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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1891
Page
4
The ad touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a small sugar coated laxative and cathartic. It claims the pills are vegetable harmless and gentle on the system with three to four pellets cleansing the liver stomach and bowels quickly and thoroughly. It guarantees satisfaction or money back, a hallmark of the seller's policy.
A dialogue notes Jones recovering from a heavy cold after taking a friend’s cure nit. The remark emphasizes reading people and self, urging self-education alongside books as a practical pursuit.
The passage praises experience as the best teacher and endorses Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as the safest remedy for malarial diseases including chills and fever and remittent fever. It is also described as sovereign for constipation rheumatism La grippe liver and kidney troubles and dyspepsia. The text notes that time strengthens rather than weakens regrets.
Macalester College highlights two main courses, ancient languages and German substitution for Greek, with special electives. Catalogue requests should be sent to Tur Deas, Macalester, Minn. A reflective line notes society profits from a man’s misfortunes and his difficulties rarely end.
A weekly feature asks readers to scan 3 inch ads for a unique word shared with Dr Harter s Lion Tonic Little Liver Pills and Wild Cherry Bitters Crescent trademark. Readers who find the word are told to send it in to receive a book lithographs and samples free.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. Wanted by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, agents and solicitors in every county in Minnesota. Liberal terms. State previous business experience and give references. Address E. J. Peet & Co., Managers, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The narrator recalls a dim hall scene where shadows move and a loved one appears on a landing. He hounds toward her but finds grave eyes and a lifeless mouth, as fear and coldness creep into his heart.
The tale follows Jim, an outcast raised in workhouses and jailed, who endures hunger and cold until a chance encounter with Hugh Boynton changes nothing until a late-night attack. Jim protects Boynton from three assailants, is beaten, and dies saving the man who once offered him a kind word, leaving a nameless grave and a cross as his memorial.
A Philadelphia Press piece notes two thirds of affluent travelers use passes and many spend 20 to 40 thousand miles yearly on trains. It highlights George Pullman as a famed host and the rising trend of individuals owning private cars and deadheading family trips on railroads.
Generous praise for achievable homes and women’s influence contrasts with the claim that teaching is a primary female domain. The piece argues teachers, not wives, should lead youth, noting English and American education rests with women due to their fit for the work, and questions whether unmarried sacrifice is required.
A list from official reports exposes many baking powders containing ammonia or alum. Authorities urge states to restrict adulterants, warning these additives harm health and cause skin and complexion changes.
All authorities report Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder free from ammonia alum lime or any adulterant. The product’s purity is described as unquestioned and ideal by experts.
A Northside woman woke at 1 a.m. to light the gas and prepare a meal while a burglar looted her apartment. She chose not to scream and returned to bed to wake her husband later, fearing the intruder would flee. The burglar took everything of value.
In the heart of a busy day a hunger driven thief grabs a gold watch but, moved by mercy, reveals a ghostly, hungry man who cannot steal. A crowd raises funds totaling about $30 as the stricken robber accepts help, torn between crime and humanity.
A reporter quotes John Sewell saying hazing at West Point is not as rough as in the past. He recalls past abuses like being rolled into ditches and dragged, but notes cadet officers and regulars could intervene if needed. hazing persists in milder forms.
Notes and Queries recounts eerie omens tied to nobles and houses across Britain. Tales include two giant owls at Wardour Castle, an oxen ham omen in Devonshire, a Benedictine nun warning a Yorkshire Roman Catholic house, and a specter woman foretelling a Bruce death, with Dr Norman McLeod cited for testimony.
A clever organ grinder in the city double his income by betting on two trained monkeys. He trains cues to switch caps and makes crowds wager against themselves, earning dollars while passersby assume they are aiding charity. The scheme relies on consistent bets on the same winning monkey.
Seymour official plans a Pine Street sidewalk using old pins from the Pin Co. shop to create an iron path. A past test on Broad and Pine showed corrosion-backed solidity, with dynamite drilling proving a three to four inch pin layer can be penetrated. The walk is said to endure storms and travel, with humor about dogs avoiding it.
Stephen A. Douglas tells diners in Chicago a North Carolina tale about a colored couple seeking marriage and a later divorce. The joke centers on a justice of the peace and the impossibility of unmarrying without court action.
A German widow among Hamburg arrivals asks the city to fund a street car for Broadway. She proposes to run it herself and repay the Ladies’ Aid Society by earning money from daytime service rather than receiving ongoing charity.
A Boston Transcript story recalls a western frontier woman entertaining American friends in London with naive yet vivid descriptions of European sites. She names Westminster Abbey and Mme Tussaud's, and at Rome speaks of hecatombs and martyrs in a humorous mispronunciation, stunning the dinner party.
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