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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
3
The medical profession recommends Hostetters Stomach Bitters over ordinary cathartics because it aids nature without drenching or weakening the bowels. It is botanic and safe with no drastic purgative shock, a forty five year household remedy for liver stomach and kidney trouble.
A humorous column snippet from the Cincinnati Enquirer parodies sports betting and umpire calls with mock dialogue between Mr Buantfiend and Mrs. Buantfiend referencing Reed Simpson and 8 percent in a playful exchange.
Obituary notes J Bibby of Liverpool head of the Bibby line died recently at age eighty three. The article mentions his large personal estate and historic earnings concerns from steamship companies. Citations to Cascarets ad appear in the same piece.
Advertises Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for painful swollen smarting feet along with bunions calluses and sweating It claims instant relief from tight or new shoes and offers trial packages free and mail order at 25 cents in stamps Sold by druggists and shoe stores with address Le Roy New York.
Nellie asks about Clara after marriage and learns she is unhappy. Clara married for money as he ran an ice cream parlor and soon sold out to start a livery stable, a deceit noted by the Tammany Times.
A young man approached a Georgia farmer last week and persuaded him to pay nothing for a device he claimed would generate brand new twenty dollar bills by turning a crank. The scam relied on a quick demonstration and led to a loss for the farmer.
Short exchange between Mrs. Dahlgren-As and Mr. Phipps notes they were at church last Sunday and mentions rain as a possible reason. The quip captures a light local moment reported in the Cleveland Leader.
An old tobacco ad touts No To Bac as a wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. It urges quitting tobacco easily and forever with a guaranteed cure and offers a free booklet and sample from Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
A Scribner's excerpt questions Vespucci's responsibility for the misnaming, implicates Martin Waldseerler of Fribourg as an unconscious criminal, and alleges Rene, duke of Lorraine, patronized a Cosmetrapher who shared Vespucci’s letter with a friend who published under Hylacomylsis, spreading the name America widely.
Rodney Kirke loses his place in his uncle James Kirke's heart to Ralph Olney after Bella's deceit. Rodney nurses Olney through a grave injury, romances shift, and James dies. Rodney learns Olney's marriage to Bella and the will restores his rightful inheritance, while Bella seeks forgiveness.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip shows two neighbors arguing over umbrella borrowing. One teases that the other is two ahead, while the initiator insists he will fetch the umbrella in five minutes and keep the last loaned one for himself.
The article lists annual payments to royal families and leaders. Britain pays about 3 million dollars to the royal family, with the queen receiving nearly 2 million and LanCaster revenues at a quarter million. Ireland’s lord lieutenant gets 100 thousand, while the Prince of Wales receives 200 thousand. France’s president earns 240 thousand, Italy 2.6 million, and the German emperor about 4 million plus private estates. The Russian czar owns a million square miles of land and has an income of 12 million.
Alfonso of Spain will reach adulthood as a wealthy monarch with an annual state allowance of 1.4 million dollars and 600 thousand dollars for family expenses.
A mosaic pavement, 30 feet long and 15 feet wide, was uncovered at a village between Salt and Kerak east of the Jordan. The find is dated to the fifth century after Christ, according to the San Francisco Call.
Mrs. Goregular voices disappointment with a sermon while Little Willie quips that one should not expect much for a penny. Tit-Bits notes the exchange as light social humor.
A humorous remark depicts a mother lamenting her son’s two years at medical college and poor class standing. Perrins quips with a witty remedy to “make a chirom oist of him,” reflecting periodical wordplay.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor snippet notes Spilkins as a seeming quiet man but a dictator to his own typewriter. Ian the Counting Room comments reflect on his personality in a brisk aside.
A mistreated woman endures a cruel taunt about a bicycle face asked by a child, framing a domestic dispute as a pointed insult. The remark reveals tensions around respect and treatment within the household, echoed by the mother’s reaction and consequences.
The report notes the successful transport of live soft shell crabs from the east to Portland, Oregon marking a first. It mentions distant rail connections and compares regional distances involving York San Francisco and Alexandria Virginia amid broader notes on maritime and rail movement.
Guidance for infant care stresses washing bottle mouths daily with a cloth dampened in water with borax and soda, gentle gum treatments, lessons on letting the baby rest, and careful milk testing with blue litmus. It notes keeping milk cool, using litmus paper, and adding alkali only when milk is used to avoid masking spoilage.
A new grain holder uses tongs with sharp toothed jaws for corn on the cob. A Syracuse man mocked a university student in robe saying such attire belongs in church not on the street. A missionary settlement for university women opens in Bombay with Miss Mary Rachel Dobson among its recruits and graduates from London University.
The phrasing notes population figures with 3 500 000 Greeks in Turkey and 2 200 000 in Greece plus 2 000 000 in Asia Minor, emphasizing a large Greek presence across Europe and Asia Minor.
A spirited analysis of New York newspaper feuds centered on Ben Bennett of the Herald and the battles between Joseph Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal. It details contracts, raises, and talent raids that shaped circulation, staff fortunes, and market strategy amid a volatile press scene.
The piece argues that rivalries among papers intensify readership while signaling shifts in circulation. It notes Bennett may accept lower salaries if downtown conflict ends, warns of losses from rearranged coverage, and cites World versus Herald ad responses as signs of broader industry mutation.
