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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1894
Page
3
A Cincinnati witness recalls a brutal animal contest in Cuba where a monkey killed a bulldog using a baton after a protracted battle. The crowd watched as the monkey outmaneuvered the dog, finally ending the contest with the dog dead and the monkey claiming victory.
Miss Helen Burns woke in agony as her upper plate on a rubber foundation, worn too long and loosened by a broken edge, slipped into her throat and then into her stomach. Dr. Carmichael notes such cases are rare and expects the plate to reveal its fate by future pain, with possible surgical relief if needed. An unrelated item describes a mining tamping invention using a hollow disk and clay blocks for borehole work.
A commentator explains the actor’s inner process from first reading to final delivery. It tracks elation and despair, memory work, shaping the role, aligning personal traits, and rejecting or accepting ideas until the character animates on stage. The real life of the actor unfolds away from the footlights.
A New Zealand electrical engineer has devised a method to stop a distant generating plant. A late installation at a private residence places the turbine about a half mile from the house with the main switch in the owner's bedroom for easy shutdown after retiring.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as superior bowel medicine to cleanse the system, offering tonic effects and easier use. It claims to relieve constipation biliousness indigestive issues head-aches and related ailments with a money-back guarantee.
Sir Thomas Robinson arrived in hunting attire to a Paris dinner causing astonishment. A French abbe mistook him for Robinson Crusoe and asked if he was the famous figure, provoking laughter once his identity was confirmed.
Paris plans a new experiment with air powered trams. Electric lines already run from Made line to St Dennis and Pantin with accumulators under carriages. The Louvre to Versailles and St Cloud lines will use compressed air, weighing eighteen tons each and capable of drawing three to four cars. Water from the Seine powers the air compression. Expected benefits include no smoke or odor and improved dispatch of multiple carloads. Transport.
The San Francisco Call notes a six foot coal seam found in Arizona of good semi-anthracite quality with possible additional seams. It cites substantial Mexican coal beds and argues cheap fuel could spur industrial growth in the region, aided by a planned Guaymas rail link to a coal field eighty miles away and potential Pacific coast outlets.
A fashion exchange in Vogue notes Miss Gossippe scorns wearing a song bird wing in a hat. Miss Cynique jokes she preferred a plush cloak over a sealskin showing playful, period tone.
Rose shelters Miss Elmore at her home after a staged illness leaves the actress weak. Detectives tail the pair as Rose arranges a telegram to Wilson to reassure him while keeping Miss Elmore safe. The case deepens as identities blur and a dangerous pursuit continues through London.
Rose Smedley helps Kate Elmore uncover the fate of John Wilson a cowardly con artist who abandoned his wife and fled to India. Kate's secret marriage to Wilson is revealed with the letter telling of his departure while Rose protects her friend. Kate rises as a respected actress in London alongside Rose.
The Country Gentleman notes hard times boost agricultural respect and urges farmers, citing Minnesota hay abundance, cheap forage, and rising hog and stock farming profits. It discusses land values, rotation of crops, timber decline, and European forestry practices, then reports on milk fat variability with weather and stable cows.
A Germantown Telegraph correspondent argues farmers in the region fail to balance production and consumption. He urges practical farming over mere science, stresses measuring crop costs, improving equipment, pasture choices, manure mixing, windmills, and consistent stock care to boost profitability.
The Nebraska experiment station reports winter trials on dairy cows testing how feed charges and temperature affect milk quantity and quality. It concludes that the Babcock test proved nearly accurate for butter analyses and chemical analyses.
Advice on feeding oats and corn for fat and health. Notes on draughts causing sore eyes, broody hens, cockerels with large hens, and geese feather yield. Recommends dry leaves for exercise, annual new blood for ducks, January to February laying, and preference for cooked food. Discusses eye clues, corn and wheat limits, turkey feeding, ideal diet balance, hen laying decline year two, daily meat and bone allowance, scalded bran, and overall need for good care and housing.
A reminiscence details how Mr Justice Gurney earned success through grave manner and pauses before words. He trained ushers to enforce silence with phrases like hush and shut that door, creating a perception that he spoke more worth listening to than others. He eventually rose to become a judge.
A New York Sun piece sketches Count Tolstoy’s simple room at the Jesunja Poljina castle. He wears a peasant jumper, drinks coffee, and dresses in plain clothes while maintaining a vegetarian diet. He hosts scholars at breakfast and writes from 3 to 6, ending days with shoemaking and family time.
In a San Francisco Examiner style vignette Mrs. Frontpew flaunts an Easter bonnet priceless in her eyes though fate mocks her. A mistaken delivery swaps hats with Mrs. Slyly leaving Frontpew humiliated yet the joke lands on her husband who bears the cost of vanity.
A seaside tale recounts William tricking Boston newspaper sellers to settle Uncle Jack’s Home Garland bill for $3. Uncle Jack, a lazy but skilled skipper, asks William to fix the $10 charge, and William covertly claims the man is a drunken loafer, prompting a lower settlement.
Dr Backus of the Packer Institute Brooklyn urges ambitious parents to limit piano practice and ensure adequate sleep and a good breakfast for students. He argues a child's stomach is a more important organ than the brain at this life stage and asks guardians to take away practical lessons for their scholars.
Jerrold and Compton inspect gallery mirrors. Compton jokes about a reflection of his own body as “work of nature” prompting Jerrold to comment it is “very fine very bad indeed.” They note it should be hung.
The western North Carolina section of the Richmond and Danville line was state built with a major contract to Col. Charles Fisher. Bankruptcy followed, and Fisher lost his investment. His daughter sought to mend the family fate by writing Stories, giving rise to novels of Southern life bearing Christian Reid and Kate Field by Washington signatures.
A historic remedy claims to cure habitual constipation and teething pains in children with a syrup praised for lasting effects. Advertisers warn against temporary laxatives and endorse Mas Winson’s Sugarya Syrup as a trusted, well tried solution for teething distress.
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