The Dispatch office details in Pittsburg New York ad
The fragment lists the Dispatch office at corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets Pittsburg with publishing house floors at Diamond Street and advertising rooms in New York. It notes foreign and home advertisers welcome and mentions Brentano's in New York and Opera in Paris as sale points.
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Pittsburg
Smithfield
Diamond Streets
Diamond Street
Tasteen
Room NT
Bdilding
New York
Dispatch
Disatch
Dispatch 4
Brentano's
Union Square
T Ave de Opera
Paris
France
Olfam i
Ingalls Investments under Scrutiny in 1890 Bank Case
The Pittsburgh Dispatch reports on Abilene Kansas bank suspensions and Senator Ingalls. It notes a $19,000 mortgage-backed note discount at 18 percent, attributed to Ingalls, and questions public figures’ motives and adequacy of salaries. The piece argues high rates and private gains challenge public trust while detailing the senator’s Kansas roles and private lending.
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Abilene
Kansas
John J. Ingalls
Ingalls
Tuckey
Kansas Investment and Mortgage Company
What the IH Arrests Mean
The piece argues that every arrest of Irish Nationalists pushes Ireland toward Home Rule and frames these actions as a politically driven campaign of violence planned by Secretary Balfour to provoke nationalist retaliation. It condemns Tory policy amid approaching famine in Tipperary and asserts broad recognition of Tory motives.
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Ireland
Great Britain
Balfour
Tipperary
A Municipal Ideal for Chicago’s Vast City Limits
The Tribune describes a Chicago stretched to 24 miles north to south and 101 1/2 miles wide along 87th street, including Braddock McKeesport Verona Sewickley and Mansfield in a single community. A city along the Ohio Allegheny and Monongahela rivers could exceed 400000 population and reach near half a million with expansive annexation, though suburban tax fears and distrust of city government would provoke strong protests.
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Chicago
The
Tribune
Ohio
Allegheny
Monongahela
Braddock
McKeesport
Verona
Sewickley
Mansfield
Pittsburg
Wilmerding
Homestead
Sharpshoro
Raiway
Ideal united city would boost growth and homes across districts
The author argues that a large unified city governed by efficient, honest administration could accelerate development. By connecting outlying boroughs with boulevards and cable or electric roads, commute times shrink and suburban homes with open land become affordable. A single municipality could elevate population and attractiveness to rival major cities.
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McKeesport
Sewickley
Ohio
Chartiers
Campaign Climax Nears In Emery Debate At Bradford
The Pennsylvania campaign pivots on ex-Senator Emery’s Friday Brad ford appearance to prove charges against Candidate Delamater of corrupt methods and pay-for-service ties to the Standard of Company while serving in Harrisburg. Outcome will tilt November votes as both sides cite proof or denial in a turning point for public judgment.
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Pennsylvania
Emery
Bradford
Delamater
Harrisburg
Northside GOP Endorses Neeb for Senator Nominee
The Republican County Committee formally endorsed John Neeb as the senatorial candidate yesterday. Brother Rutan remains active, while Magee faces no censure as the committee contemplates a broader plan to whip the old guard into line.
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Republican County Committee
John Neeb
Rutan
Magee
Reagan Opposed Commission Not Its Origin
The article corrects a Sun misstatement about the Interstate Commerce Commission. It notes Reagan opposed a commission during debate, while Congress moved to create it via the Cullom bill and conference compromise. Rail magnates and corporate organs backed the commission, praising the final law and denouncing the Reagan approach.
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New York Sun
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Reagan
American Congress
Sun
Congress
House
Senate
Conference
Commission
United States
The
Corporate Views On Commission Reforms And Rates
The passage attacks corporate backing for a federal commission and its proposed amendments to the act creating it. It notes the commission’s slow start, predicts possible appeals to courts over Western rate decisions, and argues that corporate supporters should accept the remedies they promoted without complaint.
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Commission
Conviction Likely for National Capital Savings Fraud
The jury, under Judge White, would almost certainly find the agents of the National Capital Savings and Loan Association guilty. The court condemns the fraud as stupendously deceitful and notes that widows and laborers were the primary victims, while legitimate savings and home-ownership schemes are praised as laudable. The verdict is expected to deter future swindling in such schemes.
