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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1895
Page
3
Luke Abershaw enters Medlicott's service as a clever, loyal secretary. He earns admiration while arousing distrust among staff. Medlicott weighs Rosamond and Godfrey's prospects, and Rosamond confronts the aunt’s plan to marry her off to Godfrey due to wealth and status. Rosamond leaves, spurning a charity loan, as Medlicott consoles himself with calculated control.
A tale from Howe's Every Day Book recounts St Martin, now bishop of Tours, walking to Rome. He meets the devil who is turned into a mule, then mounted by the saint who crosses the journey with occasional mulish fits, all ending at Rome. The tale was once a widely believed miracle in Catholic lands.
A writer recalls two well dressed women in a shop with 1000 plus novels priced at three cents each four for a dime. One woman pretends to buy two Copperfield volumes for two cents while secretly taking three for eight cents, joking about saving pennies and pounds. The scene ends with amusement and speculation on the ruse.
The portrait puzzle hides three historic heads from the era: Napoleon with his distinctive hat, his second wife Marie Louise of Austria, and his mother Letitia. The Philadelphia Record notes the likenesses appear within a single almanac illustration.
The article notes long religious fasts in Servia including seven weeks of Lent and other multi week periods. It highlights that in Pirot fasting is severe, with about half the days of the year designated as fast days causing health and military concerns due to abstinence from cooking and meat.
In Henry van Dyke’s Old-Fashioned Fishing the rod arrives in four joints with extra tip and brass reel. A boy dons high rubber boots and tests rivers within ten miles of Caldwell, learning angling under parental example as a new era begins.
A cautious adviser urges careful deliberation before approving Clara's marriage to the older Mr Cashman. He vows to have all his books examined by an expert.
Description from the London Dairy details Chippenham’s new cheese factory beside the Royal Wilts Bacon plant. Milk arrives within five miles, is cooled, pressed, and matured in racks, with electricity lighting and adjoining steam power. Farmers benefit from the venture’s aims to improve English cheese and compete nationally and abroad. Charles K Farley notes dehorning cows, calving timing, and seasonal care for dairy herds.
The American Cultivator advises summer manuring after mowing to improve yields. Apply manure in August or September, early July if cut then, and even strawy manure helps. Multi-year applications boost yields. fall harrowing aids reseeding. Proper pasture care sustains successive hay crops and raises profitability.
The Illinois crop report of June 20 notes widespread hog grazing in wheat and oat stubble, especially where crops are cut. When crops fail to pay, turning fields to hogs can be profitable, but requires careful feeding, clean water, and temporary shade for hogs during peak heat.
Ed Girardin of Wisconsin outlines drastic measures to eradicate cholera in fowls including burning infected quarters with quicklime and sulphur, disinfecting droppings with copper, feeding charcoal, carbolic acid water, and Douglass Mixture with copperas and sulphuric acid, warning that handling sulphuric acid is poisonous.
E. of Kent County Delaware advocates winter oats as an ideal replacement for spring oats. They mature with winter wheat, resist severe weather, and yield 50 to 80 bushels per acre on good soil. One and a half bushels per acre suffices for sowing, with strong straw and high feed value for clover.
A writer likens a troop of wild turkeys in Missouri to a regiment of soldiers. They move in ordered lines from dawn to an hour before sunset scanning fields, pasture, and corn with keen eyes, harvesting insects and grain alike. Missouri corn is described as cheap, with the turkeys doing more good than harm.
A Wisconsin dairyman explains white specks arise from cream drying on top and from excess skimmed milk. The remedy includes working butter a second time within six to twelve hours, washing specks as they form, or straining cream before churning to prevent specks.
The text advises using soap suds as fertilizer for tomatoes and mixing one bushel of wood ashes with five pounds of nitrate of soda. It covers onion storage to prevent rot, removing rotted tomatoes to stop infection, and cautions planting certain varieties. It notes the U S grows more potatoes than Britain but Britain yields more bushels. It also explains how to detect borers in squash vines and how to treat them by exposing and removing borers.
Foreman W. S. Cook and Engineer D. Harrity unveil a low cost method to recover naptha, ammonia liquor and gas from coke by products. One bee hive oven yields about forty gallons of crude naptha in twelve hours, with potential daily revenue of thousands, while preserving coke output.
A Demorest’s Magazine excerpt notes that Maori people rarely kiss, preferring nose rubbing and arm embraces. It describes tattooed lower lips as a fashion, and explains Maori greetings with spears or clubs planted in the ground before they clasp shoulders and rub noses while crooning to mark peace and mourning.
The Rochester city engineer reports an emphasis on photography for records of old structures and construction. He created 196 negatives 390 prints and 156 lantern slides for study public education and legal use.
The Royal Baking Powder is touted as the easy safe and certain protection against unwholesomeness for bread biscuits and cake. It cites favorable reports from medical authorities the U S Government official chemists and Boards of Health proving its purity free from alum lime and ammonia and its wholesomeness. The copy also notes its greater strength makes it more economical than alum powders.
