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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1888
Page
3
Boston Herald reports on brutal cold conditions in a Washington Street store where hundreds of young sales girls work without adequate heat. Workers shiver in hats off duties, vents fail, and some fall ill with colds. one girl has died, sparking calls for vestibules, stoves, or repairs.
A Boston merchant on Summer street lived a lifetime of meticulous health watching. He rode daily by the thermometer and weather signs, changed clothes by the mercury, and even kept a weathercock at his stables. He outlived all family and died in 1837 at eighty one.
The Senate backs a resolution on Venezuela Britain border dispute while discussions continue on Dakota statehood and North Dakota territory. In the House a long session ends with a dramatic adjournment battle over a call of the chair and a late vote. pension bills pass as committees report on Native tribes in Montana and Sioux reservations.
Green quips about his wife and a sharp scheme to test a tailor's honesty. A group of five men write a note signed by Green and demand clothes be brought to the house. A messenger returns with the message that all clothing is on the back, the wager settled as the man leaves.
The legend recounts Sarai vowing to mutilate Hagar if she returned. She resorts to piercing ear holes to mark the handmaid, while Abram gifts two jewels to hang from them. The tale credits these adornments with popularizing earrings among the tribe.
The North American Review argues progress in civilization hinges on reversing anti natural ism. It praises nations reclaiming health, science, and cultivated lands from the Caucasus to the Cordilleras. Reformers spread a gospel of physical regeneration as civilization advances toward a verdant future.
Robert Burdette muses on the vast population of 1,400,000,000 and the puffed importance of individuals. He contrasts vanity with the vast crowd and urges each person to view themselves as a small atom within a vast ant hill of humanity.
A minister who became Frederick the Great’s lifelong chaplain opened a blank sealed text and preached on creation. His quick wit earned the crown’s favor as he delivered a storied discourse on God’s power, securing the appointment for life.
An expert notes the highest price paid for a book as $50,000 for a vellum missal given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X with the defender of the faith document. Charles II later passed it to the Duke of Hamilton's ancestors, then to Southerly Williamson & Hodge in London for sale. The Vatican Hebrew Bible offer reached $100,000 but was refused.
A Kansas Agriculturist note reports a Wamega family cultivating a dog meat feast and possibly keeping a winter supply. It cites the Kaw tribe’s practice of cooking dog for a feast, though the author declines the offered dish.
A frontier mail carrier tells of a 1876 winter ride from Deadwood to Laramie when he outwitted a road agent named French Pete. After a tense pursuit, he captured Pete at gunpoint, delivering him to justice and revealing the man to be Joseph Kennedy later serving in a government assay office in S-. The tale ends as the train departs and the station clears into the storm.
The Pall Mall Gazette discusses the sense of touch as complex and largely misunderstood. It notes Herz en and Soret's work on touch, temperature, and pain, and how touch training aids the blind, including cases of numbness from prolonged limb pressure and the psychological aspects of perceiving beauty through touch.
A period of March and April sees a series of sudden deaths from Bright's disease and related kidney ailments among notable figures including Kaiser Wilhelm ex gov Hoffman Lieut Gov Dorsheimer Chief Justice Waite banker Drexel and ex att y gen Brewster The article warns of hidden kidney disease and promotes Warner's Safe Cure as prevention and cure amid a cautionary medical plea.
A narrator describes years of nervous exhaustion and a near fatal experience in a bathtub. While heat rose to the point of boiling, he awoke in panic and finally escaped, recounting the tense moment and a maniacal laugh as he fled the scene to tell the Chicago News reporter.
A Portland correspondent reports German citizens raised 1000 dollars to purchase singing birds in Germany and release them in Portland. About 700 birds including nightingales skylarks finches and thrushes will arrive next spring to nest and return south later. An act to protect the birds is planned by the next legislature. Storks were considered but deemed impracticable due to cost and transport challenges.
An advertisement touts Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer as the most reliable article for restoring gray hair to its original color and promoting hair growth.
A Lay ranch pond near Golconda fed by hot springs measures two to three acres with water around 85 degrees and bubbling spots near boiling. The warm lake reportedly holds many carp over a foot long that resist hooks. Some were shot and tasted firm, yet how the fish arrived remains a mystery amid nearby boiling springs used by ranchers for scalding hogs.
An ad for Salvation Oil proclaims relief for rheumatism neuralgia and injuries at a quarter, followed by a quip on married life and a nod to Dr Bull's Cough Syrup. The note closes with Consul-General Phelan saying Canadians oppose a new fisheries treaty.
A Boston pamphlet by Spectator Publishing highlights Dr Flower cures of prominent figures and his diagnostic skill described in a New Haven Register article. The piece notes a Health Palace in Boston and offers free copies to readers who send their details. In Plattsmouth Nebraska a J C Stowe, agent for a nursery company, shot himself after revelations of fraudulent commissions.
A historical note reports Brown's Bronchial Traches as thoroughly tested for sore throat and coven ailments, maintaining a solid reputation for efficacy and trust among users.
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