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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1889
Page
4
Daily Dispatch and Sanday edition circulation figures for April 1889 are listed. The notice details annual and quarterly rates for both the Daily Dispatch and Sanday editions, including carrier delivery charges and weekly totals. The text also mentions a Sanday edition and refers to various price formats and subscription terms.
The report confirms the original milk group has fallen apart and criticizes attempts to form a new dealer coalition. It argues the milk shippers should press their agent to continue selling milk at moderate prices to build a larger, legitimate market rather than squeezing competitors.
Mr Fleming praises the Judge for integrity and takes issue with claims of corruption. He attributes his defeat to the Judge avoiding impropriety and notes others who kept the Judge's son as attorney were rejected. He remains disappointed yet fair and suggests reopening the case may be warranted.
A Hartford correspondent criticizes the American exhibit at the Paris Exposition as insufficient and urges a broader display of U.S. industry. The author notes the country’s real strength is shown year round, joking that a collection of American curiosities could be shipped to Paris, replacing sensational but tame exhibits.
The debate over Centennial spending contrasts New York’s $300,000 outlay with $3,000,000 taken in against Cincinnati’s view. The piece argues public spirit drove profit and urges citizens to fund the manufacturers’ building at the Exposition, promising returns.
The piece notes Illinois and other Western states debating regulation of telephone rates, following Indiana. It comments on Philadelphia Press and Harrisburg lack of such moves and suggests Pennsylvania lawmakers stick to precedent amid public interest concerns about charges.
The passage argues Sweden has no telephone monopoly and that commercial competition yields cheap, widely accessible service. It suggests the absence of monopoly lowers capital costs, allowing fair profits and roughly one quarter the U.S. rates, with stores and city houses benefiting from low prices.
The Sun criticizes two versions of Mr. Cleveland's Centennial speech, favoring revised phrases like should wander and should be misled as less canting. It questions Pharisaical rhetoric in politics and contrasts Judge Gresham and Bishop Potter remarks with Mr. Gould's actions, likening him to a hog thief who escaped conviction.
The New York Centennial sparked protests from Governors and U S Senators over perceived crowding and courtesy. They allege elitist treatment, noting local officials secured free seats and meals, while legislators complain of late efforts to gain access and influence.
The piece notes farmers in various areas show quiet optimism or concern over fruit blossoms and crops. Illinois farmers split over frost damage and potential fruit load, while Delaware peach growers avoid doom talk. The collapse of glossy agricultural romance is credited to railroads, telegraph, and newspapers, with regional silence seen as a sign of potential prosperity.
A DisPATCH by renowned attorney Mr. McClung analyzes liquor license court action from a legal angle. He argues judicial discretion, not arbitrary power, should guide licensing decisions, a point that raises discussion beyond personal disagreement and elevates the debate.
Mr. Incaius asks the question who is Halstead in a copy of Secretary Chase’s indorsement of the editor’s letter as Halstead, M. The paper suggests Halstead may provide Ingalls with information bearing on his identity.
General Henry B Jackson in Sevanoah argued that Confederates supported the Federal Constitution, stating the North rebelled against it while the South did not. The remark signals a controversial reinterpretation of Civil War loyalties.
The piece critiques northern and southern extremists over liquor policy and sectional politics. It references historical figures and mocks modern leadership while lamenting past statesmanship and the state of the republic. The tone blends satire with critique of contemporary discourse.
An American navigator plans to circumnavigate to showcase sailor daring, while a Cork jarvey is jailed for manslaughter after refusing CPR. President's consulate license issues loom as White Lead fears shadow Standard Oil, exposing hollow pretenses of virtue.
The conference report on the soldiers orphans bill gives the syndicate a chance of securing a six month contract to maintain the orphans after June. After that period the orphans would be independent. Rumor says President Harrison invited Dudley to the White House. Letters to “Dear Old Sam” from Indiana boys may soon cheer them with news of Dudley dining there again. The Carter divorce case draws Chicago crowds but interest may drop as Mrs. Rawson takes an active stake, sometimes with a revolver.
