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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1890
Page
12
Western Pennsylvania farmers express strong demand for improved road networks to support markets, hauling grain, and access to mills. They advocate state investment, maintenance, and better rural connectivity to boost livelihoods and rural economy.
The Dispatch expedition reports dirt roads are ruinous for farmers with wagon traffic. Farmers broadly favor macadamized paths funded by the state, but fear taxation and misallocation. The piece contrasts cost, limestone availability, and potential governance to rebuild main roads across counties.
An illustrated June Century piece profiles Quintin Hogg founder of the Regent Street Polytechnic. It notes his sober business background, removal from purely charitable aims, and his push for practical education combining sport and shop skills for London’s young men. It closes with a drug advertisement for Dr. Jayne's Expectorant.
Ottawa reports detail the Zimmermen case seven miles southeast of Grimsby where an 80 year old man lived naked in a dilapidated log shack for 36 years. Inspectors found a gaunt, intelligent figure with a kangaroo like gait, a violin, and a bleak, fire scarred interior as they questioned the father of the man named William Zimmermen.
A complete display of home textiles including Percale matting Oxford cambric and flannels shown by Jos. Horne & Co at A Peon Avenue Storbs.
Miss Grace H. Dodge discusses wages of female workers in illustrated American. She notes many under 18 with low weekly pay banding together for clubs to pursue education and improvement, practical skills, and intellectual growth, hoping for a socially uplifting future. New flannel blazers for ladies at Jos Hansz & Co. stores.
An 1614 Gardiner episode recounts Seboois, daughter of Cabassa chief, dying from an arrow meant for Captain John Smith. Hunt’s raiders abducted locals, Smith’s party pursued, Seboois shielded Smith and perished, Hunt’s men were slain near Norridgewock, and her unmarked grave near Randolph church remains unnamed.
Newcastle Chronicle reports Carl Weiss advancing an Rhine power project to drive mills and workshops via a 4.3 km canal and 9 440 horsepower turbine complex at Basel. If successful, transmission will supply 7 000 horsepower with 5 000 left after losses, potentially extending along the Rhine to Holland.
Bishop Fitzgerald recounts a Kentucky journey with a colored stable boy who spots racehorse names from Ben Bolt to Volante and Lang Longfellow while he tries to share the gospel. The lively anecdote blends scripture with horse racing lore on a dusty road to Lexington and beyond.
A Newcastle Chronicle account traces wild Australian horses from two English mares. The mares travel west driven by sand flies and endure long journeys. They settle far from settlement, each mare foaling and joining other foals to form a growing herd. As civilization encroaches, more foals join and a wary, swift breed emerges.
A Chicago window glass jobber reports that a Pittsburg meeting reduced production by about 60 percent, with June to July closures. He notes the shortage risk, faults early shutdowns, and calls for a fixed price scale to stabilize the market while promising future discussions in New York.
A description of a chief chosen as Mokunje Monene and honored with a tall hat. A white traveler later gifts Ibaka an oversized red opera hat, symbolizing status and fear of theft. The chief keeps it at the station house, wearing it on major occasions amid community feasts.
The Dispatch piece presents a summer cottage design emphasizing simple artistic taste and low cost. It details layout features such as a bay window living room, open fire places, pine finishes, and a lean toward minimal rooms and elbow room. Concrete costs cite furnishing and decorating total around $1,300 with rustic exterior and muted color schemes.
The article describes a light filled upper floor with two large rooms and potential for more sleeping spaces, noting the four spacious rooms offer comfort for a summer cottage. It offers a cheap rustic window treatment using pine twigs boo fishing rod cheesecloth and brass rings suitable for a mountain cottage.
Germany leads as the country with the most syndicates in 1989. Ninety two are noted, followed by the United States with 58, Austria 38, Great Britain 31, France 6, Russia and others. Trusts targeted copper, nitrates, rails, glass, sugar, diets and hotels. many more syndicates likely formed though not formally recorded.
The article notes knitted all wool options and striped border skirts as fashionable in menswear, highlighting that no ready made suit matches the quality of a carefully chosen fabric. It discusses available materials and local shops offering these garments.
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