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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
2
The senate ruling in the Dunn Day seat dispute reflects credit on the body. Day lacked a legal claim to the seat and his strength lay in backing the Anderson bill. His boast about holding two positions met a fitting rebuke, revealing him as a tool of the silver kings and their influence.
The governor urges legislation to promote sugar beet cultivation and a state committee investigates the idea. Nebraska shows a profitable example with average 15 tons per acre at $75 value and $35 cost, yielding $40 net per acre. Crow Wing County soil is touted as optimal, and a local mill could create a market, boosting farming and local employment.
The county commissioners reduced the superintendent of schools salary from 500 to 450 yearly. The writer argues this undercuts a skilled leader and urges restoring the old pay or raising to 600, citing Morrison and Otter Tail counties with higher wages. The piece appeals to public justice and education funding.
Herman Rosenblatt storekeeper at Sandy Lake in Aitkin county was arrested by F. Fullerton executive agent of the state game and fish commission and charged with violating game laws. Nineteen saddles of venison and fifteen birds were found, with sixty saddles at his home. He was arraigned and fined sixty dollars, game valued at one hundred sixty dollars confiscated.
A family trip near the Mexican border ends with bandits looting travelers at gunpoint. The tale recounts the quick rescue, a later reunion when the thief returns the father’s necklace portraying his dead wife, and a heartfelt note from the bandit.
A prominent clairvoyant in a public report discusses how she gains trust to fool women for fees. She explains pretense of trance, in advance payment, and selective cases, detailing how she identifies visitors’ residences and uses perceived occult power to win repeat clients. The piece also notes rainbow folklore and Trajan’s Danube frontier details.
A veteran Lake Michigan lumberman recalls a tale of an Irish applicant who agrees to boom logs under the merchant’s mark but asks if logs are boomed with a shovel, illustrating Irish reluctance to admit ignorance. The anecdote appears in Youth’s Companion.
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