Local notices and travels of Brainerd residents
Wallace Bain named deputy coroner by Chas Cross. Mrs Blanchard and children visit friends in St Paul and Minneapolis. Miss Blanche Ingersoll departs Brainerd for Plover Wisconsin. Mrs Ingersoll and son back from Ada Minnesota. Miss Emma Smith visits her brother J L Smith in Minneapolis. Mayor Hemsted returns from Nebraska. Mac McMullen to visit southern Minnesota towns. Diphtheria claims a Gull River child and a Pillager infant. two more deaths from consumption. D M Clark leaves for Chicago on business and sightseeing. Frank Farnham visits Brainerd from Duluth. praises fire department. Jerome McKusker now with Chesapeake & Ohio in Cincinnati.
Recitals and lectures raise funds. jail break attempt noted
Mrs. M F Cook of Minneapolis will give a Methodist church recital Friday April 26 to benefit the Y M C A with 25 cent tickets. An Egypt Sinai and Holy Land illustrated lecture at the same church tonight will feature ether oxygen lighting and 25 cent admission. Two county jail inmates who forged checks at Brainerd attempted to break jail yesterday, aided by a fellow prisoner who alerted Sheriff Spalding. The Little Falls Herald reports Chamber of Commerce proceedings in Brainerd about a $2000 foundry subscription proposal from John Dennis. Roderick G Bradford aged 13 died of pneumonia in Oak Lawn township. funeral in Episcopal church and burial at Evergreen. N P company payroll reform moves pay at shops to save losses. a new paying office set in the storehouse with Cashier Ferris officiating. E K Bailey retired N P engineer died of heart disease at Nicollett house. Funeral conducted by Rev E J Brownson.
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Egypt
Sinai and
The
Holy Land
Methodist Church
H. Rosenblatt
Brainerd
Roderick G. Bradford
John G. Bradford
Oak Lawn Township
Geo. H. Davis
Episcopal Church
Evergreen Cemetery
E. K. Bailey
N. P. Company
Nicollett House
Bailey
E. J. Brownson
Suicide attempt ends with rescuing neighbor intervention
An engineer on Tenth Street North attempted suicide by hanging near Bluff Avenue but the suspender broke, and his wife and a neighbor intervened. He returned home, appearing rational yet indignant at being stopped. The item also notes job moves, a theater engagement, medicinal ads, and a death from spinal meningitis at a local sanatorium with a church funeral following.
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Tenth Street
Bluff Avenue
Mysterious $15,000 Theft From N P Express Office
The N P express office in this city reports a $15,000 gold theft on pay day. Clerk Louis Hohman delivered four bags to the vault door, but one bag containing $15,000 disappeared after both doors were found locked. Railway officials confirm four bags were received at St. Paul and shipped aboard the train. Palace Hotel proprietor Mr. Loomis has closed the business, auctioning furniture as Arlington Hotel draws transient trade away.
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N. P. Express
M Ruess
Ruess
St. Paul
First National Bank
Louis Hohman
Hohman
Reuss
Wadena
Palace
Arlington
Fire destroys sheds and near loss to city meat market
A Monday fire at Hagberg's grocery sheds ignited quickly due to dry weather, engulfing the rear shed and the adjacent meat market shed. Main brick structures were saved by swift fire crew, with total losses around 2000 and insurance likely covering most damages. several individuals faced smaller losses. Coroner Cross arrest over brass and copper found in his wood-shed, trial pending. WCTU meeting announced for April 28. City council proceedings and budget actions noted, including sewer project remands and hose house changes.
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Hagberg
Cross
Northern Pacific Railroad Co
Ald
Camp and Spencer
F. W. Farnham
Kindwood Street
T. M. Reilly
C. L. Spaulding
Kingwood Street
Maple Street
Blanche
Sleeper Streets
Sleeper
Committee On
Ald. Cooley
East Brainerd
Third Ward
Cable plan eyed to ferry ties across Mississippi
Local business slows as farmers finish seeding. Travelers report moves to build a Mississippi cable to run a ferry for those on the far side and the general public. Pat Keiley mourns a child from diphtheria as Henry Stevens and Louisa Cook wed April 12. Ingersoll of Brainerd Dispatch visits Ft. Ripley with W. W. Campbell. Ada Herald notes kin.
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Henry Stevens
Royalton
Louisa Cook
L. M. Cook
Hatch
Mississippi
Little Hardware
Epwa
City Council Alters Assessor Pay Amid Dispute
The council fixes the city assessor salary at 400 dollars for the year. Spaulding had billed 500 last year but was paid 300. This year with half the work they propose 100 more than last, then add 150 more for fairness, signaling disagreement over proper compensation.
