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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1891
Page
3
Edwin S Bronson and Miss Inez Dan forth wed at Stillwater. Fire in Stillwater causes $1500 loss with $600 coverage. Northfield hosts Carleton College exhibition. Public view on local politics, courts, and business includes street work appoints, suit notices, and court probes.
Mayor Fuller and Treasurer Webster were re-elected. George Purchase won the magistrate post. Alfred Steele, Dan Buckley, James Hayes and W. H. Fletcher were nominated. The Fargo opera house manager Gottschalk faced assault charges against Walter Doheny of Grand Forks and was acquitted. Fire destroyed Peoples & Shield’s livery stable at Mandan, with thirteen horses cremated.
A preliminary survey outlines season work and a southern trip. An irrigation station will study feasibility of watering the Jim river valley from the Missouri River. Investigations this year aim to determine practicality of tapping the Missouri northward. Col. Nettleton notes the commission will spend most of May 15 to Oct 1 in the Dakotas.
Mitchell’s brick works relocate to Spencer Indiana while Canton plans a flouring mill. Miner county faces seed grain shortfalls of 1178.65 dollars. Olivet Odd Fellows plan a two story brick building 22 by 50. Reports say land prices rise with irrigation talk. Bryant seeks an attorney. Parker eyes an open house. Watertown schools receive scientific apparatus from Philadelphia. A Sturgis spring may promote hair growth. Pierre mass convention urges Aberdeen Pierre railroad resume. John Whitmayer sells three quarters of land near Scotland for 4100 dollars. Sanborn county critics demand full county reports. Bishop Marty forms a Catholic church society at St Onge with 1000 dollars for a church. In Huron court Fred Hundley convicted of first degree manslaughter. motion for new trial denied. Frank Schwartz shoots himself near Bangor Bowdle. State’s Attorney Karns sues Spink County for salary 1000 reduced to 700. State Engineer Baldwin locates twelve artesian wells with twenty more applied for. 100 wells expected under Melville law. Frank Grover near Faulkton dies by self-inflicted gunshot, leaving a widow and two children. Fred Hundley sentenced to fourteen years, tied to a fatal 1 Law event with his father. Prof Albert Foster of Sioux Falls arrested for bigamy with three spouses in Ontario Indiana and Kentucky. Requisition to Newport, Kentucky filed for trial.
Reports from Sioux City note heavy cattle losses due to hay scarcity amid last year’s short crop. Davenport sees a major fire at Bell Clothing, destroying E B Murray & Co shoes, with 35000 dollars in losses. Reverend Salter resigns after 43 years at Burlington Congregational Church.
A wartime style reminiscence recalls a rain soaked wedding day told in rhythmic, humorous prose. The speaker and a stranger share a chance chat while storms lash the street. The verse ends with a vow that the couple’s wedding day will also be wet.
Old John Holden’s will creates a match of Eliza Holden with David Jennifer while Willoughby Starworthy schemes from the past. Ten years of quiet life end as a sudden inheritance surfaces beneath Uncle John’s clock, forcing jealous rivalries into a stunning revelation. Eliza’s choice yields a rich, contented marriage. Starworthy faces bittersweet justice.
An elderly man named Holden dies as his clock completes its appointed hour. Eliza inherits a legacy and enters a new phase of life amid the quiet aftermath of the strange seer’s final moment.
A veteran electrician warns never touch a fallen live wire while on the ground unless wearing rubber boots or insulated gloves. Do not attempt repairs yourself or with unqualified workers. Handle wires one at a time, use dry insulating tools, and avoid two-wire contact. In dynamo rooms nothing is safe unless fully knowledgeable. Trimmers should ensure power is off before work, as high ladders pose danger to the public.
Tit Bits reports the shortest sentence ever given in 1887 by Judge Hawkins five minutes for bigamy. It notes similar cases where two days’ imprisonment effectively meant immediate release, such as Charles Nicholls at Glamorganshire Assizes in 1889, where a brother’s appeal led to swift discharge and subsequent job offers.
Five singing tenors traveling through South America meet on a steamer for the first time. The impresario reveals a plan to lose three or four to fever so the survivor can take over all first tenor parts, claiming the tropical tour dictates such precautions and promising a future opportunity for one mans career.
The author argues that giving Sioux tobacco and beef would end their wars with the United States. He notes Indians now crave cigarettes, prefer branded tobacco to old willow bark, and can smoke vast amounts yet remain healthy. He asserts unlimited cigarettes would not replace soldiers in cost or effect.
A recurring theft pattern hits hotels as guests report missing overcoats. A commercial traveler borrowed a hotel clerk’s coat to conduct business after losing one, with losses sometimes valued high. Victims settle with suspects to avoid police reports. one case noted an $80 coat later settled for $50 after three winters of wear.
Carl Dunder, a Polish immigrant, quizzes Sergeant Bendall at Woodbridge street station on his misadventure with a forged gold bond in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The con artist warned, Dunder recounts watching for signs and admits losing $50 to a counterfeit bond while vowing to warn his wife after death.
The article notes bustling Levant streets with vendors in Constantinople and Smyrna. It describes dogs, donkeys, veiled women, camels, and fruit stalls, highlighting how peddlers overwhelm mornings with calls in Turkish and Greek, selling grapes peaches figs and melons along the Bosphorus and Greek archipelago shores.
A Georgia teacher recalls urging students to read and the fear of a pupil swallowing a dictionary. Tom chewed part of a Webster's primary dictionary and required two hours of medical effort to save him, leading the teacher to urge caution when advising pupils to seek knowledge.
A testimonial from Joan D. Cox of Allegheny City Pennsylvania credits August Flower with curing five months of chronic dyspepsia. She describes relief after two weeks on the remedy and notes she lived with her wife and family at 39 James Street.
A Boston Journal note discusses fading observance of holidays once marked with faith, including Fast Day May Day and Halloween traditions. It contrasts their past prominence with current diminished attention while noting Washington's Birthday and Fast Day remain remembered chiefly for history and a brief labor break.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a new publication Paris-Voitures by Compagnie Generale des Voitures. Acknowledges automatic news delivery in cabs with 10 cent slots offering theatre bills race tips and illustrated notes. Ten percent discount at principal shops and 10 percent profits to a cabmen's refuge.
A Toledo letter advocates life transportation for incorrigible criminals claiming fines and imprisonment fail to reform. The author urges an American Botany Bay with islands, suggesting Alaska as a climate suitable to destroy moral germs and calling for a dedicated penal colony.
The article states soap is a curiosity in India, rarely found in shops except large towns. It cites total annual consumption of 5,000 tong, implying per person use is well under an ounce, per Chamber's Journal.
An advertising verse traces Castoria use across generations from baby to adult. It emphasizes trust in the product for infants children and family health. The tone mirrors classic mid century advertising appealing to parental care.
The Cal. Fig Syrup Co states that all claims are consistent with the syrup’s high character. It acts gently on the kidneys liver and bowels cleansing the system effectively but is not a cure all and makes no pretensions that every bottle will substantiate.
A group in Atlanta enjoys stories and quotes from the Atlanta Constitution. Dr Sid Holland tells a relic tale about a boyhood soap bubble George Washington blew, provoking amusement before the men move on from the yarn.
A collage of vintage advert claims and moral quips. Promotions for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Brown’s Bronchial Cough Syrup Allen’s Ink Toxic Brrrers Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment and Robins Electric Soap appear alongside moral observations and scattered aphorisms about patriotism. The text blasts sensational cures for liver jaundice malaria dyspepsia and hoarseness while urging skepticism toward deception and folly.
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