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White
National Capital Savings and Loan Association
Kansas and her future and the state of agriculture
A Dispatch reader’s gloomy letter on Kansas depicts widespread mortgage foreclosures and population loss contributing to an agricultural low mood. The piece argues many factors explain the downturn, critiques corporate loan practices and high interest rates, and contends Kansas will not become a desert despite hardships, given its history of massive food production.
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Kansas
Dispatch
West
Farmers’ Alliance
Court halts sale of Stewart farm. Poor Farm sale affirmed
Judge Ewing declared the Stewart farm purchase illegal while approving the sale of the Poor Farm as proper. The opinion notes Councils exceeded powers by seeking a site outside the county, and that locating a suitable Poor Farm within the county should be straightforward. The piece also comments on tariff talk and political editorial trends of the time.
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Stewart
Westmoreland
Ewing
Hair splitter and political squabbles at the House
The piece criticizes Speaker Reed's rules and figures the Marquis of Queensberry’s code in play. It notes Republican reactions in New England to the Federal elections bill and questions the timing of a possible extra session. W H Crane is noted for a £50,000 income as "The Senator," mocked as insufficient for real senators.
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New York
Theron
Reed
Marquis of Queensberry
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New York Sun
Harrison
New England
Sun
W. H. Crane
German proclamation over religion travel and transport shields slave trade
The passage criticizes a German proclamation to Arabs at Bagamoyo citing religious freedom and travel terms that protect the slave trade, arguing the German African policy departs from civilized behavior and exposes brutality of colonization.
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Germany
Bagamoyo
The House Deadlock Stemming From Unlocked Doors
From Speaker Reed's view the House faces a floor deadlock only because it lacks a door deadlock. The remark highlights political gridlock tied to procedural access and is framed as a pointed critique of legislative obstruction.
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Reed
Reform fervor in New York papers on party tickets
The industry press in New York rallies for strict party nominations for municipal tickets and opposes non partisan reform candidates, showing strong reform sentiment but resistance to enforcement.
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New York
Prominent Figures and Political Shifts Across Nations
Sir Edward Guinness to receive a peerage for his celebrated ale. Colowen A. L. Newman resigns as president of the National Bank of the Commonwealth after nine years. General Htsteed returns to politics after a year in business. Empress Frederick’s English income stands at £350,000 annually from taxpayers’ support. General S. E. Merwir leads Connecticut GOP as Yale National Bank president. George Washington of Newport descends from Sameel. he chairs Blue Grass Constitutional Convention. Isabel Scott and Douglas Grant announce their London engagement. Ky. figures Cassius M. Clay Jr. and the Clay lineage noted. Ismail Pasha remains confined to residence on the Bosphorus awaiting waters at Carlsbad obstacle.
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Epward Guinness
Dublin
CoLowen A. L. Newman
National Bank of the Commonwealth
Boston
Htsteed
Frederick
5. E. Merwir
New Haven
Connecticut
Yale National Bank
George Washington
Newport
Sameel
George
London
Isabel Scott
Scott
Richmond
Danvislea
Douglas Grant
Beach Grant
New York
Kiye Humbert
Victor Emanuel
Florence
Baltimore
Fuller
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher
Cassius Marchelius Clay, Jr
Henry Clay
Bourbon County
Yale
Clay
Cassius M. Clay
Ismmaid Pasha
Bosphorus
Carlsbad
Terrible Bull Fight Nearly Fatal Attack on Farm Youth
Herbert Glatfelter, 18, was attacked by a vicious bull on a Camp Hill area farm. He was placing a neck chain when gored and trampled, escaped into a trough, then grabbed a fork and struck the bull, wounding himself but surviving. He reached help after fighting the animal for about 100 feet. He is seriously hurt but expected to recover.
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Idave
Herbert Glatfelter
Camp Hill
Glatfelter
Asalist
Bitten by a Cat Fears Poison Reach Pasteur Institute
John P. Stockton Jr., son of New Jersey's Attorney General, was bitten by a pet cat in Plainfield. The severe wound prompted immediate Pasteur treatment after a local dressing and a trip to New York. The cat exhibited strange behavior, causing fright to a servant and triggering the incident.
