Mikado in Brainerd draws opera crowd at Sleeper
Brainerd residents learn the Mikado will be staged next Wednesday at the Sleeper opera house. Frank Farnham reports on stock at Lafond saw mill for J. C. Flynn, who plans to purchase the property. Local notes mention politics, road work, and social events across Crow Wing County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific Company
Crow Wing River
Motley
Sleeper Opera House
Frank Farnham
Brainerd
Lafond
Little Falls & Dakota
J. C. Flynn
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Brainerd Club Plans Big Toboggan Carnival Trip
A Brainerd toboggan club organized at the Villard hotel lays out a plan to visit the St Paul carnival next week with four cars for about 200 people. Tickets cost 3 dollars each, band numbers and uniforms are set, and a detailed two week carnival program at St Paul is published for readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd Musical Society
St. Paul
Toboggan
Brainerd
Villard Hotel
F. B. Thompson
H. C. Stivers
E. P. Graves
Fred. Parker
Justin Smith
Meeting of the Brainerd Irish Land League Branch
A meeting of the Brainerd branch of the Irish Land League convened at Murray and McCabe’s hall on Tuesday evening. President Jas Meagher presided. pro tem chair H C Stivers led due to J E Wilson’s absence. Father Vaudry and W A Fleming joined, with committees named for literature and executive duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Irish Land League
Murray & McCabe
Jas. Meagher
J. E. Wilson
H. C. Stivers
Patrick Egan
National Land League
League
Father Vaudry
Ireland
W. A. Fleming
John Hughes
D. D. Feeder
Wm. Barron
Tim Reilly
F. W. Wieland
McGlauflin and Brockway Wed in Early 1886 City Ceremony
At J N Nevers residence on January 27 1886 Rev N B Kelly joined Albion McGlauflin and Miss Aleda Brockway. The bride resides here with many friends sending congratulations while the groom, a respected Anoka resident, runs a hotel there. They departed for their future home on the 2 30 train.
Sheriff Mertz Ordered to Attend Minnesota Sheriff's Meeting
Sheriff Mertz of Crow Wing county is summoned to attend the annual Minnesota Sheriff's Association meeting in St Paul on February 4 1886. He must appear before the Ramsey county sheriff to testify in a civil case between the Minnesota Sheriff's Association and John Doe and Richard Roe. Witnessed by President Ara Barton in Minneapolis January 20 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mertz
Sheriff’s Association
St. Paul
Minnesota
P. Mertz
Crow Wing
Brainerd Minn
Ramsey County
Weather Prophet Predicts Month of Good Conditions
Crow Wing notes a favorable month ahead with a reliable forecast from the local weather prophet. The sawmi has paused operation for days but will resume soon. Water supply challenges persist for engine operation, with pipes from a nearby slough supplying the mill. C H Wiley secures a banking contract for several thousand ties. Lumber workers from Brainerd report frost bite injuries after last Friday’s trip. The wild man comments on Jinks’s credibility. W H Everest expected home Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow Wing
C. H. Wiley
Brainerd
Jinks
W. H. Everest
Grau's Opera Co to Appear at Sleeper on Broadway
On Wednesday evening February 3 Grau's Opera Co will perform at the Sleeper opera house on Broadway in Mikado. The Winnipeg Evening News praised the troupe noting enthusiastic audiences, strong burlesque comedy by Max Figman as Ko Ko, notable arias and encores, and solid vocal and theatrical execution from Henry H. Howard Will Morgan A. E. Arnold H. Rattanburg Robi Fulton Amy Gordon Annie Barrett and Miss Annie Sharp with a well received Yum Yum duet and strong chorus and orchestra throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grau’s Opera Co
Opera House
Winnipeg Evening News
Gray Opera Vo
Max Figman
Winnipeg
Ko- Ko
Henry H. Howard
Will Morgan
A. E. Arnold
Pish-Tush
Nee Bah
Messrs
H. Rattanburg
Robi. Fulton
Amy Gordon
Nankipoo
Pitti-Sing
Annie Barrett
Webster
Annie Sharp
Katisha
Bids for wood and closing sale at L. J. Cale
Sealed bids due by 6 pm February 6 1886 for 200 cords of wood to be delivered to Brainerd high school. A W Frater Clerk of Board of Education. Also notice of carpets from 25 cents a yard at L J Cale and a closing sale of cloaks at cost by L J Cale.
