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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1889
Page
4
Arguments favoring bounties claim they will restore a robust merchant marine, deter foreign subsidies, and aid wartime readiness. Proponents cite Britain's heavy subsidies and the Pacific Mail case to show subsidies boost trade and vessel numbers, while American shipping declines highlight national pride and economic stakes.
The Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch issue shows postage and subscription rates for various plans including daily and weekly editions with Sunday and Sunday-inclusive options. It lists a one year, quarterly, monthly, and two year terms with per week charges and delivery details for the Pittsburgh market.
The Department of Public Safety official argues contrast with Pittsburg shows streets can bear conduit work. Narrow Pittsburg streets complicate underground installation. still public welfare justifies tearing up streets for conduits. Overhead wires pose greater obstruction and danger in narrow streets, underscoring need for an adequate conduit system.
Physicians in Bloomfield report streets' bad condition harming residents' health. The piece urges prompt municipal investigation and thorough remedy, stressing street protection and drainage as a civic duty alongside new street projects.
The piece argues that monetary stringency in New York would not help a syndicate seeking high premiums on Government bonds. It explains that tight money tends to lower premiums while easy money raises them, and suggests Treasury purchases would rise only with lower premiums. If stringency persisted, the Treasury could buy bonds at favorable terms, near par for 43s and below 125 for 4s.
Washington reports indicate Republican leaders largely favor abolishing sugar duties and including this in the President's message. Critics warn the policy would remove protection for domestic production and lift costs on consumers, while reducing surplus revenue.
The wheat growers convention held in St Louis last week opened with the President stating the purpose of the gathering. The address outlined goals for research, market access, and coordinated advocacy for farmers facing price and supply challenges.
The article argues against setting a fixed minimum price for wheat, noting only a centralized railroad millers’ syndicate could force such a rate. It warns that price controls would harm farmers and consumers, favor middlemen, and fail due to supply and demand dynamics and global competition.
A Chicago tale of a Board of Trade member using his infant to decide buy or sell is paralleled by a baby divination scheme in The Henrites. The piece notes such advice is cheaper than fortune tellers and rival market readers. It also covers New York’s fundraising drive for a $5 million guarantee fund, questions on Democratic identity, Supreme Court vacancy talk, and Electric Light Association views on overhead wires.
The piece notes the removal of Conrad the special agent who fought the Pacific coast land ring as a signal to office holders. It praises the new Pension Commissioner for his restraint and mocks a stamp reform replacing a green stamp with carmine on January 1. It jokes about a Walt Whiteman cigar and comments on English Tories dismissing Home Rule as impractical.
Anxiety to have Mr. Gladstone explain his plan stems from fear of lacking time to pick flaws. A Boston gang formed a conspiracy to draw John L. Sullivan into a row and shoot him, and they carried out the plot, warranting severe punishment for its members.
A collage of notes mentions Prince Hypfolie of Hayti ordering a 1900 carriage from New York. Prof. Lanestos’s prize tree from Charles Sumner. a Dover Delaware unveiling of General Cesar Rodney’s monument. Sir Charles William Sikes’s knighthood for postoffice savings banks. Mrs. Marup Howe Exxtorr resting in Scotch Plains. Julia Ward Howe’s Western journey. Senator Kexxa’s youth in the West Virginia senate. Pettigrew’s likely December rise. George W. Jones’s Iowa Senate bid. Kossuth nearing loss of Hungarian citizenship. large royalties for school textbooks noted with Yale’s Bliss Loomis wealth after probate.
In Watersbury Connecticut a trap door revealed a hidden six by eight foot room in the Botsford house once occupied by Frank Judson. The secret chamber, long tied to Tory sympathizers, connected to the cellar and uncovered years after Rev John R Marshall and Samuel Seabury's noted associations with the mansion.
A New York telegram reports a penny operated citywide directory device. Users drop a penny to read an address column on a box platform. the mechanism locks a nickel plated bar to reveal the page. Brooklyn drugstores already install many, with plans for elevated stations citywide.
A three year old Benjamin Harrison McKee in Indianapolis receives a letter addressed to him in President Harrison’s handwriting. He pretends to read the envelope and exclaims to go to Washington at once, catching his mother’s attention with the moment.
