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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1884
Page
2
This official paper of Crow Wing and Cass counties is printed every Thursday morning. Subscription terms are 81.50 per year in advance. Editors and Proprietors N. H. Ingersoll and W. Wieland. Published from Brainerd Minnesota and mailed as second class matter.
The annual swear off arrives as Appleton opens a new $10,000 hotel. The Winnipeg thermometer notes 51 degrees below zero while Floridians enjoy ripe berries and tomatoes. The Academy of Music in Minneapolis burned on Christmas Day, loss $300,000. St. Cloud abandons its new telephone exchange. Christmas turkeys appear skeletal. New Year prospects dim. World’s Expo in New Orleans records cold drizzle on Christmas.
W. F. Thompson sues the Pioneer Press for 50000 dollars for libel. He was Farnham & Lovejoy's head bookkeeper and was prosecuted for embezzlement. The paper called him a self confessed robber and would be safe blower, a miscreant and villain.
Bradstreet's findings show a drop of 316000 manufacturing jobs across 21 states accounting for 90 percent of the sector. The report notes likely a larger total with further inquiry and cites declines in lumber and retail employment, including Stillwater Minnesota and Duluth areas, plus wage reductions and idle mills.
The examination of John Norland and John Waisanen at Duluth for the murder of J. Farley at Tower occurred on Saturday. Waisanen pleaded guilty, admitting he struck Farley with a hardwood club, burned the shanty, and hid the body. Norland claimed innocence but said he was present and received $20 afterward. both were committed to the county jail to await trial.
A lodge tale recounts Elder Toots accidentally setting his coat-tail pocket on fire as he arrived early with a pipe. Firefighters and irony follow as the elder, described with serene demeanor, ends up rolling on a waterless pail amid the bemused members. He warns against serenity and absent-mindedness, linking carelessness to financial trouble and social risk.
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