The city of Paris earns quick fame by claiming the fastest time on record. Officials trumpet the achievement, highlighting the official record and the event where the speed was measured.
Lexo Trexsyson has regained health enough for outdoor exercise. Ashmead Hartlet begins recording Eiffel Tower climbers with a 21 minute time. Gienkiewicz, a top Polish novelist, writes about Poles without stiffness. Harrie Blaine, Secretary Blaine’s youngest daughter, confirmed at St John’s Washington. Srcurfany Rusk praised as hard worker and gold pen user. Max O’Rell to lecture in America this fall. Death note on John Hidd, last survivor of Forfarshire shipwreck rescued by Grace Darling. Pat jokes about Prince of Wales tailoring and patronage. Bear discusses gender discount in tennis. Colonel Shepard claims best team play. Metamorphosis by Sip Ner Luska (Mr Harlan) runs in Bundsy Disputes. author, 25, hailed as rising talent.
Pittsburg stage listings report fun at Harry Williams' with We Us Co and The Fat Men's Club at Bijou and The Corsair Evangeline burlesque at Opera House next week. Mozart Club and Boston Symphony concerts sell seats May 15 16 at Old City Hall. season tickets for May Festival sale ends Friday. Official festival handbook in printers' hands end of next week with 100 plus pages of notes and illustrated co programs.
Mr d M Roberts commander of Post EE died at his home on Copeland Street yesterday in the city. He was a long time member of the local post and a veteran of the organization.
A satirical piece recalls a reporter's integrity and a reader who claims not to read the paper. It then shifts to verse on compensation and a humorous tale from Moon township about Prohibition and a clever farmer's wife who retrieves whisky by shooting a barrel into a tub, ending with harvesters finding her asleep.
At a Philadelphia meeting the Pennsylvania Railroad directors approved a 6 percent stock allotment raising capital to about 118 million dollars. Stockholders can subscribe from July 16 to July 1. payments in July earn 4 percent interest until issuance. Funds fund expansion, new locomotives, cars, and track projects as tonnage climbs.
Reading saloon keeper William H. Johnson answered a petition to revoke licenses, arguing the Brooks law is unconstitutional for denying right to be heard and to confront witnesses. Public Safety warns perjury prosecutions for constables who testified. Other items include water-burning apparatus in Kentucky and humorous notes on young men and omniboat steamboats.
A poem portrays a modest maid who underestimates her beauty yet is ensnared by love. The speaker praises her blush and eyes while acknowledging a hidden beloved who holds her in Cupid’s influence. The verse hints at self-doubt, mistaken shyness, and the tension between admiration and restrained desire.
A Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Interstate Commerce law featured Charles Francis Adams of Union Pacific arguing for closer Canada United States ties. Ernest Wiman supported commercial integration and urged a united North American market, while critics warned against shutting Canadian routes from the U S. Talks touched on Maine outlets, Canada’s future, and the potential collapse of the imperial link with Britain.
A Washington bulletin in preparation by W O Atwater with aides examines the agricultural college system. It argues colleges shifted away from farm training toward professions, drawing potential farmers away. Curricula are too broad and costly for average farmers and their sons. It notes Minnesota’s agricultural program outpacing colleges in enrollment after opening last fall.
The City of Paris of the Inman line arrived Sandy Hook at 11 15 AM and broke all records for the New York to Queenstown passage. The corrected time shows days 2 hours 7 minutes, beating the Etruria’s six days and one hour. The ship completed the Atlantic crossing in record speed and covered a total distance of 2 865 miles.
Secretary Noble cites a telegram from Special Agent Pickler noting sales of town lots by town site companies or private bodies are under scrutiny. The message mentions procedural steps and warns against improper sales practices in Oklahoma amid ongoing investigations.
Westinghouse Electric Company receives city contract to install 600 arc lamps along Philadelphia streets using Waterhouse patent lamps.
