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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1890
Page
2
A long interview discusses universal power, cheaper electricity, and future wonders. It covers disputes over discovery versus invention, safer wiring, phonographs, telegraphs, and flying machines, plus Edison’s daily routine and family.
The narrator recalls Jack Hartley who plans to marry an heiress, noting his charm and debts. She once advised marriage as a career, doubting his honesty in other fields but praising his love-making. A cold street meeting in New Jersey reveals Jack wearing a snug overcoat on a chilly day.
A narrator recalls Jack, a penniless suitor who plans to woo heiress Myrtie Leigh for money. He fakes wealth with borrowed clothes and a private plan, only to fall truly in love, while plotting a grand future that hinges on a rich inheritance.
A lengthy critique argues that lying permeates society across genders and professions, from social courtesies and courtship to medicine, law, and politics. It contrasts French openness with American hypocrisy and notes recent legal actions against political slander as steps toward honesty.
Ward McAllister has taken Mayor Grant under aristocratic protection and, with friends and fine shotguns, they travel to the Chesapeake Bay region to shoot ducks on a preserve. The Mayor’s social rise under McAllister’s influence suggests he may appear at the Patriarchs' ball next winter.
New York Press reports ex Governor Stone of Iowa recounting Grant politics after Appomattox. Grant sourced Whig roots from Henry Clay and voted for Buchanan in 1856. He later voted in St Louis for Chauncey L Filley for Mayor and in Illinois for General John M Palmer for Governor, outlining his limited voting record to 1880.
George Francis Train returns from a world tour and promotes Tacoma as a future Pacific coast metropolis. The New York Press notes his long-ago forecasts about Tacoma resembling a growing, thriving center, though not yet as large as San Francisco. Train appears subdued but confident in his lobby appearances at the Continental Hotel.
A recently arrived Boston rector left his cheap printed card at a parishioner’s house and a neatly engraved card at another. The houses lay in unfashionable and fashionable quarters. The cousins who hosted compared the cards and the rector now finds himself growing in disfavor with some parishioners.
A dramatic description from the Pilot explains a 75 ton conglomerate rock boulder monolith at Holyhood Cemetery Brookline will serve as the tomb for John Boyle O Reilly. The 15 foot high stone stands on a crest, with a single tablet. no other marker will be allowed.
In this New York report from November 14, Dr. Wrianfam A. New cautions that tobacco, especially cigars, harms digestion and the heart. He notes that moderation still risks neuralgia optic inflammation and weakened heart function, urging parental guidance to curb youth use.
A New York Press critique argues that US soldiers are better housed fed and paid than any others, noting improvements since prior years. It compares conditions to Austrian regiments and asserts prompt punishment for injustices in the army and public institutions.
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