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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1893
Page
3
Laura Burt, a Brooklyn actress, once captured a cowboy in Omaha by riding his bronco. He penned a rough note asking her to become an Omaha real estate owner. Burt kept the deed for years, then received a $5,200 offer for the lot. the cowboy is deceased.
Cincinnati dispatch notes a pipe combine story linking Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh Buffalo and Anniston but Pittsburg iron pipe castings men dispute it. Harry Phillips sues R G Dun Co in New York for 100000 damages. Civil and criminal actions filed against a financier. Life Union and National Benefit Society of New York and State Mutual Benefit Association of Syracuse face bad conditions.
Reports state the coast defense vessel Monterey exceeded a speed limit by more than 5400 horsepower. Union Ironworks to receive 20000 dollars above contract price for the work. Clerical resignations and unsolicited medical testimonials accompany local notices in this fragmented item.
Fayetteville dealer F. W Thornton fails to settle debts totaling $200000. A dangerous counterfeit $2 bill is circulating in St. Louis, raising concerns over local commerce and security.
A promotional note urges keeping Salvation Oil at stables and stock-yards. It claims the product helps with swelled joints strained tendons old sores saddle galls and wounds for both people and animals and advertises a price of 25 cents per bottle.
The caravel model Santa Maria, Columbus's flagship, arrives in New Ark for the ad hoc world’s fair, drawing interest from locals and visitors.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy that reaches the disease seat in the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims a physician pedigree and a prescription quality, with testimonials and a 50 cent price, sold by druggists. The note includes business items on a wire deal, a $25 million capital plan, and the Minter Dry Goods assignment with assets and liabilities.
Judge Coffee in San Francisco settles J. Corbett's final account as guardian of Henry MacDonald estate. Findings show Corbett mismanaged and wasted assets and is not entitled to fees. Also notes old remedies and stock exchange resolution and a false Ishpeming murder claim debunked.
A Washington hotel keeper details lavish congressman expenditures. He cites room rents at $120 monthly, daily meals around $5, and a typical month including lodging and meals at about $270. He notes a senator from New York pays roughly $417 monthly and one guest from the West spends $11 a day for quarters.
Brooklyn reports six cases of smallpox prompting health notices. Separate item notes George Simmons losing a satchel in Raleigh containing $5,000 in bonds. Prairie Mound schools close due to diphtheria outbreak.
Lies in nates or peste who postpone re forming a dii condition of the stom ach, liver and bowels. For unhealthful condi tions of these organs, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a sovereign remedy. Be on time if you are troubled with indigestion, liver complaint or constipation. The Bitters will cure these, as well as malaria, nervous and kidney ailments.
Reverend H H Fairall endorses Ely's Cream Balm as a curative for catarrh after testing its merits. Ministers often suffer head and throat troubles, with catarrh common. Apply balm into nostrils for quick relief. 0 cent price at druggists or by mail Ely Brothers Warren St New York.
Maisie longs for her mother’s wealth and independence while Jose probes her emotions. He toys with a ring and declares it a gift from his wife in Nebraska, hinting at a bombshell to come. Maisie fears revelation as tension builds in their quiet confrontation.
Maisie grapples with Jose Mansfield the poet after he reveals a wife in a Lunatic Asylum in Nebraska. He claims poverty and freedom, while she sees only gain and a path to herself with him. She resolves to marry him despite danger and social judgment.
Maisie Bowman plots to marry Jose Mansfield for money while facing opposition from her mother and Jose's wife. She funds a supposed payment with five hundred dollars and hopes Jose will end his marriage. She learns he cashes the cheque and contemplates the risk to her fortune and her future status as General Folger's stepdaughter. The situation escalates as family pressures mount and a decisive act nears.
At home Maisie sits awake all night and ponders a revelation as she realizes Jose is in love. The moment hints at a turning emotional point in their relationships with intimate tension lingering.
A famous broker tried to cash John Jacob Astor's check at a downtown bank. The teller refused, noting the check was unsigned and that such unendorsed instruments are the most troublesome. The broker exclaimed Astor's identity, but fled as the teller pressed the point.
The article notes weekday observances by ancient peoples with a reference to a global sabbath. It then details Nero’s Golden House, famed for gold covered interiors, gems, supreme artworks, triple porticoes stretching a mile, and a circular banquet hall replicating sunlight motion.
The verse argues a poet writes not for awards but to share inner worlds with readers. It suggests the true reward is someone learning to love his songs, rather than honors or laurel.
Poem fragment by M. L. Smith quoted from Harper s Weekly speaks of a vow of obedience and a future meeting in a world without fear where longing lips may repeat I loved thee always here revealing a nostalgic romantic sentiment from a historical periodical poem.
A first mate recounts a near fatal encounter with a Cape buffalo at Woolfish Bay along the Swakop during a 1889 West Africa voyage. He hallucinates, clings to a horn, and—after grave injuries—survives when Bostwick shoots the charging beast. the two men later wed.
A Detroit Tribune report tells of a tall bald missionary urging two Indians to choose reform. The natives smile and answer with humor that they want “a little of the same,” then walk away from the scene.
Norse snow shoes or skis are long narrow wooden boards used in Norway Sweden and by the army. Skis feature a toe loop and heel-free design for steering and balance. Children grow up on skis and the sport builds strength dexterity and endurance. Hunters and mail carriers also use skis for mobility in winter.
Forty years ago fashion wrote in Gleason's Pictorial about a stunning silk and embroidery garment for a teen as the snow falls. It notes spring is distant while skiiing scenes and winter travel feature long voyages on skis, with races in Christiania and Nordensjold style leaps.
Professor Truman Henry Safford, famed lightning calculator, solves a test by counting leap years in a bid to compute a birth date age in seconds. The tester, born August 15, 1852, at 3 PM, is told the result is billions, but claims the answer misses leap years. The professor retorts by correcting the oversight and exposing the mistake.
Americus Symmes of Louisville has received letters from thirty to forty men eager to join a proposed Arctic expedition to locate Verhoeff. Applicants chiefly hail from Kentucky with some from Illinois Ohio Michigan and Canada and cite age height and fitness details. Few physicians apply and most writers insist on information about conditions and expenses as in the Peary expedition.
German naturalist Martin reports a horse near death saved by coffee infusions and ground beans with honey. Bought for 15 dollars in a nearly skeletal state, the animal revived and later sold for 250 dollars to the same owner, who says the coffee treatment revived many overworked horses.
The author extols English roads, claiming visitors are struck by their exceptional quality. English city streets and rural routes are described as significantly better, with the assertion that five miles of Britain’s main public roads outclass five miles of public roads in our country.
A promotional medical cure claims to fight colds and many illnesses. The Sylvan Remedy Co invites readers to request a free trial bottle by mail from Peoria Illinois. The ad emphasizes safety for children and urges quick use at the onset of symptoms.
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