The London Chronicle reports foreigners mocked British and American tourists for stealing portable souvenirs after the Paris fire. Police resisted large bribes for charred jewelry fragments while a hotel window iron was exported to England. Only one relic reached the country, given to a Parisian in London for mourning rings.
The U S consul reports copper mines nine miles from Santiago de Cuba with shafts 900 to 1200 ft deep, abandoned since 1867 and flooded. In later years miners pumped mine water to tanks, dumped iron scraps, and allowed dissolved copper to deposit on the iron, periodically removing the incrustation and reusing the iron.
Agnes hears a troubling detail about Count Baggen but keeps silent as Marie probes. The conversation hints at strain within an impending engagement and unknown consequences for their social circle.
A scattered collection of humorous and curious notes from various places. Aroostook Me reports a mix of spring and winter. Somerville Mass shrinks before brown tail moths while Russia shows vast estates and 29 mines bequeathed by General Maltzeff. A Kennebec Me tale ends with a pastor on a bicycle and a zigzag floor marking.
A collage of brief items notes a Kansas City sign for Jeweler and Undertaker, Oregon agriculture premiums for flax, England prosecutions cost, Bank of England daily sovereign totals, a Kentucky wedding, 70000 US beekeepers, 22 pounds per hive, 1614 fashion stays, a glutton using gloves, proposed Victoria embankment extension in London, a Harlem Life cartoon exchange about angels, and a Chicago man in Jacksonville counting bicycles.
A historical note claims ox tail soup originated among French prisoners in the English fleet who were fed only tails, prompting the recuse as the method.
The San Francisco Chronicle recalls Asa Fisk as a famed yet controversial moneylender who built a fortune in Massachusetts before moving to San Francisco in 1869. He charged up to 3 percent monthly or weekly interest, compounded, and pursued debts relentlessly while also aiding distressed applicants and giving to family with surprising generosity. His life spanned roles as farmer’s son, Boston businessman, railroad builder, state senator, and wealthy real estate investor.
President Cleveland follows a National Academy of Sciences committee report recommending a permanent public forests bureau and a board to designate forest reservations. The plan urges withdrawal of timber valued public lands from sale and settlement and proposes troops to protect forests until the bureau is in place.
Long Senate House clash on an amendment to the sundry civil bill to abrogate Cleveland Feb 22 forest reserves. Eleven California reserves would revert to public domain. compromise suspends orders to March 1 1898 with lands not disposed of to later orders or modifications by the President.
In Morocco street hawkers pledge wares using religious phrases invoking saints and gods. The scene shows sellers offering popcorn melons and water with prayers, while an auctioneer at slave sales and carpet hides interlaces market talk with maker and Moorish saintly invocations.
A witty exchange from Tit Bits recalls a man listing five prior loves including his mother aunt and three sisters. The woman asks for clarity and receives a brisk, humorous tally revealing family ties as the count.
A Cleveland Leader quotation portrays a humorous exchange about belief in an afterlife. A man cites being married to a new woman, declaring he believes in several hereafters.
A St Louis baby girl born during last summer's great windstorm has been named Cyclonia in a baptismal ceremony. The christening marks a hopeful welcome for the newborn amid memories of the storm and community resilience.
A railway operating between San Francisco and San Rafael has set a monthly commutation fare of six dollars for men and three dollars for women, a policy challenged as discriminatory by advocates seeking equal treatment.
A jaded juror story unfolds as a judge berates eleven peers for a hung jury. The lone dissenter explains his stance by stating he was the only man on the judge’s side, resolving the conflict with a blunt admission.
Mr E S Carl Lee of the Little Rock Gazette sought to claim the title of youngest Confederate veteran. He arrived with an age claim of fifteen at war’s end but met a Tennessee recruit who entered service at nine and was eleven at war’s end, a fact supported by Nashville Banner.
A Caribou farmer uses a movable fence to enclose a stump with two large hogs inside. He digs holes around the stump, fills them with corn or oats, or buckwheat, and the hogs root the dirt until the stump can be tipped over and removed.
John Pickenbine of Philadelphia estimates the drainage area at 1.25 million square miles from the Alleghenies to the Rockies and Canada to the Gulf. His figures show that one inch of rain over this area yields 21.78 trillion gallons. The Mississippi watershed receives 20 to 43 inches of rain yearly, and the river’s average discharge is 604000 cubic feet per second.
The village of Hertford North Carolina on the Perquimans river claims the only floating bridge built from airtight whisky barrels. conceived by a longtime resident half a century ago the structure remains a testament to his idea and enduring craftsmanship.
A witty note from Life quotes a researcher asking Mss Climely about geological progress. The reply praises progress and mentions finding a piece of rock quartz on a hill behind a hotel, then humorously misplacing it on a soap dish and losing track of which object is the soap.
The note recounts a man planning to tell a woman why he would not give up and the woman replying it was because he was hard to get off her hands. Jones remained silent for the rest of the evening.
The Sun Damages Bicycle Tires warns that long sun exposure dries rubber and degrades tires, oil also harming rubber. The Muncy Luminary reports Walter Buck of Montgomery grew the season’s largest strawberry, measuring 9x7% inches in circumference and weighing 6 ounces.
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as a constitutional remedy. The sales note lists price and claims a general tonic benefit.
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