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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1892
Page
3
A Boston woman, middle aged and wearing glasses, boards a moving Old Colony car with a draped overskirt misaligned. A polite young woman informs her, but the deaf passenger misreads the warning as ridicule and demands loud speech. After a brief exchange the kindly helper departs.
A Scribner’s correspondent details Arctic igloos near Herbert Island. The winter stone huts sit on hillsides with dug interiors and domed sandstone roofs. Inside there are bone hooks, a raised bed platform, a long tunnel for entry and dog shelter, and walrus skin light coverings.
An elderly English traveler James Scott earned fame for punctuality and methodical habits. At an inn a guest asked for the cook to serve a fowl for dinner, but the landlord explained the bird was reserved for Scott, who was expected at precisely 2 o'clock, causing comic misunderstanding.
Captain Cox of the East Side displayed a folding weapon in the city jail. The device can be used as a club or a sword and when opened measures about two and a half feet in length. The blade's design and potential use drew strong attention from onlookers.
The piece is a heavy steel tapering weapon described as arpened and capable of beheading with a single blow. It opens with a spring mechanism releasing a blade. Captain Cox calls it a historical relic from the Custer massacre site, while tradition and Jailer Hudson claim it belonged to a Turkish brigade.
A Detroit Free Press piece describes a man sawing wood at his cabin while his wife sits on the steps smoking. The narrator tries small talk and selling sewing machines, but the man remains taciturn, directing the buyer to let the wife do the talking as he continues sawing.
A small Scotch boy is summoned to give evidence in a case of disturbances on the streets. The lad guides the magistrate through Iverness street, the square, and High street, ending with a stubborn quip that the pump will not pump him. The exchange shows a humorous street anecdote from the courtroom.
A recruit nicknamed a blockhead argues with a drill sergeant over aptitude. The sergeant taunts him and the recruit reveals his brother is a sergeant, highlighting the absurdity of military banter in European barracks gossip.
A bride expresses gratitude for a friend's etching. She mentions it arrived safely, now hangs in the parlor above the piano, and she and her husband hope to see the friend soon and often.
Joseph Mueller was acquitted in United States Court of printing a lottery advertisement in the Dodge County Pioneer at Mayville. The verdict supports challenges to the new mailing law and centers on a German weekly notice tied to the Louisiana State Lottery and Gulf Coast Ice and Manufacturing. Gen E S Bragg defended Mueller, asserting the ad fell outside the statute. The jury deliberated briefly in Milwaukee.
A Milwaukee Road eastbound passenger train on the Chippewa Valley division halted within feet of a child waving from the track near Tyrone station by Eau Claire. Engineer McGuire acted to stop the locomotive with air brakes as the danger was detected yesterday.
Ashland Wis Special reports the state board of world fair managers authorized F Prentice to proceed with the brown stone monolith for the world fair. Henry Bueston of Milwaukee secured the contract to erect it and Prentice will start quarry work immediately. Rumors say Russia may offer £500000 at 6 percent to Persia to finance withdrawal of the tobacco monopoly.
The article asserts that over seventy percent of baking powders contain alum or ammonia and warns of unseen ill effects. It promotes Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as free from adulterants, purer, and costing about the same as adulterated powders.
A Lewisville Courier Journal note recalls a rustic rural ballad about Bessie and Robin. The couple wanders under green boughs as clover blooms and hawthorn sways while the lovers exchange hopeful verses and glances in a lilting autumn mood.
A South story recounts circuit rider Simeon J. Boyle taking charge of Black Sulphur Shrings. Wiggs Bailey persuades him to preach his brother Ike's funeral multiple times, bragging of Ike’s misdeeds and licker cravings. After a string of dramatic sermons and threats, Wiggs finally confronts the preacher, who defends himself, and Wiggs flees.
The Libby Prison War Museum displays chairs tied to key figures and events. John Hancock sat in the first chair, Abraham Lincoln's father prized a wicker chair, Lincoln used a pivot chair in the White House, six chairs were from Ford's Theatre on Lincoln's assassination night, Jefferson Davis used an office chair after Richmond fell, Grant Hayes and Garfield used White House office chairs, and Garfield sat in an invalid recliner after being shot.
