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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
4
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People praised by G N Bensel of 303 Hennepin Ave for scrofula and his daughter’s St Vitus dance. He recounts years of suffering, trial of remedies, and relief after using Pink Pills. Notary public swears to affidavit dated September 1896.
A testimonial from Etta Piver of Minneapolis praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for seven years of inflammatory rheumatism and neuralgia. She reports dramatic pain relief after ten boxes and urges continued use, noting benefits for women and blood health. The ad claims the pills restore vitality and are available by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Company.
A column warns that pianos suffer winter colds like people, causing hoarseness or coughs if exposed to temperature swings. Keep pianos in a warm even room of about sixty to seventy degrees, away from direct heat, closed and covered when idle, and against an inside wall.
Advertises Salter seeds and catalogs with 14 cents postage for 10 seed packages including cucumbers beets carrots lettuce melons onions radish and a mammoth plant and seed catalogue mailed free upon receipt of postage. Mentions Earliest varieties and Brilliant Blooming Plants from John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wis.
Dialogue notes Tom played for the football team with no full back or half back position, described as a draw back in a Boston Traveler citation.
Warner’s Safe Cure company of Rochester New York offers a limited batch of accurate spirit thermometers. They range from 20 degrees below zero to 120 degrees above and come mounted on heavy 4x6 inch cardboard in red and green. Free by mail in exchange for two cents postage. The promotion advertises the Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure but emphasizes usefulness as home or office ornaments.
An Illustrated Monthly quip recalls a holiday moment where Mamie and Gertie tease Arthur about a rumored kiss under mistletoe that never happened. The joke pivots to the confusion with holly adding a humorous twist.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quote notes discomfort at evolving fashion styles. A Parisian chemist, M. Girard, argues common belief that fine white bread lacks nutrition versus coarse brown bread is a mistaken notion.
Calendars and coupons from Hood's Sarsaparilla offer a pretty 1887 calendar design plus a chance to receive attractive novelties. Each recipient gets a booklet titled She Weather and a lithographer’s sample. Request Hood's Coupon Calendar from C L Hood & Co Lowell MA or send 6 cents in stamps.
A humor line from the Indianapolis Journal features a backhanded joke about a colonel and water. The exchange plays on a stereotyped accent while noting the distilled water remark.
Ill musician Pagani, recovering in Villa Luteranea, receives a wooden shoe as a holiday gift. He secretly carves a functional violin from it, adding a silver string, while Vicette tends him. A New Year’s Eve concert is announced to showcase his improvised instrument and talent.
The concert featured ten pieces five on violin five on a wooden shoe. Tickets at twenty francs sold out quickly. Pagani excitedly performed and the audience applauded as Vicette wept. Receipts totaled two thousand francs. Pagani gave Vicette five hundred francs for a substitute and six thousand francs for the dowry. The shoe violin now belongs to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava.
S. S. McClure recalls Bethlehem laborers who walk to Jerusalem from sunrise to sunset. He describes a Bethlehem family living in a tiny second floor room with a charcoal stove, no furniture, simple shelves, and a foldable dining setup using rugs and blankets for sleeping and meals.
Dr Babbage calculated tidal energy could power all world machinery for 175 million years if Atlantic tides were stored for a day. Sylvanus P Thompson noted Bristol tides release vast energy yearly, enough to light Bristol and Britain and run all looms and spindles.
Grindelwald marked the seventieth birthday of Almer the doyen Swiss guides. He pioneered modern mountaineering in the Bernese Oberland climbing Jungfrau Moench Eiger Wengenalp Schreckhorn over a hundred times. He claims first descents and bivouacs across many ranges and has trained five sons to guide. He survived injuries from ice falls and frostbite, retired to a chalet at Grindelwald.
A physician prepares court plaster by cutting long slashes then placing the strips along both sides of a wound. He moists and brings strips together across the cut to close it and secure the dressing for a proper healing.
Alexander Waltzfelder a gambler famed as Sheeny Dan died in New York from blood poisoning after biting his lip while counting money or making race track bets. The incident followed his habit of holding greenbacks in his mouth.
A hostess plans an original party for about twenty guests by converting her parlor into a gambling room with a faro bank roulette and poker setup. A ward politician friend suggests adding two bulldogs to fight. the dogs clash for several minutes before being separated and cooled in water.
The walking goby, a queer fish found along Indian Ocean shores and West Africa, basks on mud or mangrove roots. It resembles a tadpole in outline and moves away when disturbed. Researchers Haddon and Forbes discuss possible tail respiration and water storage for air endurance.
In Henry VIII's England every duke and archbishop must keep seven trotting saddle horses three years old and at least fourteen hands high. Each £200 a year clergyman and any layman with a wife wearing a French hood or velvet bonnet faced a £20 penalty to maintain one trotting horse. Anyone owning a park was required to have two brood mares.
By a family council decision the estate of the late grand duke of Hesse will be divided among the reigning grand duke, Princess Ludwig of Battenberg and Princess Henry of Prussia. The two million marks given by Queen Victoria to Princess Alice are included in the settlement.
Jack Keel, an elderly German shopkeeper near Springfield Illinois, was tied to a bed and beaten with blazing sticks by masked robbers seeking his hidden money. He remains in precarious condition.
A 33 foot tin horn carried from Tuscola Illinois to Washington was wrecked by hoodlums in Franklin Indiana. Several flags on the horn were burned. Aquilla Moore was arrested and will be prosecuted for both smashing the horn and burning the flag.
The article states the most costly tomb is the one built in memory of Mohammed. It notes that the diamonds and rubies used in the decorations are worth 2,000,000 pounds.
