29 Dec 1893
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1893
Page
1
A petition in Milwaukee requests removal of the present receivers of the Northern Pacific railroad. Chicago streetcar lines carried 94 million passengers in six months of the fair, generating 4.7 million dollars for the company.
Andreas Magnusson finished a novel sleigh and tested it on Christmas Day. The two eight foot runners carry a center support where the operator stands, using one foot to propel and steer. The vessel, likely the first in this country, echoes Sweden where Sparkstotting devices move 75 to 100 miles daily.
The Burlington system details its 7,000 miles of line and key expansions from 1880 to 1894. It traces acquisitions, new gateways through Illinois to the Midwest and West, terminal developments in St. Louis and Kansas City, and upcoming Mississippi and Missouri river bridges. W J C Kenyon invites ticket and route inquiries.
The St Louis Globe Democrat offers semi weekly eight page issues twice weekly for a dollar a year. It claims to be the largest national news journal in the United States and promises news three days earlier than weekly papers.
A provocative essay argues science should fund a cure for snoring, praising medical specialization and asserting snoring harms families, marriages, and civilization. It imagines discovering a cure as monumental as Harvey Jenner and Krone Pasteur, calling for a Columbus of healing.
A collection of brief vignettes including Burke hosts a supper with Fox and Whig friends and a hungry in joke about beef, Thaddeus Stevens quips on disappearance, a paired remarriage in New York, Empress Josephine’s opal Burning of Troy, tissue paper origin, a dyspepsia quip, and Europe US agricultural capitals trends since 1840.
A dialogue reveals Mr Harlem Heights questioning Mr Uptown Boulevard about his consent to Cortland Street’s daughter marriage. The answer notes decades of opposition and a claim that the marriage makes the wife a mother-in-law, framing this as explicit vengeance.
A San Francisco Argonaut quip describes a celebrated portrait painter who, while sketching a counterfeit presentment of a lady, notes her attempt to tighten her lips. He offers to draw her face with no mouth at all, in a witty, offhand remark.
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