Alfred Hills of Hills Homestead Savin Rock recounts a near miss as a great northern diver grabbed the bait and fought aboard for a mile before the bird broke the line and escaped. The tale, cited by the New Haven Palladium, marks an extraordinary attempt to hook a loon with rod and line.
A Nebraska farmer reports small scale trials on potato seed size and cutting, noting yields from split tubers and whole beansized pieces. Trials with corn show whole ear seed germination outpacing middle-ear seed, plus advice on crop rotation and pumpkin planting for larger yields.
A Farmers Institute view highlights soil analysis as useful but not complete and urges combining tests with plant observation and experiments. It covers hog feeding, pruning and thinning fruit, bedding hogs to avoid dust, plow sharpness, horse care, sheep profitability, tarred paper dangers for trees, and cattle horn removal effects on aging marks.
J D Rex outlines a detailed method to secure a cow for dehorning using a wooden frame stanchion 6 by 6 by 20 inches at base. The design includes weather boarding inside, a top with three cross-beams, a 5 foot lever above a nose piece, and multiple tiedown holes and iron rod fastenings to fit the animal, with the horn left intact after the sawing.
A stockman urges farmers to treat working horses with care. He condemns cold bridles that stick in the mouth and breast straps dragged on legs or neck-yokes, noting many plow with straps causing injury. He advocates soaking bits and mindful handling to prevent pain.
Farmers should keep salt within reach of cattle. A lump of pure American rock salt in the feed box ensures steady intake and prevents overeating when provided continuously.
A Nebraska Farmer correspondent reports 46 acres of broom corn yielded nearly ten tons with costs of 420.15 to harvest and load, and receipts of 642.25 nets 222.10. He also harvested 2,760 bushels of field corn at 138 cost to husk and deliver, selling for 690 leaving 552.
A step by step method describes placing the flock in a small pen, selecting a wary sheep, and catching it carefully. The technique emphasizes quiet movements, securing the neck, and transferring the grip to the hind leg before lifting to prevent injury.
The London Telegraph praises Costabelle near Hyeres as an ideal Provence home. It compares Hyeres and Costabelle with Europe’s floral Riviera, noting Costabelle's primitive village charm, votive church, and windless seaward view. Visitors seek its peace and natural beauty among palms and orchids.
A Back Bay family hosted a party with a 16 year old daughter organizing a lunch on a tight budget. Oysters, salads, and veal chicken dishes were served from shells that barely fit, bought at a fraction of regular cost. The guests praised the meal unaware of the ruse.
A London World piece notes Wilkie Collins suffered gout from his revelry at the table. Ehrmann Freres wine merchants hold a pamphlet with Collins letters praising their cognac and Brut champagne. Heavily quoted lines show his fondness for old cognac and champagne with a plea for a large reserve.
A provincial operatic critic notes the prima donna’s moonlit serenade, praising its charm and point drawn from the orb. The passage renders the aria with phonetic whimsy, highlighting the singer’s soft, radiant delivery and reflective mood.
Washington reports the treasury department will not permit deductions for weight differences in grain shipments from Canada through frontier ports. If official weighing at the frontier port shows a discrepancy, no allowance will be made for losses discovered at the final port of entry, as current law lacks authority for such deductions within the United States.
A night blaze at a small hotel in AsuLaxo Wisconsin wounded two or three men severely. Prompt fire department action prevented greater damage as the frame buildings nearby could have fed the flames. Loss estimated at about $500.
The new May issue of The Century will launch three notable serials. Senor Castelar contributes Life of Christopher Columbus, Mary Hallock Foote starts The Chosen Valley, a western life novel, and a series on World’s Fair architectural features by a renowned architect.
A 3 inch Segiay advertisement appears with a unique word per weekly issue from The Dr Harter Medicine Co Crescent mark on every item. Readers are urged to send the word name to receive BOOK and lithographs of samples free. Also notes caution about youth folly and mentions Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters with J P Allen signature.
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the universal remedy for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces to cure and strengthen the patient and offers hundred dollar if any case fails to cure. Testimonials available by mail from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
A brief observation compares a whim to a fly buzzing in the empty chambers of an exhausted brain, conveying a sharp, metaphorical take on mental fatigue and intrusive thoughts.
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