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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
3
Nordenskjold records cosmical dustfalls during a Siberian journey. Prof Marx at Jenisiesk collects dust in a pluviometer after a night shower. Analysis reveals iron nickel cobalt. Prof Lenz calls it cosmical origin linked to November meteors.
In a Philadelphia shop window a piano relic bears an inscription claiming John Jacob Astor sold the instrument to early New York families over a century ago. A transcription from a January 10, 1789 New York paper lists W. Satch Astor on St Queen Street selling pianofortes and paying cash for furs.
A collage of curiosities covers Arab abduction weddings, Venice arch spans, early American marriage rates, French criminal sentences, whisky labels, a Newcastle sparrow sighting, a salve ad, and railway labor stats. It blends sensational notes with trade and societal tidbits from the era.
An ad extols Doctor force's Golden Medica as a superior flesh and strength builder. It claims to restore emaciated bodies to health and offers a money back guarantee if it fails to benefit or cure. The copy dismisses cod liver oil as inferior and touts a trial offer with purported blood-borne effects.
In a country church tale from New York Herald, Sister Melinda extols Parson Jenkins while praising Parson Goodfriend for resisting temptation. He bores sap taps, then on a warm Sunday chooses to pour out the sap and preach on the evil one’s wiles.
Two farmers John Davis and Char ley Schlosser on a hunting trip near Delaware discovered a hidden bandit hideout along the Olentangy near Clinton. They descended into a clay cavern complex with four chambers, thick walls, and vaulted ceilings, likely used as a storehouse by outlaws in the past.
Chauvin the newly elected barber deputy presided over a Paris meeting of tensorial art professors. A blonde beauty's hair was stylishly arranged by a coiffeur, then Chauvin praised a new fashion replacing the Greek style. He urged protections for looks and hinted at hairdressing interests in the chamber.
A compact pocket telescope, inch-thick and watch-sized, offers field and opera glass quality. It uses aluminum toothed bars for parallel motion, opening, closing, and focusing. Claimed to be high power with fine definition, benefiting military and racing use by avoiding bulky glasses.
A young Adam grows up amid Strickland Sahib’s household in Belait where the Naik Imam Din and police retainers debate the boy’s future. They foresee a powerful role for him, as the foster system and rumor of Edenic privilege shape his early world and loyalties.
Adam confronts his father Strickland after a whipping for disobedience to horse folk. Imam Din recalls his own beating by his father and supports Adam’s claim of independence. The family tension centers on faith, heritage, and the clash of English and Indian worlds.
The article explains how amber forms when tree sap traps insects and plant matter. It notes Baltic sources, fossil insects, and preserved hairs and feathers, highlighting amber's role in ancient plant and insect preservation.
The Buffalo Express argues next stage in rail transport may come from electrified, automated single cars on elevated tracks. It predicts elimination of cinders and fires, with long distance electricity transmission enabling rapid, cheap, safe transit, spurred by Niagara tunnel progress and large scale electrical research.
Interior carriages glow brighter as private coaches adopt electric lamps. The lord mayor of London’s stage coach uses a rubber-mounted lamp with a glass stilt, with batteries stored in the boot to power a lamp for eighteen hours.
A humorous Life quote imagines a lettuce scolding a turnip for lacking a heart. The turnip retorts that it does get mashed, highlighting a playful pun about kitchen fate and vegetable personalities.
The piece recalls Sir Cornwallis Harris’s 1840 account of quagga herds and Burchell’s zebra that have dwindled or vanished in fifty years. It quotes Burchell’s zebra as fierce and beautiful, and notes zebras’ agility, alert sentinels, and difficulty of domestication.
Ringing noises in the ears and loss of smell or hearing are linked to Catarrh in the Head and may lead to Bronchitis or Consumption. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and strengthens the body to cure Catarrh. Get Hood's because it addresses the root cause.
An international exhibition of machines for cleaning screening dressing and drying grain will be held in St. Petersburg from March 2 to 16, 1804. Organized by the Imperial Free Economic Society Russia the event aims to inform farmers and merchants about the newest grain handling equipment amid changes in export grading laws.
The piece contrasts the fox hunting parson with the muscular Christian who leads village sports. It notes the parson’s limited spiritual hold, replaced by personal leadership and broad social influence among men who see him as a relatable, military-like figure rather than a devoted Catholic authority. The tone critiques diminished spiritual leadership in favor of worldly respect.
An inventive concept from the West describes a tornado-proof dwelling on four pivots with a weather vane and four six-pound cannons at the opposite end. When a storm approaches the house automatically faces the tornado and fires, aiming to destroy it, inspired by naval guns trained on waterspouts.
Honorably discharged Minnesota veterans or their representatives may obtain a free copy of the second volume of Minnesota to the Civil and Indian Wars 1861 1865 by applying to the Adjutant General of Minnesota in St Paul. The volume includes official reports and correspondence.
A light exchange shows Mr. Upton praising the hired girl as an angel from heaven after a week with his family. The comment comes from a humorous line in the New York Weekly.
Franchise-like sworn affidavit from Frank J. Cheney of F J Cheney & Co Toledo offering one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh cured by Mall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public Skat A W Gleason witnesses on December 6, 1588. Ad copy notes internal use and testimonials. Belfast shipyard figures and Brown's cough tobacco references appear as assorted lines.
Harper's Weekly reports that India’s government has expanded quinine access to fight malaria. Life expectancy in India averages 24 years, vs 44 in England, due to malaria. Quinine is now sold in five grain doses for a penny at Bengal post offices, with September demand at 126000 packets, supplementing village dispensaries.
A Berlin society novelty marks nontraditional nuptials with an aluminum gift for a 37 1/2 year union. In Paris, Berlin humor extends to a seven year wedding jubilee as celebrants toast extended marriages amid the era’s social whirl.
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