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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1888
Page
7
The piece critiques pension grants for veterans as sometimes based on politics rather than disability. It warns that continuing precedents could undermine the honor of true veterans and harm meritorious applicants by making the veteran label a general plea for government aid.
The Agriculture Department reports progress against the cattle plague Pleuro-Pneumonia with state co operation and congressional authority. It notes successful eradication from Western and most Eastern states, sugar diffusion adoption boosting sorghum sugar, and studies on food adulteration. The department advocates scientific advance, rural improvement, and proper supervision of experimental stations.
President Grover Cleveland cites the Pacific Roads Commission majority report urging early attention to government railroad relations and land grants. He endorses a businesslike approach to extending indebtedness and improving district finances, with calls for licenses policing liquor sales Sunday observance taxes minor offenses and reform institutions.
A Toronto World anecdote has a somnambulist guest wandering down stairs with his bag. The boniface and porter wake him, return him to the cashier, and kick him out after he settles his unpaid bill. The tale implies somnambulism is costly at an alert hotel.
The fragment surveys archaic expressions such as heels over toes and peg out from Dekker Nashe Pepys. It notes card game roots for hand in one's cheeks and uses go off the hooks as a modern dying synonym reinterpreted by Pepys in 1665 diary entries.
A duluth window smash costs 150 in plate glass as a buzzard collides with a show window. Trials and verdicts span Fergus Falls Nobles and Stillwater with killers arson and murder. Fires, burglaries and escapes thread through Faribault Brainerd St Paul and Fergus Falls headlines.
A satirical note from the Lincoln Journal mocks a writer who signs letters with illegible flourishes. The piece targets confusing signatures and the reader’s presumed familiarity with the signer, ending with a ridiculed flourish about illegibility.
Dr Boucheron reports a curious ailment where a patient is deaf to speech in quiet rooms yet hears it in noise such as carriages trains or streets. The disorder described as veive and sometimes hereditary results from compression of the lath of the car Arkansaw Travel.
A collection of practical household hints covers cuisine, laundry, cookery, and fabric care. It includes simple recipes for poplar treats, methods for washing linen, preserving color, and improving air quality by absorbing gases with water, plus tips on dress sash styles and kitchen remedies.
The piece urges households to stock two lamp chimneys and a reserve supply of standard medical remedies, clean rags, twine, nails and screws. It advises keeping a screwdriver and hammer ready and stresses having a roof ladder and immediate access to water for fires. It compares good housekeepers to military commanders in disaster planning.
The text recommends nightly water by the bed for women, avoiding pillows and certain teas. A long sip aids sleep. beef tea is suggested as a substitute for green and black tea to calm nerves, reduce irritability, and improve sleep, especially for children.
Bulletin No 4 reports preliminary feeding tests on ensilage from Southern corn and timothy hay. Results suggest ensilage with grain is more palatable than moistened hay with grain, and that timothy hay promotes fat while ensilage boosts milk. Water temperature effects are noted but limited by inconsistent conditions.
The article discusses limited cheese stocks and rising prices, rising home cheese consumption, and weather effects on cheese exports. It notes large summer wheat yields, damp milk rooms requiring lime, and Horton Gillis’s giant creamery. It covers dairy cow udders, fruit and poultry shifts due to England's poor crops, open-range cattle, feed mixtures for livestock, cheese quality concerns, and roof painting as preservation.
Prof E W Stewart advises farmers to warm cow water to 60 70 degrees in late fall and winter. Experiments show a 5 8 percent milk gain from warming water, but the stable must first be warm and well ventilated. Secure shelter then arrange simple water warming.
At a Mississippi Valley Dairy and Creamery Association meeting Prof. Sanborn and Mr. Sawyer compare feeds. They claim a ton of hay lasts 66 days for one cow, while one acre of ensilage feeds nine cows for 18 months, a ratio they deem financially decisive.
T B Terry advises keeping potato seed in barrels at near freezing temperatures to avoid cold damage. He suggests 33 to 34 degrees with a well built cellar, warns against temperatures dropping too close to freezing, and notes potatoes tolerate brief freezes down to 29 degrees. A small oil stove can safely warm the cellar when needed.
Wife accuses husband of taking a bet over a horse race with the promise of a riding horse, claiming the husband predicts his candidate will win while the rival has no chance. The husband insists the bet was fair and aimed at acquiring a horse cheaply for the wife.
James P. Schaeffer of Rockland, Pennsylvania, faced a six foot winged giant as a hawk swooped from above and ripped clothing and flesh with talons and beak. He fought back with a club, stunned the bird, and killed it after a fierce struggle. he ended home wounded and confined.
A collage of humorous quotes and anecdotes from newspapers. Jokes about language, manners, school, and family life span nations and time. Readings include misheard lines, clever retorts, and a child’s star gaze.
Young Mr. Sissy and Miss Vere de Vere share a tranquil moment beneath a chestnut tree as autumn air cools. He breaks silence after fifteen minutes of sucking his cane, and they discuss the beauty of cloud shadows moving over harvested fields.
The piece explains a proxy marriage practice in Holland called marriage by the glove. A bachelor in Dutch India selects a bride through a Holland intermediary, sends a photo and a power of attorney via a glove, then the proxy marries and the wife sails to join the husband. The arrangement is described as binding and inheritance rules apply if partners die before meeting.
Henry Rankin and Geo Toor of Mapleton are jailed in Fargo over the abduction of 12 year old daughter of H Warner who farms 640 acres there. Toor says Rankin and the girl were married by a Davenport justice but she is under the age of consent. The case involves alleged drugging and a near-lynching at Lapieton.
A reader quips about the ship name Psyche while a medical ad urges Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for 25 cents and Salvation Oil for neuralgic pains, noting such attacks can be triggered by a cold breeze and advising treatment.
Will Schrieber, a 22 year old teller at the First National Bank of Columbus Indiana, stole about $8500 then fled to Canada. L K Long, cashier, says Schrieber told him he would be in Toronto and that a woman appears in the case. The loss may exceed the stated amount.
An advertisement touts Brown's Bronchia robes as a quick relief for coughs sore throats and congestion. It claims superiority to similar remedies and notes the product is sold only in boxes with price lists and photographs available from Bradstreet Thurber & Co Minneapolis for office or library use.
A description extols Moxie as sustaining the nervous system for aging men and repairing the wear of a long business life. It contrasts with a young man’s habits and claims a single tumbler can wash away recent intoxication in an hour without adverse stimulation.
Emma Jackson aged twenty was shot and killed by her fourteen year old brother Harvey Ballew in Glasgow Missouri. The dispute began when she asked for water and a threat to whip him led to her going for water. He placed a shotgun to her face and fired, tearing her jaw and neck.
Dr J H Combs of Owensville Ohio claims Scott s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites cured four hereditary lung disease cases. He says they improved from coughing chest pain rapid breathing fever and emaciation to gains of 16 to 28 pounds and no longer need medicine.
Minneapolis firm Bradstreet Thurber & Co promotes holiday novelties in furniture, draperies, bric-a-brac, and interior decorations and invites requests for photographs and prices.
Constant call for a good cough and croup remedy brings Allen's Lung Balsam in three sizes. Available at druggists for 25 cents 50 cents and one dollar per bottle.
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