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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1885
Page
4
Meta Milton, mistreated by Mrs. Briggs, marries John Perkins after leaving the Briggs household. The couple struggles financially, moves to a modest cabin, and earns community sympathy as Deacon Perkins dies, revealing John’s rightful inheritance and Meta’s forgiving strength.
A fragment from James Whitcomb Riley about Ruth, the preacher’s daughter, who is sweet yet strong willed. She answers “yes” and “no” with a confident air, prompting her father’s gentle reproach and a tea party moment.
A poem depicts a mother praising her newborn son with tender images from bath to feet. The speaker notes others view life as social and worldly pleasures while she asserts the child as her world. The father sits nearby as the family shares quiet smiles and affection.
A woodland monarch oak narrates the rise and fall of a forest dynasty as he recalls his lost brother and the violent ax that ended their line. The tale blends nature’s memory with lessons of resilience and loss across ages.
A reflective panorama of historical queens who fell from power including Zenobia Cleopatra Artemisia Sophonisba Marie Antoinette Margaret of Anjou Lady Jane Grey Mary Bruce and others. The piece traces how fortune and fate led these sovereigns from royal stature to ruin and public memory.
A young man seeks Katrina Yager’s hand, but the family rejects him over a quarrel about a “schtutter” hand and language. The suitor departs in sorrow as a line about public punishment for three-card monte, thimblerig, and bunko steers surfaces.
Uxbridge Massachusetts ponders how Levi Wilson obtained wealth after a humble start as a stable boy. Remittances of about 50 000 dollars arrive from Worcester manufacturer Philip Moen while lawsuits over 150 000 dollars loom. The two men have never been seen together and the true relation remains unclear.
A long, varied column features quotes on world views from ancient thinkers, reflections on astronomy and harmony, notes on Ella Wheeler Wilcox and other authors, comic snippets, schoolyard humor, and Pocahontas history as analyzed by John Esten Cooke.
A humorous vignette shows Jane failing to use correct forms of be and Aunt Kate avoiding answers until the error is corrected. The scene centers on a counting task and a embroidery frame as the child racks her brain for the right tense. The tension builds until the climactic misstatement reveals the humorous struggle with language.
Baron von Bismarck lights a cigar for the Austrian envoy and sparks a fashion of smoking among Prussia and Austria in the Diet. Smaller German states feel the sting of prestige as they imitate the great powers. An elderly gentleman, once tobacco free, puffed a massive cigar to claim sovereignty, becoming a muted patriot unrecognized by history. There are 1,083 homeopathic students in the United States.
A Minneapolis Tribune note argues against fear and whip use. It compares horse training to teaching a child, emphasizing voice, hand guidance, and consistent words like left and whoa to elicit movement. The piece stresses patient, gradual understanding of commands through example and repetition.
Prof Huxley will shortly resign the inspectorship of fisheries. The post is valued at 3500 dollars a year.
Mark A. Miller, traveling agent for the Erie Railroad, writes from Portland, Oregon, that an attack of pleuro-pneumonia left him with a severe cough. After trying several remedies, he used Red Star Cough Cure and, after one bottle, began rapid recovery on the road.
Wheat prices ranged from 87c to 98Xc with No 1 hard at 98Xc and No 2 spring around 87%. Corn cash bids 45¾c, oats 25¾c, flaxseed No 1 $1.23, pork $10.02-$10.12, lard $6.65. Minneapolis reports No 1 hard 92c, No 2 hard 89¾c, corn rejected 44c, hay Tim 10-12. Postage rates from the US to Australia and New Zealand fall to 12c via Suez and San Francisco.
George Stevenson urged young men to persevere and finish what they start. After fifteen years he refined his locomotive, and in days others using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery reported relief from liver disease impure blood and chronic lung issues. The piece notes a possible shift at Michigan University with ex Justice Cooley likely to succeed Prof Adams as professor of history.
A pamphlet titled Dr. R V Pierce's treatise on diseases of woman offers guidance for female health issues. The work, illustrated with wood cuts and colored plates, is advertised by the World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York and mailed for ten cents in stamps.
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