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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1886
Page
3
Out of Tile Depths in Salem Family Tale
A narrator recalls Nanny Dawson Willis daughter of Salem, her sad life and marriage to Deacon Willis, and her hidden past. It centers on Nanny’s quiet sorrow, her mother’s mournful memory, and a shipwrecked husband who returns after years abroad to claim his life and the family. The tale ends with the revelation of Ned and Nancy as rightful spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanny Jones
Salem
Squires Jones
Edward
Edward Dawson
Chelsea
Nanny
Dawson
Ned
Boston
Bombay
Cemand
United States
Mrs. Jones
Squire Jones
Nanny Pawson
Hannah
Deacon Willis
Mrs. Dawson
Deacon
Nancy
Willis
Peabody
Hon
Charley
Willises
Nannie
Nan
Nancy Dawson
Hannah Willis
Visitor Returns as Deacon’s Death Triggers Quiet Reunion
A narrator recalls a returning figure who guarded Nanny and visits after learning the old deacon has died. He hints at previous events and invites the speaker to meet his wife and two individuals who "rose from the dead" on an August day, signaling a tense family reunion.
Death of Louis Napoleon Reflected In Norton’s Review Remarks
The New Princeton Review notes Louis Napoleon died on January 9 1873. Carlyle reflects with pity on the man’s life and end calling him a tragic comic figure. He recalls Napoleon III’s visit to London and the crowds amid deformity and misery seen along Piccadilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Eliot Norton
New Princeton Review
Louis Napoleon
Carlyle
Stanley's
Saarbruck O’ Sedan
Piccadilly
London
Brother Gardner Declares Mottoes Doomed in Club Debate
Detroit Free Press reports Brother Gardner rejects replacing the club’s motto wall citing a preference for steady character over slogans. He recalls misdeeds by merchants and neighbors driven by mottos such as Live and Let Live and The Early Bird Catches the Worm, arguing true virtue requires action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Gardner
de Pusson
Dar
Hull
Worms
Dis
Detroit Free Press
The Two Month Warning From A Great Physician
A dying man in a waiting room learns from a physician that he has at most two months to live. He hurries to finish tasks, show his love, and honor his life, before passing, while the narrator reflects on the haste and meaning of that final window.
The General Manager and the Wheel-Tapper
A Chicago Herald anecdote recalls S. S. Merrill then GM of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul line. Merrill corrected staff on tamping and wheel checks yet kept generosity when a wheel-tapper (Pat) mistook him for a poor worker. Pat apologizes after realizing Merrill’s identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Milwaukee
Her Respectable Papa S Opinion On Love
A dialogue from Chamber's Journal shows a daughter and mother and brother debating a suitor. Each voice argues whether the man is worth loving based on income looks and social standing, until the daughter insists she loves him despite flaws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilis
The Price of Cheap Goods and Sensible Conscience
Sam Kruger a laborer buys cheap shirts and pants only to be haunted by a vision revealing brutal wage-cut oppression behind low prices. A pale fellow named Charlie Wilson advocates psychometry and moral reckonings as the bundle exposes sweatshop misery and child labor in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Kruger
Sam
New York City
Clackem
Charlie Wilson
Willsen
Charley
Soya Y
New York
Christ of Humanity
Diet and Dyspepsia Across Medical Opinion
The article surveys varying expert views on cheese digestion and supper habits. It cites a French chemist’s claim that adding petals aids cheese digestion, a German chemist who finds cheese no less digestible than meat, and debates on whether suppers aid sleep. It quotes Sir Henry Thompson doubting milk as a universal food and favoring water to quench thirst, aligning with vegetarian views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Henry Thompson
Percey
Real estate ownership praised as civic virtue and safety
The article argues that individual ownership of land strengthens public safety and citizenship. It links home and farm ownership to dignity, self-respect, and lawful behavior, noting that property acts as a lasting, inflation resistant investment and a foundation for social order. It urges young men to acquire real estate as a path to stability.
