Prominent Five Messenger Boys Turned Titans of Industry
A Pittsburgh youth tale details five telegraph messengers Andrew Carnegie Henry Oliver Robert Pitcairn Major William Moreland and David McCargo. It follows Carnegie’s rise from clerk to railroad official and manager, Oliver’s swift climb in iron trades, Pitcairn’s long commitment to railroading, McCargo’s leadership of the Allegheny railroad, and Moreland’s memory of witnessing the first intercity message. The piece notes their early training learning Morse by sound and the impact of Thomas Scott and J Edgar Thomson on their paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Henry W. Oliver
Robert Pitcairn
William C. Moreland
David McCargo
Thomas A. Scott
Mr. Carnegie
Great Railroad
Scott
J. Edgar Thomson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Carnegie
Colonel Scott
Alleghany
Board of Control
Harry W. Oliver
Tom Scott
Oliver
Scotland
Alleghany Railroad
William P. Moreland
Pitcairn
McCargo
James D. Reid
David Brooks
Philadelphia
Jackson Duncan
Cincinnati
New York
New Orleans
Brooks
Reid
Crescent City
Quaker City
Harrisburg
Louisville
Metropolis
I Reckon I’ll Have to Run General Taylor Nomination Tale
A Detroit Free Press recounts how General Zachary Taylor, famed as Old Rough and Ready, faced a Baltimore nomination scene. Webster mocked him as a backwoods colonel, Webster’s opposition cost him a vice presidency bid, while Millard Fillmore later became president. A Kentucky friend urged Taylor to run, and he replied that he would, if the demand came from his old neighbors.
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Zachary Taylor
Buena Vista
Jefferson Davis
United States
Daniel Webster
Taylor
Millard Fillmore
New York
White House
Sherman
New Orleans
Baltimore
Detroit Free Press
Matrimonial Folly and a Body Deed Tale From Distant Lands
A Canton Ticino wedding rite ends with the bridegroom finding his bride after a comic tour of locked doors and decoys. In Massachusetts a Lowell suburb man seeks to reclaim a deed that granted his body to a surgeon for dissection and burial, a contract the courts say remains valid.
Instinct of the Messenger Pigeon Explained
The article discusses how messenger pigeons return home over long distances, noting competing theories from intelligence and sharp vision to instinct. It frames the phenomenon as a natural mystery comparable to the annual return of salmon to its original stream after years away.
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Denver
Cigars a Foot Long Among Philippine Islanders
The Boston Globe notes that the longest cigars smoked by the better class of Philippine Islanders, especially in Luzon, are a foot long and thick. Smoking is common across classes ages and sexes, and respectable islanders are seen puffing on such cigars in public.
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Luzon
Boston Globe
One Thing That Kills by Ram's Horn Quote
A brief aphorism notes laziness as the true killer of many lives, while doctors often cloak the fault with a more respectable label. The remark adds a wry, cautionary tone from Ram's Horn.
Pretty Albert Hope in Diary of Absinthe and Swindling
Albert Hope a Memphis jail inmate awaiting transfer to the Tennessee penitentiary for obtaining money on a worthless draft. The New Orleans heir turned debonair swindler spent inheritance, moved to New York, and drew acclaim from women and publisher Mrs. Leslie while borrowing from many, then arrested in Philadelphia and confined in Memphis. A diary found among his belongings traces absinthe fueled escapades and a fixation on Tommy Russell, with Mrs. Leslie recounting the tale and noting Hope’s charm and notoriety among Memphians who visited him with flowers and dinners.
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Albert Hope
Memphis
Tennessee Penitentiary
Albert
New Orleans
New York
Tommy Russell
Lord Fauntleroy
Gerlach
Frank Leslie
Philadelphia
Criminal Court
Quixotic Matrimonial Ad Leads to License Frustration
A Pennsylvania farmer Delos Ferrer near Carbon, aged about fifty, advertised for a wife. An Indiana maiden responded, they met in Youngstown, Ohio, but license issues and her change of heart ended the match. Ferrer remains free to advertise again as he seeks a partner with a kind heart and a hired girl to help on his farm. Philadelphia’s new police chief Captain Robert J. Linden has been named superintendent of police. Linden, famed for detective work and wartime service, was praised by Pinkerton for courage, judgment, and leadership. He is not yet fifty.
