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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1889
Page
3
A crowded page of humor bits and domestic tips includes quips about class and marriage, a governor’s veto tale, and many light vignettes. Household notes cover women’s work pay in Chicago, recipes, cleaning tips, and fashion trends alongside moral and social observations from a 19th century fare.
A young man recounts his boyhood romance with Miss Cilly Busse, his accidental engagement, a rising love with Rose Mayland, and a comic double love triangle resolved by comic misadventure as Harry Sinclair orchestrates both escapades. The tale ends with a bungled wedding plan and a humorous epistolary twist.
A Chicago exchange compares New York and Philadelphia prices at Washington’s inauguration with today’s costs, showing widespread declines in essentials and many manufactured goods. Wages for skilled and unskilled workers are about 100 percent higher now, with tea sugar and soap notably cheaper, while butter and eggs rose slightly.
The strongest canal in the world runs 16 miles between Worsley and St Helen in northern England and is entirely underground. Built to save coal cost, it uses ordinary boats while men provide propulsion by lying on the tunnel arch roof and pushing with their feet against cross bars.
A historical note describes salt pork sprinkled with red pepper bandaged around the throat as an effective counter irritation for diphtheritic sore throat.
Newly published statistics show 2,272 soldiers are six feet or taller in the British army, reflecting a notable share of tall personnel and potential implications for recruitment and roles.
The excerpt argues that absolute liberty is unattainable and changes with history. It cites military service on Europe and contrasts nineteenth century official independence with modern constraints, asserting liberty is limited by outcomes and social power.
Professor Dight of the American College at Beirut analyzes skulls from a Kedron valley monastery to compare ancient and modern Caucasian skulls. He finds a two inch rise in cranial circumference, growth in brain height and anterior regions, but no width increase, implying higher brain development with civilization while lower brain regions lag.
Mr Edison discusses a far-sight machine in a conversation with a reporter about the upcoming New York World’s Fair. He says he would take an acre of fair space to cover with his inventions, claiming seventy are under way, and hopes to demonstrate vision range spanning hundreds of miles.
Paris contemplates adding three Eiffel-like towers to form a vast platform above the city for an air sanitarium. The idea envisions invalids climbing to escape smoke and noise, but the London Figaro voices doubt such a generation will benefit from such an aerial retreat.
A critic questions the claim that a million women know by test that Dobbins' Electric is the most economical purest and best. They note twenty four years of experience but say you give it one trial.
Practical tips emphasize salt and water uses for health and cleaning. Directions cover foot soaking for neuralgia relief, carpet brightening, salt as a teeth powder, post extraction rinses, willow furniture cleaning, broiling steaks, removing tea stains, brass polishing with salt and vinegar, and salt in whitewash. Exchange notes brief methods from home period advice.
Philadelphia based Lewis Bros and Co, a dry goods firm, has failed with debts totaling around four million dollars. Creditors brace for distribution while administrators prepare asset liquidation and settlement schedules.
Nostalgic short verse recalls Castoria as a remedy and comforting product from infancy to motherhood. The lines trace a mother’s care from baby to children with Castoria as the constant.
J J West loses control of the Chicago Times as new editorial direction takes hold. The issue notes a promotional pocket mirror offered to smokers of Tansill's Punch cigar. Disciples’ denomination plans a Minneapolis college. Perry Davis ParsKiller promoted as stomach and bowel remedy. Menominee awarded episcopal military school for Northern Wisconsin.
An old proverb on labor is cited and the piece encourages readers seeking light pleasant and profitable work to write to B. F. Johnson & Co. in Richmond Virginia for opportunities.
Correspondence says Muallakah touts Noahs tomb as a major site after listing Nimrods grave Adams sepulcher and John the Baptists tombs. The NY Mail notes the tomb is pitched as grand yet stretches 120 feet with Noah’s legs shown upright for space.
Mr. T. W. Blackhart, formerly of this city now in Hele na Montana, visits Louisville and shares a bear tale. He recalls hunters in Cook City who returned with fifty six bears killed in three days, including grizzly, cinnamon and black varieties, and notes bears roaming town streets last autumn signaling their ferocity and impact.
The 1887 census shows US Indian population on reservations at 264,599 with 21,300 mixed bloods. Births reached 4,794 and deaths 3,888, a net rise of one third of one percent, except New Mexico where growth exceeded two percent. Indian schools rose to 231 with 10,245 average attendance costing $1,065,379.
The article critiques trusts as devices to boost prices and mislead investors into buying stock. It highlights Michigan's bill banning contracts to limit production or fix markets as a rigid, concise remedy and urges careful scrutiny of trust securities before investing.
Farmers nationwide report a surge of seventeen year locusts fueling superstition about the wing letters predicting national fate. They cite 1855 W for war and 1872 P for peace, noting forthcoming wing markings as villagers await a wartime or bountiful forecast.
An observing lawyer describes a curious grave marker at Trinity Church on Main Street Germantown near Queen Street. The single tombstone bears the line When shall we three meet again suggesting a biblical misread of Shakespeare and a hint of the ludicrous.
The passage challenges use of large numbers by explaining that one million bushels is vast. It notes a train carrying 20,000 pounds per car would stretch ten miles, and wagons would require a 142 mile long train, illustrating the enormity of such quantities.
An English syndicate is credited with purchasing seven thousand acres of anthracite coal lands in British Columbia for 1 450 000 dollars. The remark notes fears that such buyers could control key industries across the Western Hemisphere and push others out or onto rents.
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