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Pittsburgh Dispatch

Location

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Nov 12, 1891

Page

9

Mass Meeting in Homestead Over Gas Rate Hike

Citizens protest over 100 percent gas rate increase after a notice served later than announced. Over 1,000 attend Magdals Halle meeting urging old rates restored and pledging to stop using natural gas if needed. Local leaders Burgess Wilson ex, Burgess McLuckie, John F. Cox push paper to company. signatures sought across all wards to force action.

Homestead Magdals Halle Pee Ape Burgess Wilson Burgess McLuckie John F. Cox Cox

Printers Sign Two More Firms as Strike Expands

The striking printers added McMahon Bros on Fourth Avenue and the Audio Printing and Publishing Co on Forty fourth and Butler streets to their signers, reaching three offices. They plan to recruit pressmen from non union shops and sent six men to their homes yesterday.

McMahon Bros Fourth Avenue Forty-fourth Butler Streets

Murdock Kerr & Co sue unions over employee poaching

Murdock Kerr & Co filed a bill in equity against many Typographical and Pressmen’s Union members arguing a conspiracy to lure their employees away. The hearing is set for November 14 at 11 A M.

Murdock, Kerr & Co

New Steps of Science Exhibition in New York

The National Academy of Science met at Columbia College chapel with remarks on optics, a pendulum gravity apparatus for geodesy, and a proposal to use the free pendulum as a time standard. Prof. Hastings described lens magnification advances, while Prof. Mendenhall outlined a faster, more versatile pendulum system. A North American birds exhibit followed, and later talks covered Henry Draper Memorial photohic work.

New York National Academy of Science Columbia College Chapel Marsh George F. Barker Philadelphia Henry P. Bowditch Jamaica Plains Mass W. K. Brooks Baltimore George J. Brush New Haven Theodore N. Gill Washington James Hall Albay Clarence King New York City Samuel P. Langley Thomas ©. Mendenhall Albert A. Michaelson Worcester John W. Powell Charles H. Young Princeton Hastings Yale University Mendenhall United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Karen Pierce J. A. Allen Uni Atlantic Pacific Council Academy Congress Henry Draper Prof Pickering Harvard University

Unclear Ad Claims Effective Cough and Cold Prevention

Extracted text touts a preventative for coughs and colds as most effective for the season. It claims a cure for obstinate coughs and mentions a signature of Eisner & Mendelson Co. as a genuine importer in New York. Warns to beware of counterfeits.

Eisner & Mendelson Co New York United States F. Zoeller Sole M'fr Pittsburg

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