19 Aug 1887
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary Minneapolis St Paul timetable mentions times A12:10m 12:45 p m and A7:35 p m 8:15 p m with repeated A7:3 p m 8:15 p m in St Paul observations.
Crookston begins box sewer installation while Brainerd resolves its sewer question. Little Falls Transcript adds a job outfit to the office. Gladstone post office at Gull Lake is discontinued. One of quadruplets born at New York Mills has died. St Louis County agriculture society hires Proctor Knott for fall exhibition.
Report notes Mrs. Cleveland bathing at Marion Beach Massachusetts last Saturday and a nationwide alert before sundown. Five Minneapolis ball players were arrested for Sunday play at churchs in the vicinity. A Duluth store displays the legend The Lord helps those who help themselves here.
The drawing for the Globe baby benefit occurred in St Paul on Saturday and was secured by the daughter of H B Thomas of Hope Dakota Territory. In total 11,463 babies were returned for the prize.
Gov. McGull will appoint three probate judges to codify the state's probate laws under a recent act. About 100 applicants are vying for the positions.
The coroner's jury is inclined to blame Timothy Coughlin, who supervised burning the grass near the bridge hours before the Chatsworth railway disaster. Coughlin denies carelessness but cannot swear that his fires did not ignite the bridge.
Two young brakemen were arrested at Northern Pacific Junction on Wednesday for highway robbery in a box car near Barnum. The victim, a lone peddler, was seized and his throat cut as they threw him from the speeding car, though he survived. They are discharged and en route to St. Paul.
The Manitoba road between Brainerd and Crookston will swap old rails for heavy 60 lb per foot steel on the new track. The old rails remain in good condition and will serve on a separate Brainerd to Crookston link. The Journal man alone knows where rails lie on the Manitoba road.
Westbound passenger train No. 3 derailed at Amboy station around 4 am. The baggage car and a second-class coach flipped onto their sides. A freight train had been diverted to a side track. the brakeman forgot the switch and both he and the conductor were asleep when the passenger train arrived.
Fergus Falls has never voted bonds or bonuses to local enterprises citing that dams mills and shops here were built because they would pay investors Brainerd Crookston and St Cloud have issued heavy bonds for dams and other improvements yet received no more than Fergus Falls in outcomes per the Fergus Falls Journal.
The Minneapolis lumberman warns the South holds vast hardwood forests that will be crucial once Northern timber is exhausted. He notes ongoing depletion with little reforestation and cites a firm importing walnut and other logs from Arkansas, Texas, and Indian Territory, expecting continued southern supply this year.
A woman whispers of wanting to be an angel while a man nearby shouts for Johnnie to get his gun. The scene unfolds in adjacent rooms, hinting at danger and a tense urban atmosphere.
The Black Crook played to large audiences in Boston with two carloads of machinery. Albert Martinez and Ada Laurent drew applause for feats and ballet dancing. Del Vecho showcased musical tricks, including tones from twelve bottles, while the troupe delivered comic trapeze and a lavish finale before moving to Montreal and across the continent.
William Seely cut 222000 feet of pine from Leon Lum’s preemption claim in township 33 range 271 Minnesota 222000 feet sold at $6.25 per 1000 on the stump Lum’s entry canceled Lum offers $444 payment to settle the liability Assistant Secretary Muldrow authorizes Agent Chamberlain to accept the sum and close the trespass
A sensational, unconfirmed report from Pillager near Leech Lake says Indians fired whisky and attacked a settler. Deputy Marshal Beau lieu reports trouble near Mora where a drunken Indian party threatened a settler. Peter Gunderson confronted them, Sheriff Williams intervened, shooting two in a scuffle. Four suspects were arrested, fined, and discharged.
A quip from the Albany Express notes a comic contrast between men and women when drinking soda water. The man drinks in a single gulp with direct, bold motions while the woman hymns a careful, lip edge approach, drinking slowly and with measured grace.
Sam A Coxns of Ten Ten writes that after seven years of catarrh with loss of smell and taste, Swift's Specific cured him in fourteen small bottles. He worked crop seasons again and praises the blood purifier as a certain cure with a free mailed treatise. The Swift Specific Company, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
A compact list traces major rail accidents across the globe and nearby histories. It cites Camps at Campbell Pennsylvania 1856, Ashtabula Ohio 1876, Cuernavaca Mexico 1881, Tchenry near Moscow 1882, St Hilaire Canada, Tay Bridge Scotland 1864, Shipton England 1879, Winchburg 1874, Kentish Town 1862, Clayton tunnel 1861, Kirby collision 1857, and other fatal incidents with varied casualties.
A Labrador resident writes to the New York Herald warning that eight months of Arctic isolation could bring starvation and death, risking a Greely expedition like disaster if relief is delayed. The letter urges government action to reveal the true plight to the outside world.
A storm swept through a New Brunswick circus, tearing tents and causing chaos. Eyewitness accounts describe monkeys, horses, elephants, clowns, and tumblers tossed by winds as spectators fled and equipment lay scattered amid the wreckage.
Visitors to the North Dakota Fair in Grand Forks will witness a ten mile equestrian race for lady riders only from September 20 to 24. A $500 purse will draw famous female riders from across the United States, promising a remarkable contest. The author recalls a famed race featuring Miss Belle Cook of California against a noted Mexican.
Article advocates government regulation of proprietary medicines and medical practice. Dr. G. G. Green of Woodbury New Jersey urges laws to require examination of recipes by experienced chemists and physicians before licensing for general use. He cites Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower as examples to protect patients and professional honor.
A nostalgic look at the paper collar once popular across the nation from urban centers to the backwoods. The Meserole inventor’s fortune from the patent vanished amid a New York bigamy trial revealing only family character remains.
Minneapolis and St Paul plan extended entertainment beyond the state fair. Grand Opera Houses host pre fair seasons while the Battle of Atlanta and Gettysburg Cycloramas run nightly. The Minneapolis exposition and autumn concerts in St Paul parks accompany illuminated streets, arches, fireworks, and two harvest carnivals nightly during fair week.
In a humorous Washington tar exchange a gentleman asks for gooseberry pie in a dining car. The waiter explains geese were scarce after a cold and stormy last winter, leaving no gooseberries available this season.
An advertisement announces Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets offering cure for dyspepsia indigestion and constipation. Sold by Johnson and Bain with a positive guarantee at 25 and 50 cents.
Dyspepsia and indigestion are blamed on greasy or badly cooked food and irregular habits. Green's duce lover is credited with reforming digestive health and improving American eating happiness, advertised as affordable at seventy five cents through druggists.
In a terse late edition fragment, payments and sales are unclear as residents await a remedy. Johnson and Bain are listed as sellers amid anxious hours and unsettled details in the milling town.
The Paris Figaro describes an establishment outside Paris that collects bones from multiple individuals to assemble skeletons. The result, it claims, fools even scientists by wires joining bones from different people into a single skeleton. A Kansas woman awaits news as her mother falls ill. She hurriedly packs, names A H Adison to manage $10,000 in property, and departs for Iowa.
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