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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1891
Page
4
A fragmented OCR entry lists weekly and yearly postage rates for dated newspapers in Pittsburgh. It references Sunday editions, delivery by carriers, and varying terms like One Month and One Year. The legible items show rates in cents per week and year durations, with partial dates and misread words.
A Mail Pouch discussion argues pro and con on issuing bonds for street improvements. It weighs immediate large levies against spreading payments over years with interest. The piece asserts citizens should decide if they prefer one or two big charges or extended payments funded by bond investments.
The article weighs two major canal schemes. One would create a coastwise waterway from Boston through New York toward Chesapeake Bay and Florida, with high costs and contested strategic value. The other, urged by Detroit delegates, focuses on deepening Great Lakes routes including the Saint Marys and Detroit rivers to 21 feet, with estimated costs around 4.56 million dollars.
The speaker argues against depth limits that favor only individual lakes and urges a standard depth across main waterways. Building a deep lake to sea canal is impractical. a 15 to 16 foot depth is more feasible for all linking canals. The Detroit convention promotes an American canal to the seaboard as part of a coordinated system.
A public analysis argues that 12 months of tariff data, excluding six months of sugar duties, reveal a rise in free imports and a fall in dutiable imports. It claims the act expanded foreign commerce and domestic production, challenging free trade views and inviting public judgment on the statistics.
A Pittsburg dispatch from a New York Post telegram says some insiders fear a fight by iron and steel manufacturers to wipe out the Amalgamated Association next year. Industry leaders, however, expect a stable wage scale reached by annual negotiation with the union and deny any serious plan to strike or disrupt production.
The Ber liner patent hung in the Patent Office for years via interference claims. Officials reportedly allowed a fifteen year extra monopoly, with rumors of a sixteen year reserve. Critics say such maneuvers extend patent life beyond statutory goals, undermining public interest and inviting challenge on prior work and European patents.
The article argues that government officers and the patent office, by prolonging a monopoly, defeat the purpose of patent laws which aim to stimulate invention. It condemns the system as aiding a wealthy corporation and calls for radical reform to remove such incongruities and contradictions.
The Platt and Fassett team failed to apply the tiger bone tonic theory in the recent New York election due to their inability to obtain tiger bones, reflecting a clash between superstition and practical politics.
Reports describe a heated Alabama gubernatorial contest with two candidates addressing meetings at Blue Creek mines. Each led a dance and claimed romantic gestures toward the boss miner's wife, one claiming once and the other twice. The boss miner himself is weary, raising questions about the campaign's vigorous personal tactics.
The text argues that Minister Ryan should work from Mexico to negotiate reciprocity with Mexico, while Chicago’s barley syndicate buys 250000 acres in North Dakota to grow malt barley, a consequence of the McKinley tariff hike. It warns that corporate favoritism and tariff policy foster large estates and feudal-style control.
A Chicago note criticizes Mr. Donnelly and press fakery while Brazil reports a southern revolt and republic fatigue. The Illinois horse doctors bar giving press information, sparking debate on veterinary influence and livestock health. Pennsylvania politicians ponder mugwump partisanship and the Eighth Commandment.
The Deaver group passed a resolution opposing commodity status for silver, arguing it would hinder gains from government coinage. They overlook that free coinage would tie silver’s worth only to its metal value in coins. Ohio Democrats claim the new ballot law aided them, though Republicans attacked the Kangaroo ballot pre election.
Director GENERAL Davis of Chicago denies trying to influence the selection of the Secretary of the Awards Committee for the World's Fair. He adds that if he made the choice he would back Robert P. Porter, while the country urges him to maintain non interference.
A collection of brief items notes WIttrrep Laurier praised as the Blaine of Canada in Boston circles, Bishop Brooks backing Salvation Army parades, a German poet nicknamed a chain maker who smokes nonstop, Wade Hampton forebearer Bayne now destitute in D C, and critiques of Phoebe Conzins’s Twenty Years in Public Life. General Boorn enjoys New Zealand, Premier pushes emigration trial, Justice Freto praised for linguistic skill, Gladstone collars rumor, and Mres Antics Lowere.ow cited as top amateur photographer with sea coast scenes of Massachusetts for a new book.
The article recalls Clarendon’s history in Southey’s possession and extols the era’s bookish pride. It traces Puritan life in Duxbury and Plymouth, describing ministers’ pay in kind, wages of wampum and beaver, and the social order around the meeting house, sermons, weddings, and Sabbath enforcement.
The text recalls Puritan meeting houses with sunlight through unshaded windows and stern tithing men. Boys faced endurance tests, thrashed on horse-blocks, and sat in stern order while sermons stretched long. It contrasts grim discipline with satire on the old Sabbath and ends noting the past belongs to failures, while the present moves on.