A collection of brief items reports on new French battlefield lamp trials for locating wounded, poet laureate speculation if Tennyson dies, Vienna streetcar strikes and pay, a Belgian extortion scheme using chloroform, elephant brown adornments on the rise, Prof Frelinus’s nutrition claims, a Tokio British Legation safe opening revealing old medals, Berry the English hangman and calls for restraint and control reforms.
A letter to The Dispatch editor critiques the Allegheny County License Court for arbitrariness and improper use of judicial discretion. It argues courts must act as courts, avoid personal will, and consider both sides before ruling on licenses, urging reform and closer adherence to legal standards.
A playful note from This in Laughable extols Philadelphia as a prime resort between two food hubs at the continent’s tip-top groves park, praising the city’s unique merits as a destination.
A New York court story reports 10 year old Herman Carvel refusing food and praying through hours at the Tombs and Battery before being taken to a YMCA prayer meeting. The boy alleged neglect by his father J B Carvell MP of Prince Edward Island as authorities plan sanity review.
At 11 o'clock Judge Barrett awarded Thomas F. Gilroy of Tammany Hall the rightful Public Works post. By 11:15 the Sheriff Cochran and other Tammany leaders moved to D Lowther Smith's County Democracy office, where Smith yielded the appointment without resistance after reading the order. The crowd expected a battle over the municipal prim.
George Francis Train completed the twentieth day of fasting this noon. He says he is one fifth done and his pulse is full and regular. His weight has fallen from 215 pounds to 171 pounds. He will lecture again next Sunday night.
Colonel Crnger, chairman of the Army Committee for the Centennial celebration, stated that parade expenses would range from 120000 to 225000 dollars. Receipts from stand sales were projected to be at most 50000 dollars.
Daniel Smith was sentenced to four and a half years in the tiary for forcing a boy to beg and steal. He picked up George Wright, burned him with nitric acid to provoke compassion, and left the boy deformed though to recover health. Wright’s father led to the arrest weeks earlier.
An express Long Island Railway train struck Edward L. Vermilye and his wife near Rockville Center last night. Mrs. Vermilye was thrown against a board fence and escaped with no injuries, while Mr. Vermilye suffered a severe facial gash. The horse was killed and the buggy destroyed.
Emma Abbott contracts a Philadelphia firm to build a Gloucester marble monument for her husband Eugene Wetherell at a cost of 36 000 dollars. The vault will house two bodies with Gothic columns and a high figure atop, designed to hold cremated remains.
A quaint column notes unusual incidents in Pennsylvania. A Chester county farmer dies in a pignon with pig references, Samuel Briutann of South Bethlehem breaks a leg dancing to a German band, and a Minersville family sickens from Easter egg dye beer. A Butler county man asks for straw but receives hay, a Beaver Falls resident claims to cure rheumatism by blowing and rubbing, yet always suffers the same pains.
The item reports large land purchases by MonIGAS in Missixelppi timber holdings and mentions vast sums for bowing machines and steam engines sent abroad in 1555. It references cigars from Cuba to New York for Centennial, repairs to fences in Pennsylvania, and notes a massive crane at Chatham dockyard with broad industrial context.
A patchy OCR fragment lists a Chinese troupe touring the United States in Portishead, Oregon. an Indian skeleton found on a Van Buren farm. a Florida turkey with a drumstick noted. a Georgia death at age 110. a severe hail storm in Sumter County. a water shortage in San Antonio due to pumping station failure. a petrified lizard in a Tarrytown sanitarium. dogs fighting at Highland Lake. vipers near Wardwell Wood England. an adders sighting near Abbeyville Georgia. rail accident stats for the UK. horse showing at Windsor. old horse shoeing writings. and a Paris Exposition tied note.
A garbled collage of quotable lines and jokes from a Knickerbockers page includes misquoted phrases about Indians and poetry, Arbor Day chats, a christened tree planting, a grocer swindle, billiards invites, and a quirky business cutover, all presented in a newspaper ribbing tone.
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