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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1897
Page
3
A letter laments Mrs Gadley’s charm and youth while noting a lodge meeting tonight. A side line reports China imported 13,000,000 square feet of lumber last year, mostly from Oregon and Washington.
The piece argues reforms take steady regular effort to last and cites healthful changes as gradual. It touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia, No-To-Bac to quit tobacco, Cascarets for constipation, and a Cincinnati man named A A Powell noted for his exceptional size.
An Abilene Kansas farmer sold two cows two pigs eighteen hens a greyhound pup and a bull to an agent in exchange for a cabinet organ.
A Huron, South Dakota story chronicles J W Kelley and son growing the Huron City Mill, while Mrs J W Kelley suffers female ailments. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills, she reports strong relief and urges others to try them. The ad touts Pink Pills as a remedy for various conditions and notes pricing and availability.
An original Mons resident leaves 3000 to five friends under odd conditions. Money must be spent on dinners at different restaurants with a special dish and wine at each meal, and memory of the deceased must be toasted at dessert. Dinners require black clothes and gloves, entering to a flag and accordion. First meal held in Brussels yesterday. diners come from Brussels, Antwerp, Mons, and Charleroi.
A veteran building owner orders his architect to use only Alabastine on all walls insisting other vendors’ products are inferior. He states no substitutes will be tolerated even if offered free and asserts continued confidence in his judgment relies on Alabastine.
A period notice warns that frequent smelling salts can induce drunkenness and cravings, with fashionable ladies particularly affected. It notes the habit is costly and requires strong fumes, then shifts to health and consumer ads for Star Tobacco, blue laundry soap, carriages, and a cold remedy from Coe with a money‑back claim.
The Philadelphia Times notes historic and alleged post execution phenomena. It cites instances from Naples in the thirteenth century to Saigon in Anam and Vienna archives, detailing heads showing awareness and moving after beheading, with experiments by researchers like De Laborde.
A 1897 reflection on American reading habits and the role of libraries. It notes strong literacy, high magazine and book circulation, and the influence of dedicated library spaces in homes. The piece argues a quiet, well finished library fosters reading.
A discussion of library rooms in homes, emphasizing warmth and comfort. It recommends locating the library in a favorable spot, using rich tones like reds and browns, and ensuring light and air through windows. It advises permanent low bookshelves, leather valances, and tasteful bric a brac to create inviting quiet.
The article describes furnishing a home library with books and simple seating, warning against overelaborate decor. It highlights a cherry finish, maple flooring, and a design that pairs artistic touch with modest cost, noting room layout and overall dimensions. The plan estimates a built cost around $3,500 in nearby New York, lower elsewhere.
French sculptor and engineer M Pierre Roche develops hollow metal animal forms cooled by the expansion of liquefied gases inside. Exterior frost coats these figures, evoking snow in warm rooms while cooling the surrounding air at balls and feasts.
A quote contrasts two Bibles the spirit and the letter noting the latter has been overly promoted leading to blind acceptance of rigid practices or interpretations. It reflects a critique of legalistic adherence over core spiritual principles.
A Chesapeake & Ohio locomotive engineer recounts how Maggie Conroy, a red headed girl, saved his life by signaling a stop as a rockfall blocked the track near her home. He later helped fund a home for her, but they never lived there as a family grew.
Harvard students debate ending the scrimmage around the class day tree. In 1877 the corporation took charge to stage day events after a failure to appoint officers, aided by Prof. Lowell and the Harvard nine beating Yale. Now authorities seek a safe compromise to retain the tradition while removing dangerous elements.
In Harper's Bazaar Mrs. Gazzam seeks Mr. Cocker's canine expertise on whether an ocean greyhound resembles a water spaniel while praising her pug Cupid and expressing affection for dogs.
A remarkable echo two miles from Milan at the castle of Simonetta repeats a pistol shot sixty times. Local report highlights the extraordinary reverberation and its unique source near Milan in Italy.
In a quip from an old dialogue, Powell remarks on birth determining equality while Howell replies that without birth he would be a nonentity. The exchange playfully probes identity and status through hypothetical birth.
The passage surveys phonetic and structural features of many languages. It notes Polynesian consonant counts, Chinese word roots, and native speech variation among Africans. It discusses Sanscrit vowels and consonants, Zend and ancient Persian worship, Hebrew after Babylon, Arabic war terminology, writing alphabets, Aztec sounds absent in early Latin letters, Armenian connections to Syriac and Greek, Zend's antiquity, Welsh similarities, and Etruscan origins of Italian.
A man recalls faking letters to comfort his ailing mother with a visitor who may be a spectral Harberton. On a June day the impostor appears, consoles the mother, then vanishes as she dies in moonlit stillness, leaving the narrator to doubt reality.
Elizabeth Greatorex, who died in Paris, was a pioneering American woman artist with international recognition. She was the first American woman elected as associate of the National Academy and the only woman elected to the Artists' Fund, with works exhibited in Philadelphia's centennial expo and held in the Vatican. She born in 1819 in Manor Hamilton Ireland and later lived in New York City.
The article notes about 150 cooking schools in Germany and Austria led by Vienna Berlin and Leipsic. It describes starting at peeling potatoes and four years of schooling to earn a diploma. It mentions competitions with up to 200 chefs yearly and honors from European rulers for a former White House chef, explaining high salaries for European trained cooks in the United States.
A devotional reminder to focus on today and endure present duties. Do not borrow tomorrow’s weight. Seek strength from God for today’s tasks and trust that grace arrives with the morrow’s trials.
A bishop’s meditation states the real heaven is a state of loving God and neighbor, not a place. He argues that without such love earth becomes hell and heaven, without love, would too.
Harold Marquisee of Utica New York was arrested in Syracuse on a forgery warrant from Dr Williams Medicine Co. He planned plates for Dr Williams Pink Pills and faced counterfeiting charges after police found books typewriters rugs and a complete counterfeiting outfit in his Utica apartment and trunk. He awaits examination in Syracuse jail as US marshals pursue him.
A Dublin joke about an Irish gentleman at the British Museum admiring a book once owned by Henry VIII. He quips that Dublin holds Noah’s lead pencil used to tally animals on the ark, highlighting local pride and humor.
A pair banters as one urges the other to sit on both sides to avoid gossip about curvature of the opinion and appearances. The exchange plays on social scrutiny and mischief in a light, witty mood.
A fatherly moment as Joycy declares the new baby the most important creature, insisting on covering full fare when arriving from New York to visit.
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