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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1891
Page
8
A broad Pittsburgh sports column critiques baseball magnates and player salaries, examines manager McGonnigle's signings, and discusses New York and Philadelphia clubs. It covers league matters, amateur athletics, and upcoming football and bowling developments, plus boxing rumblings around Corbett, Maher, and Sullivan.
Andrew Wal of Selma reports 12 years of catarrh, ulcers, and frequent sneezing, improved after taking Peruna. The ad argues long treatment is needed, warns against local remedies, and claims Peruna reaches the root cause with gradual, lasting relief. It cites varied timelines and guarantees a cure if treatment is followed.
The article notes the superstition around ship names, citing Boston and San Francisco as unlucky, Guerriere as unlucky, and Constitution as notably lucky, suggesting fatalities and misfortune follow certain vessel names in U S service.
The article portrays Thomas A. Edison in his New Jersey laboratory during a sleepless inventive period. He denounces the patent system as a fraud while describing his telephone to the sun concept and the kineto graph device that makes moving pictures from rapid photograph sequences.
The interview covers Edison's lab in Menlo Park and its vast cost, his stance that he earns nothing from inventions but from manufacturing, and his views on patent protection. He explains pirates and company rivals, the high cost of building materials, and his belief he remains in prime condition with little sleep. The discussion also touches future ideas like telegraphing newspaper pages and an advanced street railway.
A discussion on inventors rights and piracy costs with Edison and future tech ideas. The interview explores legal timing, the impact of electricity, flying machines, and fuel from water, plus opinions on prolonged sleep and artificial day year concepts.
Washington prepares a dramatic display of 200 edible mushroom varieties for the United States exhibit at the World’s Fair. Models, real cultivated specimens, and plaster casts imitate nature as researchers led by Dr. Thomas Taylor gather species near Washington.
Charles Theodore Muray paints Eighth Avenue as a mirror of New York’s respectable middle class from Fifty-ninth Street to One Hundred and Tenth, noting grand residences, busy traffic, diverse street life, and nightly street concerts near the Grand Opera House, with emphasis on dignity and human nature.
A Washington man Loftus Parker is noted for a head over 32 inches around and a 21 inch girth. Doctors funded him for study after death while he outlived two surgeons who tested him. He is a religious, musical resident of the capital and helped test a Metropolitan Church chime, influencing its final tones.
An electric heating system used on French railways feeds a high resistance lead grate from a dynamo to warm railroad cars.
A French bee master, M. Teynac, demonstrates how carrier bees could relay messages. Bees loaded with tiny message strips travel from 2 to 2.5 miles, guided by sugar incentives, through boxes and glued flaps to a hive door, with training suggesting longer ranges may be possible.
Dr E C Maputher contends hair needs specific minerals including sulphur silicon and iron beyond milk and beef diets. He cites that milk alone fails and notes young mammals gain strength only with varied foods. He highlights oatmeal and brown bread as promoting hair growth, especially after constipation and poor capillary flow.
Chicago led the nation in using electric motors for shoeblacking machines with rapid polishing. New York followed, adopting electrically powered devices popular in barbershops. The machine uses three brushes on a rotating shaft to polish shoes quickly as the wearer’s foot sits on a sliding platform.
Rapid Transit for the Farmer showcases a new electric road in Maryland spanning 18 miles through unmapped farming country. It will carry passengers and freight with five ton capacity cars, bypassing muddy roads with motor trucks mounted on farm wagons to shuttle loads to markets and return goods when needed.
A government armory records a practical use of a smooth steel disc cutting technique. Ends of steel ramrods were tempered 25 years ago and proved too hard to cut, so small iron wheels four inches in diameter and one inch thick were used. They spun at 4000 rpm to melt or abrade material while drawing the ramrods, enabling a screw thread to be cut on the tempered ends.
Insurance data show a distinct rise in cattle deaths by lightning tied to wire fences on farms. Observers believe metallic strands act as conductors, heightening risk as cattle near fences when struck, prompting insurers to modify policy conditions.
An Oregon electric company near large sawmills secures a cheap fuel source by using sawdust directly from the mills. The lumber refuse is conveyed straight to the boilers without handling, providing economical energy for the plant.
The Glasgow firemaster uses a specially adapted portable telephone box with receiver transmitter and magneto bell. No battery is required and upon fire alarm one or more sets are attached to the nearest alarm box to establish communication with headquarters.
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