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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1895
Page
7
W D Howells reflects in the June Century on street beggars from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania. He notes their varied claims and gimmicks, the role of port wine as consolation, and his method of courteous, strategic generosity to maintain dignity and social harmony.
A grocer favors a less costly baking powder brand to increase profit, arguing it costs him less to stock. The Royal brand uses finer materials and carries a higher price, yet is sold to consumers at the same price as the cheaper option.
Demorest's Magazine instructs on treating worn flannels with avoidance of hot irons or rubbing. Use warm suds with ammonia, rub only with hands, rinse at initial temperature, and add white vinegar for color setting. Dry quickly and shape while damp, stretch wristlets and tights, then press with a warm straw to revive softness.
A Woolwich arsenal accident allegedly melted a worker and buried twelve tons of bolten steel after the War Department held a service for the dead. The piece, from the New York Tribune, contrasts the macabre tale with cleaning tips for varnished woodwork using kerosene and linseed oil rubbed with a flannel cloth.
Dialogue from a Puck cartoon shows Mr Delawanna questioning a man on a high step ladder while Mrs Delawanna insists on hanging curtains to protect Ellen, noting the risk of falling and the rarity of finding a girl like Ellen.
The excerpt shows a humorous exchange with a clerk defending low prices as a motive for theft. The caption and dialogue imply a satirical take on shoplifting involving a mischievous customer and a witty clerk.
Grace fears a staged wedding while Lord Roland Ayre arrives late as Grace plots to unmask her sister Miriam and Kate Lilburne amid a castle full of scheming hearts. Victor falters between Grace and Miriam as old flames flare under mistletoe.
Grace Lilburne, nervous host and narrator, leaves the festive hall to confront the chamber where a year earlier a cruel tragedy occurred. She dons a dark ulster to shield herself from a bitter wind as she prepares for a fate linked to that night.
Extracts from recently printed Shelley's letters to Leigh Hunt reveal his uneasy intimacy with Lord Byron. Shelley discusses personal feelings about Byron and notes how public assumptions about their contrasts clash with their shared poetic talents and fortunes. The Philadelphia Press notes the illuminating exchanges.
The piece recalls Chauncey M Depews Yale graduation in 1857 with flowing side whiskers and hair brushed over his left forehead toward his right ear The face is described as ministerial though his early ambition was law and the portrait shows his study beginnings in 1857 as depicted in the New York Dress.
A prominent engineer suggests combining a gas engine and a steam engine. He proposes cooling the gas engine cylinder with water jacketed heat to feed boiler water and using the gas engine exhaust to preheat the steam cylinder, creating a complementary pair that shares heat and load.
At Monte Carlo a US pensioner known as Captain Clyde created a scene after losing $6,000 over two days. He attacked croupiers, drew a revolver when barred, and refused to leave. Managers eventually restored his losses to defuse the threat of violence.
The bookkeeper reports Pillam’s bill returned today and the widow writes a sharp note questioning sending a bill to a man buried three months. The merchant asks what he had to say, but there was no reply.
In a congressional moment Gen S- delivers a long speech. He tells Henry Clay that he speaks for posterity while Clay represents the present generation. Clay retorts that the speaker will wait until his audience arrives. Philadelphia item notes the exchange.
Young journalist Broughton witnesses an Italian couple Marianna and Pietro mend and smash plaster saints in a poverty driven scheme. After a street confrontation, he helps the distraught vendor and follows the tale to a grim tenement where the iconoclast persists in his Neapolitan conundrum.
London offers endless amusements for the casual visitor with a pound and a day to spare. The reader may explore galleries museums and views from a bus top as the city provides access to palaces gardens and grand diversions without cost beyond time and fare.
A Vienna reporter obtained an interview with a man consigned to delirium tremens who claimed to be Baron Rothschild. He described weekly trips to New York in a balloon and carrying provisions to the city, while absurdly launching items such as Benedictine rabbits from a flying carriage. The patient is now at Metropolitan Hospital in Vienna.
The article contrasts English and Chinese drama noting love dominates English works as a passion while in Chinese plays it is a secondary sentiment. It argues Western audiences expect ardent romance whereas Chinese art emphasizes convention and parental authority reducing love to a quieter motif.
