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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1885
Page
4
Philadelphia News jokes at Wilde bust up roundly. Readers are urged to move on from stale humor and seek fresher material as the city cools its heels with a sharper wit.
A young wife discovers her husband with another woman and flees. Years of pain, a fatal train crash, and a hidden confession rekindle their bond. The dying husband reveals the truth, the wife forgives, and they reunite with their family, strengthened by grace.
A collage of brief items notes Mrs. Mason living in Rome and printer Thomas MacKellar’s partial retirement. It recalls presidential homes, fur fashions, and notable figures like Adelina Patti and Charles Dudley Warner. A Philadelphia stage mishap, a Navy officer’s mental decline, and Lord Lansdowne’s Canadian visit are mentioned alongside birthday tributes to Barrett Clarke and Devens. A Kentucky anecdote ends with a joke about kissing and votes.
A writer Miss Margie fails at love stories until her maid Susan engineers daily “sitings” with Lyman Ashford, a charming suitor staying as a boarder. Through playacting Daisy and real emotion, Margie discovers Lyman loves her and reveals Daisy does not exist, ending with a pledge that Margie’s own love story has just begun.
Louisa Alcott shares her trial of mind cure therapy through about thirty sessions in Woman's Journal. She reports sleepiness and occasional mesmeric sensations but no relief from pain or cancer, leading her to abandon the treatment for homeopathy and massage and warn that many reported cures prove failures under scrutiny.
The London Spectator argues that income tax receipts exceed expectations under Mr Childers. In the current financial year the extra tax produced 1.95 million in addition to the estimated 1.2 million, suggesting higher revenue and even potential gains beyond estimates. The piece questions pessimism and hints at growing honesty increasing yields.
In Rapidan Science Monthly the author argues for returning to Miocene era flints to find the origins of humanity. He questions 250,000 year dates and suggests early humans or human-like apes may have fashioned tools, implying a much deeper human ancestry into Tertiary ages.
A Philadelphia Times letter by a young freed man extols the negro love of music and its strong, melodious voices. He notes plantation bands, religious singing, and the banjo fiddle as native strengths, while revealing white church bans and moral zeal against instruments. He recalls Dora’s dances and envisions future refined black musicians gaining acclaim.
The Cardiff Mail notes the Portuguese queen, famed as Europe’s best dressed woman, does not wear a dress twice on public occasions. Her latest morning costume, reportedly sewn in London, features blue and brown tones, a brown brocade skirt, a pointed brown cloth tunic with sack draperies, a brown shell jacket bodice with gilt buttons, and a pale blue silk vest front with a matching sash arranged under a blue basque.
It notes two separate marriages linking Mrs Chandler to Senator Hale’s family and Mrs Hale to a former Secretary Chandler. The text states no kinship between the families. Each line mentions a son, Hale Chandler in one family and Chandler Hale in the other.
A Pall Mall Gazette account recalls a social mix up at a Washington reception. A young man mistakes Judge Poland of Vermont for Sir Edward Thornton, then later realizes the real Thornton was present, prompting a sharp correction and a quip about identity.
Col. R. N. Batchelder arrived in New York from Washington to receive the swords and tokens of honor belonging to Gen. Grant. He, with two expert packs of rare furniture and bric a brac, examined the property turned over to the government by Mrs. Grant in trust from William H. Vanderbilt. Each article was checked as packed, and the property was sent to Washington.
The Notre Dame seminary at Govanstown near Baltimore certifies the Red Star Cough Sure helps chest oppression throat irritation and relief from troughs. Health boards in Brooklyn and Baltimore also praise the non oppiate remedy as a safe new discovery.
Former St Paul resident James Mills steps down after seven years as managing editor of the Pittsburg Post. The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph notes his long career, steadfast merit, and respect in journalism and among the public.
The New Hampshire legislature met in joint convention and elected state officers including Secretary of State A. B. Thompson, state printer John B. Clark, state treasurer Solon A. Carter, and commissary general Frank P. Brown.
An aggregation of late nineteenth century medical advertisements extols Dr Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery as liver purifiers and blood purifiers, touts Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments, promotes Hotel Lafayette opening, claims painless cures for piles and skin treatments, and names Caswell Hazard and Co. remedies including Castor Liver Oil and Juniper Tar Soap.
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