Brainerd Dispatch Editors and Publication Details
Brainerd Dispatch is a Friday morning paper from Brainerd Minnesota editors N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland. It serves Crow Wing Cass and Itasca counties and is entered at the Brainerd post office as second class mail with yearly advance subscription of 1 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. McFadden
Register of Deeds
Court House
Brainerd
Minn
Crow Wing, Cass, and
Itasca Counties
Minneosta
Sauk Center Tribune Annual Praises Mechanical Dept
The Sauk Center Tribune annual is received and reflects much credit on the mechanical department of the office. It is nicely executed and well filled with home advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sauk Center Tribune
Pension Pay to Indiana Soldier Breaks Records
Everest yesterday issued to Alex Gilchrist of Indiana Pa the largest pension ever paid to a private soldier. The back pay totaled 12,151 dollars and went to a blind decrepit man who has resided in the poorhouse for twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everest
Alex Gilchrist
Indiana
Journal stance shifts on strikes and wealth
The Journal now says strikes are only valuable as a last resort. The writer mocks the paper for reversing its position within a week and warns that wealth earned through strikes would not tempt them to wear a gold headed cane.
Tey Want the Earth for Duluth Building Fund
Kate Nelson advocates securing a $100,000 appropriation for a Duluth government building. The Duluth Herald mocks the need, suggesting Duluth could demand half a million and stating the project risks leaving the city ashamed within five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Nelson
Duluth
Duluth Herald
Land Commissioner Sparks Moves Against Northern Pacific Land Grants
Land Commissioner Sparks targets the Northern Pacific, seeking to deny a land grant between the Columbia River and Puget Sound with Lamar's approval. The decision impacts about 2,500,000 acres, drawing challenge from President Harris and Col. Clough, who signal a forthcoming fight over forfeiture methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparks
Northern Pacific
Lamar
Columbia River
Puget Sound
Harris
Col. Clough
County Board Clarifies Alderman Land Transcript Pay
December meeting set Alderman’s price at 150 dollars for a St. Cloud land office tran script. Auditors said no access to Cass and Itasca rolls, forcing a separate copy at 3 dollars per day. January resolution ordered the extra copying, with proper pay to Alderman. opponents call it a job, but officials assert he earns for both tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. F. Alderman
St. Cloud
Cass
Itasca
Alderman
Brainerd Prize Fight Rumor and Gull River Timber Trespass
In Brainerd a rumored prize fight involving Patsy Cardiff clashes with the new penal code forbidding such exhibitions. The piece also reports actions against Gull River Lumber Company for trespass, detailing 3,000 pine trees worth millions cut from government land and proposed civil and criminal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Patsy Cardiff
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Fergus Falls
The
Gull River Lumber Company
Jenks
Thomas Narey
Protests Rise Over Jan 25 Roller Rink Exhibition
A state wide protest plan emerges against an upcoming exhibitional event at a roller rink. Authorities may intensify action to curb sluggers and ensure safety. Cardiff company secured a clean, ladies friendly show before local approval was granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardiff
Secretary Refuses Hypothetical Land Entry Question
The interior secretary rules that a man who relinquished a land entry to pursue a second unspecified entry asks only for a potential decision. The department will not answer such hypothetical requests and will not consider restoration applications for promptory filings unless paired with a real entry for a special tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Genera l
Advertising as a fountain head of profitable trade
The piece compares advertising effectiveness to a river with many tributaries. It argues readers cannot trace every dollar to its source, but selecting the right journal repeatedly reaches likely customers. It warns that temporary ads won’t yield quick or lasting growth, yet consistent use of printer’s ink in the right direction will eventually pay off.
There Are Some Queer Couples In This World
A Dearborn Street real estate agent recalls a comical scene where a couple claims to be “man and wife” when renting a flat but corrects themselves saying they are “wife and man.” The exchange centers on social roles and premarital arrangements in a humorous dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn Street
Brainerd Brimming With Growth and Timber Wealth
Special to the Globe Brainerd Minnesota hosts rapid growth with 1880 population about 1 800 rising to 7 211. The city sits on the Mississippi river near Duluth and the Great Lakes trade routes. Local mills, shops, a foundry, timber and planned dam and railroad promise jobs and a population surge within two years. The county offers rich farmland, extensive timber and abundant lakes, with healthful climate and a strong fire department and modest debt.
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Brainerd
North American Lakes
Duluth
Great Gates
Northwest
Portland Me
Portland Or
Great Pine-Belt
Brainered
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northern Pacific
Mississippi
Great Northwest
St. Paul, Brainerd & Northwestern
Duluth & Winnipeg Company
Upper
Minapolis
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Crow Wing
Crow Wing County
My Success With Poultry The Incubator Venture
A reader recounts buying an incubator for 7 dollars that held 250 eggs and hatched 741 chicks from March to July. Of 648 survived to broilers sold for 120 dollars, all on a wood lot with no hens kept. The writer seeks market guidance and copies for plans by sending ten cents to Campbell & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epitor
Campbell & Co
Zanesville
Ohio
New York
Stormy Nights in the Lighthouse
A Rockport Massachusetts lighthouse keeper recalls brutal gales and near disasters as birds collide with the thick glass. He describes a night when a two-ton boulder breached the ledge and a crew member climbed the chimney to fix the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Carey
Rockport
Mass
Philadelphia Times
Old Mose the egg man’s long counting tale in Austin
In Texas Siftings a playful tale follows Old Mose who sells eggs by a small donkey cart in Austin. He chats with customers and counts out eggs aloud, recounting ages and numbers until a customer suspects theft after nine dozen eggs vanish.
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Mose
Austin
Samuel Burton
Uncle Mose
Jess
Galveston
Dalas
Old Mose
I Ain't Gwine Ter Stay Here Anymore
An old man voices fatigue with life in the country, claiming he cannot stay any longer. He explains he has many children and wonders how long he has carried the extra load, noting his wife may be overburdening the family. He declares he won’t remain where he is. Arkan saw Traveler.
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Eli
Arkansaw
National Tribune
Atlantic
Pacific
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