02 Aug 1889
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1889
Page
1
A brief notice reports a direct line or link involving Saint Paul and Anna, outlining a scheduled connection or route with emphasis on transportation or service linkage between the two places.
A syndicate of European capitalists has purchased all Omaha breweries for 1,500,000 dollars. A Minneapolis man bitten by a cat is to be sent to Paris at county expense for hydrophobia treatment. The St. Cloud Times mocks a voter literacy requirement. Hennepin county district court rules an alderman’s salary cannot be attached to debts, greeted by nine Brainerd leaders with joy.
Attorney General Clapp states the meat inspection bill forbids a Minnesota hotel keeper from buying meat outside the state and shipping it in for trade use. It notes dressed meat moving within the state may travel without an inspection certificate, since the cert remains with the animal’s inspector who examined it before slaughter.
An exchange notes it is not generally known that ration money is payable to soldiers or their heirs when the soldier was at any time an inmate of a rebel prison. Soldiers who paid their own fares home after discharge can recover the same by applying to the government.
The Sweetwater Wyoming postmaster was suspended. A vigilance committee carried out the action with a rope. The Boston Herald and St. Cloud Journal-Press remark the approach as a harsh method to remove democratic “rascals” from office.
Henry George notes England’s belief the Republican party will stay in power for years. The Evening Journal says this boosts English investment in the U S, as free trade failed in the last election and manufacturing remains domestic. The piece argues American industry is protected from a schoolteacher's theory.
A Mille Lacs report says three Indians were killed after a drunken fracas following fresh liquor consignments from Mora and Little Falls. At the Rum River trading post, three wounded men had wounds dressed, one unable to walk, while whites were not molested. The piece urges removal of the Mille Lacs band to a police supervised reservation to curb liquor sales.
Itasca Lumber of Minneapolis will build a standard gauge logging railway thirty miles from Itasca toward Grand Rapids into the Pillsburg timber. Construction starts in winter and the line aims to operate next season reaching Swan lake district to supply logs to the Mississippi mills.
Prairie chickens lose protection from Aug 20 to Dec 1, 1893 while quail are exempt year round until Dec 1 1893. Sheriffs deputies police and constables become game wardens and enforce the law with fines split between the complainant and the school fund.
The State Fair Association outlines daily cowboy performances including lassoing cattle wild races and steers tied with tails. A grand military drill by the state guard and a Grand Army Veterans day are planned along with livestock displays and Minnesota crop estimates for wheat potatoes oats corn and barley. The fair runs September 6 to 14.
A Norman county coroner's jury concluded the death of an Ada resident resulted mainly from a fall from Ole Skalet's barn while allegedly under liquor influence bought from locally licensed saloons. Prohibitionists pressed for indicting parties as accessories to murder, aiming to blame Republican and Democratic factions, but the coroner rejected the motive and no charges were brought.
A humorous exchange traces a single flannel shirt from father to son to baby to Betsy’s doll, then vanishing as it disappears in the wash. The tale highlights how a practical garment moves through a household until it utterly vanishes.
News notes a planned luxury hotel for Shakopee reflecting growth in Minnesota towns. Other brief items include fatal train-related harm to William Panzer of Owatonna and several local incidents and public notices across the region.
The district W C T U met in our city last month and published a paper on Work Among Lumbermen by Mrs Webber. The talk urges practical, prayerful labor, camp outreach, personal letters, reading rooms, temperance boarding houses, gospel missions, and seasonal effort to reach lumbermen during winter months.
A telegram from Ashland reports four tramps assaulted Conductor Glass on a Northern Pacific freight train near Ashland Junction. They beat him severely and one man wounded his right leg with a knife after the conductor ordered them off for riding without permission.
C F Kiyprep aims to prove to Philadelphia citizens that drinking water bypassing his canal with a controlling interest will cause sickness and death from impurities. He notes flies not roosting on Charlie's clothes even in the city.
The piece surveys soda water production workers from bottle washers to wirers, noteing the hazards of glass breakage and hot syrup, the rough conditions for laborers in cast off garments, and the injuries common among young workers in city factories.
The author contrasts Japanese and American practices, praising Japanese back yard order as a model of cleanliness while criticizing Japanese street rubbish disposal in front areas. The quote notes Germany and Japan’s differences in yard upkeep, calling the back yard a little paradise and street waste a problem in front spaces.
Land opportunity in good locality describes ninety acres partly timbered and partly cultivated within a quarter mile of two railroad stations. Trade for Jets in this city. For particulars address Distarca Office.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Albert Lea Route announces round trip excursion tickets on August 6 and 20 and September 10 and 24 and October 8 to many states and territories at ONE FARE. Tickets valid 30 days from sale with a stopover in the destination territory. For rates and maps contact any agent or write to C. H. Holdridge, Minneapolis. G. T. & P. A.
The Northwestern Line C and M O Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets from St Paul to Milwaukee from August 21 to 28 at one fare. Return allowed any time Aug 27 to Sep 5 with special arrangements extending to December 30 on prior Sep 3. Inquiries to Joint Agent Milwaukee or T W Traspare General Passenger Agent St Paul.
A lyric depicting a journey to Milwaukee for the G A R encampment. The narrator invites Matilda to join exsoldier Tom, promising a vermillion welcome and a patriotic ride on the Wisconsin Central Line. A pamphlet with visiting information is available free from Louis Eckstein in Milwaukee.
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