Camp Fire Planned By Pap Thomas Post Next Tuesday
The annual camp fire of Pap Thomas Post is scheduled for next Tuesday evening. Also noted are local ads and notices about Smith's confectionery, Day & Meagher's straw hats, Gardner's grocery delivery, Foote's house plants, and a public auction of the Fort Ripley reservation buildings on May 6 by order of the Secretary of the Interior. Forrest Parsons, city clerk, has been ill but is recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pap Thomas Post
Foote’s
Fort Ripley
The
Intenor
Forrest Parsons
Local merchants advertise sales and social notes
Day and Meagher offer boys sizes 1 to 5 shoes at 1.00 and oil cloths from Philadelphia. Parker's confectionery and Leopold's suits draw shoppers. J H Keep returns from the South. Smith's stores promote cigars and tobacco. Married notices for Brainerd residents. Odd Fellows anniversary plans. Fay Templeton's show praised. Local disputes include warrants for assault and perjury cases. Fergus Falls saloon license cuts discussed with consolidation proposal.
Brainerd Man Purchases Gene a Wild Eyes Shorthorn Bull
S W Gray of Brainerd Minn buys the thoroughbred Shorthorn bull Geneva Wild Eyes from Wilcox and Liggett Benson Minn and moves it to his farm near Brainerd. The sire Wild Eyes Duke and dam 2nd Cambridge Queen Forest Park trace to Dewdrop and Oxford Geneva, with lineage including 4th Duke of Winfield and Prince Geneva. Geneva Wild Eyes was bred and sold by Wilcox and Liggett Grandview Farm Benson Minn.
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W. Gray
Forest Park
Oxford
4Th Duke of Winfield
Prince Geneva
Gray
Geneva
Wilcox & Liggett
Grandview Farm
Benson, Minn
The New Shops Location Bid Near St Paul Track
The St Paul and Minneapolis men slated to open machine shops in Brainerd are arriving Friday evening to settle the site. Bids are active with odds in favor of a Quince street location near the St Paul track.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Brainerd
Quince Street
St. Paul Track
New Brick Store to Rise Adjoining W A Smith’s in Brainerd
A significant development is planned in Brainerd as a 50 by 80 foot two story brick building with basement will be erected on the vacant lot beside W A Smith’s store. IT A Towne and Newton McFadden lead the project with drug stores moving to the east lot during construction. The plan calls for 190000 bricks, pressed brick frontage, mammoth plate glass windows, and a five foot hallway to offices upstairs. Construction may begin by mid next month with completion in 60 to 90 days.
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W. A. Smith
Dispatch
Enterprise
A. Towne
Northern Pacific Road
Draimerd
Newton McFadden
McFadden & Johnson
E. E. M. Smith
McFadden
Smith
WA. Smith’s
E. M. Westfall
Brainerd
Masked skaters wow crowd with elegant costumes
Thursday evening drew a full house at the rink as spectators enjoyed a lively masked skating party. Miss Annie Steege won the ladies prize as an Indian princess, Miss Ella Middleton as Night, D A Sizer as a Count, and Joe Veon as the 'told woman' earned the gent prize and crowd cheers. The prize committee Demules Si Hall and Jas Dewar praised impartial judging.
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Annie Steege
Ella Middleton
D. A. Sizer
Joe Veon
Veon
Messrs. Demules
Si Hall
Jas. Dewar
School Board Organizes and Elects Leaders at New School House
The newly elected board met to organize with A Mahlum as temporary chairman. John Willis was elected President, A W Frater Clerk, and W W Hartley Treasurer. Terms were set for three two and one year members. Reports from Independent district and No.5 were considered, and the Catholic society was granted use of Sixth street for a parish school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New School House
A. Mahlum
John Willis
A. W. Frater
W. W. Hartley
W. W. Havens
F. G. Sundberg
Mike Cullen
O. H. Hubbard
John Hurley
Catholic Society
Sixth Street
Fourth Ward
Ice Cream Festival at Congregational Church Brainerd
On April 29 Brainerd residents can attend an ice cream festival and entertainment at the Congregational church. The program features a male quartet Alderman Camp Hitchcock Congdon, recitations Evening at the Farm by J A Wilson and Mrs Farnham Davenport, with a list of performers and admission ten cents. Ice cream provided by C H Congdon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Brainerd
H. Hubbard
Dr. Courtney
Lizze Atkinson
Alderman
Camp
Hitchcock and
Congdon
Death of John McClary proprietor of the Marshal House
John McClary 45, owner of the Marshal House on Sixth Street, died Monday at 5 am after years of consumption. He sought southern health cures last fall but did not recover, leaving a fortune to his wife and children. His remains were taken to Marsh al, Michigan for interment on Tuesday. Champagne in quarts and pints cheap at the Kentucky Liquor Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McClary
Marshal House
Sixth Street
McClary
Hot Springs
Texas
Brainerd
Marshal
Michigan
Disappearance of Metropolitan Hotel Proprietor Sparks Gossip
A. A. Wright owner of the Metropolitan hotel in Braincap Minnesota vanished with Mrs. O'Brien wife of a local politician. Creditors attach hotel furniture as Wright owed $350 rent. The sheriff took charge for owners as town people speculate elopement while Wright and Mrs. O'Brien were seen traveling toward St. Paul. The case remains unsettled and rumor driven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis Tribune
Braincap
Minn
A. A. Wright
Metropolitan Hotel
Thomas O’brien
Wright
St. Paul
O’brien
Minneapolis
Need for Drainage and Sewer System in Brainerd
The town of Brainerd urgently needs a drainage and sewer system to protect public health. Immediate action is urged to remove filth from back alleys, prevent contagion, and employ idle men at a nominal cost during this critical city initiative.
