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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1890
Page
11
A poor musician’s son Carl discovers a hidden dwarf court in a forest near a broad meadow. The forest king offers treasure to keep him from the dwarfs but Carl claims the king’s ring and takes the dwarfs jewels as payment. Carl returns home wealthier than any in the land as the forest blooms again.
Carl discovers dwarfs in a scarred land ruled by swamp dwarfs. A golden crowned dwarf asks his help to reclaim a lost gold ring that controls trees and flowers, stolen by King Srelborst’s men. Carl agrees to venture to Igel horst with a gray squirrel as guide.
A dense, fragmented OCR page mixes poems, names, and stray phrases across topics. It mentions references to darkness and obscurity, cryptic lines about truth and divination, prize winners, and a boat motif tied to multiple crossing variants, all in a haphazard newspaper-archive style.
A survey party returning to Corpus Christi from Brownsville witnessed a dramatic fight between two large snakes. The 12 and 9 foot bull snakes, dark brown with yellow bellies, battled until the shooters halted them with bullets. Locals said such fights occur among larger snakes.
A writer notes Samoa values women highly with patroress as chief’s daughter representing the community at civil and religious events and greeting strangers. Elsewhere women are treated well but considered inferior to men, though details end with the author’s observation.
A sermon on the parable of the wedding feast from Matthew 22, urging self-examination. It explains the invitation as God’s call to a deeper religious life and the feast as heaven. The piece contrasts two refusals: careless, worldly focus and malicious rebellion, warning that all sin—of omission or commission—carries personal loss.
A compact 19th century kitchen lore piece on preparing beans. It warn of underdone beans as dangerous, and covers soaking times, soaking in salt water, and various methods for green and dried beans. It describes Boston baked beans, croquettes, and simple fried bean dishes with pork, salt meat, and seasonings.
The dinner crowd at Leamington heard the Speaker discuss three historic maces of the House of Commons. He described the fate of the original Charles I mace, the Maundy mace made after 1649, and a restoration era mace from 1660. He noted a Jamaica mace rumor and proposed obtaining a copy for the Commons’ relics.
Harper’s Weekly notes English managers and assistants in Tamarugal’s pampa live in well furnished houses with electricity and hospitality. Drawing rooms, dining rooms, and libraries reflect English refinement, with lawn tennis, novels, magazines, and visits to neighboring camps. Despite hard desert life, these exiles appear content aided by a favorable climate.
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