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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1889
Page
11
An old crone reveals a cure for a dying king a dragon tongue from the nine headed beast. The crippled hunchback defeats the dragon with help from the wise woman, brings back the tongue, and wins the princess after a magical apple wedding token makes him tall and handsome.
A Boston Courier note tells how a young Beeston boy, caught repeating the word fool, answers his father with a contrite apology. After his insult, he refrains and instead praises his father as a good fool, seeking amends.
Olive Weston recounts royal lives from England to Roumania, praising Carmen Sylva and Queen Victoria’s era while detailing court habits, etiquette, and splendor. She savors Roumanian queenly culture, cites Windsor guardians on coronation crowds, and contrasts lavish ceremonies with modern public appetite for royal pageantry.
A New York World report describes a cane smuggling diamonds scheme exposed by a customs detective. Hidden inside a hollow bamboo cane, a silver plate concealed a secret compartment where gems were stashed, eluding initial searches until the plate yielded. The smuggler kept smiling until discovery.
Correspondent from Paris notes the city’s streets as a public drawing room with 600 miles of roadways, 400000 shade trees, and a vast municipal effort. It details pavement types, annual street costs, snow clearance by 29 districts, and the extensive tree nursery and watering systems sustaining Parisian thoroughfares.
The New York Sun describes Oregon salmon fisheries with wheel contraptions on the Columbia river that scoop 225 salmon per minute. A wheel 40 feet across uses three wire buckets to lift fish into a tank, delivering about 75 salmon per bucket per minute for a total of 225.
A reflective piece on Henry Shaw of St Louis and the uplift from wealth to public good. It celebrates self made fortune, philanthropic legacies like libraries and parks, and the duty of wealth to aid the less fortunate. It contrasts rapid modern life with slower virtue and stewardship across cities.
A reflective piece questions what futures are worth sacrificing for power and fame. It cites Xerxes Caesar Napoleon and Esau to warn against bargaining away essential selfhood for wealth or status, and notes German writers examining intemperance and social ruin.
Lord Shaftesbury recalls a harsh East End tale where a clergyman opened a ragged school and preached in a notorious court to aid vice ridden families. The crowd’s rough leader explains they came to see what fair play looked like as the Sunday service unfolds.
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