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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
3
The New York Ledger notes Parisian society embraces cooking as an accomplishment. French women are highlighted as natural cooks with a refined display at a princess’s reception where warm dishes were prepared on elegant cook stoves. Aristocratic young women led the novelty while men showed eager appreciation.
A vogue among wealthy Jewish families features hair dressed high and liberally dusted with diamond powder. At a banker dinner party three women wore the look, their natural black hair turned grayish white, with a speck of black court plaster on each face to mimic antique fashion.
An electric expert warns that using steel-rod umbrellas in wet weather risks severe electric shocks if the umbrella contacts live arc lights. The advice stresses keeping a sharp lookout when the current is on to avoid injury.
Mrs Witherby and her partner joke about their earlier behavior before marriage. The exchanged quips cast a humorous light on how wedlock may have changed their perspective.
Petroleum has long been used in Germany to prevent scale formation on boll rs, reflecting industrial practice amid evolving wartime resource strategies and technical adjustments in processing lines.
Advertises Syrup of Figs as a pleasant liquid laxative improving health by cleansing the system. Claims benefits for colds headaches fevers kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. Warns buyers to purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co with its guaranteed name on every package.
The Paris correspondence reports a harmful mixture described as turning eau de vie into cognac by chemical action. The text notes lethal dose in dogs and warns readers that people pay francs for this poison disguised as champagne, causing death in some cases.
An advertisement by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo offers a $100 reward for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The copy argues deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and promotes Hall's Family Pills as the remedy, with circulars available and a 75 cent price for the cure.
The lemon industry in Florida is in its infancy but shown as profitable. Four to five year old trees yield two to four boxes yearly, mature trees five to ten boxes. Fine lemons sell for 2 to 3 dollars per tree. Planting is at one hundred trees per acre, so a ten acre grove could net 10 000 to 20 000 dollars annually at a minimum return of 2 dollars per box.
An amused line from the Atlanta Constitution shows a coinless banter over missing letters almanacs and papers with a plan to buy bunket side meat and quinine instead in a humorous local exchange.
In a chat between Mazie and Prima Donna actresses they discuss why performers use both real and stage names. The exchange explains frequent name changes to cover bill-posting and professional identity.
Grass is described as America’s most valuable crop and the only sure way to lush meadows is Salzer’s Extra Grass Mixtures. Farmers praised the seeds claiming 4 to 6 tons of hay per acre. Over 100 grass, clover, and forage seeds are sold. Send 7e postage to La Crosse Wisconsin for a free sample and seed catalogue.
A quoted claim from Oregon about air clarity says Mount Hood to Mount Shasta are visible 276 miles apart, with a counter in the east noting long sightlines. The dialogue includes the moon at 240,000 miles as a point about visibility on clear nights.
In a tense exchange John denies thrashing Jim Jones shamefully and admits he “wallowed him beautifully.” Jones questions the claim, prompting a clarification about the alleged beating.
Poetic antiquated lines praise a tonic and health preserver for aging ills. It claims to aid rheumatism lumbago blood poverty dyspepsia neuralgia and liver torpidity with a green and hale old age outcome.
A Fort Dodge Iowa Post item tells of a man who mortgaged his farm to buy his wife diamond earrings. She washed to pay interest, lost a earring in suds, tried to hang herself, fell on a Jersey cow, the rope broke during failure, and the cow broke its back. The husband shot at the cow but the gun burst and blinded him. the wife fled with a lightning rod peddler. The mortgage remains unsettled and may endure long.
An advertisement asserts a traditional teething remedy, Mua Wixeow's SooTuive Sreetr, as effective for cutting teeth. The copy promotes its use for infants and urges mothers to try the product.
The passage notes that the right hand, though more sensitive to touch, feels less warmth than the left when both hands are in basins of equal temperature. Even if the left basin is cooler, the left hand may perceive greater warmth, and the opposite would occur for left-headed individuals.
A playful scene from Puck depicts a man kneeling to sue for a woman’s hand. She smiles and explains that American jurisprudence cannot interfere this early, leading him to sit as she gently declines.
At a village gathering in The Bull, a blacksmith and grocer spread gossip about Captain Oliver and his stepmother Mrs. Evelyn, alleging a forbidden attachment with Basil Oliver. Hall defends them, while Darrant, the old servant, exits in disgust, vowing to protect his family from slander.
The excerpt blends a romantic domestic scene where Basil and Alice weigh love, jealousy, and duty as Lora gazes on with a sleeping child nearby. It shifts to a broad note on irrigation of the Salton Desert, detailing a $75.5 million Colorado River project to transform arid land in Southern California into a fertile garden, promising climate and economic benefits.
A distressed woman laments being unloved as distance widens from her parents while Basil tries to soothe her, lifting her hair and scolding softly like a caregiver after initial alarm.
Dairy farming now seen as essential to diversified agriculture across the United States and Canada. The article notes dairy can succeed nationwide with regionally adapted feed and marketing, emphasizing milk sales, cream, skim milk, and butter or cheese as viable products depending on location and market access. It discusses strategic herd management and the need to tailor practices to local conditions and rail routes.
The article argues feeding wheat to hogs improves pork lean quality and overall meat composition. It notes mixed grains like oats and barley raise quality, weakens reliance on corn, and suggests wheat aids manure value, field wind protection, and planning for diverse crops to stabilize yields and profits.
On New Year’s Day Miss Snobberly parades a colonial chair from Vermont as a priceless family heirloom. Mr. Oldfam notes its historical allure while a sidelong joke about a reproduction and aging fees reveals social pretensions. The scene fades with his departure after a final glance at the bill.