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Marco Bozzaris
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Avery
Mr. Halleck
Marco Boz
Delos Ferrer
Delos
Carbon
Huntingdon
Ind
Ferrel
Youngstown
Indiana
Philadelphia
Robert J. Linden
United States
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Chi- R. J
Mollie Maguire
Pennsylvania
Pinkerton
Linden
Belvernon
B. J. Kenpat
Kendall
A. Curl
Germantown
de. B. J. Kendall Co
Enosburgh Falls
Eugene Dewitt
B. J. Rendall CO
Vermont
Tionesta Valley Railroad Timetable 1890 1891 changes
ABLE timetable in effect May 11 1991 lists southward and northward trains with departures from Garfield Tiona Sheffield Barnes Brookston and Wolf Run and arrivals at Sheffield Junction Garfield and Wolf Run. connections at Sheffield with P B and W R and P E R R tickets sold from Ridgway to Erie. Freight services noted at Vanderarift and Dunham's Mill.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
P. & E. Division
Warren
Sheffield
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Pullman
Philadelpia
Sunbury
Lancaster
Baltimore
Washington
Pollman
Eric
Williamsport
tTrain
Kane
Erie
Inter
Baltimo'e
Renovo
Woo
En's Pass
Algoner
Junction
Tewsbur
Fentours
Ackley
Russell
Forth Werte
I Irvine
Toungsvill
Pittsfield
Garland
Torpedo
Je Newton
Grand Valle
Setkir
East Titusville
Titusville
Pat P
Garfield
Tiana
Shefield
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
Lves
Wolf Run
Tiona
Shefield Junction
P. mi
Rookston
HorAll
Jerry Crary
Arren and Farnswort
Narrow Gaage
Vandersrift and Dunham's Mills
Ridgway
Vanderarift
Garfeld
Dunham’s Mill
Old
Moving into New Warehouse Expansive Four Story Building
The facility measures 86 by 120 feet and spans four stories with a basement packed with sewer pipe bricks nails tools and raw materials. The first floor holds 125 tons of iron and steel plus wire nails rope belting tools and hardware. The second floor features plows seeds drills mowing machines and farm implements along with paints and glazing supplies. The third floor houses a 10500 square foot shop with about thirty workers, offering plumbing steam heating gas fitting and all sheet metal work. The main stores stock hardware furnishings axes belting lubricants and agricultural supplies plus eight state shipments and extensive line of popular tools at competitive prices.
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Syracuse Wrought Steel
Syracuse Oliver
Gowanda
Gale
Pickett
Kassons
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Meese
Moreland
Retais
Canton of
Ticino
Benedict
Swiss Republic
Massachusetts
Lowell
Great Falls
N. H
South America
Hartford Courant
Mars
Leslie
Williamson
Alberc
Market Street
Philad
Lily
Siegfried & Co
Califor
Fried & CO
Els
Fuaver Hayfever
ELY Brothers
Warren St
P. O
T. A. Slocum
M. O
Pearl &T
Boston
Chicago
ST. Paul
ST. Louie
F. H. Garfield
Jamestown
N.Y
H. Wallace
Oil City
Elvet
Tims
Warne
Kinzua
Bradfiord
Salamanca
Bolean
Ius
Leffard
Bell
Sup’s
J. A Fellows
Gen’l Pass’r
Geeral
Exchange St
Buffalo
N.w
Yepot Corner High
Beech Streets
C. A. Ketch
William Sparks
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Wood
SOUTH
P.M
Pehlman Brothers
Wat Dbusion
Winslow, Rand & Watson
Goodrich & Feihiwn
Tslow, Rand & Watson
New York City
Warren Ledger
Roquefort
Goodrich & Feldman
Holmes & Coutts
Acme Oil CO
Akron
Ohio
Goodrich & Fehlman
F. Schumacher Milling CG
Fehlman Brothers
Kopf & Henry
Warren, PA
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