James Whitcomb Riley toured Europe last summer and on the return voyage a mid ocean concert was organized in the ship saloon. Rev Myron Reed presided as Riley recited poems to amused voyagers including two Scotchmen who marveled at his varied talent and background.
The Alabama governor on a campaign tour in Blue Creek is greeted by large audiences including miners and "suffragans" as he kisses babies and receives a curtain lecture from his wife. The piece notes his energetic canvass and claims it may ease the long campaign while predicting few married men will run unless wives approve.
A premiere danseuse laments endless pretense and the grind of being ready for a rare chance. She recalls London stages, the lure of a starring role, and the strain of potential understudy opportunities amid Broadway's glare. She would trade half pay and delay for a real shot at glory.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes that English capitalists in the nitrate trade may have profited from the Chilean conflict by paying workers in depreciated paper money while selling for gold. It suggests they possibly instigated the rebellion to boost profits and later supported the Congressional side.
A retrospective on cloak fashions notes the rise of gold and silver beaded cloakings more than twenty years ago. Prices swung from high rates up to seven dollars per yard to later discounts as low as two to three dollars, reflecting manufacturers’ shifts in reputation and supply.
The report lists Mrs. Schley, mother of Captain W. S. Schley of the Baltimore, who died in Baltimore after weeks of illness. George Moselle, longtime Steubenville resident, died from heart disease, leaving a wife and five children. Dean James F. Brooks of Stamford Springs Conn. died after months of deteriorating health. The widow of Rev. Dr. Eleneser Brown, a Methodist leader, died in Baltimore at home aged years, noted for her church and temperance work. Peter Wilson died in Charlestown Massachusetts after naval service and long military career.
W P Read warns coal famine is severe across the Northwest amid Indiana strike. Manufacturers, railroads, and dealers plead for fuel as exports and supplies shrink. Ohio and Western Pa markets tighten while gas shortages push plants to switch to coal. Cincinnati and Chicago face dwindling stocks and low river transport.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes British statesmen warn reciprocity between Canada and the United States could bring annexation. It suggests Canadians appear to be preparing to accept that outcome.
A collage of editorials and comments from multiple papers on Ohio politics and national leadership. Mentions Foraker, McKinley, Sherman, Harrison, Blaine, and the Republican speakership race. Notes maps party strength, constitutional hopes, and Thanksgiving management by Governor Tillman.
A reader urges Americans to aid famine relief in Russia amid harvest plenty at home. The letter proposes state gifts of food, charitable societies like the Red Cross, and a national effort to send grain to the starving, urging action in His Name.
A letter to The Dispatch questions a 72 million bond issue and its impact on taxpayers and street paving contracts. The writer wonders why bonds are pressed now, given upcoming payments of six hundred thousand and one million four hundred thousand in successive years, and warns about legal challenges delaying funds.
A reader from Pittsburgh rues gallery nuisances at theaters. He condemns persistent peanut and candy sales by noisy youths wandering through the gallery with greasy baskets, demeaning shoes, and intrusive harassment of patrons. He argues this gallery behavior taints the evening for respectable attendees.
The Baltimore Sun notes that the Bell telephone monopoly could extend 15 more years due to patent interference between Berliner and Crawbaugh devices. The delay stems from Patent Office rulings and company actions after buying these inventors. The piece argues patent law creates monopolies and calls for new laws to curb excesses.
In a Moscow area inn parlor a relic ties to Jay Gould’s early days. R Gerebacher recalls buying Gould’s first bookcase and library after a sheriff sale in Gouldsboro. He paid 45 dollars as the books changed hands, and notes some volumes later gained value while others remain unsold.
A proposal urges a public program to provide immediate relief through an institution that would supply work for vagrants. It aims to empower the city police to clear streets, reduce idle populations, and create self supporting charitable employment agencies within the city.
A collection of eccentric notes covers women builders in Zululand, Savannah’s oldest theater, vast global territories, Tudor era apple prices, German imperial letters, telegraph lines, superstitions of barbers, New Zealand land prices, UK births and deaths, Fresno jail rumors, phosphorus by electricity, a tame rattlesnake guard, an owl in a courtroom, Argentina’s growth, Portuguese India slavery, Kurdish mingling myths, Levy county bones, California fruit turning points, laughing gas effects, a comptometer in Washington, Bellboys versus professionals, Paris funeral monopolies, a starving Canadian girl, diamond sex traits, and U.S. railroading scale and cost.
A mosaic of clipped lines and mock dialogues features playful wordplay, stray names, and garbled phrases. It blends fictional exchanges with scattered references to poets, a basilisk satire, and oddball observational fragments from various voices.
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