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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
12
The Brainerd Dispatch reports community news including marriages, civic meetings, business changes, and local incidents. Highlights cover a new birth, social events, postmaster appointments, bank elections, police cases, a fire, and public notices affecting Crow Wing County residents.
A local note from Staples World recounts a game warden visiting Brainerd and a native lady scaring him away after an attempted search for nets. The item ends with a casual promo for skates in all sizes and styles and urges customers to shop before buying.
The Northern Pacific Railroad offers low round trip fares to California points with tickets usable until April 30, 1894 and able to stop over under certain rules. Fares Missouri River to San Francisco $80.50 and to Los Angeles $90.00, encouraging winter visits and attendance at the San Francisco mid winter fair. For details contact Charles S. Fee, general passenger and ticket agent, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Sleeper Block move introduces a bright clean Dry Goods store with a wide stock. D M Clark & Co advertises heating stoves hardware crockery and furniture at discounted prices. Congdon Hoffman Bredfeld Sundberg offer wagons shoes varnish vehicles and confections for spring and household needs.
A Richmond Dispatch excerpt recounts a Virginia farmer with a long stem pipe sitting beneath an apple tree. The scene ends as the old man drifts into death, his pipe smoke fading away and his dog near him in the autumn light.
A 1894 Brainerd Minnesota lodge committee endorses Gov Lewelling of Kansas for his pro worker stance. They condemn class legislation and urge equal rights, publishing the resolutions in the lodge journal and local papers.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recounts a gentleman who trained a colored servant to serve from the left by using single breast coats and directing plates to be handed on the button hole side. A foreign guest with a double breasted coat defeats the plan as Cesar looks between sides and finally declares Buttons on those sides, massa, delivering the plate over his master's head.
The New York Tribune quotes a Tokio advertisement describing a young, very beautiful, rich woman seeking a husband. She notes rosy cheeks, dark curly hair, half moon eyebrows, and a small mouth. The suitor must be young, handsome, educated, and prepared to share her fate in life and death.
Foster the weather prophet notes a surge in public interest in astronomy and planetary relations to weather and electricity. He cites a fourfold rise in sales of mass market telescopes over the past decade, with newspapers expanding columns to discuss these subjects.
The cow approaches with timorous fascination while the horse stays distant and ready to flee. The monkey investigates eagerly then discards what it cannot eat or mock, a pattern showing the transient nature of curiosity and the quick sense of safety.
In Galloway Scotland Sweetheart abbey guards the legend of Dervergill and John Balrol with her heart preserved on his breast. The tale blends romance and decay beneath ivy and storm battered walls, a muse for enduring devotion for six centuries.
The Buffalo Courier notes Alice Adams, later Eleazer Ripley and then William Lawrence’s wife, died in Hartford in 1845 at 88. Her granddaughter testified that in her last hours Alice uttered faintly a request to “Write to Nathan,” correcting the tale of dying unmarried.
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