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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1887
Page
2
The excerpt chronicles Minneapolis bound trains via Chicago day express with callouts to Ashland and Duluth, plus city offices and political chatter. It notes labor activity, a Knights of Labor assembly in Fergus Falls, rail pass debates, and industry mentions. It closes with local editorials on manufacturing growth and city investment.
Minnesota confronts Independence Day with a high license law slated to take effect days before the holiday. DeLay Wood warns the measure may dull patriotism by raising liquor prices and stirring reformist zeal, while related notes discuss gopher and blackbird bounty payment, game wardens, and a social jape involving Representative Flynn.
Two men discuss rheumatism and blood diseases. One on crutches shares long typhoid and malaria illness, mercurial treatment damage, iodide poisoning, and weak health. The other rebuts mineral medicines and touts Swift's Specific as a purely vegetable cure from Georgia roots, claiming it rebuilt health and offered a free treatise from Atlanta.
A fragmented historical page mixed with an advertisement for Boschee German Syrup promises relief from consumption and lung illnesses. It mentions “Sample bottles” at 19 cents and 80,000 dozen bottles sold, plus a Minneapolis election next Tuesday. Hancock’s courtship story unfolds with a St Louis merchant family setting, ending in an engagement and marriage.
The piece surveys past Secretaries of the Treasury, noting many were educated or scholarly before appointment. It highlights Hamilton as a standout without college, cites Yale graduate Oliver Wolcott, Harvard and Dartmouth linkages, Gallatin’s Geneva degree and Harvard tutoring, and references others like Levis Woodbury and Salmon Chase. It also touches on astronomy in Pittsburgh, Lane Place Summer School moving to Oswego, and a sermon on charity.
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