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Brainerd
A. W. Frater
Board of Education
L. J. Cale’s
L. J. Cale
List of Books and Periodicals for the N P Library Association
A long catalog lists contributed works and periodicals for publication by the N. P. Library Association. It includes many authors and publishers such as National Car Builder, Railway Age, Scientific American, London Graphic, Pioneer Press, and numerous complete sets of classic authors like Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, and Hawthorne, with extensive note on donated volumes and series. The list underscores a well supplied library with hundreds of volumes across history, literature, science, and reference works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. P. Library Association
National Car Builder
H. J. Small Bos Ed
Nenees
Aveschsekeupee
Pecos
Cece
Seadabee
Sakes Kwiened
Jas McNaughton Mechanical Engineer
Ben Haskell American Mechanic
R. M. de Lambert Scientific American and Supplement
Brown Blacksmith and Wheelwright
N. W. Wheatley Industrial World
Agendas Association
MT PE Tno Ao inivSe
Cate Cp ci Colder Panien M. D. Ford Railroad Gazette
Association Signal Light
Association Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine
Loco
Amalcus
Seese
Ess
Seeeeneeesees
Percy CK
Pospson
Frank Leslie
Popular Monthly
Association London Graphic
Setesde
London Weekly Times
Wornmoon Dah
Atonectx
Assaca Team
Ttine Do
Pioneer Press
Mable & Co Chicago Times
Cere Association Weekly Freeman
Glasgow Weekly Herald
Texas Liftings
Ecseoss
Montreal Weekly
Peweegh
Liverpool Weekly
Brainerd Diepatch
Brainerd Journal
Swenska Folkets Tidi Weekly Globe Democra
Toronto Weekly Mail
Detroit Free Press
Cohen Bros
Chambers
Websters Dictionary
Upper
Mississippi River
Denese
S. F. Alderman
Aine
Congress
A. Dettelbach
Gibbon
Rome
Milman
Wm. Entreken
Bancroft
United States
Humes
England
Guizot
France
Josephus
Aeye
E. H.oux
Macaulay
Green
McCarthy
Dicken
Childs
Two Cities
Box
Old Curiosity Shop
Barnaby Badge
Edwin Drood
Child
George Elliot
Daniel Deronda Middlemarch
Adam Bede
Silas Marner
Felix Holt
Romola
Theophrashus Surh
Gibey
Jubal
Walter Scott
Perth
Niger
Monastery
the Antiquary
Count Robert of
Paris
Lammermoor
Montrose
Rob Roy
Guy Mannering
Old Mortality
Hemworth
Waverley
Woodstock
St. Romans
Quintin Dorward
Cannongate
Annie of
Satanstoe
Chain Bearer
Redskins
Jack Tier
Miles Wallingford
Pilot
Pathfinders
Pioneers
William Black
Thule
Yolande
Kilmeny
Heth
Green Pashires
Picadilly
Mincing Lane
John Raskin
Venice
Sesame
Lilles
The
Two Pathe
Ford
Florence
St. Marks Rest
Paul Clifford
Godolphin
Pompeii
Harold
Pelham
Lucretia
Zanoni
Wm. Makepeace Thackery
Vanity Fair
Pendennis
Newcomes
Philip
Henry Esmond
Catharine
Denis Daval
Parish
Barry Lyndon
Great Hoggarty
Diamond
Irving
Grenada
Abbottsford
Newstead Abbey
Astoria
Alhambra
Bonneville
Bracebridge Hall
Spain
Crayon
Salmadi
Feof Goldsmith
Schiller
C. Hawthorne
Septimus Felton Fanshawe
Snow Image
W. Gilmore Simms
Beauchampe
Kentucky
Goldsmith
Poe
Swinburne
Goethe
Wilhelm Meister
Werther
George Stephenson
Carlyle
Fredrick the Great
Norway
John Knox
Sartor Resartus
John Shirling
Oliver Cromwell
van Duren
Spencer
Junius
Liva
Henry George
Elia
Lamb
Bunyan
John Ruskins
Christ
Geike
Canon Farrar
Sone
Franklin
T. W. Hannaford
Wakefield
Rassilas
Paul
Virginia
St. Pierre
Thaddeus
Warsaw
Miss Jane Porters
Jules Verne
Webster
Samuel M. Smucker
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
John Halifax
Tom Brown
Don Quizote
Gullivers
Baron Munchausen
Wilford Cumbermede
Endymion
Earl of Beaconsfield
Europe
Tennessee Mountains
Craddock
Hawthorne
Great Smoky Mountains
Bertha M. Clay
Earl
Dora Thorne
Woods Natural History
Capt
Marryat
Markeman
Ismet
Mercy Philbrick
Uncle Tom's Cabin thrills crowds in Minneapolis theater
Brainerd residents anticipate lighter fare as Oakes Merrie Makers perform at the opera house on Monday. Grau's Opera Co. to present Mikado on Wednesday. Herbert Root, banker from Valley City and Perham, served with a civil action for 2200 dollars. Also local ads for Kentucky liquor, men’s underwear, and rubber goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakes Merrie Makers