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Brainerd
Brainerd area notes mix of town growth and local politics
Brainerd and nearby towns feature talk of growth, law and order, and civic duties as Brainerd residents report on mill operations, visits by attorneys, and a busy council session. Officials approve bonds, appoint officers, and plan street and sidewalk work amid a scene of routine municipal business.
Baking powder tricks exposed as biased testing schemes
The piece condemns unscrupulous manufacturers who try to sway consumers against rival brands by heating powder to emit ammonia odor. It argues such tests prove nothing and urges reliance on purity, wholesomeness, and leavening power, noting only chemists can judge scientifically. It adds that common household use will reveal the best brand.
New Improved Wall Finish From Conklin Clark Co
Conklin Clark & Co at Front Street debuts a ready to use interior wall finish. The preparation blends with hot water and comes in twelve distinct tints offering simple application and strong tinting capability for walls and related interiors.
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Conklin, Clark & Co.’s
Conklin, Clark & Co
Front Street
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D. HW. Freeman
Register
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Cloop
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Edward Broder
Crow Wing
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W. B. Mitchell
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Wm. Cole
Chas. H. Mayo
D H. Freeman
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John Milem
H. E. Baker
A. J. Erath
H. Erath
P O
Deerwood
United States Land Office
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Asa Hayford
Hayford
D.H. Eos
W. B. Mitchert
U.S. Lane
Sr. Clovp
Willis W. Perry
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W. B. Morone Yz
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Itasca
Andie C. Davis
Hoeur Davis
District Court
11Th Judicial District
Leon E. Lum
A. D
J. H. Gossett
Seventh
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S. Fernald
Frater & Fernald
Attorney At Law
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C. O. Paquin, M. D
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Register OF Deeds
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Anp
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Northern Pacific
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Chippewa Falls
Eau Claire
Wampaca
Neemah
Menasha
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Fond du Lac
Eau Cisire
Nicollet House
Third Street
I St. Paul
F. H. Anson
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Baby
Gardner's
Smith's
Parker's
Wm. Shontell
Walker & Sons
Conklin, Clark
J. H. White
Vermont
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Parker’s
Smith’s Confectionery Store
Gardner
Fergus Falls
S. Walker & Sons
Day & Meagher
Leopold's
T. McMaster
J. M. Gray
Gardner’ S
Lynch & Barstow, Grocers
First National Bank
Day & Meagher’s
Foote
Northwest
Kash
John Brown Tract
New York
Parkers
E. W. Sleeper’s
Corner Sixth and
Laurel Streets
W. Grenell
New Orleans
Gilbert Lake
W. A. Smith’s
McFadden & Johnson's Drug Store
Chas. Bullmer
Conklin & Clark
Chaska
Secare
Dr. Frazier
Frazier Medicine CO
Prop'r
Cleveland
Ohio
F. M. Cable & Co
Cheap Cash
F. H. Elvidge
J. D. Barstow
Royalton
Robert Emmett
Perham
Little Falls
Philadelphia
Day & Meaghers
Fay Templeton
Leopold’s
Curaghda
Day & Meagher's
Stith
T. McMaster’s
J. H. Keep
South
Geo
Smith’s
Gratis
Hawley
St. Paul's Church
Hans Hoakle
Moret Olson
Andrew J. Johnson
Josephine Johnson
Evergreen and Wildey Lodges
W. W. Perry
W. Erb
Perry
Erb
Drayman Johnson
Hannah Carey
Justice of the Peace
Garfield
Fleming
Corpes
Long Lake
Heath & Mulligan
the New School Board
C. H. Congdon
Kentucky Liquor Co
Villard
Pam
Aitkin
Fernald
Bratwnerd
Knox
Will Spencer
D. D. Smith, Brainerd
Mississippi
Detroit Record
N. P
Spondulix
St. Luke’s Church
F. J. Hawley
D. D
Dean Hawley
Princeton Union
Mertz
Mr. Dodge
Union
J. C. Barber
Bettenine Soo
Victor
Ieee
Paulle
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Wrew Brainerd Water Co
J. A. Wilson
Erem
Mies
Dobner
F. L. Smith
Ig Pane
M. E. Merritt
Mies M. Somers
Wm. Harmon
Second Ward
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Taylor, Doran
Hempstead
Ort
Forsy
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C. M. Heaburg
Eos Jos
Cdi
H. M. Barron
Wood
Sareres
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Ald. Hewe
J. M. Reilly
Ald. Ort
Michael Cullen
3Rd Ward
Ald. Hempstead
M. McLaren
Dan. Caffrey
Ald. Howe
M. McCabe
Doran and
Doran
Hempstead and
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L. H. Dodge
6Th Street
Twin Cities
G. A. R. Fast
E.M. Westfall’s
FLAD
J.W. Dyer
BRO
Minneapolis and
J. 3. Gardner
Mill Track
Ss. W. Se
BULL
KR. Parker
E. W. Lynch
Lynch Ce Barstow
Paine
Berstrserai
S. Walker Prep
East Front Street
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Lummermen
Tina
Lorillard
Climax Plug Tobacco
Iliams
Dr. William
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Dad
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