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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
1
Lincoln's birthday is a legal state holiday. Debates surge over Jones in the U S Senate from Ohio, Hanna questions, and McKinty’s presidency. Legislature dismisses the struck jury law. Citizens of Stillwater protest Ferris bill on executions, seeking repeal and cost savings for counties. A local newspaper quarrel ends with a taunt about a protoplasmic waste.
Pittsburg February 7 dispatch notes a broad revival of industry with multiple Carnegie steel and related plants resuming full operation. Homestead Steel, Westinghouse East Pittsburg, Wilmerding Works, Edgar Thomson, Pittsburg Wire Braddock, Braddock Wire Works, National Tube McKeesport and Duquesne Steel resume in full or near full capacity. Outlook cited as good though prices remain low.
Four new freight engines from Schenectady, largest ever built, arrive for the Northern Pacific. No 4 weighs about 105 tons with tender, 80 inch boiler, 55 inch driving wheels, 200 pound steam pressure, and 18 to 20 mph on mountain runs. Units feature wagon top boiler, 332 flues, and 28 inch low pressure cylinders.
C B Stade of Oak Lawn Township dies by self inflicted shotgun blast in his home. Neighbors try to help, coroner rules death by own action, funeral held for a respected school director and family man. War between Turkey and Greece looms, with harsh words on Armenian treatment.
In Brown county Kansas the Bryan family christens a baby named McKinley. General Booth notes a debt of $800,000 tied to his social scheme in Aberdeen. Sir Tatton Sykes rejects responsibility for his wife’s debts after 22 years of marriage. The Austrian minister Hengervar takes possession of a residence on Connecticut Avenue in Washington. David O'Donnell becomes Yale’s first academic-department graduate to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Russian czar favors a pipe over cigarettes in public. Gladstone correspondence mentions a book gifted by Hannah More amid life’s transitions. Mrs. Catherine Christine McDonald, Brooklyn, runs a large mercantile business, blind yet commanding. Gustav Johnson of Potawatomi County leaves half or full estate to his wife based on her promise not to remarry. Pawnee nurse trainees Miss Phabe Hood, Miss Lily Wind, and Miss Kate Greenod train in Philadelphia. Captain C C Blood reports General Weyler’s Ohio roots and German lineage. Carl Holzhauser of Roushville captures a bald eagle near Lake Contrary then defends himself against the bird.
Mrs. 8. T. Pickard, niece of poet Whittier, is caring for the poet’s estate in Amesbury. Whittier portraits and furnishings have been moved to the Pickards’ home and cataloged. The library remains undisturbed, with books catalogued for potential restoration as a Whittier memorial. Chess origins debated as Sakkara wall painting suggests 3300 B C context per Popular Science News.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes varied writing timelines. Robertson spent six years on History of Charles V, Mulhall devoted about 80 years to Dictionary of Statistics, Grote 15 years on History of Greece, Goldsmith six weeks for The Vicar of Wakefield, Spenser four years for Faerie Queene, Defoe six months for Robinson Crusoe, and Johnson a week to compose Rasselas. Burns memorized lines as he wrote, without prior drafts.
A window pane in Argyle New York bears a lightning photograph of an elderly woman seated nearby during an electric storm. The piece mentions Monas crepusculis is a tiny animalcule a tenth of a millimeter long. It notes wax testing for diamonds, the Forth Bridge repaint effort requiring 50 tons of paint per coat over about 120 acres, and two Yarborough hands dealt in one Whist game at Sweetsir's in Portland Maine.
A playful exchange shows a visitor asking what an upstaged figure is doing. Adolphus replies that he is engaged in what is called higher education, highlighting a humorously formal term in a comic strip dialogue.
In a New York Ledger sketch of the season, fur, chiffon, lace, cloth and velvet mingle in varied outfits. Eton jackets appear in fur such as Persian lamb with sleeves and a flaring collar. Short jackets with cutaway fronts and elaborate jabots, cascades, and loopings showcase a bold mix.
Eddie B 2 14 percent king of the snow path in Boston. Sir Eld 3 2 14 percent by Storm 2 08. Was gelded. St Louis to have six months continuous racing next season. The Woodbrine gelding Ve no record brought 1235 at a Boston sale. F J Cheney drives the bay pacer P 7. Barnum 2 22 on the road at Toledo. Ben Kenney concludes engagement with Marcus Daly Hamilton Mon. George Starr has an Axtell 2 12 weanling out of the dam of Planet 209 43. Andy Welch pays John Madden 1500 for Helene. J H L 2 08 crack pacer soon to auction. Derby Princess won 6920 last season. May be out in 1897 and land in the tree for all class. Pacific Coast Jockey club enforces registration of all race horses. Smith and Mills paid 3000 more for Nelly Bruce 2 10 44 than for Star Pointer 20 24. James Dustin head trainer at Palo Alto last year plans to open a public stable at Boston in spring. Elaine dam of Arundel Janus and May and full sister to Carmen dies at Laurelwood ranch Bakersfield Cal
Madeline Merli plans a forthcoming play on the Cuban war. E M Alfriend and A O Wheeler schedule a February production. Clay Clement works on A Southern Gentleman. Howard P Taylor has two offers for Society Shadows at the Savoy. Marguerite Sylva stays in New York for comic opera at the Casino. Mary Mannering, new leading lady of the Lyceum, once known as Florence Friend. Louis N Parker arrives to supervise an American production. Adelaide Herrmann declines a testimonial benefit. Mrs Henry E Abbey’s London return as Florence Gerard in The Prodigal Father. Rast and Davidson collaborate on An Exchange of Identity, a drama about theosophy.
A collection of brief, dated quips and character sketches from various papers includes a remark about a mean man and relatives after fame, thoughts on paper tacks spreading, charity versus bread for tramps, debt and trade, demoralizing prize fights, a New Woman gag about collars, and a humorous island exchange with Reverend Pudlington and Umbobo the Savage Chief.
A light, humorous exchange in Tit-Bits features the Blond asking about living to 100 and the Brunette retorting that she won’t age if she stays 22. The brief quip captures the magazine’s witty tone and social banter.
A brief excerpt from Mrs. Benham’s column asserts that all men are liars and that all married men must be as well, reflecting a provocative stance in the New York Sunday Journal.
An excerpt from Strand Magazine discusses Dr. Nansen’s Arctic ambitions. The Fram may stay at Hor Ten while he contemplates future voyages, possibly heading to the south pole first and then revisiting the north. The piece notes a magnetic allure of Arctic exploration and the enduring lure of solving the north pole mystery.
A public notice from State Land Commissioner R C Dunn warns that any person cutting or removing timber from state lands without a legal permit will face felony charges, heavy fines up to 1000 dollars, or two years imprisonment. Treble damages and confiscation are authorized, with strict enforcement starting February 1 1897 from St Paul Minnesota.
First National Bank of Brainerd sues Crow Wing County in Lith District Court. Case details incomplete but action seeks recovery likely on loan or financial claim. Court records indicate filing date near December 19 with unspecified docket.
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