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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1896
Page
5
Train lineup from Minnesota to Brainerd Hubert Pine River Backue Lothrop and Walker heads south at 10 30.
Two fast trains run between St. Paul Minneapolis and Chicago with connections to Milwaukee and all Wisconsin points. Tickets sold and baggage checked through to all United States points and Canadian provinces. For rates and maps, contact your nearest ticket agent or Jas C Foxn, Central Passenger Agent, Milwaukee Wis.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway advertises electric lighting for all trains and four daily high quality train services from St Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago via Milwaukee. It offers steam heated cars with private compartments library buffet smoking cars palace drawing rooms and free reclining chairs plus a dining car. Tickets available through agents or J T Conley assistant general passenger agent St Paul Minn.
Burlington offers rail travel to Chicago on July 7 with open sleepers and new style cars. Agents provide maps and schedules, stressing comfort and economy as the line touts superior track and grades.
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The piece argues that the Chicago Democratic Convention backed free silver, predicting dire consequences. It warns of a plunge to a silver standard, massive debt devaluation, and a nationwide panic harming banks, workers, and industries while favoring large financial institutions and debtors alike.
The text notes that every pensioned soldier would see his pension cut by half due to free coinage of silver and questions whether veterans will support such a proposition at the polls.
The Populists who once supported turning valueless paper into dollars now advocate dollars backed by silver. The remark notes this as progress and suggests they may eventually back dollars with real value.
The St Cloud city council plans a system turning vagrants into labor on a stone pile when they become troublesome. The proposal is seen as a good idea and may be copied by other northern Minnesota cities including Brainerd.
A transcript argues that the silver content of the dollar no longer equals its face value. It claims the metal’s value has dropped to about half, urging a currency adjustment to reflect actual worth and protect silver owners.
The Brainerd Journal and Duluth Herald editors and mine owners’ lieutenants deride supporters of honest finance as hirelings of Wall Street. They imply that those paid or self interested claim others do likewise, suggesting a bias against fair financial practice.
The statement warns that free silver under democracy would cut purchasing power for railroad workers and all laborers by 50 percent. It would halve the value of savings in banks and loan associations, and reduce investment value across the country. It asks laboring men if they favor such a policy, calling the question an insult.
Tuesday was the sale day but no bidders appeared as St. Cloud land office officials tried to dispose of 176 acres valued at six dollars per acre and buildings priced high. This marks the second government attempt to sell the property.
Brainerd editor Stivers once chaired the 1894 6th district Democratic resolutions committee endorsing elastic currency and free coinage of silver with an international conference to secure parity. Now he opposes international cooperation, per Little Falls Herald.
The Fourth celebrations pleased residents and crowds enjoyed events. Crops need rain as rust threatens wheat. Ada Dye’s school closed at Dykeman. Crowell Bros. rush saw mill work to clear yard before threshing. Henry Persson returns from North Dakota noting poor crops there. Local youths charter a steamboat excursion on the big lake. J M Crowell travels to Elbow Lake Minnesota for threshing preparations. U N O.
Agents sought to sell Life and Speeches of McKinley including convention proceedings and party platform. 820 pages with 20 full page illustrations. Cloth 1.00, half morocco 1.50. 60 percent discount to agents. Send 90 percent for prospectus and full particulars. Sell 200 copies in town. Address J S Ogilvie Publishing Company New York.
A day mare colt four years old weight about 900 pounds is missing from premises two miles west of Brainerd near Red Sand Lake. A suitable reward is offered for information leading to her whereabouts. Information may be left at the Columbian restaurant on Laurel Street. H Hermaxson.
Probate court sets July 8 1686 hearing for the estate of Philip T Johnson deceased. Widow petitions for administration and notices will be published weekly for three weeks in Brainerd Dispatch. Judge Milton McFadden presides. C E Cuberras attorney for petitioner.
Sheriff Henry Spalding will auction the West halves of the Southeast and Northeast quarters of Section 6, Township 43, Range 31 in Crow Wing County Minnesota. The sale to satisfy an execution issued May 27 1686 and docketed May 3 1896 will take place July 18 1896 at 10 a.m. at the County Courthouse Brainerd with Milo Porter and Orilla Porter named as defendants.
First published July 3 notice of expiration of redemption for a land parcel in Crow Wing County Minnesota. Describes S W of the SW of Sec 12 T137 R2 and sale on October 16, 18% for 4 dollars 25 cents under a real estate tax judgment dated March 21 1808. Redemption period ends sixty days after service under Minnesota law. Located at Brainerd.
Public notice from Crow Wing County Minnesota states a sale on August 29, 1805 of the N W of the N W of Section 12 Township 137 Range 25, for 4 dollars 29 cents. Redeem by paying delinquent taxes and penalties per law, with interest, and costs accruing until redemption. Auditor Louis Tache signs the seal at Brainerd on June 9.
The author argues that nations abandon silver for gold because silver’s value per amount is far heavier, making transfers costly. Merchants prefer high value in small bulk, so gold replaces silver in settlements. The piece dismisses silver conspiracy theories and likens them to impractical analogies about wooden bicycle rims.
A viewpoint argues that the consuming public, about 70 million Americans, would suffer under a silver standard as prices would fall and purchasing power shrink. It cautions free coinage politicians against pitting classes and notes that voters seek stability in prices and wages.
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