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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1891
Page
9
In a Hessenland tale a little girl Mechtild hides as Puck warns of robbers aiming to seize her father’s castle. The foxlike Brownie helps her escape by using a magic green cap and opening doors for the raiders to enter.
A Brownie named Puck befriends Mechtild, helps in the kitchen, and shares magical escapades with her, visiting servants and gardens during winter and spring. He sacrifices himself to save Gero from robbers, dying as the castle’s defense succeeds and Mechtild and Gero mourn their faithful friend.
A garland of puzzles and prose notes dated 1774 to 1776 blends numerical clues and double letter enigma lines. It catalogs social power lines, a city fire story, and a sentimental verse about affection, fate, and presence across years and fragments.
A fragmentary transcript records a man speaking about his arrival time in wo. He compares Isis horses to a feature of his eye and dismisses concerns over who has better ones. He mentions his plan to move around his large orchards and tend them, noting a man in charge of Shem who was Waet Bay and would call on him as far as his knowledge of trees allows.
A curious OCR like excerpt presents numbered headings 1770 transposition 1771 decapitation and 1772 square with scattered phrases about a cafe neighbor a taxi of idle words and a list of cryptic clues including a title borne by daughters of kings and an author on scripture The text resembles garbled poetry and puzzle fragments with stray proper nouns and partial sentences.
Prize winners are listed from Pittsburgh and Allegheny areas including Sir Guy, Mrs praetor, Willie Rogers and Petie Allegheny. Names indicate local prize recipients in September events across Pitsburg and surrounding communities.
A fragmentary note lists items such as Paradise Lost and 1761 Pete pate tape 1762 Tramp tram ram A ML. It includes stray phrases and letters like Black ino lit 5 ERBABER BIDALES ANAPEST SILEELIA RE with repeated entries and puzzles.
Puzzle notes for children titled Some Enigmatical Nuts offer brain teasers to entertain youngsters through the week. Signed by EK I. Caarnornx, Lewiston Maine, the item invites reader correspondence to the author’s address for Home Amusements.
fragmentary OCR shows onlookers and musings on thoughts like sunbeams and a spirit lyre. It references temptation, visions from skies, and a warning to guard the spirit entrance, naming a Mr Lee and an unknown gentleman type as a possible exemplar.
A Kansas City Times anecdote about a young wife from Vassar who mends her husband’s frock coat tails, mistakenly revealing “two awful rips” and prompting a humorous misunderstanding about the coat’s actual tears and pockets.
A vivid chronicle from Santiago of the Diez y echo celebrations starting mid September, detailing aristocratic demonstrations, military pages, public parades, and lavish balls. It contrasts lavish elite displays with commoners’ street scenes and describes customs, attire, and costs, including theater peeks in Valparaiso.
In Harper's Young People a whaler Judson fights a sea monster misidentified as a submarine. The anchor’s sharp fluke wounds the whale, which is towed alongside and killed by steam assistance. The event is described as one of the era’s remarkable catches with vivid detail of the ordeal and aftermath. The story shifts to a feature on vegetable ivory buttons and their South American origin near Colon, noting vast trade, production costs, and uses in fashion.
The article describes the labret worn by various tribes as bone or stone and notes its religious significance among some. An Eskimo illustration shows the labret in place, with a close view of the ornament. It then shifts to a feverish illness, warning that malaria and bilious symptoms can be treated with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Mrs. Gilligan, a Bridgeport widow, once famed for bravery against a lion, chased two men stealing 13 of her fowls from a Pequonnock Street hennery. She confronted the thieves in a camp, reclaimed the poultry, and informed police, who filed theft charges.
In this dramatic scene, Alonzo Lispenard hosts a ball for Kathleen Kennaird as news arrives that a firm member’s suicide has wiped out his vast fortune. Mrs. Kennaird’s scheming mother forces Kathleen to repulse Alonzo, while friends reveal loyalties shift with wealth. Alonzo confronts heartbreak and a looming separation as love strains under manipulation.
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