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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1884
Page
2
Brainerd Minn paper Brainerd Dispatch lists its Thursday morning publication schedule and a 1.50 per car advance rate. Editors and proprietors N. H. Ingersoll F. W. Wieland oversee operations. mention of Crux? and city coverage appears in the issue.
Postal records show Brainerd, Minnesota as a second class matter. Brooklyn directory lists 180000 names. Texas herd of baffle is small. Norwich Connecticut office signals No Politics Talked Here. Washington's Memorial church sold for 120 dollars. Choctaw militia pursue horse thieves in Indian Territory. Kansas jayhawker Cr R Jennison is dead at Leavenworth. Oregon pioneers celebrate settlement. Mervin Thompson slugger rests in Warsaw New York, heads to Europe. Minnesota fish crop looks strong with a bountiful yield expected.
A free Methodist camp meeting will be held in Verndale from July 2 to July 3. Speakers and activities are planned for attendees.
Last Friday residents faced a rare heat spike as the Fergus Falls thermometer rose to 100 degrees, according to the Telegram.
The last leg of the season shows Fergus Falls facing a challenging descent as the team heads toward a decisive event on the Red River. Strong performances are anticipated from local athletes and coaches.
A Scandinavian Methodist camp meeting begins tomorrow at Southwich Turtle Lake as community members gather for worship and fellowship.
The Chicago Tribune announces it will serially publish Bret Harte’s story Blue Grass Penelope. The installment begins with a tale of frontier life and social intrigue in a fictional Kentucky setting.
S. P. Brown, a longtime delegate in the Maine Democratic convention, died at the age of eighty seven. His contributions to local politics spanned decades and he was active in party activities prior to his passing.
Staten Island seeks a ferry route across the Narrows toward Brooklyn as a path to reach New York, signaling possible urban transit expansion and regional connectivity.
John Mackey of Atchison Kansas received a $12,000 verdict after claiming a foot was cut off by the Missouri Pacific. The case details the injury and the award in a Missouri court.
In Norwich New York a local woman protests that the skating rink refuses admission to her group of Black patrons. The case underscores racial segregation in public leisure spaces and draws community attention.
Cholera has broken out in Pekin China with residents infected and those attacked dying within hours prompting health officials to issue alerts and call for rapid medical response.
Nearly all officers of the Soldiers Orphans home at Xenia Ohio have been removed and their places filled with Democrats in a sweeping administrative shakeup.
Oscoda Michigan stands at the mercy of a mob of 1000 striking loggers and mill men. Business is halted and troops have been dispatched to restore order.
Josephs Betzler and his wife marked twelve years of marriage in Beaver Bay and noted they are parents of three pairs of twins four single children and one set of triplets, bringing their total to sixteen offspring.
In Wheeling West Virginia last May a young bride died and was buried. On moving the body Monday pallbearers found the corpse face down with hair torn from her head in her hands, a sign of despair over her fate. Family members are overwhelmed with grief.
A cloud burst on a mountainside near Corbin thirty miles south of Helena sent eight foot floodwaters down a gulch toward Jefferson City. It washed away a Chinese house killing three occupants, forced people to higher levels, and damaged the Helena & Jefferson railroad and local crops.
The address frames the Indian question, urging a shift to a civlization based system. Crook argues the Indian can become a citizen under just, truthful dealing and notes the cost of feeding and fighting Indians could be redirected to educate and empower them as self supporting citizens.
The Mormons are greatly excited and alarmed over the Senate's passage of the anti polygamy bill and will use every effort to prevent it becoming a law. This is the most natural thing in the world. It is as way for criminals to hate and despise the law that punishes and prevents their crimes. The threats to kill the bill in the House, however, are another matter. With a majority so well disposed toward the States' rights bugaboo and only a week left, the bill's success is very doubtful.
The St Paul Daily Dispatch promotes a campaign driven subscription offer for its preferred candidate. Subscriptions run through November 10 at one dollar and a half, promising a live progressive daily paper with full news and strong Republican politics. Clubs should be organized in towns served by the daily mail and payments sent with names to The Dispatch in St Paul Minn.
Oregon currant crop nearly fails as worms devastate sections while many prospectors move west to the mountains. Northern Pacific runs trains from Livingstone to Yellowstone Park. Oregon State Teacher’s Association meets June 30 for four days. Yamhill fruit trees suffer from heavy loads. A Modoc County visit offers a half interest in a saw mill barbershop printing office horse livery stable and several ranches and cattle. Minnesota notes Kragnes hotel Springfield grist mill whooping cough in Long Prairie and state wheat output exceeds a tenth of the nation.
Mankato residents protest mayoral order closing stores on Sunday while Filmore county reports a lighter delinquent tax list. The Farmer's Milling Association of Maine Otter Tail county files incorporation. New ventures in journalism emerge as the Rinktorium sails past Hastings. Ice and hay harvests occur at Sauk Centre. Dakota reports a building boom in Bismarck Bathgate elevator projects and rising creamery activity. The Fargo Southern track work nears completion and Hamilton plans a new elevator. The Bartlett Courier debuts in Valley City as crops look stronger in Dakota than in recent years.
A speaker longs for a treasure ship from afar as it sails toward shore across a sunny sea. The verse contrasts summer and winter and finds happiness in the pursuit, noting that searching for the hour of arrival eases envy and pain and keeps the spirit calm amid earthly clamor.
A Chambers' Journal meditation on how earth air fire and water conspire to threaten health with industrial progress and luxury urging sanitary science to restore balance. A colonial-era anecdote humorously contrasts with a West End druggist and a Black customer debating quinine capsules and store display.
A Washington lawyer reveals an old District of Columbia statute from around 1802 that prescribes branding the tongue with a hot iron for blaspheming the name of God. He notes the law has never been repealed and could put many speakers at risk if enforced.
A Nassau street dealer recalls a well dressed man posing as a Cleveland library assistant to steal woodcuts from rare books. He swapped a Cotton Mather 1658 volume by by removing a woodcut portrait, slipping it into his pocket, and repeating the ploy with seventeen other engravings. The loss halves book values, worth about 180 dollars with portrait, 50 without. The thief could fetch around 500 dollars. The dealer warns public libraries to guard rare engravings.
A New York banker at the national convention laments shifts in the profession, noting many move west or to Europe and recounts a costly, insolvent bank he once joined. He describes inside theft by a cashier, a missing official, and the risk of empty banks, calling them whited sepulchers.
The article traces Connecticut patents from 1717 for cornstalk molasses and 1783 for a self winding clock. It notes small U S output in the 1790s, rising waves in 1854 and 1866, and continued growth to 21 196 last year. Adding reissues and designs could push totals to 22 383.
The Ganges canal, the largest irrigation project in India, cost the government over £2,000,000 and spans about 300 miles. Initially natives opposed irrigation works claiming water would not flow, then denying use by locals, but the canal is now in full operation.
John Jacob Astor presents ten remarkable volumes to the Astor library in New York. The items include the Evangelisterium of the Carlo-Vington Age. The note cites university student totals by country and mentions a rising rumor about a Salvation Army bicycle corps in England.
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