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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1889
Page
3
Advice for feeding poultry with turnips and rutabagas, managing mixed flocks, and ensuring milk quality. Observations on onion prices from New York’s bumper crop, butter flavor tied to salt, and dairy feeding to improve butter color. Also notes on beekeeping, honey yields, and fall soil care for posts and fencing.
A speaker recalls the steadfast memory of a lost partner. Despite others' comfort, the grave keeps her place empty while love endures in the heart. The poem honors enduring devotion and the ache of separation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The article stresses cleanliness in milking stables with well placed gutters to prevent cow contamination. It advises removing all waste before milking and stopping to cover droppings with land plaster to reduce odors and capture ammonia in the manure pile.
On a late night southbound from Washington a sleeping car scene unfolds as berths shift and a leg in a pink garter appears from between curtains. A conductor’s indifference, a brave middle aged woman, and a chaotic jolt leave passengers tangled and the porter sorting by berth checks after a wild train lurch.
An elderly narrator recalls the Mar murders and garroting era in London and Florence. The piece blends sensational anecdotes, a countryman’s fear of a painter’s studio, and legendary judge trial scenes around Rosaura Montalboni, said to be too beautiful, with dramatic justice and a life sentence ending in a death mask.
The article profiles Bishops Potter of New York and Dudley of Kentucky as muscular Christians. Potter reportedly stopped cowboys from lynching a man in Nebraska. Dudley refused local dress demands, preached in shirt sleeves, then wore his gown, earning respect from a rough blacksmith and townsfolk who promised support if needed.
In a London shop humorist Sothern plays deaf to obtain Macaulay's History of England. The ironmonger refuses books, but Sothern insists on a neat wrap and even a file for a joke gift. The master questions the purchase while the actor stays unruffled and polite.
The Crosby County News recounts a Texas editor praising a dead hog and noting Joe Sherman killed the animal and shared its ribs and backbone, while quipping about Jewish and Muslim dietary rules and digestion.
An Irish inventor's camera flash device, once attached to a camera, recorded a burglar in Waterford. The gunny burglar fled as the light flashed, leaving a photograph of the crime. Police used the negative to identify the thief, who was sent to six months in jail.
A citizen asks a doctor about Brown’s finances and promptness. The physician, longtime family doctor, notes Brown has always paid him, implying a paying character and reliability.
A new Col. Hans Mattson book on the 250th anniversary of Swedish settlements in America includes a fine picture of Wilmington Del s old Swedish church and full addresses by W W Thomas Jr and Pennock Pusey. The volume costs 1 per copy or 5 for six and is available postpaid from Col H Mattson Capitol St Paul Minn.
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