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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1894
Page
5
A historical account describes the dangerous attacking buffalo of Ceylon and a vivid hunting anecdote using improvised powder charges. It then surveys sea serpent legends with classifications from pure fiction to possible misidentifications and notes Regalecus glesne as a key sea serpent candidate.
The hostess should provide partners by introductions or with help from others. A gentleman may request introductions with a rightful sake and must obtain permission from the lady. Men may present each other to ladies if approved, avoiding awkward crowding or forcing a companion to act as a bridge.
In a brief exchange, a wife expresses anxiety to see her mother and contemplates visiting or hosting her mother at home. The husband dismisses financial worry, asserting steady income and presenting a check as reassurance.
A family plans a funeral when one member jokes that Bridget has her day out, causing a disagreement. The exchange highlights the humor and tension in family arrangements amid grief.
A letter from Enoch L. Hanscom, School Agent, Marshfield ME, recounts a Union veteran’s tale. The writer credits St Jacobs Oil with curing a bad knee and rheumatism after three years of lameness, praising the remedy and the support of helping others.
An advertisement touts Uncle Sam's Monogram Whisky bottled by a leading Northwest liquor firm. It warns against spurious brands and urges patrons to ask druggists or retailers for the genuine product citing its proven quality.
A robber confronts an inventor demanding money while the inventor insists his new creation is all he has. The burglar declines, remarking he wants no trouble and is after “her dust.”
Mrs Richard Clarke wife of Mobile Alabama congressman attends a Maine church service and notes the litany’s lack of widowed and fatherless children. She jokes that men seek a new mother for their kids after losing a wife. Kate Fields Washington reports.
In the Indianapolis Journal anecdote a young wife confides a scheme to disappear with her husband’s help. She demands money to travel and has a messenger fake a diversion to dismiss Mary Ann, planning to lock the house and vanish while the wife bets the husband will not betray her.
A brief Standard exchange shows a wife scolding her husband for pre marriage finances while he declares his wealth in their marriage. The man comforts the wife with the claim that he is rich because of having her.
In a brief exchange Mr. Morris asks why Pete Amster wears a mourning band on his hat. Mr. Uptown answers the band keeps the hat from looking shabby, explaining its purpose as a practical care measure.
Sir Basil Dovetree returns to Ravensmarsh with Pelham Warrington and fixes on a peasant girl sighted in the village. Basil plans to marry her, ignoring cautions about class and freedom, as Warrington schemes to keep him under control. The pair confront a cottage where the girl helps a wounded intruder.
In a tense salon exchange Sir Basil asserts a singer’s talent while Pelham Warrington praises her dual role. The creole urges Warrington to return to Ravensmarsh as he plans to go back home before midnight, leaving the baronet alone with only a woman's music lingering in the room.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes Gheel in Flanders as a unique town where about 2,017 of 5,000 residents were lunatics in 1892. Insane residents mingle with locals, with nonviolent patients housed among inhabitants under strict government surveillance and a doctor-led commission preventing violent or incurable cases.
The Havoc built for the navy by Yarrows at Poplar, tested at Gravesend, reached speeds above 26 knots for three hours while showing minimal vibration. Propelled by twin screws and 3,500 horsepower, the 180 foot vessel carries four thousand miles range at low speed and houses fourteen steam engines for a crew of forty two.
The piece notes that government officials collect newspaper clippings to boost vanity, with private secretaries filtering content. It highlights clipping firms supplying articles about clients and cites Montgomery, a White House clerk, who compiles subject arranged scrapbooks. Cleveland’s earlier White House clippings numbered about thirty volumes.
A St Louis Globe Democrat correspondent recounts a Jicarilla Apache legend explaining facial paint. An elder describes how a bear’s blood, scraped onto a warrior’s face, led to marked faces that warriors wear during hunts and war. The piece also notes tribal and individual marks, totems, and Sioux-Teton war-paint rituals.
The article explores Native American face and body painting, its colors and meanings, and how plainsmen read marks like a book. It details red for power and love, blue for peace and rain, and black for mourning or vengeance, with regional variation and historic trade impacts on paints.
Aunty questions Tommy after he visits the menagerie. Tommy sputters that he cried because workers would not let him poke the tiger, leaving him frightened and unsure what to do.
Ex governor Hoard asserts cows are born with fixed butter fat limits of 3 to 6 percent. Some can be developed by feeding while others are at their limit and cannot increase. Milk output varies by season, with higher June yields and lower October amounts, though butter yield remains fixed. Water reduction increases solids percentage but not total solids.
In a lively exchange Mrs. Gadd praises Miss Landin as a worthy bride for love, while Mr. Skidds counters that Tillinghast wed for her property. The Truth notes vast cigarette production reaching 2,887,770,440 units in the past year.
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