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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1890
Page
6
The account portrays a brutal craps game among enslaved workers in a southern railroad camp. It details listening crowds around fires, loaded dice terms like mule, and a fatal shooting as money and luck drive players to risk everything. The scene ends with a fatality and ongoing gambling despite violence.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel Colonel Hooker and ex congressman William L. Scott shared a breakfast. Scott, a slender dyspeptic Erie millionaire, picked at oatmeal and toast with little appetite while Hooker ate a hearty meal of clam broth steak lamb chops fried eggs potatoes and rolls.
A traveler recalls a railroad camp with 300 Black workers lining up for pay as dice games of craps and chuck-a-luck unfold. Women join in, photographers capture scenes, and onlookers chant in a peopled circle while narrative mingles with crude humor and racial imagery. An ex congressman jokes about trading a stomach for a possession.
The Missouri Pacific Railway rebates steep fares from Missouri to Colorado routes. From St Louis to Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver the price is $1250. From Kansas City to Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver the price is $750. Tickets are first class and information is available from S H Thompson central passenger agent Pittsburg.
Potatoes to arrive Monday and sold at market price by Pittsburg Produce Co. at 813 Liberty Ave. Potnters and three cars of stock featured. Also bargains in lace curtains with thousands of pieces from Rosenbaum's House, plus household goods packed for shipment by Haver & Keenan at 33 and 34 Water St.
Bessie Bramble argues that Russia under the Czar shows a Christian state and church failing to protect liberty and women. She cites Siberian cruelties, Russian law on marriage, and colonial despotism, urging international protest and reform.
A London Industries description by Wrytcezy explains a simple portable writing desk for trains. A light wood piece attached to the arm with an elastic band supports a two cord setup to keep writing movements synchronized with motion.
A health advertisement urges remedies for dire ailments caused by nature and urges using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to rectify the liver blood bile and jaundice while claiming it also eradicates malaria kidney troubles indigestion and rheumatism.
The article recalls Wilbur Fiske Sanders and Charlie Manderson arriving in Washington during Lincoln’s inauguration era. It recounts Sanders gaining a Senate seat after halls cleared, Manderson entering in stocking feet, and a famed tale of Teller losing 200000 dollars over the Robert E. Lee mine deal.
The Dispatch outlines Prof Leumann experiments linking reading rate to breathing rhythms and compares to yogic breath control for mental focus. It notes Max Muller and M Ley on breath as anesthetic and describes Rettig engineers proposing stacked moving platforms for streetcar travel at up to ten miles per hour, though with high cost and site challenges.
An article notes the superiority of the oral method for teaching speech to the deaf with a Kent Road Asylum performance of Richard III. It contrasts lip reading with sign methods, cites a sixteenth century Spanish sign tradition, and describes a machine making baseballs from yarn. It mentions color blindness and a French smoke bomb invention.
A brick maker named Mr Barr endured four years of head and stomach trouble with clogged nostrils eye pain dizziness and a hoarse throat. He suffered weakness night sweats and breathing difficulty before improving after treatment by Dr Byers and now credits him with a complete recovery.
Dr Byers offers a monthly antiseptic spray treatment for catarrh at 85 with medicine included. He claims remote patients can use an at home antiseptic spray device and receives weekly office visits when possible.
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