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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1890
Page
8
A long discussion on curing consumption via open air living and vigorous exercise. Advice covers room conditions, clothing, nose breathing, and daily outdoor activity plus targeted lung development and a note on horse riding protocols and early electricity use in social events.
An article notes New York architects use bagging on walls held by cherry moulding to create a handsome office interior. It contrasts Grand Vanderbilt residence decor where brown paper walls were paired with cherrywood, fresco frieze, and celebrated as decorative triumph.
At the Animals Institute in London En Giend an exhibition showcases horseshoes from ancient and modern periods. Displays include prehistoric nailedless designs from a Roman camp near Mayence and a spiked toe from a Scandinavian tumulus, plus early Roman shoes from Cesare’s era and various nineteenth century innovations.
A method to cure squinting is proposed by placing a small blue or black spot on a spectacle lens center. The wearer’s double image supposedly vanishes and the eye is urged to look straight with time. Also noted are experiments with a mixed fuel of coal and petroleum on an Italian man of gas at Gpexzis.
A new patent describes a life boat hoisting and lowering system using a two man crank setup that reduces effort and smooths operation. It allows controlled descent from the hurricane deck with passengers aboard, overcoming limitations of traditional blocks and ropes. The boss adjusts speed and balance via a ropes lever, enabling even lowering without external strength.
Development in railroad work shows vast orders with the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg placing 10 000 cars. Union Pacific 5 000, Missouri Pacific 8 000, Baltimore and Ohio 4 000, Hocking Valley and In galls syndicate 2 000 each, New York Central 3 000. Steel and iron quality has improved raising freight car capacity by 300 percent. Many 10 ton cars remain but most specs now call for 30 ton cars.
M. Rolland, eminent French engineer, argues in a paper to the Academie of Sciences for a railway across the Sahara. He says France must decide its role in Africa’s interior and outlines Soudan regions where French commerce could grow. He concludes Algeria must be linked to the Soudan by a Sahara crossing to enable any durable action.
An old Belfast sea captain devised a unique barometer using a thin white pine strip with cross pieces. The device bends outward in damp weather and sinks in dry weather, signaling approaching conditions. He trusts it over patent indicators.
Public interest in hypnotism grows as a international focus follows. A New York committee forms to study the subject in depth, plan months of research, and possibly report on findings.
A project aims to build an electric typewriter that will print letters in New York as they are transmitted from Boston, or vice versa, with communications sent simultaneously over four separate wires.
Higdon and Higdon patent lawyers of 127 Fourth avenue Pittsburg and opposite Patent Office Washington report patents granted last Tuesday. Names include Pittsborg Henry Aiken axle manufacture G K Flower typewriter L Haight horseshoe machine G A Macbeth glassware grinding machine O J Michaelen and C Raeder glasscutting machine S T Owens apparatus for shearing metals E J Sugden vehicle iron J A Schenkel telegraph key W G Stitt pump and Alle gheny OVecar Kicker patent entries. Real estate notices and advertising wrap the page with corset sales and local photographs promotion respectively.
A historical look at the Pittsburg and Steubenville Pike from 1818 reveals toll gate spacing, state subsidies, and dead-headed toll exemptions. It notes the road’s tavern-to-tavern route, uneven maintenance, and debates over future electric transit replacing horse hauled roads, with references to local figures and investments.
An advertisement promotes all wool sack or frock suits priced at $9 and $10, claiming serviceable and dependable quality. It urges seeing the items in person to be convinced, stating no description can do justice to the goods.
A local retailer touts the best strongest Boys Clothing with the largest stock in the city. During the Great May Sale they promise special drives to astonish visitors and save parents 20 to 30 cents on every dollar.
Inspect the mammoth hat department for a large stock in the state. Men’s derbies priced from 89c with values listed at 124, 149 and 169 dollars. Boys and children designs and patterns available. Juvenile straw hats shown at 24c to 98c.
Advertisers invite proud parents to bring children for stylish, pretty and affordable clothing. The copy promises elegant suits and coveted shirt waists with thousands to choose from and urges parents to visit now to save money while treating their kids to fashionable outfits.
The store boasts a wide furnishing department offering every item requested at prices far below competitors. It highlights light spring underwear and fashionable neckwear as exclusive articles, inviting men to visit before buying.
Our store proclaims astonishing trade in this department with patrons assured of honest square dealing. Customers rely on our representations as the best values respond to the least money, with bargains flooding the shelves including the latest fashions and novelties for ladies gentlemen youths and children.
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