A class of bright high school girls devise a circulating letter to avoid writing mails during vacation. The plan works as letters pass from one to the next until nine are in circulation. One girl’s long note forgets to include Sadie’s town, sending the batch to the dead letter office. The narrator regrets the mishap but endorses the idea.
Dialogue between an elephant and a lion from a Chicago Tribune strip features a jab about appearances and ears, with the lion quipping about ivory teeth as the elephant noses through the cage.
An Indianapolis Journal snippet depicts a leap man in a yellow vest claiming to have saved a baby named Trilby after nearly being named. He evasively cites copyright liability as his motive to avoid naming details.
A collection of humorous vignettes about bishops, priests, and scholars. Stories include a cathedral verger denying flashy prayers, a Belgian bishop at a Highland welcome, and Sir John A. Macdonald's quips about kilts and trousers. Also recounted are anecdotes about Sir John’s reception, the Duke of Wellington, and pithy lines from Oxford and religious figures.
King William IV delivers a wry quip after a near mishap. He points to an empty bottle and quips that it has served its duty once and will do so again, provoking a marine colonel’s astonished reply in a light court anecdote from Alfred Miles.
Woodite has proven successful as an insulator for high tension currents at the Deptford station of the London Electric Supply corporation. In three years of use there has been no breakdown or failure, according to a London exchange. Previously insulating pole pieces of field magnets in the large dynamo posed great difficulties. A tension of 40 000 volts could not pierce woodite sheets one eighth inch thick, and the material resists oil even at high temperature.
Theresa Renaud five of No 2004 East Grand avenue was run over by a Frisco locomotive after leaning over to view a departing train at Union Station. She escaped death with only a slight scalp wound and a real wound on her leg. Eyewitnesses and station staff confirmed the sequence as the girl vanished beneath the wheels then crawled out and rejoined her mother. The mother rushed her to the dispensary before proceeding to Old Orchard on a later train.
Harold, an experienced suitor, and Ada celebrate their engagement after Ada reveals she owes her happiness to the girl who broke him in. Harold asks to meet her, and Ada hints at gratitude to a mysterious "girl who broke you in" as the scene closes with affectionate banter.
An old ad claims No-To-Vac cures a nervous condition caused by tobacco use. It promotes chewing or smoking as harmful to nerves and promises relief from nerve weakness. The promotion directs readers to Sterling Medicine City in New York or Chicago for purchase.
The London Truth notes a prodigious hurly burly over presentations at drawing rooms some privately canceled. With many presentations per season mistakes occur, yet courts do not seek inquiries into unknown slip shod names. The presenter is held responsible for mistakes and is often barred from court for years, or permanently in flagrant cases. Lizzie Ferrel of Camp Street Harrisburg Va endorses Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
A fragment from a dialogue ponders a peculiar idea about marriage and rings. The exchange hints at a humorous or nonsensical reflection on love and symbolism without clear context or resolution.
Whippleigh reports progress in quitting cigarettes by switching to a pipe. Briefleigh asks about his method, and Whippleigh says he is tapering off successfully by adjusting the pipe’s tobacco mix, using two thirds paper to one third tobacco.
A buyer can enter a shop and find skirts in gwinghanm satin brocade and other fine fabrics, well cut and tailor-made. The same store offers waist styles varied enough to create many looks, with black satin or silk skirts paired with different waists and accessories to achieve multiple gown effects.
A crudely written local period piece promotes Trosteller's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for inflammatory rheumatism. It claims the remedy can arrest at the start and relieve walavia kidney complaints dyspepsia constipation neuralgia debility and hasten convalescence.
A clipped Wochenschrift item presents a humorous exchange about marriage and difficulty pronouncing a name. The First Lady asks about marrying Tierr Kievertezakoff ekit, the Second Lady replies she will after learning to pronounce his name.
Harold faces criticism as a fortune hunter while family voices differ on motives. The line “papa calls you a fortune hunter” reflects tension and suspicion among relatives in a clipped Texas Siftings fragment.
A historical remedy claim describes Syrup of Igs as a gentle cleansing medicine to cleanse the system. It promises to ease costiveness and biliousness, awaken kidneys and liver, and relieve headaches or fevers without irritation.
A night watchman testifies to the assault incident with odd phrasing about a jacket behind a stove. The rival magistrate Conrad faces charges amid conflicting statements.
A tramp questions Herr Guthers at the front door about yesterday’s hat and light top coats he wears and asks for a walking stick for winter. Premdonblatt notes the encounter as a unresolved exchange at the doorstep.
A brief comic anecdote from Texas Siftings describes a young man with a girl who asks for a cent. The man denies having any money, grows irritated, and the pair exchange small talk as the scene ends with the woman smiling.
Tucker challenges a claim that the church is full and Parker replies there is always room for one more. The exchange hints at a discussion about inclusion and hypocrisy within a religious community.
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