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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1886
Page
3
Doctor Simpson relates a judge's tale of imagined hauntings after a poisoner’s execution. A black cat and later a skeletal vision torment the judge, blurring lines between madness and supernatural presence. A physician tries to cure by removing time cues and distraction, but the patient dies nine days after the doctor’s departure.
A French industrial journal notes the steepest European railroad incline runs two miles from Engheim to Montmorency near Paris at 45 feet per 1000. Other lines reach 35 feet per 1000, while the Simplon road Alpine pass is 3 degrees. Cable and cog railways show higher grades, with Mount Vesuvius and Mount Washington listed among extreme inclines.
A verse from the Woman's Journal questions marriage as subservience. The speaker rejects unions where a husband rules and demands obedience, instead choosing independence even if it means waiting for a partner to change. The poem reframes marriage as mutual equality rather than domination.
In a New England farm village, seven Pettibone sisters cope with their father's death and looming poverty. Nanny proposes a plan: turn a half acre into a strawberry patch and raise bees to fund Jeannette’s care and the household. She bets on bees and berries to sustain all, despite doubters.
Four years later Uncle Ephraim recalls Nanny Pettibone expanding to a hundred hives now call them colonies and turning two acres into a bee pasture. She notes selling fifteen swarms at ten dollars, Deacon Parmalee ordering 800 pounds of honey at twenty five cents, and Bertha pursuing ink work while Jeannie and Abigail thrive. the family celebrates Nanny’s success and betrothal prospects with Squire Bartlett as the town speaks of their daughters’ growing talents and independence.
The piece urges broad knowledge, reading masters, and refined taste to overcome bashfulness. It stresses association with educated people, discerning art, and pursuing the best in books, music, and pictures. It notes you cannot know everything and that cultivation demands lifelong effort.
A moral tale links tenderness with mental might. George Stephenson, builder of the railway system, shut a hot window and later saw a wounded bird nestling in its frame. He opened the window, found the mother and four young dead, and mourned deeply for days, realizing his act had caused their deaths, despite his world changing prowess.
The article discusses life insurance as a prudent safeguard for families and institutions. It cites Hubert O. Thompson's lack of policy after his New York death, Walter Scott's two policies totaling 2 000 and 22 000 pounds for daughter and creditors, Noah Hunt Schenck's 30 000 dollar policy benefiting his family, and Gough's 20 000 policy. It also notes institutional use, highlighting the Greely Tribune association insuring their editor for 200 000 to stabilize finances and fund the Tribune building after his death.
A Salzburg cablegram reports Emperor William I arriving from Gastein, feeble at ninety after a four hour carriage ride and three hours by rail. Americans at the hotel sent flowers, and the emperor thanked them in German as his grandson Prince William translated. Chauncey M Depew praised German Americans and their loyalty to the fatherland. The prince renewed thanks as the emperor departed with the flower basket.
A Pleasant Home describes St Josephs Academy in St Paul as a caring, homelike school where sisters personally guide each pupil. Neatness, engaging studies, and practical training in cooking sewing and home management prepare future wives and mothers. Descriptive catalogs and a board rate of 150 per year are offered to interested families.
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