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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1892
Page
4
N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland editors publish a weekly paper in Brain erd Crow Wing County Minnesota. It is issued every Friday morning from Sleeper block rooms 5 and 7 with annual subscription terms of $1.50. The note calls the office the finest job printing shop in the city.
The city’s railroad workers received their pay on Wednesday. Various items follow: A. B. Cole of Pillager seeks teams to haul wood. Church and social notices include W. C. T. A. meeting at the Y M C A parlor and a First Congregational church confessional. A 72 year old man named C Grant died at Fort Ripley of flu. An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Johnson died of cramps. Several visits and arrivals plus a planned Chenquatana Club masquerade on February 29 and a Masonic lodge grant for Staples are noted. A nine pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Johnson. Two workers in Little Falls were injured in separate accidents that day. A grand uniform ball is announced for Brainerd Div. No. 7, U B R E P, at Gardner Hall. The Northern Pacific lumber yard leaders Parker and Topping depart for six weeks touring via Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, San Diego and San Francisco.
A rear bakery on 9th street north caught fire spreading to the main structure while the Mitchie residence faced danger as south winds drove flames. A second fire damaged the Schultz boarding house near the high school, heavily burning the two story frame building owned by Albert Otto and occupied by Otto and John Guyott.
A theft at Northwestern Hospital in Brainerd involved a watch, overcoat, and $22.50 in cash. suspect James Tahmason, treated at a lumber camp, fled with a pocketbook and remains at large. Grandma Shupe’s sixty ninth birthday party on Fourth Street South featured a surprise gathering with many guests and a late supper. The YMC A plans a January 27 program with a new platform and piano, and Kickapoo remedies are advertised by testimonials. Local aldermen Ferris and Barber, with Chief McIntosh, pursued a hose wagon purchase in St Paul. dissolution of Johnson & Bain heard as partners split. Notices for local stores, insurance, and groceries fill ads. Tax sale redemption notice dated January 7 1892 sets March 7 1892 as redemption deadline.
In Greene on December 18 1891 a patient with long standing kidney trouble credits Sagwa from the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company with dramatic relief after using six bottles for five dollars. He reports rapid improvement after one bottle and offers a strong endorsement.
A fragmented note records purchase of brick and full cream at F. C. H. Paine & Co.'s market. The line mentions a brief receipt or inquiry about items listed under the company.
Reports from Choctaw county Alabama and adjacent Mississippi describe a wave of violence after the Civil War with four or five shot dead nine or ten hanged including Laura and Beatrice Sims daughters of Bob Sims and many of his family. The narrative portrays Bob Sims as a Confederate veteran expelled from the Methodist church for reckless behavior and a gifted but unstable orator who preached a mix of Mormonism communism and anarchism leading to widespread fear and disappearances.
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