Brainerd Items Show Busy Social Scene And Local News
J. H. Hallett travels to Chicago and several residents visit Minneapolis. The 49 Club hosts a calico masquerade at Gardner's Hall next Monday. The St. Cloud Opera House fire claims loss. the Wilson Dramatic Co. schedules a week at Sleeper. Debating society picks Hon. W. A. Fleming as president. Coroner holds inquest in Deerwood. various local engagements and weddings noted.
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Gardner’s Hall
St. Cloud Opera House
Davidson
Sleeper Opera House
Wilson Theatre Co
W. A. Fleming
Senate
House
Wilson Dramatic Co
Carter
H. L. Casey
Charles Mitchell
George H. Smith
Frank G. Hall
Editors and Proprietors. Sleeper Block.
Weekly publication issued every Friday from Brain erd Minnesota. Circulation notes rooms 5 and 7 Sleeper block and terms priced at $1.50 per year. Describes printing office as the finest in the city.
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Brainerd
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
City Council Meeting Recaps Bids and Power Talks
The council met Monday with a mayoral communication about a paying ex position in St. Paul and Minneapolis in April and a committee to attend. The city attorney was tasked to confer with Ambrose Tighe on settling electric light station power matters. Fire chief to test new hose. Hurley bill deferred until health board heard. Pine wood bids opened. Geo Cramer awarded 75 cards at 1.40 and a pine lumber contract at 9.50 per thousand feet approved for 50 000 feet.
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Ambrose Tighe
John Hurley
State Board of Health
A. Atherton
R. Ahrens
S. F. Adams
J. W. Jones
Geo. Cramer
Wm. Gergen
Horrible Fate of Drayman Stoops Wife Burns to Death
The 72 year old wife of D C A Stoops in West Brainerd near the old court house caught fire from a kitchen stove while resting after ironing. Despite attempts to extinguish the flames she was burned severely and died about eight hours later after being moved to hospital. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church with Rev. Geo E Rowe.
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Maggie J. Grant
Sam. Grant
Garrison Township
Baptist Church
Rowe
Elizabeth
Wm. A. Prentice
Lenox Station
John Byrnes
West Superior
Wis
Byrnes
W. A. Prentice, Jr
Otto Reinhardt
Frank Bredfeld
Reinhardt
D.C
Frank Barber
Marriage of Fred A Farrar and Ethel Maude Small
On February 20 at 10 o'clock in the morning Fred A Farrar son of A P Farrar married Miss Ethel Maude Small daughter of J C Small at the bride’s parents home on Seventh Street North in a private Episcopal ceremony conducted by Rev Geo H Davis of St Johns Church Manato. The couple left on the noon train for a short wedding tour amid a rice shower. The groom is city clerk and son of A P Farrar. the bride is the daughter of J C Small. A wedding breakfast followed and a reception is planned for Tuesday evening by the groom’s parents.
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7Th Street
Fred A. Farrar
Ethel Maude Small
J. C. Small
Geo. H. Davis
St. John’s Church
Mankato
W. A. M. Johnston
Jennie Small
Episcopal Church
A. P. Farrar
W. A. Fleming
E. M. Westfall
J. R. Westfall
J. M. Elder
A. V. Snyder
L. P. White
Bessie Mulrine
Amy Lowey
F. E. Potter
Restorers Bring Faded Paper Back to Bright Clarity
A team uses gentle cleaning to remove smoke and dust from ancient newsprint, restoring legibility and color. The process reveals clearer typography and preserves delicate ink on fragile sheets for archival display.
Foreclosure Notice on Minnesota Mortgage of 1892
Default on Twenty-One Dollars plus interest triggers foreclosure under mortgage by Joel W. Billings to George W. Thayer. Property includes parts of sections in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Sheriff sale at Brainerd Court House on February 7, 1895, 10 a.m. with one year redemption and attorney fees of Twenty-Five Dollars.
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Joel W. Billings
George W. Thayer
Office
the Register of Deeds
Crow Wing
Minnesota
Township Fortythree
Ringe
Crow Wing County
State of
Brainerd
Ortgagee
Lindbergh
Blansaard & Lindbergh
Little Falls
Edward Jewette
Mary Jewette
Lombard Investment Company
Register of Deeds
William S. Neal
Crow Widg
Lindbergh, Blanchard & Lindbergh
W. A. Fleming
Plaintiff's Attorney
Brainerd, Minn
5Th Street
Trefie Jewett
Maggie Jewett
Morigagee
Linppered
Ruanenann & Linpperett
Live
Fas
Wages Cut Among Great Northern Shop Men
February 18 report from Sr. Cloup notes eight general wage cuts for Great Northern shop men. Daily pay drops from $1.65 to $2.15 to $1.65 for ten hours of work, with current eight hour days. Also advise touching up wagons at Congdons for spring trade to save money.
