10 Feb 1893
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1893
Page
1
Minneapolis Tribune column argues state swamp land grants should aid the B and N M L railroad reaching the state's northern boundary. The piece likens past grant aid to southern and western regions and urges legal action and public support to provide similar assistance to the north.
The Journal criticizes the Dispatcs for character attacks over his career in the last legislature while denying personal abuse. It argues calling opponents abusive is a sign of weakness and taunts Friar to reflect on the adage about people in glass houses.
The editor is accused of neglecting city and county needs for railroad benefit. Dr Hemstead led measures on charters schools bonds and water, while Mr Stivers aided railways to block local laws and curb unfair discrimination. He did not oppose but offered no effort to back local interests.
A fragment praising Worth fashion in American maid attire and noting Burlington Route service from Denver to Chicago. It claims Worth helps the wearer and lauds Burlington as reliable and premier across ten western states. Contact W. J. C. Kenyon in St. Paul for tickets and information.
A group of engineers recalls a brutal incident in Smoky Creek Dakota where a late night quarrel led to a man being shot dead by a day wrangler at the Crossroads House. The meal continued as if nothing happened amid hushed reactions. The tale appears in a New York Herald piece.
Col J A Kellogg and other Brainerd and Northern Minnesota incorporators push a legislative case to extend the railroad north from St. Cloud to Leech Lake region. Interest centers on using existing grants from several line franchises, with talks of extending via Brainerd and eastern Anoka County toward Isanti and Chisago.
A stranger and an editor discuss head work and vacation while seated on a veranda overlooking the sea. The barber-editor reveals a four hour day, ten for the stranger, highlighting work life and mental strain. A closing note cites a legal code about punishing a Chinese boy under sixteen and prison rules until sixteen.
A sensational tale describes a woman who stayed still and used wit to trap a burglar. She and another calm companion misled the intruder, while the man under the bed was discovered and helped, illustrating how cool nerves and clever moves aid in nighttime danger. The piece adds a second marine disaster report, the Helen Mar wreck in Arctic seas, with survivors and details of the icy ordeal.
A Saxon court of appeals at Dresden ruled toll could be collected only from vehicles that contact the bridge. A cyclist crossing on foot with his bicycle on his head was not liable for toll at the Krossen bridge over the Mulde. The case moved through lower and supreme courts before final reversal of the verdict for the bicyclist.
An engineer on the Harrisburg to Altoona line keeps a four leaf clover in his watch case and a horseshoe in his cab. He joyfully notes a rabbit crossing the track but fears disaster when a white cat crosses the path of his iron steed.
A Portland man challenged a life insurer after being told he had Brights disease and won a verdict against the company. A separate anecdote in Philadelphia Times recalls two women in a dry goods store debating an elevator sign mis guiding them from first to fourth floor, leading to humorous realization upon reaching the second floor.
Frank Hardcastle of St. Louis recalls a grave sight during a Sedalia visit with his wife and five year old daughter. The girl Misty May fears being buried as they leave the cemetery, asking her father to tell her mother goodbye. The rest is a quoted critique from The Figaro about Zola and Napoleon II and a London Spectator note on Napoleon’s blush at Sedan.
A racing man quotes a tale of a young man who lost 180 dollars at the track but had ten dollars left. wind blows his ten dollar note away as he bets on a 20 to 1 chance while his horse wins easily. The piece contrasts a bargain dress for 1.90 with a high tailoring cost.
Scientists advance the theory that smallpox can be conveyed by flies that bite an infected person first and later land on a healthy body to inoculate it. The Stockton Mail reports this proposed transmission idea.
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