Nicotinized Nerves. Men old at thirty. Chew and smoke, eat little, drink, or want to, all the time. Nerves tingle, never satisfied, happiness one, tobacco-saturated system tells the tory. There’s an easy way out. No-lo Bac will kill the perge-craving effects for tobacco and make it strong, Vigorous, and manly. Sold and guaranteed to cure by Druggists everywhere. Address Sterling Remedy Co. New York City or Chicago
A Philadelphia Press description shows a thrifty German woman and her daughters cleaning mattresses by removing hair fillings, washing with soap suds, drying the filling, substituting ticking, and resewing with a strong needle and twine to restore the mattress.
The flax wheel once a decorative heirloom reemerges as a fashionable craft in England and America. Spinning bees return as social events with women bringing wheels to gatherings, afternoon conversations, and evening suppers. Charity spinning parties in England have raised funds by selling spun thread and covering supper costs.
The Indianapolis Journal quotes a claim that Col Blood earned a title on the cotton field and recounts a violent incident where he struck three Black people in the legs and knocked a mule down with his fist.
An old advertisements note recommends Mrs Wigslow’s SooTuie SynvuP as a trusted teething remedy for babies. It emphasizes a well tried formula and urges mothers to use the product for relief during teething.
A Pittsburg suburb funeral party rode two coaches to Verona for a service only to find the body left at Center Station on the Allegheny Valley railway. The undertaker retrieved the corpse and the funeral proceeded several hours late at the church.
Mrs Frank Mobbs of New York praises Piso's Cure for Consumption in a dated note from October 1804. The missive references bar room discussions about coinage and free silver as context for the remark.
In a humorous exchange the boy quotes a saying about a cat needing nine deaths and the neighbor boasts of his father on the board of trade remarking about the wheat crop. The brief joke reflects everyday urban wit from Chicago.
A New York man baker estate in Brooklyn valued at over a million faces a will contest led by Mrs Mary C Baker and John and Frank Baker widow and sons of Edwin Baker. They allege mental incompetence citing statements about immediate transformation into a mosquito and other eccentric remarks. Witnesses describe heavy whisky consumption and suspicions of poisoning of a birthday pudding. The dispute names Constance Cookson Susan Murrell Joseph Calvin and the Brooklyn Library as primary beneficiaries.
English style influences Americans to contrast delicate tints with brides' snowy gowns. With six to twelve bridesmaids the lack of color appears monotonous, so bridesmaids wear vivid hues and floral accessories to relieve the white ensembles. Lace hats and white lace costumes remain popular, with pink satin, pale willow-green satin, and rose decorations completing the look.
A father instructs his careless daughter to kiss her mother on the mouth to brighten her wearied face. He recalls how a mother's kiss once soothed her fevered, chafed hands and offers a reminder of maternal care through the years in this reflective note from the San Francisco Occident.
The advertisement claims the remedy re-establishes impaired digestion and aids food assimilation. It touts combined stimulant and preventive qualities and asserts cures and preventions for malaria dyspepsia constipation rheumatic nervous and kidney complaints.
A correspondent recalls a delicious Southern stew from Virginia, noting ingredients like two chickens or three squirrels, salt pork, onion, corn, tomatoes, parsley, butter, and flour. The method involves boiling pork and meat, adding corn after ten minutes, simmering until tender, then finishing with tomatoes and a butter flour mixture. Beans may be added.
In a Washington Post snippet two women sit opposite one another a fat woman in a green gown mentions Mrs Smiths uncle leaving money and the other woman in a black bonnet questions the amount noting its recurring nature The dialogue pivots on the idea of those who have getting more.
L'ress reports two former prima donnas who once were close friends quarreled fiercely. They even shared a dressing room in the past, but the Stage Manager confirms the rift is final and they will not reconcile.
A Detroit Tribune report notes a quarrel between Northern Belle and Southern Beauty where men were cut and others shot, illustrating a violent feud among social circles. The piece highlights varying reactions as friends turned away or attacked.
Knowledge says Syrup of Figs offers comfort and health benefits as a mild laxative. The advertisement claims it cleanses the system and aids colds fevers and constipation while not weakening kidneys or liver. It notes 50c and 1 bottles sold by druggists and manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
An observer notes French women excel in many roles in civil life and industry. The Havre customs chief is a woman with keen detection skills. Thiers hosts soot covered women polishing blades and tools. A college teacher in Thiers finds winter work pays five dollars monthly and asks her to provide fuel.
The article describes making biscuit glace by beating egg yolks with sugar, adding salt and cream, then cooling and flavoring with sherry or Maraschine. It instructs packing the mixture in a freezer with sweet cream, layering in cases, and freezing twice, with two to three hours chilling.
A large white linen couch pillow features a green silk lattice center. The border shows bachelors buttons poppies and field daisies spilling onto the lattice.
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