An Indiana reader asks about sterilizing milk and patent status. The U S Department of Agriculture describes a simple home method using a tin bucket an inverted pie pan perforated bottom and water to heat milk to 155 degrees F for thirty minutes then cools. Use a dairy thermometer and vent steam.
The Philadelphia Press notes rails in tunnels corroded by locomotive fumes. It explains that coal sulphur forms sulphuric acid, attacking steel. Separate notices state old Boston horse cars sold for five dollars each for children's play houses and coal sheds.
A reader reports cream from a new cow failing to churn into butter while cream from stripper milk churns normally. An expert advises heating milks, souring slightly, warming the churn, and monitoring temperature to prevent foaming and improve butter yield.
Mary Higsos offers practical tips for small dairy producers. She emphasizes clean washed crocks without soap, daily skimming, prompt churning after gathering cream, avoiding sour cream, and proper salting with a paddle to finish butter.
The article advises winter construction of feeding and watering troughs from large logs. It suggests selecting younger, sound timber, shaping a three-fifths log trough for feeding, two inch wall thickness, one foot ends treated with hot oil, painting with brown mineral paint, hollowing with an adze, and bolting planks with cross rods rather than nails for durability.
The article analyzes how heavy muscled breeds like the Derping and Dorking show differing breast meat yields with small winged birds being meat deficient. It notes the American taste for yellow legs hampers quality poultry and suggests crossbreeding Gray or colored Dorkings with Light Brahmas to combine size, sturdiness, and a yellow leg tint, while cross-ties are hardy compared to pure Dorkings.
Garden and Forest advises applying protection when soil is hard and frozen, using dry leaves evenly across the quarter. Lightweight cornstalks or pea brush help shield against wind, while heavy mulching with rotten material harms plants as spring comes, leading to blanching and poor growth.
Experts from the Illinois station highlight corn stover as valuable fodder for cattle sheep and horses. They propose substituting stover for hay, note practical handling issues, and discuss ensilage use. Studies show higher per acre value when corn is planted more densely and ear corn is fed with minimal husking or snapped feed proves best.
The American Cultivator notes that milking quality determines a sow s breeding worth. Early fed sows that are fattened with rich corn tend to be short and fat with poorly formed teats, while well fed young sows grow large framed and long bodied, likely good milkers. March breeders currently bearing young risk excess fat unless diet is adjusted.
The article advises banking earth around poultry houses to seal cracks and stop floor draughts. It recommends digging a drain around the houses to divert melting snow water and avoid dampness to protect the flock from sickness and losses.
Poultry manure stores more effectively in cold weather than in summer and less loss occurs. Saving every pound pays back the labor of frequent cleaning of the poultry house.
A reporter visits the Hon. Mr. Mudd’s residence at 8 p m and learns he is in Europe. After returning at 9 10 and 11 o clock the response remains he is in Europe, prompting continued inquiry.
In Arton Belgium the St Nicholaus festival marks a marriage negotiation day. Peasants parade in holiday dress and seek partners in market cafes. The spoRsman, trusted mediator, guides talks and division of the marriage portion. Upon engagement the couple and families seal plans before the festival ends.
Dr. E Trouessart notes in La Nature that fleurs de Venere form crystals when ink is dried on glass and viewed at 50 to 200 diameters. Ink bases from gall nuts and iron sulphate yield similar patterns, with cubical crystals suggesting magnetic iron oxide or possibly iron disulphide of marcasite.
The article reports Dr. Moor’s accidental discovery of a cure using permanganate of potash to treat morphine and opium poisoning. It details antidotal dosing of 10 to 15 grains dissolved in water, with repeated administration, and notes acidulation with diluted sulfuric acid or vinegar to render morphine soluble. It suggests benefits even after morphine absorption.
Experiments at St Pauls London explored arc versus incandescent lamps for worship spaces, focusing on stone absorption, massed lighting without stands, and glare control to ensure legible print for large congregations under the dome. Findings promise advances in ecclesiastical lighting via electricity.
In a Himalayan hailstorm a gardener drove a hatchet edge up into the garden to “cut the storm.” Catlin’s North American Indians recounts Mandan rites offering hatchets and edged tools to the spirit of the water to avert a great deluge, per Notes and Queries.
A pastime grows in Washington where lovers gift photos painted onto shaving mugs and china bric a brac. The art is burned in to fix the image, with amateurs often crafting the pieces and some sending photos to New York for quality work. The fragile keepsakes risk breakage if romance ends.
A terse exchange between an old man and a youth aboard a hansom reveals a clash of generations and attitudes toward progress as the youth defends risk taking while the elder recalls simpler times with horse car transport.
An old seed catalog ad promises wonderful yields from potatoes oats corn and vegetables. It invites readers to mail postage to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin for their real seed book and a sample of Giant Spurry.
A request about joining a bicycle club is declined with a note that the club fills up after the four o'clock Russian cabs. The exchange confirms limited availability and time of capacity.
The note asserts that mass science declares humans as machines and claims political bias makes people easy to influence.
Odd product note advertises Manson’s Magic Corn Galve claimed to cure money woes with a refund if not satisfied. Sold by a Granggist for 16 cents, promising value and relief in a terse market blurb.
The fragmentary text mentions New York and women wearing large hats, implying fashion or street scenes. Details are sparse and names or events are unclear.
A curiously framed slice recalls a flirtation with neuralgia as a beauty endures facial twitching. St Jacobs Oil is praised as a world famous pain cure said to heal nerves and enable happiness, arguing marriage should not follow chronic pain.
Hicks asks his wife to renovate a box of cigars she bought him. Mrs Hicks questions what needs changing and replies with a humorous quip about the request.
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