A collage of brief items includes 10 cent butter in Oakdale Nebraska a Bryans new baby christened McKinley Zola bid for the French Academy and thefts in Jasper county Missouri reports of a robin seen near Manchester England and naturalists pondering its crossing claret spending by a House of Commons committee and light local anecdotes including a Boston Transcript joke and a painful accident in Oakland California with a bystander hurt while a man in Amesbury Massachusetts ships seventy five barrels of No 1 apples to Boston parties and a man sentenced in Leavenworth admits a long jail history
The article contrasts British and French views on dueling, citing Emile de Girardin’s price cut and four postdebate duels, including Carrel’s death, and recounts numerous famous duels. It notes the French legal stance on duels and honor, and describes practices like secret coups and training with fencing masters.
The Atlantic argues Whittier deserves a bronze statue in the pose of an agitator and man of action rather than a contemplative thinker. It notes his striking appearance at age 35 and cites descriptions from Col. Higginson and J Miller McKim of his anti slavery convention presence.
The Lagong bridge spans five miles over a China sea arm and features 200 stone arches. Each 70 foot high and 70 foot wide span rests on pillars supporting marble lions 21 feet long. Bridge cost is not disclosed.
A historical note claims the scorpion is the most quarrelsome creature. Two in the same box will sting each other to death, illustrating fierce interspecies conflict.
The writer Droch argues that true style reflects culture and artistic temperament beyond mere correctness. He contrasts Hawthorne with Hugh Conway, praising Hawthorne as America's best master of style whose elevated, poetic language elevates readers toward the fine in human nature.
The New York World describes girls at a bookbindery between Center Street and Park Row enjoying lively noons on the roof. They play tag hide and seek and sometimes dance aided by an organ grinder while observers in surrounding offices watch the capers and occasional kisses after battles on the chimneys.
The body of Pasteur was moved from Notre Dame to the Pasteur Institute on Rue Durot Paris for private ceremony. Few invitations were issued due to the private nature of the removal and limited chamber space in the crypt.
Robert Snook and Mrs Mary Snook wed at Bardwell Kentucky in a ceremony where their son and daughter served as best man and maid of honor. The couple first married twenty years earlier, separated after ten years, the husband left and returned recently, and the wife had obtained a divorce before a reconciliation led to a second union.
The daughter of Henry Ballard of Noblesville Indiana lay six weeks with typhoid fever and was reduced to a skeleton. After trying prayer, she recovered fully during the night and next morning appeared as well as before the illness.
The Cleveland Leader remarks on public debate and social pressures in a domestic dispute tone. It notes a lack of fair treatment in a spouse’s pressure and hints at an ensuing affair outside ordinary rules.
A Short Cut notes that the Suez Canal spans only ninety nine miles yet cuts the voyage from Britain to India by sea by about four thousand miles, highlighting its strategic value for maritime routes.
Immigrants numbered sixty one thousand two hundred twenty six in 1895 Argentina. Berlin exhibition shows 106 Italian artists winning five golds and selling twenty eight pictures for seventeen thousand dollars. Corks for bottles first made in Spain and Italy in the fourteenth century. Cork screws emerged with corks. South Australia to abolish barmaids by June 30 1899. German southwest Africa hosts 780 adult German men last year, nearly 600 in uniform.
A collection of aphorisms on love, effort, intelligence, and social behavior. The Southwest quotes explore human folly, ambition, restraint, and the paradoxes of work and wealth with concise, witty observations attributed to The Southwest.
Dwight L. Moody explains the Holy Spirit works with conscience and scripture to convict of sin. He notes Jesus and Peter show the Spirit's teaching power, while Romans outlines the law's role in knowledge of sin. The article emphasizes the Spirit’s united, guiding influence on conviction.
Ex-President Harrison criticizes the shift to popular elections and short terms for judges. He argues judges should serve long terms or good behavior tenure to sustain independence and high standards. He favors a career judiciary where able individuals dedicate their lives to the bench.
Stephen Fiske notes excess loyalty during the Prince of Wales tour in Canada and United States. Women swarmed hotels and trains, pocketing trunks and towels as souvenirs and kissing luggage. In Richmond the Prince’s room was repeatedly entered and laundry altered by crowd pressure.
A London naturalist reports experiments on a milkweed butterfly larva exposed to 68 degrees below zero. After thawing, the larva crawled within half an hour. Arctic explorers note many insects, including mosquitoes and butterflies, persist at high latitudes and even reach unusually large, healthy forms.
The horseshoe with clips fits the hoof from the outside and uses teeth to grip the hoof aided by a wedge that tightens with wear. It can be applied anywhere by a handy person, avoiding nails and farm forge labor. English firms test it and a German army corps has adopted it after a year of trials.
A museum manager proudly presents a new attraction described as the Colored Supplement. The Obésee Lady notes a Tattoed Man in the procession as the party reaches the platform.
The House of Representatives passes a reform bill by seven dissenting votes prohibiting liquor sales within the national Capitol, marking a decisive federal action on alcohol restrictions in the seat of government.
Free examinations and half rates for treatment advertised by Paul Eye and Ear Institute in Merrill Building St. Paul Minnesota. New cure for deafness promised with guarantee all eye operations and no hospital bills.
A brief quip notes that married life reduces expenditures. Chumley acknowledges he has much less to spend now than before marriage, illustrating the financial impact of matrimony from a Detroit Free Press aside.
A Philadelphia advertising firm issue calendar for 1897 praised for large readable figures and handsome design fit for offices or libraries. Publisher notes demand always exceeds supply and offers post paid delivery to any address after a nominal price.
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