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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1889
Page
6
The article surveys missing persons across history from England and the United States, noting how many vanish without a trace. It cites famous cases like Rev Speke, Marie Roget, and various Vanished individuals connected to Harper’s and Oxford, highlighting puzzling patterns and sensational intrigue.
The only street clock on Smithfield street stands in front of M. G. Cohen’s reestablished shop at 533 Smithfield. The store offers a fresh stock of diamonds watches clocks jewelry silverware stickpins canes umbrellas bronzes and novelties with goods kept for customers until called for.
Happenings from the Everett Piano Club show Or H Siedle of the Third National Bank of Pittsburg winning a grand piano with card No 214 He recently became a groom and uses the instrument to furnish his East End home His status as first tenor of the Haydn Quartet marks him as a notable local musician The club delivers one piano weekly for 1 monthly payment with options for larger payments The manager Alex Ross at 187 Federal St Allegheny invites more members to join and view pianos at the music house
Reduced price lace curtains offered in bundles of odd patterns up to 650 five pairs per lot. Display window and first floor showings with lace curtains from 65 cents upward. Edward Groetzinger advertises at 627 and 629 Penn Avenue and Walter in 700 Street handles English suitings and Scotch tweeds for import value.
A dispatch notes interwoven trends in New York society as Anglomania spreads among actresses and nursery staff. It describes Mrs Kendal as a spark, compares nursery maids and governesses, details accents, pay scales, and the social ladder, and chronicles costly private schools, fashion, and social rituals from private tutors to a dog christening party.
Workmen fit trusses at 909 Penn Avenue near Ninth Street in Pittsburg Pennsylvania, with satisfaction guaranteed.
Pittsburg firm offers hernia trusses and artificial limbs. No. 909 Penn Avenue near Ninth Street advertises models suited for difficult rupture cases with a perfect fit, catering to medical aids and orthopedic needs.
Bradford piano seven octaves square priced at 100 dollars Von Minden piano seven hundred forty four octaves priced at 125 Gravestine and Fuller piano seven hundred thirty four octaves priced at 110 New upright piano six fourteen octaves priced at 175 New organ five octaves priced at 500 New organ six octaves priced at 510 Mellor and Hoene organ seven octaves priced at 520 Pittsburg dealers face high expenses making 25 percent undercut impossible. Ecuers McMuRRay Co at 123 Sandunky Street Allegheny Pa (Telephone Building).
Ready for the holidays. Pay a down amount and goods will be laid away until the holidays at Hauch's jewelry store 295 Fifth Ave. Special sale featuring plush woolen items and popular goods at low prices.
A mixed review of electric fire engine potential and crystal vision studies. The article notes petroleum use in industry and heating, experiments in vision phenomena, and safety concerns with solder flux and canned foods. It discusses mica as a lubricant, rabbit drives in California, and cold exposure as disease prevention. It closes with a forecast of portable electric fire engines for mills and factories.
Prof Wright argues Long Island rests on glacial layers and traces moraines stretching to the advance of a vast ice field. The talk closes with a tiny stone god unearthed by a Boise City sand pump from 320 feet deep, deemed possibly the oldest human artifact and linked to ante diluvian man.
A brisk note describes photography in Russia using a lightproof carrier system with sealed bags to transport negatives to a developer. It mentions a new Manaster aluminum process advancing in France, featuring three stages: desaturation, reduction, and liquification, yielding near pure aluminum.
The article warns navigators to use oil to cushion ships against heavy seas and prevent damage. It cites oil in lifting boats, sea anchors, crossing rollers, and guiding lifeboats, stressing thick mineral oils and animal or fish oils as effective options.
Robert Waring, a wealthy ex-banker of Newport, reluctantly forgives his son Robert and Miss Belle Metcalf after discovering the couple wed in Hamilton, Ohio while Waring himself had secretly married a widow two months earlier. The elder man plans to disinherit if the match persisted, but decides to forgive.
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