disturb national unity. It references a need to cool tempers, and a plea to return to peaceful conduct as a century advances.
A compact meditation on patient waiting as active service. References Simon Peter’s fishing response to delay the vision of Christ and Milton’s sonnet declaring that those who stand and wait also serve, emphasizing that enduring age or infirmity can still be purposeful.
A satirical sketch imagines Mr. Smith revived in 2889 by Jules Verne’s fiction. A billionaire traveler uses air travel and telephonic viewing to chat with his wife in Paris and gather news by pneumatic conveyance. Despite marvels, death and worry persist in the future.
A written critique argues calm discussion is needed on temperance, warning against two popular panaceas. The piece notes the complexity of social habits and individual impacts, while accusing some skeptics of alarmist motives.
A collage of aphorisms and reflections on temperaments, virtue, secrecy, public life, and fame. Writings touch on self-control, acquaintance of like minds, divine judgment, honest conduct, advice on trust and privacy, and a note on Dr Fuller with a proposed epitaph.
A New York Sun piece describes corbait in Colorado streams as a gluey nymph sheltering under sand and wood. It narrates the life cycle from bent housing to emergence of a green green drake that sails on water then falls prey to a trout, illustrating natural history and a moral for readers.
New York Saw reports the French in Tonguin abandon census aims for Hanoi, 100000 residents. Census agents trigger panics as locals fear taxation or victimization, prompting exoduses to country kin and spreading wild misinformation. French weary of chasing knowledge amid chaos.
A Chicago man aims to keep a clean conscience during the Lout season at a Chicago Mall. A diner overheard a waiter and patron exchange about baked white fish, with the man asserting options are exhausted and a fish dish requested.
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