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Sr. Cloup
Great Northern
Congdons
Barlow Bros Minstrels To Perform At Sleeper Opera House
The Barlow Brothers Minstrels will appear at the Sleeper Opera House on Thursday evening February 28. Press and public praise their performances, though the newspaper cannot publish all favorable remarks due to space constraints.
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Barlow Bros. Minstrels
Sleeper Opera House
Obituary for Charles C. Baker of Court Standard 8113 AOF
Resolved by Court Standard No 8113 AOF that Brother Charles C. Baker is mourned as a good citizen and honored member. The court charter will be draped in mourning for thirty days, with resolutions recorded and a copy sent to his family for publication in Brainerd weekly papers. Committee includes J T Sanbory A Magivum and Orro Reinhardt.
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Charles C. Baker
Forester
Brainerd
J. T. Sanbory
A. Magivum
Orro Reinhardt
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C. D. Johnson
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Front Street
F. G. Sundberg
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Odd Fellows’ Block
J. H. Hallett
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N. P
J. A. McVell
D. M. Clark & Co
49 Club
Sarah L. Sleeper
J. L. Smith
Henry I. Cohen
Twin Cites
C. M. Patek
Ribbel
C. M. Clark
C. E. Lum
Leon E. Lum
Ruth
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Glendive
Montana
F. A. Farrar
Geo. H. Shaver
Mapelton
N. D
Bessie Robinson
W. W. Bryant
Chipperfield
Chiperfield
Cass County
Ed. Britton
Bodega
Jim Corbett
T. McMaster
Knudeson
Hinckley
Presbyterian Church
White Cross Lodge No
K. of P
S. F. Alderman
A. F. Ferris
Washington
Workman
The
Little Falls Transcript
Jos. Mayhew
J. C. Congdon
First National Bank
Ald. Purdy
6Th Street South
Alderman
Lottie Grandelmyer
Carrie Morrison
Mary Enright
Gust Mack
East Brainerd
Dean
Deerwood
Patterson
A. E. Losey
J. A. Davis
Stoney Brook
John Bandy
Mr. Bandy
Pap Thomas Post G. A. R
Duluth
Milton McFadden
Ats
Josh al Aitkin
Jefferson Dramatic Club
Aitkin
Josh
Foley House
J. M. Markham
Mr. Alderman
Verne Anderson
Thos. Loftus
First Baptist Church
Longfellow
J. R. Smith
Reliable Fire Insurance
C. B. White
Hardwarehi
U. White
Walker Block
Laurel St
Concdon
Twin Cities
Rostad, Bane & CO
Scandinavian Meat Market
Fifth Street
Stratton House
Choice
Kansas City
Rostad, Bane & GO
Brainerd Dispatch
Crow Wing and
Cass Counties
N. H. Ingersoll
F.W. Wieland
H.C. Stivers
Journal
Ingersoll & Wiklanpd
Dispatch
A. J. Hatstep
Tribune
Minn
Council Proceedings
Drayman D
U.S
Boom Lake
Frank Howe
J. E. Andrews
Stillwater
Mr. Howe
Mr. Andrews
St. Cloud Journal-Press
Howe
Frank
J. R. Smrru
Congdon’s
McFadden Drug Store
J. R. Surru
R. F. Warters
Big
6Th St
Hoffman Bazaar
Mahoney’s
C. A. Walker & Co
Allbright
Smith
Mallory
Percy
Spencer
D. M. Clark & Co’s
Sherwood
R. F. Waters
Sixth Street
McCall
R. F. Watters
Court House
J. A. Wilsoy, Co. Supt. of
Mack
C.A Walker & Co’s
Congdon
Gary
Sleeper Block
L. W. Chase
Sleeper
Northwest
Cicars
InjConnection
D. M. McDonald
McGill Veterinary College
Gergen & Purdy’s
Jas. H. Kelehan
Cor
Ant
Jas. H Kelenan
A. L. McDonald
Backus, Minn
Pioneer House
G. D. Labar Cashier
W. L. Douglass
W. L. Douglas
R. F. Walters
15Th Judicial District
the First Nationa Bank OF
Brainend
Viatntiff
N. W. Wheatley and
Thomas Halladay
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