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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1887
Page
3
A devotional verse invites turning to prayer during long sunless days. The speaker asks guidance through spiritual light as faith wavers and hope stalls, urging communal hands of prayer to feel divine illumination.
Four sisters worry over an invitation to Ennui House for Aunt Judy and a curate. Gabrielle hides a lost youth as Theodore Marston returns. their past misunderstanding tests renewed feelings and pride.
A Bermuda letter to the Hartford Times compares Russian agriculture and villages with the United States, noting shallow plows, small one–horse teams, and log houses treated as comfortable in a vast peasant population. The piece reflects on potential reform through merit and contrasts Russian conditions with American progress.
This reflective piece compares fallen leaves to the vast yearly deaths of people, noting how many pass unseen as life shifts through cycles. It ponders absence and memory with a poignant cadence, ending with the epitaph idea: a cry, a strife, silence.
The article notes limited optimal orange growing areas in Southern California, highlighting Mesa lands as best for year round production. It discusses planting densities, costs of seedlings and budded trees, recent acreage and output in San Diego, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles counties, and estimates Riverside profits. It contrasts orange profitability with the more challenging lemon cultivation and curing needs.
A Brooklyn Eagle report quotes prison keepers and police urging housing for ex convicts on city outskirts. They argue such homes would offer honest work in manufacturing, preventing blackmail by fellow inmates who threaten exposure after release.
A patron's letter asserts kidneys drive most diseases and deaths including paralysis, heart disease, pneumonia, and insanity. It claims life insurers now require kidney analyses and cites Bright's Disease as a minor killer relative to hidden kidney dangers. The writer urges doctors to name kidney poison as the true cause of death to alarm the public.
Writers assert Warner's Safe Cure heals kidneys and liver by removing uric acid, backed by European Australasian American medical talent endorsements. They claim hundreds of thousands prove its efficacy, urge readers to judge by public verification and neighbor opinions, and commend the correspondence as a public obligation.
Three American socialites enter cloistered life at Visitation Convent on Park Avenue Baltimore. Sister Mary Mary Angela and Sister Rose leave worldly fame, wealth, and high lineage, including Miss Emily McTavish, great granddaughter of Charles Carroll, to embrace religious vows.
A humorous note from Town Topics about Arthur moping at home. His mother assumes illness, while he reveals it is his lack of whiskers he longs to have, hinting at adolescent vanity and social pressures of appearance.
St Jacob's Oil relieved Major Arnold of rheumatism at the Occi dental hotel in San Francisco California. The product is advertised as a remedy that deadens pain and allows the same daily activities to continue.
A report notes the author Ouida is in London and described as being in a notably misanthropic mood, coloring her public appearances and writings with a bleak outlook.
Brooklyn Board of Health officer recommends Red Star Cough Cure for throat irritation a tickling cough claiming immediate and permanent relief. Described as purely vegetable and harmless with a price of 25 cents.
A Berlin sourced report claims authentic evidence that General Boulanger expects France to fight Germany in 1588 if unassisted, with Russia or Balkan unrest possibly prompting a preemptive campaign. It notes Grevy and Goblet failed to shift Boulanger from military control, and peace hinges on his removal.
The officer orders his company to assemble while the captain recently reassigned to the army explains he has been commanding a militia regiment. The exchange highlights veterans returning to service and revival of units in Omaha.
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