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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
1
Our millinery stock is complete in all departments with hats sailors caps bonnets and related items. The emphasis is on beauty and style as customers are invited to view the selection and judge for themselves.
A local retailer invites customers to a Spring Hat fitting promising both pleasure and smart styling. The message highlights affordability and a positive shopping experience for shoppers seeking new headwear this season.
Dry Goods department showcases silk pongees and ginghams along with organ dies camisas and Egyptian tissues. Thousands of yards of calicos prints muslins and related fabrics complete the selection for thorough domestic sewing needs.
Grade winners and crash skirts advertised with emphasis on Ney and Crash Skirts. Readers are urged to call early as the items are going fast and ey spring jackets and capes are available.
This notice advertises a large collection of ladies shirt waists priced from 50 cents to 2.50. It invites readers to visit the store to view the selection and claim it will pay to see the offerings in person.
A county jail escape attempt occurred when two prisoners Edwin Decker and Geo Gardner finished sawing off lower window bars during deputy absence. They jumped from the jail window but fled before authorities could catch them, leaving with stolen tools and money from a Bemidji safe. Additional reports describe another escape attempt by Philo Ward from a logging train near Pine River.
The marriage of J Herbert Speers and M Edith Edwards took place Wednesday evening April 26 at the bride's parents home on 9th street. Rev James Clulow officiated with Miss Lillian Isabelle as bridesmaid and W H Angel as best man. The groom works in Northern Pacific shops and will reside in Kalispell Montana after a visit to St Paul Fargo. A prior package shower for the bride occurred April 21 hosted by Mrs Westfall and nineteen guests. Out of town guests included A D Arundel and Roland Arundel Staples and A W Wheatley Staples.
Shelly Paine and Grace McDonough were remarried at Rev. A. H. Carver's residence after السابقة separations and wartime estrangement. Paine had enlisted in Montana, returned from the Philippines, and the couple, who had two children, now begin housekeeping in the city.
A Wednesday afternoon blaze in the south part of town destroyed two barns and outhouses, damaged two houses, and killed a horse. The Molstad barn, tied to Jens Molstad, and the Turcott barn, were engulfed by wind-driven flames started by boys with matches. Molstad’s residence caught fire next, with Dickinson’s home two blocks away suffering roof destruction before firefighting controlled the spread. Estimated damages total around $1,400 with most insured for Molstad’s barn and Dickinson’s home. Molstad’s household goods suffered heavy loss without insurance.
Parched conditions across Minnesota and the Dakotas fuel wildfires sparked by locomotives and careless burning. Friday afternoon the town of Nary on the B and M line was nearly destroyed, with two general stores three saloons a large hotel three ill reputed houses and many residences burned, leaving two to three hundred residents homeless. Additional fires near Crow Wing and in surrounding woods prompted rapid firefighting efforts by local shops and crews.
D. M. Clark & Co. advertised as the city’s only installment house offering goods on easy terms to buyers.
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