NOT ONE BIT A FAILURE. Mippie Trows, Con., October 27. Marriage not a failure for venerable Luther Smith of Cromwell or for widow Ruth M. Smith of the same place. Rev. F. M. North joined their two suitors last week, uniting Mr. Smith at age 84 in a new pledge while he is the third groom for Mrs. Smith who vows to obey.
In Charleston on October 27 memorial services were held in Centennary Methodist Episcopal Church for Mrs RB Hayes a leader in establishing women’s missions among the colored people of the South The endeavors of other colored Methodist Episcopal Churches joined in the services
The Boston Herald notes renewed forecasts of a harsh winter. A Democratic federal official nearing term end touts the cold outlook, aligning with prior predictions and stirring public concern.
Otto Adolph Arnold, member of the editorial staff of the Pittsburg Folkbiett, died on Saturday and was buried yesterday at St. Marys. The obituary notes a memorial from the Nations Verbund of German Journalists and funeral rites conducted by a local office branch in Ohio.
A critical essay reviews An Appeal to Pharaoh arguing for African emigration and abolition of the negro in the United States. It discusses Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris, Shown as authentic myths linked to Congo sources, and surveys works by Harry Stilwell Edwards and Justin McCarthy.
Reports from Europe suggest John Jacob Astor the elder may marry Cincinnati widow Mrs. Bowler. Bowler’s wealth and ties to railroad securities are noted while Astor’s age and status in New York society are highlighted.
A defense of the genuinely beautiful girls as the core of home life and personal virtue, contrasting with fuss over receipts for beauty. The author honors women who create a gentle, pure atmosphere and quietly contribute to domestic serenity.
A Chicago Times note sketches a public idea to erect a tower at tick and allow visitors to write their names. Each inscription would incur a 4 fine, with proceeds directed to a guarantee fund. The commentary cites a man fined 20fr for writing his name on the Eiffel Tower as precedent.
The article notes 800000 telephones in use in the United States and over 1.6 million miles of telegraph wire. It cites a quadruplex telegraph system, 400 miles of electric railway, 170000 miles of telephone wire, and 150 – 15 minutes for a San Francisco to Hong Kong telegraph. It mentions dangerous voltage and telegraphic travel by moving train.
Ex-Sheriff Young of Genesee County tried to beat summer records by trolling Conesus Lake. He battled a massive pickerel for over an hour before landing a four foot, 17 to 18 pound monster that earned the boss pickerel title of the year.
The text presents a lyrical meditation on autumn and winter, contrasting melancholy and anticipation. It references frost, snow, sleigh bells, Christmas cheer, and the Savior’s birth, exploring pleasure in seasonal cycles and the longing for harsher months. The speaker prefers calm wisdom over bravado and celebrates winter’s quiet beauty.
The DisPaTon issue is praised for breadth and gossip with telegraphic news on the Cronin case and Coughlin in murder amid a brisk wartime political scene. It highlights Ohio party battles, a Franklin schoolhouse explosion, Samoa rumors, and literary notes from Ebers to Downing with local Pittsburgh contributors and cultural notes.
Odd items include Orlando’s 29 foot saloon spacing rule a large gourd crop from Annie Lowe of Georgia, a Me elder’s Friday illness, a rising Christian Endeavor Society, a California–Virginia marriage tale, Webster’s spelling book revenue, a Marshall boy’s reform wish, Uncle Samuel Gardner’s farming vigor, and a sparrow visiting Macon city offices each morning.
In a Chicago Herald letter a scene unfolds aboard an elevator at a hotel. Mrs Bisie asserts her rights by ordering both down and up as a second woman attempts to override the first by demanding to go up. The clerk intercedes and directs Mrs Blaine up immediately.
A St Louis man complains that a letter mailed twelve years ago has only now reached him. The episode, among other recent observations, suggests Missouri residents are waking up and demanding faster action.
A Wheeling ex sheriff Handlan home pheasant window entry is captured. A Mercer county mother of Ischildran, eleven children, is described as 0 years old. Barnardtown infant awaits the man for marriage as oysters and wedlock loom. A Mauch Chunk juryman seeks marriage leave. Orrin D Slocum of Scranton hunts a partridge with pure black feathers, and Leopold Baermann of Clifton reports two minutes of game fight ending in a kill.
A garbled dialogue piece shows characters like Algy and Avek lamenting discouragements and discuss plans, with faint references to a photograph, a rich bride, and schemes to ghost a mystery. The text hints at social banter and stalled ambitions amid chaotic exchanges.
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