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Spaulding
Vote of Thanks Extended to Freming and Pope
Acker Post No 1 G A R at St Paul issues a vote of thanks to Hon W A Freming of Brainerd and Hon E M Pope of Mankato for securing an appropriation for government headstones. Adjutant O Gormas notes the unanimous resolution at the April meeting. Also notes offer to sell carpets at cost near skating rink, a piano exchanged for a horse, and a ranch job 38 miles from Brainerd with postal box 755.
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Crow Wing
Acker Post No
St. Paul
St. Pavur
House of Representatives
Sixn
Acker
Steel
W. A. Fleming
Brainerd
E. M. Pope
Mankato
O’gormas
Minnesota
Notice of Expiration of Redemption in Crow Wing County
Notice of redemption period for parcel 9 in Block 6 Sleepers Park Brainerd sold to satisfy a tax judgment dated March 20 1886. Redemption cost is 3.86 dollars plus interest at 18 percent from May 3 1886. Redemption ends 60 days after service. Issued by Louis Tache County Auditor April 9 1889.
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Minn Wots
Crow Wing
John Wapoila
Marijana Wapola
Matti Santa
Brainerd
Marijana W
Nest
W. P. Spalding
C. B. Stzgresn
Othee
Spheta Wy
Knines
15Th Judicial District
Sleepers Park
Louis Tache
State OF Minnesota
Crow Wine
Florian Erath
Herman Erath
Wright County
Minnesota
Crow Wing Conty
Herman Brath
Said County
SeAu
District Court
Fifteenth Judicial District
Isaac A. White
Peter Mertz
National Building Loan and Protective Union
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Sbiece
R. Kk. Walters
the Drug Store
Front Street
Night Bell
N. McFadden
I. C. White
Contractor & Builder
Laurel Street
M. Hagberg
Hacberg
Odd Fellows’ Block
L. W. Burrell
Brainerd Dispatch
Crow Wing County
Cass and
Itasca
N. H. Ingersoll
W. Wieland
Editors and Proprietors
Dr. Camp
F. H. Eldridge
Wallace Bain
Chas. Cross
C. E. Blanchard
Minneapolis
Blanche Ingersoll
Plover, Wis
N. H. Ingersoll and Son
Ada, Minn
Emma Smith
J. L. Smith
Mayor Hemsted
Nebraska
Doc
C. E. McMullen
Mac
Shakopee
Thos. Bole
Gull River
Louis Henry Mahle
Henry Mahle
Frank Heinrich
Pillager
D. M. Clark
Chicago
Mr. Clark
Frank Farnham
Duluth
Pioneer Press
Jerome McKusker
Northern Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Cincinnati
M. F. Cook
Y.M.C.A
Little Falls
Chamber of Commerce
City
C. H. Hubbert
John Dennis
Ferris
First National
Mike Dennis
Brainerd Machine Shops
Livingston, Mont
Sleeper Opera House
Kansas City Journal
Warder Grand
Augustin Daly
Snap
C. J Ae
George Gaston
E. A. Eberle
Virginia Harned
Pauline Willard
Fenner
Johnson & Bain
Peter Nelson
Crystal Springs
Dakota
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
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Council Proceedings
Ft. Ripley News
J. L. Berg
East St. Cloud
Sauk Rapids
D. S. Mooers
C. B. Clouse
Fort
Pat Keiley
John
Ft. Ripley
Ingersoll
Bob
W. W. Campbell
M. L. Swartz
J. A. McColl, Brainerd, Minn
Aupitor
Crow Wixe
Mixx
D. M. Clark & Co’s
Mississippi and Rum River Boom Company
Samuel Simpson
E. C. Whitney
Treas. Miss
Rum River B. Co
M. L. Swartz’s
D. M. Clark & Co.’s
Skat
Ing Rink
Mary Yaska
F. M. Barber
Juniper St
North Star
Northwest
Royal
Rampord
2Edhead's
Loveland
Ploneer
San Francisco
Czar
Price's
Groft
Lewis
Pearl (Andrews & Co
Hecker
Gillet’s
Rumford's
Lovz
H. A. Morr
Tiexty Morton
Stevens Institute Ofechnology
Dana Hares
Philadelphia
Avwican Institute
New York
Notz
Prof
Schedler
Brainerd Manufacturing Co
Oak Street
Corner 7Th
Nigk. Schroeder
Ph. Best
Brainerd, Minn
Casselton, Dakota
Gram
E.C. West
Minn
Henry Spalding
Lton E. Lox
Plainti
Denis Bros
Seventh St
Front & Laurel
Courtess Commercial Collegeg
Minneapolis and
C. C. Curtiss
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn
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