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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1885
Page
4
A playful verse compares a woman's changing moods to many things from a clock to the sea to a lemon amid humorous, sometimes biting images. The speaker concludes with a blunt line that she is like nothing on earth but a woman.
In Elkton, young lawyer Erton Scott promises his dying mother to wed within the year. On New Year’s Eve he arrives with Florence, a noble surprise bride. The widow rejoices as her son’s wife becomes her long awaited daughter and the family is united for a bright new year.
Dick Douglas travels from Oakenham Cottage to Oakenham Priory to bid farewell and seek work abroad. He confesses love to Nelly Reredos, who reveals she loves him too, ending with the Major noting the missed chance as a curious oversight.
The scene shows General Ulysses Grant arriving with telegrams, directing a retreat to heights and the building of works while awaiting reinforcements. He learns of a first division mishap and the open road to Charlotte, then decisively orders the right wing retaken as he moves to action.
A corresp ondent notes a pig’s dig in Calumet led to the discovery of copper, fueling a town and vast wealth, while Vermont shows population growth yet fewer schoolchildren and smaller family sizes over decades. The piece blends curiosity on fortune from animals with demographic shifts across states.
In 1873 Pennsylvania adopted a constitutional provision banning discrimination by railroads against individuals in charges or facilities. The measure passed unanimously and has largely been a dead letter. now lawmakers propose statutes to enforce and strengthen the provision. The people, across parties, want the constitution observed in letter and spirit.
A discussion of prize fighting on Long Island and training methods by an elderly referee and trainer. He describes four day physical workups, strict diets, no water, heavy beef and mutton, controlled exercise, and continual oversight to keep a fighter at peak. He cites Heenan Morrissey and notes blood purity as essential to withstanding punishment.
The piece surveys royal talents in Germany with a turned a Crown Prince and artists among the royal family while noting public curiosity about Miss Katie Smutzy’s alleged 160 day fast deemed a fraud by Dr. Darwin Potter. It also recalls Goethe receiving a historic gift and two Lysander youths near voting age with one eligible on November 4.
In a lengthy confession from 1881 Dr J. B. Benton describes a crippling Brights disease diagnosis and near death. He credits Warner's Safe Caine with a dramatic recovery after failed prior treatments. He urges readers to heed kidney symptoms, claiming widespread fatal misdiagnosis and urging early care.
Intelligence confirms Gen Stewart entrenched south of Metemneh after clashes with Arab rebels. Stewart wounded in thigh. five Mahdi emirs killed. British losses twenty dead and sixty wounded, enemy total thirteen hundred. Metemneh captured. Wolseley dispatches note Gordon's involvement and Wilga en route to confer. Two British officers killed in the zareba fight.
The brigantine Natal suffers mutiny at sea two months out from port. The carpenter assaults the captain, mortally wounds the captain, and murders the captain's son. Mutineers hide in the forehold as the captain shoots the carpenter and steward, then the crew agrees to obey orders.
The column bundles various notices including rheumatism relief claims for St Jacobs Oil, civil service classification debates in Congress, consular budget items, and Ely Cream Balm endorsements for catarrh. Other items mention tobacco sale bills, progress quotes, and obituaries such as Roswell Grant.
A bold counterfeit of Dr. C. D. Warner's syrup is sold in the Northwest at about two dollars per bottle, with warnings to beware of imitations. The notice promotes Wells Richardson butter color, Caswell Hazanp cod liver oil, Brown's Bronchial Troches, Maid of Athens and other remedies, claiming superiority, price, and availability, urging readers to buy authentic products and seek relief from heart and nervous disorders.
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