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Plainfield, N.J
John P. Stockton, Jr
New Jersey
Mr. Stockton
Kansas Senator Fails To Match Ingalls Break at Pittsburg
The Kansas junior senator has yet to make a bold move like Ingalls did in Pittsburgh for the Quay ticket in Pennsylvania. The Kansas City Star notes Ingalls’ reputed brilliance while contrasting the current stance with that dramatic past gesture.
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Kansas City Star
Ingalls
Plumb
Kansas
Pittsburg
Quay
Pennsylvania
This literary feller by UAELYLE SMITH
A verse cartoon lampoons a literary seller living in an aesthetic hut with Byronic hair blue eyes and a dream to woo the Muse. It mocks his claim to subdue science and his indecisive trade as parrots of Oscar Wilde and Swinburne. The piece plays on ego and artistic vanity.
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the Dispatch
Boyer
A. C. Swinburne
Oscar
New York’s 25000 Schoolless Children Highlight Urban Crisis
A staff correspondent laments New York City’s failure to educate 25 000 school age children due to overcrowded public schools. He argues neglect by prolonging poverty, notes dreadful facilities, and warns of future social costs including asylums and crime. The piece weaves in tales from Electric Mystery incidents and memories of Jim McDermott.
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New York
New York City
Congress
Bowery
Modern New York Scene and Hamilton Estate Legal Battle
A narrator describes a rain soaked Broadway street scene with sleeping figures and a sobering police remark. The piece then previews the Robert Ray Hamilton Eva Steele case, noting a $15,000 annual stake and expected courtroom drama over prior marriage and child parentage, pitting aristocrats against clever women.
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Robert Ray Hamillton
New York
Robert Ray Hamilton
Eva Steele
Hamiltons
Charles T. Murray
Exposition Poll Offers Daily Ballots On Civic Topics
The Exposition enters its fourth week tomorrow with The DispatcH Poll Book inviting visitors to vote on topics each day. Monday asks if the Legislature should amend the Five Laws, Tuesday proposes direct presidential voting, and Wednesday questions liquor license oversight by a commission. Voting occurs at Drs Patch Headquarters in the Exhibition Building.
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Disparch
Toe DispPaTcu
The
United States
Drs- Patch
Brunswick-Balke-Vollender Billiard Company
NEW TAIL FOR HIS COW
Altoona man attempts to repair a cow’s disfiguring tail injury with a home tail graft. He uses a slaughterhouse tail and dove tail joints but a horsefly disrupts the repair, causing the prosthetic to detach and become the subject of light ridicule among coworkers.
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Altoona
FIGS AND THISTLES Ram’s Horn sermon excerpt analysis
A devotional fragment from the Indianapolis Ram's Horn sermon collection reflects on living as God intends, faith through action, and reliance on scriptural truth rather than feelings. It critiques striving for salvation by works and urges prayerful lived obedience.
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Indianapolis
Deaths of a day Samuel Murrell aged oldest Mason in Kentucky
Bowling Green Ky September 2 Samuel Murrell died yesterday afternoon at his grandson Samuel Youngs home. Born in 1792 in Lincoln County he moved to Barren County near Glasgow. He joined Alien ge No 2% in Glasgow and earned Master Mason in 1416. He was the oldest Mason in Kentucky and among the world’s oldest. A War of 1812 veteran he recently received a pension. Also noted: George A Haack ex Commissioner Cumberland County died at Mechanicsburg from a paralytic stroke after an accident.
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Bowling Green
Samuel Murrell
Kentucky
Samuel Young
Mr. Murrell
Lincoln County
Barren County
Glasgow
Giaspe
Young Murrell
George A. Haack
CanListe
Cumberland County
Mechanicsburg
Frank Evans
Ottawa
Biddeford
Wal Alfred
Mulions
Mr. Walker
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Rex
Sterling
Conn
Fas Barbour
Detroit
Norristown
Elizabeth Kolb
Charles McDonald
New York
Gananogne
Ont
Elizabeth Kennedy
St. Louis
Mra Kennedy
Oglethorpe
The Topical Talker and the Reformed Burglar
A burglar trapped in a cell questions a young clergyman about who helped him most. The talk turns to careless acts inviting crime, a wardens’ remark, and the burglar who claims reform after a jail sentence. The cleric clarifies his meaning as the inmate explains his past misdeeds and spiritual aid.
