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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1894
Page
4
N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland editors publish a weekly paper in Brain erd Crow Wing County Minnesota from Sleeper block rooms 5 and 7. The paper advertises a yearly subscription of $1 50 and claims the finest printing shop in the city.
Brainerd items include Nellie Howe visiting St. Cloud. O. C. Wright and H. W. Congdon to open a paint shop on South 6th Street. J. M. Quinn fire loss adjusted through J. R. Smith. D. M. Clark & Co. touts hardware stocks and heating stoves. Wedding and lecture notices feature Rev. Edmands and Mr. West at the Y M C A.
Local items report a possible dam across the Mississippi at Sauk Rapids and a flurry of community news. J. S. Campbell leads Gull River post office. Mrs. John Bubar travels to Chicago for ailing mother. Dan Nestor injured at Little Falls. G. N. LaVaque enters state auditor race.
The Inter state Milling Co hosted a bread contest for women using Gold Dust flour. Judges from the relief society selected loaf 51 for a five dollar prize. The winner was Mrs Mary Barrick, age 87, who received a blue ribbon and the prize was shared with needy families.
Henry I Couen reports 15 cloaks sold in three days last week at half price, explaining brisk sales and discount pricing.
The council met on Tuesday night by mayoral call to review a petition signed by about sixty to seventy business leaders on water hydrants’ deplorable state. The fire committee will consult with the water company and report next meeting.
Mrs P L Goss died at Deerwood on January 31 from lagrippe at age 50. She was sister to Mrs Blackburn of this city and will be buried beside her husband at Evergreen cemetery after funeral at the Episcopal church officiated by Rev Geo H Davis. Geo Spicer died January 29 at age 40 from liver trouble. funeral Thursday at the Baptist church with Rev G E Rowe officiating. he leaves a wife and daughter. Miss Maggie Aderson died at Grave Lake last Saturday aged 15. burial at Evergreen cemetery. Jackob Atsal died Sunday aged 70 from chronic diarrhea. funeral held Tuesday at the Catholic church with Pop Thomas Post in attendance. he was an old soldier.
C N Parker offers trade of fine ewes with lamb for green jack pine wood. Price: sheep three dollars fifty cents each. Wood priced at one dollar fifty cents per cord piled beside track at East Parker or West Parker Sidings on Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway, or at Electric power house at one dollar eighty five cents per cord.
A customer proposes exchanging a small amount of real estate for Northern Mill Co. time checks. Keene and McFanopen are named in the trading idea.
Gov. Nelson proclaims that petitions from Cass and Kittson counties conform to law for creating new counties. The measure will go to voters at the next general election. The antebellum notes comment on Baldwin and labor, while C. B. White markets loaded shells.
The regular board meeting approved the secretary and treasurer reports showing three months expenses of 10573 85 including salaries, insurance and building contract balance plus 1200 for new seats. A five year contract with American Book Company was approved at state contract price with exchanges for new editions and no price rise during the term. Wentworth arithmetic and MecGuffy replaced by Robinson arithmetic and Harper's reader. Spencerian copy books kept.
The excerpt argues that military drill builds the whole man and fosters quickness, subordination, and national service, contrasting it with casual school exercises. It cites Benjamin Harrison’s endurance and Parkman’s illness as context, then describes a railway collision prevention apparatus using traveling iodized paper and a platinum stylus to mark positions on rails for signal control.
A theater exit erupts in laughter as one guest, mistaking a bundled stranger for a friend, delivers a powerful slap on the back. The revealed target calmly responds I am he, prompting the lighter retort I beg your pardon sir but to tell the truth I took you for another man.
Selection from Pall Mall Budget and Troy Press discuss traveling etiquette and behavior of travelers of different nationalities toward an older lady on a steamer. The piece notes French rudeness, German indifference, Austrian politeness, English courtesy, American habitual kindness, and British colonist attentiveness, followed by reflections on animal ferocity and advances in surgery including tracheotomy, artificial limbs, deaf ears, and a false eye.
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