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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
4
Brainerd Dispatch details editors proprietors hours and place of issue weekly program rates 1.50 per year and printing facility in Brainerd Minnesota. It notes post office entry as second class matter and location Sleeper block.
Minneapolis visitor Nora Reed and local marriages and births appear among civic notes. Bank elections, postmaster changes, school and church events, vandalism, fires, and a missing migrant are reported with names, dates, and places across Brainerd and surrounding towns.
Pine River correspondent Staples World reports a playful incident where a game warden from Brainerd was thwarted when a local native woman tore off his pants during a nets search. The piece follows with a retail notice advertising skates in all sizes and styles from C. B. Ware.
Multiple obituaries note deaths from pneumonia typhoid and scarlet fever in Brainerd area with funeral details. A civil damages case over a 1892 railroad wreck stalls as equity questions arise. A farmers’ note reports upland blue joint analysis by the Minnesota Experiment Station praising protein content and value for stock feed.
The Northern Pacific Railroad announces low round trip rates to California points. Tickets are valid through April 30 1894 with stopover options under certain conditions. Fares include 80.50 to San Francisco and return to Missouri River or 90 to Los Angeles and back. For details contact Chas. S. Fee, G P T A, St Paul Minn.
The Sleeper Block hosts D. M. Clark & Co. showcasing a large stock of dry goods heating stoves hardware furniture and more. Store highlights include Stewart Howe and Mentor heating options, restyling wagons and varnish services, and installment plans at Hoffman Bazaar with various shoe and glassware offers. Ripans Tabules advertised for headache relief.
A lodge committee in Brainerd Minnesota endorses Gov. Lewelling of Kansas for his pro worker stance. The resolutions condemn class legislation and call for equal rights, publication in the Journal, and lettered copies to the governor. Mincé, January 1, 1994.
The Atlantic deepens gradually off the Irish coast for 230 miles with a shallow gradient, then drops steeply by about 9,000 feet over the next 20 miles. In places depths reach 1,200 to 1,600 fathoms near the 100 fathom line, widening to a undulating 1,200 mile swath. The deepest measured depth is around 3,875 fathoms north of St Thomas.
The Philadelphia Call notes amber, common in pipestems, also serves in varnish with other ingredients and on watch dials. Pure amber is valuable while clouded forms are cheaper. Varnish factories buy old pipestems and store owners should not assume old pieces are discarded.
The Buffalo Courier clarifies Hale's sweetheart was Alice Adams who married Eleazer Ripley then William Lawrence. Alice died in Hartford in 1845 at 88. Her granddaughter testified that in her final hours Alice recalled youth love and faintly spoke "Write to Nathan," her last utterance.
An essay laments pipe smoking's decline in modern life and recalls a Richmond Dispatch tale of an old Virginia farmer who dies peacefully under an apple tree with a pipe in hand. A London Tit-Bits joke about a servant misreading coat button placement is also recounted.
A Tokio newspaper ad touts a young, beautiful, wealthy woman seeking a educated, handsome partner who will share life and death, illustrating Western ideals blended with Japanese modernity. The notice describes her rosy face, dark curly hair, half moon eyebrows, and small mouth amid a cosmopolitan preoccupation with beauty and companionship.
Foster notes rising public interest in astronomy and the sun moon and planets relation to light heat electricity magnetism and weather. Teloscope sales to the masses are four times higher than a decade ago and newspapers increasingly discuss these topics.
A cow approaches novelty with cautious fascination while a horse remains timid and watchful. A monkey eagerly probes new items but discards them once it cannot eat or mock them. The observer notes the pathos in animal curiosity and the fleeting nature of surprise.
An old tale from Galloway center stage recounts the buried heart of Dervergill within Sweetheart Abbey walls as a romantic symbol, while another note from a New York Times column recounts a man’s hard luck at the track after losing his last money so near a winning horse.
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