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Jimmy
Jack Rivers
Lallus
Tim Allen and the Lost Boiler Oil Boom Folly
Tim Allen, an independent oil producer, faced mounting writs and a looming debt crisis as he hoped a well at the Hundred Foot would rescue him. A creditor reportedly seized the boiler from the derrick site, leaving only the rig and tools behind, a loss that sparked Tim's vented fury and rumors of harsher times.
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TM Allen
Tim
Tim No
Tim Allen
Yale Sympathiser Guests With Bachelor Buttons Gaffe
A Yale supporter in New York for an intercollegiate contest with Harvard sent a porter to buy blue Bachelor’s Buttons. The porter returned with patent metal buttons after stores claimed they were out of the real flowers. The Yale man did not wear the metal buttons, signaling the mix up and amusement at the hotel.
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New York
Harvard
Yale
Williamston
Mich
Paris
Charles Ector
Purbow
Nova Sco
Habersham Park
Gal
Lookout Sign Lets Railroad Escape Damages
In a Buckeye town trial a horse owner sued a railroad after a horse strayed onto tracks and was killed by a freight train. The judge ruled for the railroad, citing a roadside sign that warned “Look out for the locomotive,” stating if the horse could not read it, the railroad could not be held responsible.
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Buckeye
Railroad
Farmer Boscom
Hee Praurx Jomns
A Limit to Roman Credulity
Jacob Hill a wealthy Pennsylvania Spiritualist funded a medium to procure a golden robe for his deceased wife but balked when asked for a large accommodation loan. The episode highlights a limit to credulity even among the rich and devout.
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Boston Globe
Jacob Hill
Pennsylvania
President Visits Johnstown Flood Aftermath
The Chicago Herald notes the President toured Johnstown to view flood effects. It suggests his visit provides a glimpse of the broader disaster that could unfold in November as warnings rise about expected flooding and damage.
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Chicago Herald
Johnstown
Joined in Wedlock. Mourxe to wed son of Erastus Wiman
Special telegram from the Diepatoe bureau reports Miss Dure to be joined in wedlock with the son of Erastus Wiman in this city, with the ceremony scheduled for October.
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Fepecial Telegham
Miss Dure
Erastus Wiman
FOVELTIES IN JEWELRY AND ORNAMENTAL WATCHES
A Victorian catalog style overview lists a queen chain pendant in variegated gold, a small cylindrical Chinese lantern motif, an oxidized silver watch case with a gold monogram, and a vogue for miniature portraits on ivory as watch charms. It notes whimsical items like a shoelace shaped watch chain, a gold buttoner bar, a silver rat trap paper clip, a roman gold bracelet revived for fashion, a padlock jewelry piece with gems around the keyhole, a bonbon box shaped as a seventeenth century snuff box, and diamond lace pins with two snakes guarding a pearl.
Curious Condensations From A Stormy World
A jumble of brief items from Maine and beyond reports weather woes at county fairs, animals in peril, odd natural curiosities, and odd legal or social notes. Entries mention a horse killed in a pond in Ocala Florida, a chicken rescue in Georgia, naturalization tests, and local quirks across Pennsylvania Indiana and Massachusetts with scattered mentions of newspapers and inspections.
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Ocala
Fla
Nortown
Orlando
Oakland
Wolf Lake
Midh
Georgia State Apital
Bedford
Gazetts
United States
Erd
Washington Dill
Funny Men’s Fancies in a Humorous Scrapbook
A collage of puns and quips centered on jokes about partners, soap, Adam and Eve, a joke about calories and glucose, a $5 bill, a San Francisco road pun, and a cryptic quip about royalty. The piece quotes humorists like Henry Herbert Harknase and uses playful wordplay to mock social foibles and language.
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