John
Alice Oakes
United States
Harry Eades
Chas. Cowles
Webb
Minneapolis
Brainerd
Opera House
Grau’s Opera Co
Minnesota
Herbert Root
Farmers’ National Bank of
Valley City
Cak
Perham, Minn
C. F. Kindred
Root
Episcopal Church
Dam on Mississippi Favored by Nelson Bill Brainerd
Washington reports a favorable favorable on Mr. Nelsons bill allowing the Mississippi Water Power and Boom company of Brainerd to dam the Mississippi River. The plan would create a reservoir at private expense and not obstruct navigation aside from logs. The location is 200 miles above Minneapolis with rapids at Brainerd to be improved by the dam creating slack water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Washington
Nelson
Mississippi Water Power and Boom Company of
Brainerd
Mississipp River
Committee On Commerce
Washington News
Senate
McMillan
St. Cloud
Soldier's Bean Banquet at Brainerd G A R Post
Notice to citizens and veterans of Brainerd that Pap. Thomas Post No 30 G A R plans an entertainment around March 1 including a museum of war relics a fair and a soldier's bean banquet with more details to follow a committee led by Capt W P Spalding has full post authority for arrangements and care of loaned items by order of the post Andrew E Veon Post Commander H C Srivers Adjt Also ads urge viewing five dollar cloaks at L J Cale and announce Losey Dean frames sale of unclaimed pictures and county bids for county physician with medicines to be provided bid deadline February 2 1886 J E Wilson County Auditor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
G.A.R
Brainerd
W. P. Spalding
Andrew E. Veon
Farm for Sale in Southern Dakota on Reasonable Terms
A 150 acre farm in Southern Dakota is offered for sale on reasonable terms. For particulars contact the photograph gallery at the corner of Sixth and Laurel streets. 3-w Gro. D. THOMPSON, Te a
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Sixth and
Laurel Streets
Gro
D. Thompson
Seal cap sale cuts prices at Day & Meagher's
Day & Meagher announce closure sale on genuine Seal caps with substantial discounts from former prices. Four caps $4.50, two $7.50, ten $7.75, eight $8.50, plus a large line of ladies caps at similar reductions. Losey & Dean offer unclaimed pictures at cost of frame, a grand chance to buy a picture with a frame.
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Day & Meagher
Day & Meagher’s
Losey & Dean
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E.W. Lynch
Barstow
Lynch & Barstow
Sixth Street
Paine
Pera HiGueen
AES
English Opera Company
Amy Gcardon
West
Brainerd Loan Agency
Brainerd Furniture Co
Fifth
Front Streets
A. L. Hoffman
Front Street
Dana
Ent
Taitiord
Ceneral Land Office
C. B. Sleeper
Af Law
Sleeper’s Addition
Wreihien Locokking
Org
Net
Foote
WM Machines
Groc
Hacgberg & Honnett
Odd Fellows
Mikado
Max Shapiro
Chicago
S. Walker
New York
F. L. Matteson
S. H. Relf
Duluth
N. P
N. McDonald
Wm. Paine
Wells. Fargo
Smith’s
L. J. Cae
Methodist Church
Malcolm McLaern
7Th Street
W. D. McKay
C. H. Douglas
Stanley
Cale
Wm. Percy
Como
C. E. Smith
Front
Fifth Streets
E. A. Fader
Jas. Willis
Smith
W. H. Medlar
First Congregational Church
Crow Wing County Agricultural Society
State Agricultural Society
J. J. Howe
J. R. Howes
E. H. Stanley
J. H. Koop
Linnemann & Koop
Collins
Koop
Ed Benton
Verndale
Wahpden Gazette
Val
Ice Palace
Ice King
Carnival Hall
Carnival Grounds
Third Street
Esquimaux
St. George’s Snowshoe Club
Poleon Rink
Carnival
Northwest
St. George’s
Carnival Park
Carnival Ark
Shattuck School
Rand
Palace
Grand Opera House
Olympic Theatre
Dime Museums
Dispatch
of Sheriffs
Liquor Co
L. J, Cane
Wood
Kentucky Liquor Co
H. C. Srivers
Adjt
L. J Cale’s
Losey & Dean’s
Gare Weiga
Royal Power
Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
N. Y
K.S. Paine & CO
Platt & Co’s
the Brainerd Furniture Co
W. J. Davenport
Fifth and
Front St
John H. Oakes
Merrie Makers
Crystal and Chimes Company
Hlarry Eades
Cuharles Cowles
B. Korn
Oakes
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