Bloomington Kiss Provokes Town Gossip in Burlington
A Springfield visitor attracted much attention from society men in Burlington as she described a salutation she called the Bloomington kiss. She recounted feeling like a tub of roses in honey and experiencing sensations described as nerves on feet of diamonds, with angels and honeysuckles nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Springfield
Union
Bloomington
Diphtheria Fumigation Advised For Schools And Homes
The American Medical Journal urges daily sulphur fumigation in schools and households to prevent diphtheria spread. Isolate patients, fumigate rooms after hours, and use gentle sulphur fumes to permeate crevices, warning the practice costs little and causes no harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Medical Journal
Beecher's Ocean Voyage Recalls Wartime Sea Sickness
In Cincinnati Enquirer correspondence, Mr Beecher recalls a sea voyage aboard the Asia in 1850 with stories of seasickness and memories of the crew singing a familiar tune. He narrates a later voyage on the Etruria noting pantry clatter and a grim smile from the harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Beecher
Etruria
England
Asia
Gabriel
Calina
Tramp Is Foiled by Courageous Women and a Loyal Dog
A ragged tramp arrives at Wesley Gould’s Plumsock New Jersey home and is repelled by Mrs Gould. He later assaults Whalen Green and his wife, injuring Mrs Green as their bulldog heroically disables the intruder. The assailant flees toward Lake Hoshipecong, leaving bloodied clothing behind. The loyal dog dies guarding the Green household and will be buried nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Journal
Wesley Gould
Plumsock
N. J
Whalen Green
Washington to Remain Capital Says Correspondent
A Washington correspondent argues the capital will stay in Washington City as long as the Union lasts. He cites railroads and telegraphs shrinking distance, political and financial interests in the city, and the value of government buildings and parks, urging that relocation is unlikely and unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cleveland
Washington City
United States
Union
London
Great Britain
Paris
France
Pekin
China
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Russia
Getting Into Bed Without Awak ing His Wife
A man named Ferguson plans to evade a curtain lecture by sneaking home and climbing into bed without waking his wife. He undresses in the hall and sleeps, then quietly dresses in the hall and leaves for work, telling a servant he will skip breakfast. The wife has already left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson
Eliza
Classical ideals of female beauty by Leigh Hunt
The text extols a natural easy figure with a round throat and pillar like waist. It contrasts fashionably small waists with Venus de Medici measurements and praises proportionate hips feet and arched arms. It urges balanced shoulders and graceful limbs without stiffness or excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh Hunt
Venus de Medici
Five Hundredth Anniversary Festivities At Heidelberg University
Celebrations for Heidelberg University’s five hundredth founding proceed as visitors fill the Rhine city with pageantry and singing clubs. A Rochester man named Charles Cassidy, linked to the Claremont shooting, is jailed in Claremont after examination and denial of bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg University
Palatine Ruprecht I
Rhine Valley
Charles Cassidy
Claremont
Marshal Edmond
Rochester
Getman
Justice Rand
District Court
Edmond
Kansas Democratic nominations list for state offices
The slate includes A. M. Whitelaw for associate justice from Kingman, G. Isett for lieutenant governor of Neosho, W. F. Pattillon for secretary of state from Ford, A. B. Devinney for attorney general of Olathe, W. D. Kelly colored for auditor of Leavenworth, L. B. Burchard for treasurer of Jewell, and W. J. Montgomery for superintendent of public instruction from Stockton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
A. M. Whitelaw
Kingman
G. Isett
Neosho
W. F. Pattillon
Ford
A. 8. Devinney
Olathe
W. D. Kelly
Leavenworth
L. B. Burchard
Jewell
W. J. Montgomery
Stockton
Kansas Agriculture Board Estimates State Grain Output
The Kansas state board of agriculture estimates winter wheat production at 12,360,000 bushels, spring wheat 026,000 bushels, oats 32,194,000 bushels, and corn 120,000,000 bushels for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Medical appeal for debility treatment from Buffalo group
A short advertisement urges young or middle aged men with general debility to mail ten cents for a large medical treatise. It cites the World Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York and notes the free pans signed the sundry civil and general deficiency bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Free Pans
Your Friends Will Never Tell You About Your Breath
A satirical warning about offensive breath urges use of Dr Sage’s Catar rh Remedy to heal mucous membrane and improve social reception. Separately a Zealand New Hampshire forest fire destroyed $39000 worth of timber and Winnipeg prepares a monument to Canadian soldiers of the Riel rebellion with a rifle‑armed figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Riel
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Lageard
Kate Woodbridge Michaelis
Philadelphia Press
Pat
Fabers
S.S. Merrill
Merrll
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Dry Goods Chronicle
Beecher
Lina Darky
Cincinnati Enquirer
Female Beauty
Fort Ellis
Mont
Ruger
Department
Third Infantry
First Cavalry
Fort Custer
Fifth Infantry
Fort Totten
Dak
Seventeenth Infantry
Department of the Platte
George G. Hunt
Fort Assinaboine
Mexico
Partido Liberal
Diaz
Constantinople
Hagerstown
George W. Harris
St. Jacobs
W. J. Flint
Vancouver
Pacific Coast
Yokohama
Flint
Crns. P. Williams
Philadelphia
Peel
Brand
Arthur Wellesley Peel
Warwick
Leamington
Benton
Montana Independent
ST. Joseph’s Academy
Hand
State Board of Health
Dublin
Parnell
Gladstone
Zealand
N. H
President
Cleveland and Bride
Wisconsin
Garfield
Grant
Cramer
Aikess & Chamber
Wis
Thomas. Bach
Supreme Court of Montana
Samuel L. Gibson
Pensylvania
Fort Rock Agency
Montana
W. W. Anderson
Kentucky
Crow Creek
Lower Brule
Samuel Jacobs
Samburyg
Iowa
David W. Clark, Jr
Valley City
Wilsor Colfax
Pierce
Merchants Hotel
Lake City
Hall
Ayer
Gen. Logan
Robert Seeger
St. Paul
Mctaine
Munice
Ind
F. W. Farmington
Owatonna
Minn
Connecticut
Releif
Pisco
Lyon
Cole
Hood
E.H. Ranp
W. 9Th Street
Oswego
N. Y
Mary Atkinson
Summerfield, Pa
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Esterbrook Steel Pen CO
Camden
John St
E. Roth & Bro
New Oxford
Penn
Mary F. Hanson
Fifth Ave
Minneapolis
Mars
G. W. Bonpick
Fineapol
Brown
Crepper
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore
Steenth Ave
Porrice Dave & Caewican Co
Holeva
Cpiufi
Ds. J
Lebauer
Ohio
Pensions
C. M. Sites & Co
Washington, D. Co
W- C. Page
Marshalltown
Enee
N.P. Boyer, & Co
Coatesville, Pa
P.O
Mina
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
Tux Humage Iquepy Company
Lafayette
Pecnet
T. S. Gardner
Palace Building
Cincinnati
O. Nau
America
ST. Paul, Minn
Qalllas
Est
Pullman Palace
Mason N Organ & Piano Co
New Orléans Exposition
Prot
Copit
Sam Iplecan
I, Frer, Rus! A Cement CO
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WHEAT
Woodward & Company
Corn Exchange
Ower SS
Simmons
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